Sovetsky Sport. November 23, 1975. Kiev, 22 November (our correspondent). When scoring the girls' routines, the judges, as usual, began from 10 points, while the boys' exercises started from 9.8 (compulsory program) and 9.4 (optional program). This was done to encourage participants in the USSR youth championship to include difficult elements in their routines, to be original, and to strive for high-quality performance.
The results are in. If in previous years at such competitions a double somersault on floor was considered a difficult element and was rarely seen in such competitions, now it has become commonplace. The same can be said about the Tsukahara vault. Many people have started including even the very difficult 'double twist' in their routines - a forward somersault with a full twist. The gifted Muscovite Gennady Krysin performs his optional routine on the high bar. The arena held its breath - everyone knows that the young man can do a triple somersault. But this time Gennady decides to 'limit himself' to a double somersault with a twist. He lands well and gets one of the highest scores of the competition - 9.7.
"How can this be?" the reader is surprised. "After all, the judges started from a possible high score of 9.4 points?" Everything is simple: for especially difficult elements, the judges add points to the score. In general, difficulty, more difficulty, and even more difficulty - that's what was required of the young gymnasts on the Kiev platform. By the way, it was that element which allowed Krysin to move from twelfth to sixth place in the all-around after the optional program.
For candidates for masters, the difficulty didn't differ much from the routines of the masters. This is very typical.
Six masters and two candidates for masters took part in each individual apparatus final. And it was not at all impossible that a candidate for master would win a medal or the title.
The first-category athletes, who were not lagging behind the candidates, sometimes surprised the judges and spectators with a good sporting 'impudence' and performed the most difficult elements. For example, P. Sut from Minsk confidently peformed a forward flip on vault - one and a half forward somersaults. And V. Dmitrenko, who came from Rostov-on-Don as a second-category gymnast, will take home a diploma for third place in the all-around in the first-category program.
TECHNICAL RESULTS
USSR junior gymnastics championships. Boys. Team results. 1. Avangard - 430.85; 2. Dinamo 1 - 429.65; 3. Labor Reserves - 426.1; 4. Armed Forces - 424.7; 5. Burevestnik - 420.95; 6. Trud - 418.9.
All-around. Master of Sport. 1. S. Lashin (Volgograd) - 108.25; 2. V. Efimov (Kiev) - 107.8; 3. A. Agafonov (Moscow) - 107.45; 4. E. Azaryan (Yerevan) - 106.8; 5. V. Volkov (Minsk) - 106.8; 6. G. Krysin (Moscow) - 106.65. Candidate for Master. 1. V. Demyanchuk (Sumy) - 107.6; 2. S. Shelest (Kemerovo) - 107.35; 3. V. Studenikin (Voronezh) - 106.7. First Category. 1. V. Chepanov (Chelyabinsk) - 110.45; 2. A. Anisomov (Leningrad) - 109.8; 3. V. Dmitrenko (Rostov-on-Don) - 108.85.