International GYMNAST Magazine Online: Keatings Claims More Gold

Keatings Claims More Gold
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Amanda Turner on Sunday, May 11, 2008
 
All-around champion Daniel Keatings (Great Britain) won two more titles Sunday
at the Junior European Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland.  Britain's
Daniel Keatings won two golds and one bronze in event finals
Keatings, who led Great Britain to a surprise victory Friday in the team
competition, won gold medals on pommel horse and parallel bars in the event
finals.
"I am way over the moon!" said Keatings, who turned 18 on Jan. 4. "Four gold
medals  my favorite has to be the pommels. Everyone expected me to win, which
brought some pressure, so I am happy I went through so well. I felt a big
responsibility as captain to help the younger boys to settle and perform well,
and they really delivered the result."
Greece's Eleftherios Kosmidis, who turned 17 Tuesday, won the floor exercise
title (tucked double-double mount) over Spain's Christian Bazan and Keatings.
Bazan  one day older than Keatings  was the most successful gymnast of the
day with four medals. In addition to the floor silver, he won the gold on rings
and bronze medals on vault and parallel bars.
France's Mathieu Jordan won vault, and Amin Garibov gave Russia its only gold
of the junior competition with the high bar title. Russia was the most
successful nation of the day with six medals from four gymnasts.
Keatings' four gold medals mark the most successul competition result for a
British gymnast in history. He is favored to win one of Britain's two
qualification spots to the Olympics in August. His clubmate Louis Smith is
favored to earn the other spot.
"Daniel has shown he is not simply a specialist, he is a great all-arounder!"
said his personal coach, Paul Hall. "From here everything is about the Olympic
Games, Grand Prix in Moscow and Barcelona, and then the final finishing touches
and lots of confidence for Beijing. And my hope for Huntingdon Olympic Gym Club
is for Daniel, Louis and Marissa [King] to represent Great Britain in Beijing!"
Click here to download detailed results.
2008 Junior European Championships
May 11, Lausanne
Floor Exercise
1. Eleftherios Kosmidis GRE 15.525
2. Christian Bazan ESP 15.100
3. Daniel Keatings GBR 15.000
4. Lucas Fischer SUI 14.875
5. Daniel Purvis GBR 14.850
6. Vlad Cotuna ROM 14.400
7. Igor Pakhomenko RUS 13.700
8. Stravos Kekelos GRE 12.875
Pommel Horse
1. Daniel Keatings GBR 15.650
2. Matvei Petrov RUS 15.075
3. Viktor Stepanenko UKR 14.850
4. Reece Pearson GBR 14.775
5. Petro Pakhnyuk UKR 14.575
6. Igor Pakhomenko RUS 14.450
7. Sebastian Krimmer GER 13.050
8. Philip Sorrer GER 12.975
Still Rings
1. Christian Bazan ESP 15.150
2. Gustavo Simoes POR 14.975
3. Matvei Petrov RUS 14.500
4. Amin Garibov RUS 14.400
5. Daniel Keatings GBR 14.275
6. Daniel Purvis GBR 14.200
7. Eleftherios Petromnias GRE 14.075
8. Enrique Navarro ESP 12.350
Vault
1. Mathieu Jordan FRA 15.837
2. David Belyavsky RUS 15.812
3. Christian Bazan ESP 15.550
4. Eleftherios Kosmidis GRE 15.487
5. Theo Seager GBR 15.475
6. Stravos Kekelos GRE 15.462
7. Ivan Bykov GER 15.387
8. Andrea Cingolani ITA 15.000
Parallel Bars
1. Daniel Keatings GBR 15.300
2. Amin Garibov RUS 15.025
3. Christian Bazan ESP 14.575
4. Dimitris Krasias CYP 14.475
5. Kirill Ignatenkov RUS 14.425
6. Philip Sorrer GER 14.375
7. Viktor Stepanenko UKR 14.225
8. Sebastian Krimmer GER 13.775
High Bar
1. Amin Garibov RUS 14.625
2. Max Wittenbergvoges GER 14.375
3. Kirill Ignatenkov RUS 14.325
4. Simon Nützi SUI 14.100
5. Rokas Guscinas LTU 13.975
6. Alexander Pristauka BLR 13.950
7. Andreas Toba GER 13.900
8. David Vecsernyes HUN 13.050