Three come to mind:
Shawn Johnson, 2008 Olympic Games:
Kui Yuanyuan, 1997 World Championships, Event Finals:
Catalina Ponor, 2004 Olympic Games:
But which is the hardest? Any others that should be considered here? What do you think?
Three come to mind:
Shawn Johnson, 2008 Olympic Games:
Kui Yuanyuan, 1997 World Championships, Event Finals:
Catalina Ponor, 2004 Olympic Games:
But which is the hardest? Any others that should be considered here? What do you think?
April 24, 2009 at 1:29 am |
Memmel’s 2003 routine is one that still just amazes me with it’s variety and hard skills. Granted, it’s not as polished but still difficult for the time.
April 24, 2009 at 2:34 am |
I think one of the best was Tatiana Groshkova’s…difficult & beautiful…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xptNl-NRf8&feature=related
April 24, 2009 at 3:43 am |
What about Fan Ye’s 2003 World Championships routine? So, so clean.
April 24, 2009 at 4:30 am |
One of best: Shannon Miller 1996 Olympic event finals. She is arguably one of the best beam workers of her day in the world, if not for the US.
April 24, 2009 at 6:48 am |
what about tatiana gutsu?? she was the first to attempt a standing full and her dismount…hard!! but out of those three i think Lui Yuanyuan was defionitly harder:)
April 24, 2009 at 3:25 pm |
What about Li Shanshan’s 2007 beam routine? It had a 7.3 A-score, and a great mixture of hard tumbling and hard dance skills.
April 24, 2009 at 4:47 pm |
They are all kind of insane. I love Johnson’s beam work because she is so damn confident, and I love Ponor’s fo the same reason, but Lui’s in this case is just incredible.
April 24, 2009 at 8:24 pm |
I think Viktoria Komova’s and Ezhova’s from 2008 are REALLY difficult.
April 25, 2009 at 1:59 am |
Two words: Yang Bo
April 25, 2009 at 5:15 pm |
Olessya Dudnik!!!
April 25, 2009 at 8:57 pm |
Not a tough call at all: Olessia Dudnik from the 1989 Worlds had one of the most difficult routines I have ever watched!
Kui and Shawn are really close and I believe the most difficult routine by Catalina Ponor was at the 2006 Euros. She did one of the most insane combinations ever: Onodi-aerial walkover-Kotchetkova-BHS-layout to two!
April 25, 2009 at 11:24 pm |
I completely scond Olessia Dudnik. Triple twist, round-off full, arial layout layout. All in 1989! She was so ahead of her time.
April 26, 2009 at 10:37 pm |
I totally think Kui’s work is superior. She, as the commentators say, combines the power, and the grace, whereas, although I love Shawn, I think that she lacks in grace.
April 27, 2009 at 4:09 am |
Gutsu was not the first to attempt a standing full – as far as we all know Priakhina was. The first to do a full on beam out of a TO was Shishova.
I vote for routines in the context of their performance:
Dudnik 1989
Groshkova 1990
Kui 1997
Memmel 2003 (although I don’t like the routine as a whole much there is stil a lot of hard stuff in there – I actually liked Memmel back then because of her guts and she did have some originality – not so much anymore)
Lussac 1994
April 27, 2009 at 10:52 am |
Ponor`s BB from the Romanian Nationals in 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4P_ouFIocc
April 27, 2009 at 2:59 pm |
Completely agree with the Yang Bo Olessia Dudnik Tatiana Groshkova supporters. All 3 of these did the most difficult and memorable routines I’ve ever seen.
April 27, 2009 at 3:44 pm |
I like terrin humphrey’s 2004 routine! super difficult as well
April 27, 2009 at 11:09 pm |
Kui YuanYuan is a goddes on beam. She was totally robbed in 1997. Tie break rule WTF!!! Anyway, I have to agree with some other comments. Dudnik’s routine was way ahead of its time. Groshkova, difficult but sloppy but still ridiculous. Gutsu…nuff said! Don’t forget Zelepukina who basically did Dudnik’s routine but instead of a triple twist dismount, she did a RO-BHS-double back. Finally, Laschenova’s routine was very nice as well. Huge layout 2ft and first woman to do BHS-BHS full in dismount.
April 27, 2009 at 11:10 pm |
He Xeumei did huge layout and layout full on beam as well. But seriously YANG BO FOREVER!!!!
May 8, 2009 at 5:19 pm |
What about Carly Patterson’s junior routine from 2002. It was absolutely stacked, she watered down for her senior career but still kept that crazy Dopuble Arabian dismunt
May 14, 2009 at 1:12 am |
i’m not sure about the most difficult routine … thats definitely up for debate. The most difficult mounts undoubtedly the Garrison and whoever does the arabian front tuck on.
November 13, 2010 at 1:39 pm |
wow it is hard to chose but i have to go with the second one. I chose the second on because of its difficult passes on the beam. They are connected too.