2023-04-16 19:35:28
The Catalan gymnast obtained a score of 14.733 (6.4 in difficulty and 8.333 in execution) in his first European final
By teams, Spain was sixth in the men’s category and eighth in the women’s category
The Spanish Thierno Diallo won the bronze medal this Sunday in the parallels final of the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships disputed in the Turkish city of Antalya, where Néstor Abad was fourth on the bar and Laura Casabuena sixth in the women’s floor final.
The 22-year-old Catalan gymnast obtained a score of 14.733 (6.4 in difficulty and 8.333 in execution) in his first European final, behind the Ukrainian Illia Kovtum, who made the Ukrainian anthem sound by achieving gold with a note of 15,166, and the Turkish Ferhat Arican, who added 14,933 to hang the silver.
Thierno Diallo entered today’s final, the last day of the competition, with the fifth best grade and had been tenth in the all-around competition. Olympic in Tokyo, the Catalan of Guinean origin, was silver last year in the parallels final of the World Cup in Szombathely (Hungary).
In the last round of the championship, the bar final, Néstor Abad was one step away from adding another medal for the Spanish delegation, but finally finished in fourth place. The Spaniard had a score of 13.666, the same as the Hungarian Krisztofer Meszaros, but he achieved with a better score in execution than him with 8.366 and 5.3 in difficulty.
Abad, who three days ago was thirteenth in the event, was on the podium to be bronze until the Ukrainian Illia Kovtun competed, who closed the performance of the eight finalists after having been gold in parallel, and He completed a great exercise with which he overtook the Spaniard (13,966).
The gold medal went to the Croatian Tin Srbic, silver at the Tokyo Games, with a score of 14,222, and the silver to the Italian Carlo Macchini, who added 14,200.
The other Spanish present in today’s finals was Laura Casabuena who finished sixth on the ground, with a score of 13,033 (5.2 in difficulty and 7.833 in execution). The gold went to the British Jessica Gadirova (14,000), followed by her compatriot Alice Kinsella (13,666) and the Romanian Sabrina Msneca-Voinea (13,566).
The young 17-year-old gymnast from Alicante entered the final with the ninth best grade and completed his exercise to the sound of Madonna’s music and her song “Material girl” to finish sixth, a result that improves the eighth place achieved last February in the final of the Cottbus World Cup (Germany), where she was also sixth in the vault final.
In the other finals resolved this Sundaythe Dutch Sanne Wevers won the women’s balance beam (13,800), sfollowed by the Italian Manila Esposito (13,700) and the Hungarian Zsofia Kovacs (13,700) and in the men’s competition the Armenian Artur Davtyan was gold in vault (15,033), followed by the British Jake Jarman (15,016) and the Ukrainian Igor Radivilov (14,750). ;
By teams, Spain closes the European Championship with sixth place for the men’s team, made up of Ray Zapata, Thierno Diallo, Néstor Abad, Adrià Vera and Daniel Carrión, the same position as in the World Championships last year in Liverpool. The title went to Italy, with Turkey second and Great Britain third.
Spain lost Joel Plata in Antalyawho is recovering from a broken femur that he suffered last March due to the traffic accident that the team suffered in Portugal when they were traveling to a competition.
The women’s team, made up of Laura Casabuena, Alba Petisco, Ana Pérez, Laia Font and Maia Llacer, finished in eighth place and the victory went to Great Britain, followed by Italy the silver and the Netherlands.
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