Paris 2024 Olympics : Who are the top contenders in the All-Around?
- liviefromparis
- 19 juil. 2024
- 3 min de lecture
How can you talk about the Olympic Games without mentioning the All-around Final? The very anticipated final where the Olympic All-around Champion will be crowned. Who will succeed to Suni Lee who on the Gold at Tokyo 2020? This year, it will take place on Thursday, August 1st, 2024. The top 24 gymnasts will qualify to the all-around final with a maximum of two gymnasts per country.
So who, besides Simone Biles and Rebeca Andrade who are the top contenders to medal in the all-around final?
The gymnastics world has recently been impacted by many injuries from top medal contenders in the all-around such as Shilese Jones, Skye Blakely or Ondine Achampong. These unfortunate news have opened the door in the all-around for many gymnasts. Let's take a look at some of the best scores this past year.
Notable Gymnasts
Rebeca Andrade hasn't been competing all-around this year so it's kind of tricky to see where she's at, but she should still be competing her full difficulty on floor and vault (the only two apparatus she didn't compete this year).
Alice D'amato has just been crowned 2024 Italian Champion in the all-around with 57,200 points, this would place her just behind Simone Biles, in front of Rebeca Andrade. This score hasn't been included because there is too much overscoring and it's not realistic (She got 8.4 Execution score on beam with two big wobbles).
Italian gymnasts Manila Esposito & Elisa Iorio have just upgraded their vault to a double twisting yurchenko, this is giving them a significant boost in their all-around score.
We have not counted Manila's recent 56,250 all-around score because it included 14,950 on beam and this is too unrealistic (8.950 Execution will never happen in a FIG competition on Balance Beam).
Shoko Miyata the current 2024 Japanese Champion in the all-around has been excluded from the Tokyo Olympic Team after smoking, which is a violation in Japan. She was a very strong gymnast with strong chances in the all-around.
Scoring
As always, it's important to keep in mind that many of these gymnasts haven't been competing all-around in international FIG competitions, so scoring could be a little unrealistic and generous so this ranking is not the most reliable. For example, Italian Championships are known to be very over-scored so some scores should be taken with caution.
Top 24 All-around Gymnasts (In bold gymnasts not left out of the two per-country rule)
Scores not from FIG competitions = not as reliable.
Notable countries
This ranking clearly show us the dominance of several countries who manage to have many gymnasts in the all-around ranking.
The American Gymnasts are without a doubt the strongest gymnasts as they count their 5 gymnasts in the top 8, meaning 3 gymnasts will most likely be left out and will not be able to compete in the all-around final despite their scores.
As expected, the Italian and the Chinese gymnasts are also among the best as they count four of their gymnasts in the top 24.
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