Central Wins Russian Title; Grishina Injured

Central Wins Russian Title; Grishina Injured
Written by Amanda Turner for International Gymnast Magazine \| Saturday, 05 April 2014 20:12

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The Central squad won the women's team final as the Russian national championships continued Saturday in Penza, where 2012 Olympian Anastasia Grishina suffered a "serious" knee injury. Pictured: Viktoria Komova on beam in Penza

The Central squad won the women's team final as the Russian national championships continued Saturday in Penza, where 2012 Olympian Anastasia Grishina suffered a knee injury on floor exercise.

The Moscow region team should have won comfortably, but was forced to count Grishina's score of 3.2 on floor exercise. The team finished less than a point behind Central and 2 1/2 points ahead of third-place St. Petersburg.

"If she had not been injured, the girls would have been first by a wide margin," team head coach Yevgeny Grebyonkin told ITAR-TASS news agency, which only called the injury "serious."

Grishina was making her comeback after a back injury prevented her from competing in last year's world championships. She won the all-around bronze on Thursday, and started off well for Moscow on Saturday with a 14.600 on balance beam. On floor exercise, however, she fell to the ground after her mount of whip, triple twist, and had to be carried off the podium. There was no confirmation on the status of her injury yet.

Superstar Viktoria Komova and Maria Kharenkova led the Central squad to victory. Komova, competing in her first meet since the 2012 Olympics, scored 15.333 on uneven bars (inside-Stalder to Pak salto; Komova transition; inside Stalder-half to layout Jaeger; insider Stalder-full to Tkatchev; stuck double-twisting double back dismount).

Kharenkova, a first-year senior, impressed with 15.600 on balance beam. Veteran Ksenia Afanasyeva, still struggling with an ankle injury, competed watered-down routines on vault and floor exercise.

After winning her fourth consecutive all-around title on Thursday, Aliya Mustafina scored above 15 on three of her routines. Mustafina, who suffered a torn ACL three years ago, competed gingerly on floor exercise after Grishina's injury. Mustafina fell on her Arabian double front, watered down her second pass to 2 1/2 punch front and bounced out of her double tuck dismount. She again attempted her new turn on floor exercise, a triple turn with her leg held vertical, this time turning immediately into a full turn.

The competition concludes Sunday with the junior and senior apparatus finals.

Video will be streamed live on the Russian gymnastics federation's official website at sportgymrus.ru.

The Russian men's national championships take place April 10-13.

External Link: Russian Gymnastics Federation

2014 Russian Women's Championships
April 5, Penza

Women's Team		VT	UB	BB	FX	Total
1.	Central	42.767	41.633	40.967	40.433	165.800
	Viktoria Komova	14.467	15.333
	Daria Yelizarova			13.300	13.500
	Kristina Kruglikova	14.233	12.000	12.067	13.533
	Galina Gannochenko
	Ksenia Afanasyeva	14.067			13.400
	Maria Kharenkova		14.300	15.600

2.	Moscow	44.700	45.133	44.100	31.337	165.270
	Anastasia Grishina			14.600	3.200
	Aliya Mustafina	15.067	15.033	15.333	13.700
	Daria Spiridonova		14.767	14.167
	Alla Sosnitskaya	14.800			14.437
	Maria Paseka	14.833
	Viktoria Komova		15.333

3.	St. Petersburg	41.767	39.933	40.066	41.067	162.833
	Alla Sidorenko		12.833
	Yekaterina Kramarenko	13.867	13.167	13.233	13.467
	Anastasia Cheong				13.800
	Lilia Akhaimova	13.767		13.700	13.800
	Tatyana Nabiyeva	14.133	13.933	13.133

4.	Volga	40.366	40.901	38.366	39.267	158.900
	Anna Rodionova		14.367
	Polina Fyodorova	13.833	13.267	14.433	14.200
	Ksenia Kolokolneva		13.267
	Olga Bikmurzina	13.633		12.333	12.600
	Irina Yashina	12.900			12.467
	Anastasia Kadysheva			11.600

5.	Urals	39.267	36.900	40.834	38.467	155.468
	Yelena Scherbakova
	Natalya Medvedeva				12.100
	Alina Martynova	12.967			13.700
	Valeria Golenischeva	12.500	12.167	12.267	12.667
	Anastasia Osetrova	13.800	10.433	12.967
	Maria Kharenkova		14.300	15.600

6.	Siberia	39.767	34.400	36.133	38.267	148.567
	Maria Nechayeva		11.067	12.100	13.133
	Yekaterina Shtronda		12.300	11.433	12.567
	Marina Shashmurina	13.500	11.033
	Alyona Nedovba	13.000
	Margarita Artemova	13.267		12.600	12.567


7.	Central 2	39.701	28.467	36.134	37.166	140.468
	Anastasia Dulova		9.067	12.167	12.300
	Yana Sakha	13.767
	Yulia Bulatova			11.567	12.033
	Milana Maximova	12.667	9.200	12.400
	Kristina Kiseler	13.267	10.200		12.833

8.	South	38.100	20.600	32.500	35.733	126.933
	Alisa Masloboyeva	12.700			11.900
	Anna Solomeina		7.100	12.200
	Anastasia Davydova	12.333	6.600	10.733	12.000
	Yulia Sedova	13.067	6.900	9.567	11.833