Ana Barbosu (ROU) dominates on her way to all-around and team gold

The junior gymnasts took to the stage today at Mersin’s Gymnastics Hall as they looked to battle for the all-around and team medals and to secure a place in Sunday’s apparatus finals.

Romanian junior Ana Barbosu dominated the competition, posting a massive 54.599 in the all-around for an easy victory and qualifying to each apparatus finals in first place. Teammates Maria Ceplinschi and Iulia Trestianu placed second and third in the all-around. The bronze medal went, however, to Ukraine’s Daniela Batrona due to the 2-per-country rule. The combined effort of the Romanian girls secured the team title quite easily, with a whopping 10 points advantage over Ukraine. Apart from Barbosu, the Romanian team qualified Maria Ceplinschi (vault and floor), Iulia Trestianu (bars) and Andreea Preda to beam finals. Ukraine will be represented on Sunday by Daria Lyska (vault, beam and floor) Daniela Batrona (bars and floor) and Iulia Kasianenko (beam).

The team from Hungary clinch the bronze medal and Kira Balazs (vault), Anna Szmirnov (bars) and Greta Mayer (beam and floor) all advance to finals. Croatia’s Sara Sulekic qualified to vault, bars and floor finals while Tara Vella Clark of Malta wrote history with her 4^th place on beam.

 

Congratulations to the medallists!

All-around

GOLD Ana Barbosu (ROU) 54.599

SILVER Maria Ceplinschi (ROU) 50.499

BRONZE Daniela Batrona (UKR) 49.832

Team

GOLD Romania 156.463

SILVER Ukraine 145.995

BRONZE Hungary 143.428

Qualified to apparatus finals:

Vault

1. Ana Barbosu (ROU) 14.050

2. Daria Lyska (UKR) 13.866

3. Maria Ceplinschi (ROU) 13.333

4. Beyza Ozen (TUR) 13.216

5. Valentina Georgieva (BUL) 13.116

6. Kira Balazs (HUN) 13.066

7. Sara Sulekic (CRO) 13.066

8. Antea Ercegovic (CRO) 13.050

 

Uneven bars

1. Ana Barbosu (ROU) 13.433

2. Sara Sulekic (CRO) 12.400

3. Nika Kukulian Frleta (CRO) 12.133

4. Daniela Batrona (UKR) 12.133

5. Anna Szmirnov (HUN) 12.066

6. Iulia Trestianu (ROU) 11.933

7. Derin Tanriyasukur (TUR) 11.866

8. Beyza Ozen (TUR) 11.733

 

Beam

1. Ana Barbosu (ROU) 13.033

2. Andreea Preda (ROU) 12.866

3. Sevgi Kayisoglu (TUR) 12.266

4. Tara Vella Clark (MLT) 12.200

5. Iulia Kasianenko (UKR) 11.833

6. Daria Lyska (UKR) 11.733

7. Greta Mayer (HUN) 11.733

8. Lucie Marikova (CZE) 11.666

 

Floor

1. Ana Barbosu (ROU) 13.733

2. Maria Ceplinschi (ROU) 13.166

3. Greta Mayer (HUN) 12.933

4. Daniela Batrona (UKR) 12.700

5. Daria Lyska (UKR) 12.466

6. Sara Sulekic (CRO) 12.266

7. Nela Stepandova (CZE) 12.233

8. Zala Trtnik (SLO) 12.200

 

You can find the complete results on https://www.europeangymnastics.com/event/2020-european-championships-womens-artistic-gymnastics-new-location/results

The competition continues tomorrow with the senior team final.