Many commenters think Soviet Olesia Dudnik’s beam routine from event finals the 1989 European Championships stands up as one of the most difficult ever done.
She certainly performed a lot of difficulty almost flawlessly, including this glorious triple full dismount.
Commenter Starsky sees Kelly Garrison-Steves’s roundoff, full twsting mount as one of the most difficult ever done. Tina Erceg from Croatia also does a roundoff Arabian, another very, very hard skill.
Tina Erceg, 2005 Maribor World Cup, Balance Beam:
Japan’s Natsumi Sasada does the same mount Garrison-Steves pioneered, in a laid-out position.
Natsumi Sasada, 2008 Australian Youth Olympic Festival Team Final, Balance Beam:
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May 14, 2009 at 2:43 pm |
Yes it is one of the hardest and most beautifully performed, but another of notable difficulty at those same championships was Yang Bo’s; she performed this memorable routine which under the current scoring system would still have netted her the gold, despite the unfortunate landing:
Another is Tatiana Groshkova’s:
May 14, 2009 at 2:45 pm |
Oh I posted Yang Bo in the AA – in the EF she took about 5 steps on landing and lost the gold.
May 15, 2009 at 12:00 am |
So, girls have been doing back fulls on beam for at least 20 years now, and today it is still a rare skill to see. Why hasn’t anybody ever competed a back double full on beam?? That is something I’d like to see someday.
July 28, 2010 at 6:51 pm |
Groshkova surprised me!!! The MOST original and difficult routine ever!