Gymnastics
2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships: After women, Indian men gymnasts also falter in Germany
2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships: After women, Indian men gymnasts also falter in Germany
Indian gymnasts faltered yet again at the ongoing 49th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships being held in Stuttgart, Germany. While it was the women who had failed to qualify for the finals over the weekend, this time it was the men who disappointed.
None of the men gymnasts qualified for the finals in both the all-around and individual events. Yogeshwar Singh, Ashish Kumar and Aditya Rana were the three Indians in the fray on late Monday night.
Yogeshwar finished as the best-placed Indian (92nd position), in all-around qualification, after scoring 76.097. Ashish, who bagged the bronze medal at the 2010 Asian Games, scored 73.632 while Aditya scored 73.098 to finish at the 122nd and 128th spots respectively.
The floor exercise qualification saw Ashish (13.500), Aditya (13.000) and Yogeshwar (12.866) finishing at the 77th, 125th and 136th spots respectively. Then, in pommel horse qualification, Yogeshwar (12.700) finished at 75th place, while Aditya (10.533) and Ashish (10.100) ended at 173rd and 182nd respectively.
As the competition entered the ring qualification round, the Indians’ performances went down further. All three gymnasts representing the tricolour finished outside the top 100. Ashish (12.766), Aditya (12.766) and Yogeshwar (12.266) ended at the 104th, 109th and 144th positions respectively.
The story was no different in parallel bars qualification and horizontal bar qualification. In parallel bars, Ashish (13.100) finished at 107th, Aditya (13.066) at 111th and Yogeshwar (11.766) at 172nd spots. In horizontal bar Yogeshwar (12.766), Ashish (11.766) and Aditya (11.600) ended at 102nd, 164th and 173rd positions respectively.
Previously, on Saturday, Pranati Nayak, Pranati Das and Aruna Budda Reddy, who were representing the Indian women’s team in absence of Dipa Karmakar, had also failed to qualify for the finals of the individual events.
