World Pommel Final for McClenaghan in Antwerp
1st October 2023, 16:41p.m. | International
01.10.23 Antwerp, Belgium; Team Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan secured his place in the Pommel Horse final with a score of 14.933 placing 3rd in the qualifiers. McClenaghan will defend his World Championship title on Saturday 7th October at 3.50pm local time.
Teammates Eamon Montgomery, Dominick Cunningham and Adam Steele were also competing in qualifications at the 2023 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp with their top scores of 12.500 on Floor for Montgomery, 14.366 on Vault for Steele and 13.700 on Floor for Cunningham.
Current Pommel World Champion Rhys McClenaghan said: "I'm very happy with my performance, it was enough to make the Pommel Horse final, my 3rd World Championships final and my 6th World Championships as well. So I'm happy with how the performance went and I'm looking forward to improving on that performance in the final".
Teammate, Dominick Cunningham added: “This is my 5th World Championships and I’m very happy with my progression here. Unfortunately I didn’t qualify to compete on all 6 apparatus after a bad Europeans. But I qualified for floor and vault through the World Cup series. I came here to go for my upgraded routines, something I haven’t done for a long time. I felt competitive and I know I can do that bit more and be back competing with the big guns. Floor was great competing new tumbles and I felt good and had good feedback from the judges. Vault I slightly missed my block but it was a vault I haven’t competed since 2019 and just before that doing my Achillies on that vault so it was a good step in the right direction, going into next year to attack the World Cup series and going to do the all around at Europeans so full steam ahead for next year!
Attention now shifts to the Women’s qualifications starting today, Sunday 1st October from 4pm where Irish gymnasts Emma Slevin and Halle Hilton compete in the final subdivision, subdivision 10 on Monday 2nd October at 21.15 local time.
Today’s qualification scores:
Rhys McClenaghan
• Pommel – 14.933 qualified in 3rd position to finals
Eamon Montgomery
• Floor – 12.500
Dominick Cunninghan
• Floor – 13.700
• Vault – 13.366
Adam Steele
• Floor – 10.766
• Pommel – 12.100
• Rings – 12.366
• P. Bars – 12.166
• High Bar – 12.733
• Vault – 14.366
• All-Around = 74.497 in 79th position
*Below schedule is in local Belgian time
Qualifiers
Day 2 - Sunday, October 1st
- 16:00 - 20:50 - Women's Artistic Gymnastics - Qualification Day 1
Day 3 - Monday, October 2nd
- 10:00 - 22:35 - Women's Artistic Gymnastics - Qualification Day 2
Team Finals
Day 4 - Tuesday, October 3rd
- 19:30 - 22:45 - Men's Artistic Gymnastics - Team Final
Day 5 - Wednesday, October 4th
- 19:30 - 22:05 - Women's Artistic Gymnastics - Team Final
All-Around Finals
Day 6 - Thursday, October 5th
- 19:30 - 22:40 - Men's Artistic Gymnastics - All Around Final
Day 7 - Friday, October 6th
- 19:30 - 22:00 - Women's Artistic Gymnastics - All Around Final
Apparatus Finals
Day 8 - Saturday, October 7th
- 14:00 - 14:45 - Men's Artistic Gymnastics - Floor Exercise Final
- 14:50 - 15:35 - Women's Artistic Gymnastics - Vault Final
- 15:40 - 16:25 - Men's Artistic Gymnastics - Pommel Horse Final
- 16:30 - 17:15 - Women's Artistic Gymnastics - Uneven Bars Final
- 17:20 - 18:00 - Men's Artistic Gymnastics - Rings Final
Day 9 - Sunday, October 8th
- 14:00 - 14:45 - Men's Artistic Gymnastics - Vault Final
- 14:50 - 15:35 - Women's Artistic Gymnastics - Balance Beam Final
- 15:40 - 16:25 - Men's Artistic Gymnastics - Parallel Bars Final
- 16:30 - 17:15 - Women's Artistic Gymnastics - Floor Exercise Final
- 17:20 - 18:00 - Men's Artistic Gymnastics - Horizontal Bar Final
Live Streaming
Qualifications will be live streamed at https://allgymnastics.tv/
Live Scoring
Qualifications and finals scores will be available at https://live.gymnastics.sport/schedule.php?idevent=16194
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