World Gymnastics Championships Tokyo 2011

Archived Live Updates of the 2011 World Championships Men's Team Final

Oct 12, 2011 by Anne Phillips

Here are my live updates as taken from the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium during the 2011 World Championships men's Team Finals. To read in chronological order, begin from the bottom. To follow our live updates from Tokyo, click here.

China Dominates, Team USA wins Bronze in World Team Final: The USA men have just won their first World team medal since... http://t.co/h8FTxr7r

US Men came through big in Tokyo with the World Bronze medal! http://t.co/9RZtUoUo

@danelljleyva Danell Leyva of USA after winning the World Team Bronze Medal - http://t.co/9B0Pi8gs

@J_Horton11 Jonathan Horton helps Team USA to the first World Medal since 2003 - http://t.co/Q86bnMeU

Video interview with the "Silent Ninja" of Team USA: http://t.co/uCdkoCne

@jdalton775 Jake Dalton of USA on Tonight's Team Final, and his French Twin jake dalton - http://t.co/XEoibx0s

4. Russia 5. Ukraine 6. Germany 7. Korea 8. Romania

WHAT?! Japan still gets silver. wow. 1 China 275.161, 2 Japan 273.093, 3 USA 273.083. soooo close!

Uchimura finished like a champ, perfect form and a stuck dismount. Weird to see him fall!

Looks like Team USA just won the WORLD SILVER medal!! Congrats, guys!

Uchimura HB: piked kovacs, rybalko. textbook tak1/2 to yamawaki. missed tucked kovacs!! NO WAY!!

Zou Kai got the highest FX score of the day, 15.60 (6.90/8.70). Watch for him in the FX final on Sunday!

Uchimura is still waiting to go on high bar.... getting kind of ridiculous

And once again, China DOMINATES.

Zou FX: laid out dbl dbl! back 1.5+full in roll out. back 2.5+1.5. whip+lay out thomas. tucked dbl dbl dismount! wow!

Defending Olympic FX Champion Sou Kai will close out the meet for China, and Defending AA World Champ Uchimura will anchor Japan on HB

Zhang Chenglong's FX score is showing on the live results but quite the delay to show down on the floor. Here it is, yes, 15.40. (6.70/8.70)

It's official, USA bests Russia by 4 points.

ahhh Yusuke Tanaka fell on high bar! missed a kovacs. The crowd is living these routines

Intense head to head battle between China and Japan for GOLD! 15.40 for Zhang Chenglong on FX. K Tanaka went 15.141 (6.4/8.741) on HB.

Zhang FX: 1st 3 passes of tough, clean combo twisting. whip to laid out thomas. and a triple twist dismount. Big hug from Zhe

Russia's first score, 13.233, means the Americans will take home a medal for the first time at Worlds since grabbing silver in 2003.

Tanaka HB: laid out tkatchev. yamawaki. nice steady routine. laid out double double flared out and stuck! Crowd is going nuts!

USA has finished with 273.083. China is up on floor, Japan on high bar. Ukraine finished with 264.102

Khorokhordin up 1st for Russia on pommel horse. FALL! USA looks good for a medal

I payed 0 attention to Korea on pommel horse during that, but Kim anchored with 14.166.

Score for Leyva: 15.533 (7.10/84.33). There's Yin! He's leading a USA chant, and there he goes running back up the stairs

It is just not as fun to watch Danell compete without Yin down there! Great routine though, way to close it out!

Leyva HB: yamawaki. huge laid out kovacs. legs crazy on liukin. tak1/2+laid out tkatchev. rybaclko. jam hs, no hop. dbl dbl layout STICK!

Horton 15.366 (6.70/8.666). Here comes Leyva! Final routine for the US tonight...

Horton HB: 1arm giant. full twisting laid out kovacs, big laid out kocvas. tuck full twisting kovacs. yamawkai. full twist double lay. HIT!

Boy scored 14.833 in leadoff position for Germany on FX. Nguyen great laid out dbl dbl

15.366 Orozco HB (6.40/8.966)

Orozco HB: liukin. tak 1.2 to yamwaki clean. tak to lay out tkatchev. full twisting double layout, stick!!! Yeah John!

High bar lineup: Orozco, Horton, Leyva. Im nervous!!!

With the scores include... 1 China 229.595, 2 Japan 228.986, 3 Russia 227.079, 4 USA 226.818. Russia is ending on pommels, good for USA

Men’s Team Final standings after rotation 5: 1. CHN 2. JPN 3. RUS 4. USA 5. UKR 6. GER 7. KOR 8. ROU #FIG2011Tokyo

15.366 for Leyva on PB (6.40/8.966). USA is still in 4th place, getting warmed up to close out the meet on high bar

Hambuchen HB: full twisting kovacs. layout tkatchev+rybalko+gienger, so cool! 15.866 (7.40/8.466)

Leyva PB: diam with style. this is great so far. stutz right to handstand. double pike small hop

Leyva is next on PB. I've spotted Yin, he is pacing...

Boy (GER) HB: cassina, kohlman, tak 1/2 form break. tak 1/2+yamawaki. hop full. dbl dbl laid out. hit.

Horton PB: piked belle. tippelt. belle. diam. stutz. double pike slight hop. Good routine.

Russia was great on floor, but they will finish on pommel horse where scores are always low, and definitely not their best event

Orozco PB: front toss. belle. belle half. front 1 1/4. tippelt. healy. back toss. stutz. double pike, stick!!

16.200 for reigning HB Champ Chenglong. (7.6/8.600). And reigning Olympic champ Zou Kai scored 15.933 (7.6/8.333).

Uchimura PB: belle half, then a huge front 1 1/4. Excellent form throughout. US guys coming up next!

Kai HB: rybalko+ layed out jaeger, I think. looked down to type. tak+yamawaki. nope, there's the layed out jaeger. Dbl dbl laid out, stick!

Kazuhito Tanaka 15.50 on PB

Ablyazin FX: full twisting double layout, flared out the 2nd flip, nice. Pike dbl arabian landed low. back 2.5+front lay full. Triple.

Chenglong HB: He's the defending World Champ here. Nice rybalko. Big laid out jaeger. Stuck laid out double double. Zou Kai is next

K Takana PB: peach full. belle. piked belles... missed the end, but the crowd was pumped

Belyatovskiy (RUS) FX: amazing 1st pass- double twisting double pike but 1st flip laid out. Very cool looking. Triple dismount.

14.90 for Golotsutskov, Russia's 1st FX routine

Tanaka PB: leading off for Japan... Front toss. healy, diam, stutz, double pike. Good hit routine

Teng Haibin (CHN) HB: tak to laid out tkatchev. low yamawaki. jam handstand. Big wind up, stuck double double laid out.

Men’s Team Final standings after rotation 4: 1. JPN 2. RUS 3. CHN 4. USA 5. UKR 6. KOR 7. GER 8. ROU #FIG2011Tokyo

Oh no — Teng falls on P Bars for CHN. ... Now JPN, USA and CHN have had 1 fall.

Yamamuro (JPN) VT: powerful tsuk triple! 16.40 (7.0/9.40). Great vault rotation for Japan

Khorokhordin (RUS) HB: full twisting kovacs nice. tak full+yamawaki. Full twisting double layout small hop.

Okiguchi (JPN) VT: tsuk triple. nicely done. 16.10 (7.0/9.20/-0.1)

Uchimura VT: he fell on his tsuk entry vault on day one, so he threw his perfect yurchenko 2.5 today. He is amazing. 16.20 (6.6/9.60!)

Hambuchen 15.233 on PB (6.50/8.733), Horton 15.266 VT (7.0/8.266), Jihoon Kim (KOR) 14.133 on HB (6.60/7.533). And Kuksenkov (UKR) 14.633 FX

Oleg Stepko of UKR is just 17 years old! He scored 14.733 (6.10/8.633) on FX

Hambuchen PB: 2 belles. good healy, stuck double pike. China runs up to the podium to prep the pbars

15.266 for Horton on vault. Another fall for Korea on HB. Jihoon Kim missed his full twisting kovacs

Stepko FX: big, long flares sequence. Crowd "oooo"'s. Full in dismount.

Rough day for the Germans. Nguyen fell on PBars. He played it safe with just a double pike dismount. He's been doing full in tuck

Horton VT: went for the Dragulescu, landed on hands and knees. darn.

Verniaev (UKR) hit FX with a stuck triple dismount. They look good, didnt even make the final last year

Dalton VT: excellent tsuk triple/kas double. Looked clean in the air, took 1 step

Legendre scored 16.166 (7.0/9.266/-0.10)

Soo Kim (KOR) fall on high bar.

Legendre VT: HUGE double front 1/2 out! unfortunately stepped to the side out of the lane, just 1 foot though

Horton SR score: 15.066 (6.70/8.366). Off to the next rotation. USA is on Vault, which they won in the qualification round.

Horton SR: big strength moves off the top, great so far. Tucked double double small step. Heard a faint "YESSO!" from way up in the stands

Hambuchen VT: anchored Germany with a clean yurchenko double twist

Chris Brooks is screaming his face off in the stands as Horton waits for the judges.

Orozco hit rings. step forward on double pike dismount. Dalton scored 14.333. Horton waiting for the green flag

Kuksenkov (UKR) HB: big tkatchev mix grip catch. nice jam handstand. Full twisting double lay, 1 step back

Nguyen (GER) VT: tsuk 2.5, almost stuck. 1 controlled step.

Clean start from Dalton on SR. almost stuck his double tuck 1.5 twist dismount.

Philipp Boy (GER) sat down his handspring double front vault.

Time for USA on rings. Lineup: Dalton, Orozco, Horton

Yamamuro nailed rings with a stuck full twisting double layout. Japanese fans love it!

Uchimura 15.00 on SR (6.50/8.50). Yamamuro will anchor . Garibov (RUS) scored 14.525 on PB (6.20/8.325)

Zhang Chenglong VT: tsuk triple/kas double.. I can rarely tell the difference. Very well done. 16.333. And Feng Zhe anchored with a 16.30

Uchimura SR: He's so precise. Nice inverted cross and yamawakis. Just a tiny hop on the dismount

Kobayashi hit to lead off Japan on rings. Nice tucked double double dismount. He score 14.933. Uchimura is next

Cotuna (ROM) HB: tkatchev. wild rybalko. full twisting double layout, really piked it down

About those standings after 2, Russia and S Korea have both gone through vault where scores are inflated compared to other events.

Men’s Team Final standings after rotation 2: 1. RUS 2. KOR 3. USA 4. UKR 5. JPN 6. CHN 7. GER 8. ROU #FIG2011Tokyo

RT @MeltonSean @gymnastike wahoooooo!!! we are at the OTC!! LEHHGOOO USA!!!!

:) RT @nrarmour That planking craze? No one's got anything on Chen Yibing. He's planking 8 feet in the air & you could have a picnic on his back.

Yibing SR: He's defending World Champ here. maltese up to inverted cross, wow. crazy strong! Full twisting dbl lay kicked out, stuck

Uchimura scored 14.991 (6.30/8.691) on PH. And Yan Mingyong went 14.966 on SR (6.80/8.166).

Yan Mingyong of China stuck full twisting double layout off rings.

Golotsutskov VT: another tsuk double pike from the Russians. Huge difficulty, but some variety would be nice.

Did I say yurchenko double pike for Belyatovskiy? If so, I meant tsuk! Ablyazin scored 16.266. Golotsutskov is next.

Ablyazin (RUS) VT: WHOA!! tsuk double pike and that was the most open tuck I've ever seen on that vault. amazing. landed safely, step back

Kobayashi FALL off pommel horse for Japan.

Belyatovskiy (RUS) VT: yurchenko double pike from the leadoff guy, no big deal.

Yin Alvarez is cracking me up. He can't sit in the stands and watch. He'll run down and sit for a second, then run right back up the stairs

Koreans dominated VT. 15.6/15.9/16.833! Whoa!

15.058 for Naddour on PH. (6.20/8.858). USA totals 89.889 after 2 events. Japan is up on PH now, China on rings

Naddour stuck his dismount and then turned to point up to the US delegation in the stands. Great rotation!

Naddour PH: scissor press. amazing full kehr. smooth through his 1 pommel work. Boom!! USA nails pommel horse

14.33 (6.40/8.033) for Orozco on PH. He fought through that routine! Taranu (GER) 14.30 on SR

Orozco PH: scissor press on each pommel. Not his cleanest routine but still impressive, and he stayed on! PH specialist Naddour will anchor

China only totaled 43.999 on pommel horse. I believe USA scored around 45 on PH in qualifications

Hambuchen led off GER on SR with a hit routine from the pieces that I saw and a tucked double double dismount

Leyva PH: scissor press. aggressive swing. HIT! Chris Brooks almost jumped out the stands haha

USA FX scores: Horton 14.966, Legendre 15.566, Dalton 15.500. Total = 46.032. Behind only Ukraine who vaulted, ahead of the rest

Dalton FX: huge layout double arabian! whip+tucked thomas side pass. Very clean back 2.5+front tuck full. triple twist dismount. Awesome!

15.566 for Legendre on FX! (6.80/8.766). Here comes Jake, all other events are now done

Germany struggles on pommels yet again. Only a 13.166 for Philipp Boy and their anchor, Krimmer just fell

Legendre FX: 2.5 dbl tuck, almost laid out in 1st flip. wow. Hypolito looked easy. Very open pike dbl arabian. Huge routine!

Radivilov (UKR) VT: double front 1/2 out, nicely done. 16.166

Jin Sung Choi (KOR) had a nice rings set. Almost stuck full twisting double lay but chest was quite low

Stepko (UKR) VT: great handspring double front. Just 1 small, controlled step forward

Horton FX: 1.5+tucked thomas. double double tucked hop back. stuck side pass. layout thomas. full in hop forward. Great start!

Here come the US men!! Jon will lead off (starting on FX), then Legendre and Dalton.

CHINA hits 3 for 3 on Pommels. With the big lead they'll gain on Rings, that should be enough for Victory. The won Rings by 2pts in 2010.

Yamamura (JPN) FX: great combo twisting. Double arabian dismount that looked to travel sideways. Regardless, he landed well. Hit routine

Format is 3 up 3 count so we can pretty much guarantee Romania will finish last. What a disaster.

RT @nrarmour Yikes. Berbecar very scary on vault. Hand slips but he manages to save himself.

Berbecar of Romania just crashed on vault. oooh received a 0.00 what in the world happened over there?

15.466 (6.50/8.966) for Uchimura FX

RT @TroyNitz @gymnastike OU men's gymnastics is up and cheering!! @Mike_Heredia #teamUSA

Uchimura FX: 1.5+full in roll out. pike double arabian 1/2 out great. triple twist, hop back. Clean as usual

You know you're deep when your team leads off with Kohei Uchimura. He's up first on floor.

This is odd... Marian Dragulescu is not in the Romanian vault lineup. Is he injured?

Guys have just marched in! USA and Japan will start on FX. China and Germany on PH

The Japanese gymnast who suffered a concussion during a roll out skill on FX during quals, Yusuke Tanaka, is listed to compete on HB and PB

Who's awake in the US to follow the guys from Tokyo?

Here's the Team USA lineups for Team Finals: http://t.co/7hd0RL7F

15 minutes to the start of the Men's Team FINAL!!!