47th MEN's WORLDS ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS 2017

* The elite of Men's Artistic Gymnastics is coming back to Montreal, the city of the 1976 Olympic Games and 1985 World Championships. The athletes are starting in a new Olympic cycle and the champions crowned here will probably be seen again at the Tokyo 2020 Games.These 47^th MEN's World Championships 2017 are all the more action-packed for how they will combine different generations. The Montreal Olympic Stadium has been transformed into a grand amphitheater to welcome the 47^th Artistic Gymnastics Worlds, the biggest event of the competitive season, which began Monday, October 2. For seven days, 400 gymnasts representing 71 nations - 155 women and 245 men - take the stage for the first big test of the Olympic cycle that will culminate with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

"King Kohei's" record
Since his first World title in 2009, Kohei Uchimura has taken up residence on the top step of the individual All-around podium during all the World Championships and Olympic Games that followed. His winning streak of eight major consecutive All-around titles is unprecedented in Artistic Gymnastics, which is why the Japanese master is already considered by many to be the greatest gymnast of all time. But his competition has been edging ever closer, as Ukraine's Oleg Verniaiev demonstrated at the Rio Olympics when he took silver, trailing "King Kohei" by less than a tenth of a point.
► WCh History Men's All-around

** Ready to go in Montreal...!
* fig preview --: From Monday, October 2 to Sunday, October 8, more than 450 gymnasts representing 72 nations will compete for best-in-the-world status in the emblematic Montreal Olympic stadium. Here's what you need to know about this significant competition. Individual competition only In the post-Olympic year, only individual competition, and not team competition, is on the programme at Worlds.
♦♦ PROGRAM & RESULTS / Overview (* source: f i g)

!! ... a new All-around Champion on Thursday!!
→ For the men these World Championships are all the more action-packed for how they will combine different generations. On the men’s side, Kohei Uchimura (JPN), the absolute master of the All-around competition since 2009 with six World titles ...  began his qualification on Still Rings, visibly hurt himself landing his vault, limping as he left the podium. He nonetheless performed on Parallel Bars (2.) before renouncing Horizontal Bar ...
... sad fact: Kohei Uchimura is out !!

* Uchimura's withdrawal means a new World champion will be crowned in Thursday's All-around final for the first time since 2009. That was the year Uchimura took his first World title, the beginning of an unparalleled winning streak: for the past eight years, he has captured all major titles in the individual All-around. May be, that the last vice champion (Glasgow 2015), the young Cuban Manrique Larduet can be the new champion or the European star Oleg Verniaiev (UKR) (5th place after prelims), but in front of him are such strong athletes, like Xiao, Ruoteng (CHN), David Belyavski (RUS), Japan's Kenzo Shirai - all of them good for gold or a medal!!
  ► Qualifying App. Results:
► Floor exc.;  ► Pommel h.;  ► Still rings;  ► Vault;  ► Parallel bar;  ► High bar
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♦♦ MEN's All-around FINAL: Xiao Ruoteng's Gold and Asia's Medal Triple
* f i g - report --: China’s Xiao Ruoteng emerged from a breathtakingly tight competition as the new World All-around champion, ahead of his teammate Lin Chaopan and Japan’s Kenzo Shirai.
Xiao, 21, succeeds Japan’s Kohei Uchimura, who has reigned over the men’s All-around competition since 2009 but was forced to cede his throne after injuring himself in Monday’s qualifications.

Asian Supervision:  GOLD: XIAO, Ruoteng (middle), SILVER: LIN Chiopan (right)
                                     and BRONZE: Kenzo SHIRAI (JPN)  (c) fig-photo)
Chinese all-around gold after a break of ten years: That permitted China to return to the forefront of the world stage following an Olympic Games where the country’s gymnasts did not capture a single individual medal.

* A thriller down to the last routine:  The race to occupy Uchimura’s place fulfilled all promises of suspense. Two thirds of the way through, a tenth of a point separated the top three: Xiao, Russia’s David Belyavskiy and Shirai. With an impeccable exercise on Parallel Bars, Belyavskiy began to pull away from the field, and as he mounted the High Bar to begin his final routine, seemed to be driving toward his first major title. But his fall on a not terribly difficult element ruined his chances of taking gold. Afterward, Belyavskiy had reason to cradle his head in his hands: as at the Rio Olympic Games, he ended fourth, having missed the podium by a few hundredths of a point.
* The return of China - Since the retirement of Beijing Olympic All-around gold medallist Yang Wei, China has waited 10 years for another individual champion. In Xiao Ruoteng and Lin Chaopan, they’ve found two new stars. Steady over the course of six events in his second Worlds, Xiao turned in a masterful performance for the World title. Lin Chaopan knows what it’s like to stand atop an individual World podium: four years ago, the pillar of the Chinese team took a gold on Parallel Bars. With silver behind Xiao, Lin showed he is more than just a specialist.
* Kenzo Shirai, another master from Japan:  At only 21 years old, Kenzo Shirai already owns three World titles, two of them coming on Floor Exercise, but never before had he won a major All-around medal. In Montreal, he relied on his best events to lift him to bronze, affirming himself as a serious candidate for the supreme title on the road to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

All-around Summary by FIG Channel ...:

* A bad day for Oleg Verniaiev---:  After coming within 0.099 of knocking Uchimura off his pedestal in Rio, Olympic silver medallist Oleg Verniaiev was expected to contend for the title, but was well off his Olympic form. After a slow start on Floor Exercise, Verniaiev saw his chances of finishing first begin to evaporate when he fell off the Pommel Horse. He even lost his balance on Parallel Bars, his best event, and fell again on the Horizontal Bar, knocking him down to eighth place. First in qualifications, Cuba’s Manrique Larduet was one of the other big favorites, but the 2016 World All-around silver medallist missed the podium by four tenths of a point, finishing fifth overall.
►► MEN's ALL-AROUND FINAL (Thursday, 5. 10.)
* Please have also a look on the historical  ► MEN's WCh All-around Statistic

- V A U L T
   1. KENZO, Shirai       (JPN)  - (5.6) - 15,200
                                              - (5.2) - 14,600  = 14,900
   2. RADIVILOV, Igor   (UKR)  - (5.6) - 15.033
                                              - (5.6) - 14,766  = 14,899
   3. KIM, Hansol  (KOR)          - (5.6) - 14,966
                                              - (5.2) - 14,566  = 14,766
    > Detailed Results

- P A R A L L E L  B A R S
    1. ZOO, Jingyuan        (CHN)  - (6.8)  = 15,900
    2. VERNIAIV, Oleg        (UKR)  - (6.7)  = 15,833
    3. BELYAVSKIY, David   (RUS)  - (6.4)  = 15,266
    4. LARDUET, Manrique   (CUB)  - (6.4)  = 15,166
    5. LIN, Chaopan             (CHN)  - (6.4)  = 15,133
    6. BRAEGGER, Paolo     (SUI)  - (6.4)  = 14,733
    7. NGUYEN, Marcel       (GER)  - (6.2)  = 14,700
    8. ARICAN, Ferhat         (TUR)  - (6.3)  = 14,100
       >  Detailed Results

- H I G H  B A R
    1. SRBIC, Tin               (CRO)  - (6.4)  = 14,433
    2. ZONDERLAND, Epke (NED)  - (6.5)  = 14,233
    3. DEURLOO, Bart        (NED) - (6.2)  = 14,200
    4. BRAEGGER, Pablo    (SUI)  - (6.5)  = 13,733
    5. MYACHI, Hidetaka     (JPN)  - (6.7)  = 13,733
    6. BELYAVSKIY, David  (RUS)  - (5.4)  = 13,533
    7. LERU, Randy            (CUB)  - (6.0)  = 13,100
    8. HEGI, Oliver               (SUI)  - (5.8)  = 12,733
        >  Detailed Results

** Remembering Montreal 1976 & 1985 ...:

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* This year for first time, the World Championships will feature Gymnastics Ambassadors.
The winners of the individual All-around will have the honour of receiving their gold medals from the hands of Nadia Comaneci, the queen of the 1976 Olympic Games, who is also the official spokesperson of the event, and Kyle Shewfelt, the only Canadian to have been crowned Olympic champion in Artistic Gymnastics (gold on Floor at the 2004 Olympic Games.)
That means 12 titles are in play: five in women's (All-around, Vault, Uneven Bars, Balance Beam and Floor Exercise) and seven in men's (All-around, Floor Exercise, Pommel Horse, Still Rings, Vault, Parallel Bars and Horizontal Bar). A maximum of four women and six men per nation can participate in the qualifying rounds. Three gymnasts per country may compete on any given apparatus, but no more than two per country can qualify for the All-around and apparatus finals.