De Krantenkoppen

Back to the front page

Sports

Davtyan, Zou and Nemour won world titles in Rotterdam

◆1 source

Armenian gymnast Artur Davtyan won the men’s vault at the World Championships in Rotterdam for the second time. He scored 14.850 after two vaults, finishing ahead of Britain’s Jake Jarman on 14.650, while Norway’s Sebastian Sponevik took bronze. Davtyan, the 2022 world champion, received difficulty scores of 5.2 for both vaults and was awarded execution scores of 9.5 and 9.6, including a 0.1 bonus on each landing.

China’s Zou Jingyuan won the men’s parallel bars title with 15.733, ahead of Croatia’s Illia Kovtun by 0.833 points; Russia’s Daniel Marinov took bronze. Algeria’s Kaylia Nemour won the women’s bars final with 14.566, edging China’s Zhang Qingying on execution score after they received the same total. Nemour’s execution score was 8.266, compared with Zhang’s 8.066.

More on this story

Sports

Dutch men finish seventh in World Gymnastics Championships team final

10 sources

The Dutch men’s team qualified seventh for the team final at the World Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam with 242.995 points, securing the Netherlands’ second appearance in a men’s World Championships team final. Casimir Schmidt, Elijah Faverus, Amine Abaidi, Loran de Munck and Jermain Grünberg competed for the team. In the final, the Netherlands again finished seventh, scoring 241.294 points. The result was its best placing in a men’s World Championships team final; the Netherlands had finished eighth in its only previous final appearance, in 2018. Japan won the team title with 251.928 points.

Sports

Frederick Richard wins world title on floor in Rotterdam

1 source

Frederick Richard reportedly won the floor exercise at the World Championships in Rotterdam, defeating defending champion Jake Jarman of Britain. Richard delivered a flawless final routine and received the highest performance score, while Jarman performed the most difficult exercise but made several small errors. Israel’s Artem Dolgopyat took bronze. Arseniy Dolshevnko and Carlos Yulo, who entered the final ranked first and second, respectively, failed to complete their routines successfully. The 18-year-old Russian gymnast went out of bounds during a tumbling series, while the Olympic champion from the Philippines landed on his buttocks after a series.

Sports

Visa issues affecting Russian gymnasts at the Rotterdam World Championships

9 sources

Dutch authorities refused visas to reigning world champion Angelina Melnikova and gymnasts Viktoria Listunova and Anna Kalmykova for the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam. The Russian federation said it had been told that one or more Schengen states considered them a threat to international relations; the Dutch health and sports ministry said visa decisions were assessed individually under the EU Visa Code and were unrelated to sporting performance. World Gymnastics said it could not explain the refusals, while stressing that visa decisions are the responsibility of the Dutch authorities. Several other Russian gymnasts initially awaited visa decisions, but Russia was listed with a full team of 12 competitors when the championships began. The team competed under the name World Gymnastics 2 and was leading the team standings after the second of six qualifying subdivisions. World Gymnastics rejected a Russian request to remove the event's status as an Olympic qualifying competition because of the visa situation.