Bayers balance beam won the championship, and two Chinese players won silver and bronze respectively
On the evening of October 13, the 2019 World Gymnastics Championship in Stuttgart, Germany ended the competition for the women's balance beam final. Byers, the first American player in the preliminary round, won the gold medal by scoring 15.066 points with a set of almost perfect movements; Defending champion Liu Tingting of China won the silver medal with 14.433 points, and another Chinese player Li Shijia won the bronze medal.
The women's balance beam is the strength of the Chinese team. In the preliminaries, three players of the Chinese team occupied the second to fourth places after Bayers. Since only two people from each country can participate in the finals of each project, Chen Yile, who ranked fourth, was not eligible for the finals of the project.
Li Shijia, the second in the preliminaries, was a little nervous because he was the first to appear. There were two small shaking pauses in the opening string, resulting in the disconnection of the connection, but all the subsequent connection strings were successful. As a result, her difficulty score was 6.100, which was 0.100 lower than that of the preliminaries. The completion score was the same as that of the preliminaries, which was 8.300. In addition, 0.10 was deducted, and the total score of 14.300 was 0.2 lower than that of the preliminaries.
Anne Marie, the ninth Canadian contestant in the preliminary round, squatted 1080 in Group E at the beginning, and then fell again when she was cheerleading. Therefore, she only got 5.600 difficulty points and 6.333 completion points. Although worth, the seventh host player in the preliminaries, did not fall off the wood, there was a big shake in the competition, the connection was broken, the difficulty was 5.400, and the completion score was only 7.866. French player dos Santos, the sixth in the preliminaries, also had a big shake in the competition. At the beginning, her difficulty was determined to be 5.200 and the completion score was 8.466. After appeal, her difficulty was finally set at 5.500, and her completion score remained unchanged, with a total score of 13.966, but she was lower than Li Shijia anyway. In this way, Li Shijia always ranked first until Liu Tingting came out.
Liu Tingting, the third defending champion in the preliminaries, once dropped equipment in the women's team finals. In this game, there was still a problem with her front hand turning over the front group. There was a big shake, but fortunately, she didn't fall down and finally landed stably. In the end, she scored 8.233 in the complete set of 6.200 difficulty, with a total score of 14.433, 0.133 higher than the preliminary, surpassing her teammate Li Shijia to the first.
Iker, the 10th in the preliminaries, completed the complete set of 5.900 difficulty basically smoothly and got a completion score of 8.100, with a total score of 14.000, ranking behind Li Shijia.
On October 13, the balance beam final of the 49th World Gymnastics Championship was held in Stuttgart, Germany. Chinese player Liu Tingting won the second place with 14.433 points, Chinese player Li Shijia won the third place with 14.300 points, and American player Byers won the championship with 15.066 points. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Cheng
In order to pursue stability, Bayers, who was the first in the preliminaries, did not use the ultra-high difficulty action of 720 in the second week of the rear group, but the complete set of difficulty 6.400 was almost perfect, and got a completion score of 8.666, with a total score of 15.066, surpassing Liu Tingting to rise to the first.
The last one on the stage was Flavia of Brazil, who ranked fourth in the preliminaries. As a result, she dropped a log halfway and completely withdrew from the medal competition. In the end, she finished the complete set of difficulty 5.700 and got a score of 7.700, with a total score of 13.400, ranking sixth.
In this way, Byers won her fourth gold medal in the world championships. Liu Tingting and Li Shijia also added one silver and one bronze to the Chinese team.