Double Mini-trampoline Team Finals

BIRMINGHAM (GBR), FIG Office, November 19, 2011: As with the Trampoline team events, Double Mini (DMT) and Tumbling team finals require the original team of four to reduce to three. More significantly, all three gymnast’s scores count! No room for failure then!

Women’s Double Mini-trampoline Team Final

Leading the qualifiers into the Women’s DMT team final were Portugal, Russia and Canada but Great Britain and USA could break into the medal positions if any one gymnast from the leading three were to fail.
In the event there were no outright “failures” and each team delivered three complete passes. Russia was the first team to reveal a crack in their performance as Svetlana Balandina overshot the target landing zone by quite a margin. Eventually it came down to one small landing error when Silvia Saiote (POR), normally rock solid, lost control of her final touchdown to allow Canada, who were faultless throughout, to take the World title. Portugal hung on to second place with the United States in the bronze medal position.

Gold Canada CAN 104.100
Silver Portugal POR 102.900
Bronze United States USA 100.800
4 Russia RUS 99.800
5 Great Britain GBR 99.600

Men’s Double Mini-trampoline Team Final

In the Men’s DMT team final the outcome really did come down to major failures by key gymnasts. The Portuguese were the worst culprits as 2010 World Champion Andre Lico completed a miserable two days competition with a crash and zero score on his final pass. Bruno Nobre had started the rot however with a poor opening score. The Russians ruled themselves out when Anisimov made a landing error and Zalomin registered no score. The United States effort was doomed when Ryan Roberts landed with two hands on the mat although Austin White tried to repair the damage with one of the highest scores in the competition.

Only two teams registered three complete scores and deservedly took the gold and silver medals. Brazil, although consistent, couldn’t quite match the quality produced by the Canadians who could barely believe they had just become World Champions. What a night for Canada!

Gold Canada CAN 108.600
Silver Brazil BRA 103.200
Bronze United States USA 85.600
4 Russia RUS 61.700
5 Portugal POR 60.400