Russia
won both tumbling team competitions
and also decided the womens team category on double mini tramp to their favour. With
already five gold medals after the second day is Russia heading to become the most
successful nation of these WCh.
The Portugueses
demonstrated
again their excellent abilities after the strong preliminary. They won their first team gold on double mini tramp. After the DMT debacle of the Germans, at least the
synchronized pair Dogonadze- Lilkendey / Ludwig
justified its favourite-role in the preliminary and placed first. The second German pair
Irmgard Ertl/Nicole Maintz presented themselves well, too. |
Gold for Portugal's DMT men |
Russia is leading in the men's competition. Sensationally, the German
"emergency pair" Michael Serth/Henrik Stehlik placed on rank 4, even though it
was the first time they had jumped together. All they had was one hour during training to
get synchronised. The very first international performance of the brothers Kubicka ought
to get appreciated highly, too (rank 5).
In the morning the strong Portuguese finished the preliminary in
DMT-competition with a result of 190,60 on top of the qualification field. The
DMT-Top-nation was the most well-balanced one. Canada followed on rank 2
(189,60), Chris Mitruck received the highest score (32,39). The USA
(189,20) became third, even though they had started with four completely new men. New
Zealand and Spain qualified for the final as team 4 and 5,
respectively. Then Brasilia and Australia. The disappointed vice-world champion of Sun
City, Germany (177,00), placed as penultimate in front of Bulgaria...!
finished the preliminary in
DMT-competition with a result of 190,60 on top of the qualification field. The
DMT-Top-nation was the most well-balanced one. Canada followed on rank 2
(189,60), Chris Mitruck received the highest score (32,39). The USA
(189,20) became third, even though they had started with four completely new men. New
Zealand and Spain qualified for the final as team 4 and 5,
respectively. Then Brasilia and Australia. The disappointed vice-world champion of Sun
City, Germany (177,00), placed as penultimate in front of Bulgaria...!
detailed
results
Catastrophic
performance of German men
The
team competition had started with an excellent success: Two silver medals were won. But
this was followed by a complete break in. Martin Gromowski immediately
broke off in the first round. Jörg Gehrke had already his problems prior
to the WCh and became as best athlete of DTB only 26th. Due to his hurting back Dennis
Luxon did not manage to perform well. Additionally, he hurt himself during the
first round so that national coach Michael Kuhn had to make a decision after the last
synchronized test: he will not start in the afternoon and will be replaced by Michael Serth
as synchronized partner of Markus Kubicka. The team reached 8th place and did not manage to
qualify for the team final of the best five. After Uwe Marquardt made a
boob with his last jump, there will neither be a German athlete in the individual final of
the best eight. For years there had not been such a performance in the area of the
double-mini-tramp. We feel sorry for our coach Jörg Hohenstein....", so the
unanimous tenor of the members of the team.
Twice Ukraine,
Russia and the USA and
once each Great Britain and France, that is the formation of
the womens DTM-preliminary:
detailed results |