Sovetsky Sport. July 22, 1975. The gymnastics competition at the Spartakiad ended with the awarding of medals in the individual apparatus. For the women, Nellie Kim (KAZ) won three gold medals: on the uneven bars, on the balance beam - here she shared the championship with Olga Korbut (BLR), and on the floor exercise. Lyudmila Turischeva (RSFSR) won the vault. For the men, Nikolai Andrianov (RSFSR) once again climbed the podium - after floor exercise and high bar. Alexander Dityatin (Leningrad) was best on the pommel horse, Manvel Grigoryan (ARM) was best on rings, Paata Shamugiya (GEO) won the vault, and Nikolai Nedbalsky (BLR) was best on the parallel bars. As you can see, representation is the widest here. For the first time the national team of Belarus won the team victory. The individual event finals is on the eighth day of any big competition, and is, in general, tired muscles and nerves. Here, not only "C" groups decide the matter, but also those who have regained strength and freshness by the end of the week - more or les .
It was Nellie Kim's best day ever. She was very successful. Turischeva, after performing a Tsukahara and a not quite distinct 'screw,' hurt her leg and refused further competition, and Kim harvested the rest of the crop.
It was Olga Korbut's worst day in many years. She was crying after she fell from the bars. It was not that the medal was lost - Renald Knysh put forward as the main task the testing of tricks already in the Montreal repertoire. She fell just where, after her famous loop, there is a new element.
At this point, she seemed to tremble internally. True, she coped with herself on the bearm, although with a great internal effort. And on floor she scored a zero (the second sad surprise of the Spartakiad). It was also because of a new element. The Belarus coaches, even before the start of the competition, during the podium training, proudly told everyone: "You saw how Olga twisted a double somersault - at what height and how accurately!" She didn't do this somersalt in the all-around final, which the team leaders explained to me like this: Olga uses so many nerve cells on it that she doesn't have any left for the rest. Some on the team doubted whether it was worth performing at all, but Knysh's word is the law, and Tamara Alekseeva put a safety mat on the corner of the carpet. Olga's new floor exercise music, "Oh, Samara Gorodok, I'm Restless" began to play. Korbut ran diagonally and even at the beginning it became clear from the round-off that the somersault did not hit the mat... Olga simply ran through it, missed it, rushed to the second diagonal where she did a double twist and fell from it onto her back. She burst into tears and ran off the podium.
It was a good day for Andrianov. After our 'king of the air' Vladimir Safronov, who beautifully performed the Marchenko 'moon salto' but sinned a lot in cleanliness of small things, Andrianov showed exactly how cleanly and precisely everything should be done on the floor. I once wrote that almost everyone now twists a double somersault, but no one does it like him. And on the high bar, he showed how to do a moon dismount. Learn from him, boys.
There are many boys here: Dityatin, Kulaksizov, Yakunin, Tikhonov - a whole generation, and this turned out to be their Spartakiad. But the seventh day was just not the best for them. Sasha, it's true, is now our domestic Cerar (or let's say Magyar - he's more fashionable) on pommel horse, but this time he was, so to speak, not very in his voice. And he made mistakes on the other events. His peers did the same, which is quite logical: it was more difficult for them than the others - that's how boys are.
It was symbolic that it was Dityatin who closed out the competition with his high bar exercise, and landed the dismount exactly. Confidently.
If only they could all stand confidently on the platform of our gymnastics future!
TECHNICAL RESULTS
Leningrad July 19-20. Men. All-around (half the sum of the compulsory and optional programs, plus the final). 1. A. Dityatin (LEN) - 111.15 (9.15, 9.5, 9.35, 9.2, 9.85, 9.45); 2. V. Klimenko (MOS) - 110.575 (9.25, 9.3, 9.2, 9.3, 9.3, 9.35); 3. F. Kulaksizov (UKR) - 110.275 (9.1, 9.3, 9.35, 9.3, 9.1, 9.4); 4. V. Marchenko (RSFSR) - 109.725; 5. V. Schukin (BLR) - 109.275; 6. G. Yakunin (UZB) - 109.2; 7. P. Shamugiya (GEO) 109.0; 8. N. Nedbalsky (BLR) - 108.975.
Individual events. Final scores in brackets.
Men. Floor exercise. 1. N. Andrianov (RSFSR) - 18.925 (9.55); 2. V. Safronov (UKR) - 18.7 (9.45); 3. P. Shamugiya (GEO) - 18.55 (9.45); 4. A. Maleev (BLR) - 18.475; 5. V. Klimenko - 187.35 (9.2); 6. G. Yakunin - 18.225 (9.05)
Pommel horse.1. A. Dityatin - 18.9 (9.5); 2. V. Khokhlov (LEN) - 18.75 (9.4); 3. V. Volkov (BLR) - 18.5 (9.2) and Yu. Koltsov (UKR) - 18.5 (9.25); 5. Yakunin - 18.1 (8.65); 6. Andrianov - 17.85 (8.6)
Rings. 1. M. Grigoryan (ARM) - 19.025 (9.5); 2. R. Mikaelyan (ARM) - 18.65 (9.4); 3. V. Boiko (RSFSR) - 18.625 (9.3); 4. Schukin - 18.525 (9.3); 5. Dityatin 0 18.175 (9.0); 6. Maleev - 17.975 (8.8)
Vault. 1. Shamugiya - 18.825 (9.575); 2. A. Katkov (LAT) - 18.775 (9.525); 3. N. Fedorenko (BLR) - 18.5 (9.275); 4. Maleev - 18.225 (9.075); 5. Klimenko - 17.975 (8.8); 6. Dityatin (LEN) - 17.925 (8.675)
Parallel bars. 1. Nedbalsky (BLR) - 18.525 (9.15); 2. Dityatin - 18.4 (9.1); 3. Koltsov - 18.325 (9.1); 4. V.Kevlishvili (GEO) - 18.25 (9.0); 5. Klimenko - 18.2 (9.0); 6. Yakunin - 18.475 (9.2).
High bar. 1. Andrianov - 18.925 (9.5); 2. Dityatin - 19.775 (9.45); 3. Kevlishvili - 18.675 (9.4); 4. V. Tikhonov (RSFSR) - 18.65 (9.4); 5. Kulaksizov - 18.525 (9.3); 6. Yakunin - 18.475 (9.2)
Women. Vault. 1. L. Turischeva (RSFSR) - 19.375 (9.775); 2. O. Korbut (BLR) - 19.15 (9.6) and N. Kim (KAZ) - 19.15 (9.65); 4. L. Gorbik (BLR) - 18.95 (9.45); 5. E. Saadi (MOS) - 18.65 (9.3); 6. R. Bichukina (MOS) - 18.225 (8.825)
Uneven bars. 1. Kim - 19.25 (9.7); 2. Bichukina - 18.775 (9.4); 3. E. Saadi - 18.8 (9.15); 4. L. Savina (BLR) - 18.7 (9.3); 5. Gorbik - 16.325 (6.8); 6. Korbut - 16.25 (6.5).
Balance beam. 1. Kim - 19.225 (9.75) and Korbut - 19.225 (9.7); 3. Saadi - 18.8 (9.15); 4. E. Primak (RSFSR) - 18.55 (9.25); 5. Bichukina - 18.5 (9.25); 6. Gorbik - 18.075 (8.7)
Floor exercise. 1. Kim - 19.3 (9.7); 2. Saadi - 19.225 (9.65); 3. Gorbik - 19.025 (9.5); 4. L. Bogdanova (MOS) - 18.975 (9.45); 5. Bichukina - 18.875 (9.35); 6. Korbut - 9.65 (0.0)
Team standings. 1. Belarus - 456; 2. Moscow - 352; 3. Russian Federation - 350; 4. Leningrad - 212; 5. Kazakhstan - 172; 6. Ukraine - 164; 7. Uzbekistan - 154; 8. Georgia - 138.
S. TOKAREV