Araraquara wins gold, silver and bronze for teams in the 12th State Artistic Gymnastics Cup

Mayor Edinho praised the organization and performance of the teams from Araraquara. “Since Araraquara was chosen as the venue, we have been working hard to offer the best possible structure, so that everyone can compete and also participate in the socialization that sport provides. Thank you to the State Sports Secretariat for choosing the city of Araraquara. And I reaffirm that our city will always have its doors open to host state competitions. I also want to emphasize the work we have done in artistic gymnastics in our city, both for women and men. We believe in the sport, we have worked for it. its growth and its structure. Araraquara values ​​artistic gymnastics. To all the delegations, I would like to thank you for being in the city of Araraquara”, he highlighted.

With the participation of approximately 450 athletes, the 12th Artistic Gymnastics State Cup involved categories A (for athletes up to 16 years old), B (9 to 13 years old) and C (8 to 10 years old), for men and women. In the women’s category, category A involved 25 teams, B had 28 teams and C had 23 teams, while in the men’s category there were 10 teams in category A, five teams in B and one team and a single athlete in C. Araraquara was represented by 20 female athletes and seven male athletes.

Results

In the female A category, which included 25 municipalities and clubs represented by 125 gymnasts, Araraquara finished in second place, behind Osasco and with Americana in third. In the asymmetric parallel race, Araraquara took first place from Manuely Gomes and third from Maria Fernanda Mutti. Manuely also came third in the beam event and second in the floor event, where Isabela Silva came third. In the general individual, Manuely was the champion and Isabela came third.

Another category that shined in Araraquara was women’s B, which brought together 145 gymnasts from 29 municipalities and clubs. Isabelly Santana came second in the jump event and third in the asymmetrical parallels event, which made her finish third in the overall individual, in the sum of the four devices. Anita Sanioto, from Araraquara, placed 10th in the individual all-around. In this category, the city came in third place, behind Osasco and Pindamonhangaba.

In the men’s category A, with 10 municipalities and clubs registered with 45 athletes, Araraquara stood out with athlete Enzo Tadeu, who finished fourth.

In the male B category, which brought together 30 athletes from six municipalities and entities, Araraquara became champion, ahead of Vinhedo and Esporte Clube Praia Grande. The city’s highlights were Brian Souza, who was second in the jump event, second on the floor and second in the individual all-around; and Lorenzo Guidelli, who was fifth on vault and fifth overall. Théo Namiki also shone with sixth place in the jumping event.

Assessment

Juliana Desidério, coach of the Fundesport women’s artistic gymnastics team, analyzed the competition and her team. “The result of this State Cup is very positive for the city of Araraquara. We are very happy and proud of everything that happened here. It is an extremely careful, technical competition, with great teams participating. The women’s team exceeded my expectations. They were at minimum 20 teams for each category and our little girls debuted with 23 other teams. It was the first competition of their lives and they did everything we trained, without fail, they controlled their emotion, they managed to overcome the adrenaline of the first one. competition and gave a gift to our city”, he highlighted.

The coach also evaluated the other categories. “Category B had 29 teams, with more than 150 girls participating. Our girls showed that they really prepared themselves and that they really wanted to be there. They had a beautiful competition, practically no failures, they got third place and were also very proud. In the category A, our most experienced girls, who will represent the municipality throughout this year, also shone, they had a practically flawless competition, without falls, without failures, they put into practice everything we trained and reached second place in teams. And we did. the overall champion of the competition in this category, which was Manuely Gomes”, he pointed out.

Juliana praised the girls’ determination. “We knew about all this complexity of the competition, despite having closed regulations. It is very technical, it is a competition where whoever has the fewest mistakes goes to the top, but the girls from Araraquara showed how much they trained and dedicated themselves to be a reason It’s only the first competition of the year, we have a whole season ahead of us, but these girls took their first step of the year in style”, he concluded.

Coach Thiago Lopes dos Santos, who leads the men’s teams, praised the boys’ performance. “I’m very happy with the result the boys had. They surpassed themselves. We didn’t have much time to train the devices the way we should have, so we ended up worrying a little more about the physical part than the technical part, but the results They were very surprising. And even more surprising because the level of competitiveness of the cities that came was greatly increased. For the boys in category B, it wasn’t easy, with very tight results in category A, I even expected us to come in fourth, fifth or sixth. , and this fifth place came within what we imagined. Some boys increased the value of the series, others needed to adapt to the new reality, since it is a very different competition, but overall I am very happy with this participation”, he commented.