Vinzenz Höck, 20th at the World Gymnastics Championships in Doha – sportlive.at

Vincent Höck delivered as expected the best performance of Austrian gymnastics at the World Championships in Doha / Qatar. Grazer, 22, was 20th with 14,133 points on the rings. For the 2014 Junior European Champion, it is his second highest ranking in the elite World Cup after the 17th of the previous year.

The upper field of the rings was very close. A poorly executed outfit and a Nachhüpfen at the start cost Höck more than five-tenths, which would have been necessary in the 194-head World Cup squad to enter the final of the top eight on this apparatus. .

Four competitors reached exactly the same final score as Vinzenz Höck, but because of their best performances, they were ahead of him: "My exercise was not perfect, but very good." I was expecting a score higher performance, now I know what to continue working on. "In terms of Kürschwierigkeit, Höck was already the number 7 of the World Cup.

Team with a slack in the second World Cup third

As a team, Austria clearly missed the originally scheduled 24th rank. That would have created at the 2019 World Cup again the start of a team and thus a slightly better starting position for Olympic qualification. But because of the failures, national coach Petr Koudela was unable to name the optimal composition in Doha at three of the five team positions. Vinzenz Höck (St), Lukas and Severin Kranzlmüller (Upper Austria), Matthias Schwab (V) and Fabio Sereinig (V) have finally reached 37th place in the world championship at the World Cup, gathering 78 nations.

In the near total absence of audience – the few supporters present came mainly from abroad for the World Cup in the desert of Qatar – Austria had started in a positive way. After the optimistic Barren and the bar, the quintet still took the 28th place. It followed a big fall on the ground and the pommel horse, which returned to 41st position after two-thirds of competition. At the rings and at the ambitious end again at the jump, we still climbed four places.

Leimlehner, sports director: "At this level, completely unacceptable errors."

The ÖFT artistic gymnast, Fabian Leimlehner, sports director, explains and evaluates the appearance of his team: "The participation in the competition was so far quite satisfactory.We had three good exercises on the bar and on the horizontal bar The practice of ingots slightly gaffed Vinzenz and the fall of Fabio at the end of the table have no direct influence on the result of the team.This of course does not mean that these mistakes can be tolerated. "

"On the floor and on the pommel horse, unfortunately, we left a lot of points," says Leimlehner: "If we do not already offer the most difficult exercises, we must not commit any problems. 39, error during the execution.But there was too much.It is totally unacceptable at this level.Of course, we missed the ratings of our best fighters, unfortunately fit, Johannes Mairoser and Alexander Benda . "

"At the rings, the team has resumed and could," said Leimlehner, "present own exercises." Vinzenz also had a very good free style, which unfortunately was not noted by the referees for incomprehensible reasons. Of course, it still lacks a bit of detail, but overall, I am very pleased with the development of Vinzenz.On the last jump, the performance of everything was going well so far. "

The Austrian Turner in the detail badysis:

Of the six Austrians who went to Doha, five were allowed to face the World Cup competition in accordance with the regulations. Maximilian Tamegger (V) was named alternate four days earlier after the podium practice. Of the five members of the team, four took part in the team and the top three scores were ranked in the overall team clbadification ("System 5-4-3"). In total, that meant 24 (6 × 4) winners of the Austrian World Cup. These total 260 gymnasts out of 20 to 186.

Matthias Schwab He is the only member of the team who – at his third World Cup, but the first after five years of interruption – totally denied the all-around competition on all six machines: "With the exception of a double Alto missed that lands on the first floor track, I managed everything well. I had trouble getting the entire event through very quickly. I felt constantly in action. "In total, 78 graduates managed even better than Schwab.

Vincent Höck and Severin Kranzlmüller Höck had to reprimand without justification a very simple barrier: "This mistake never happened in life, nor in a competition nor in a training." Other devices have Höck cleaned up: "For me, the 2018 World Cup was, in short, an important confirmation and positioning for my future journey."

Severin Kranzlmüller has forgotten his black day at the 2017 Montreal World Cup in Doha: "It was important to me, but it was obviously not my reference today." J & # 39; have a difficult year behind me because of an injury, currently having problems in the shoulder. "With the exception of a pommel horse problem and a a very low note, I remembered my skills today. "

Séverin's big brother Lukas Kranzlmüller was pleased with his fifth World Cup since 2010, but the first since 2015 "about a successful comeback after three years of absence from the biggest stage of international gymnastics." I made the four exercises without any mistakes, so I'm very happy with my performance. "

Fabio Sereinig He was the only World Cup debutant on the ÖFT team – and that was what made the nervous 19-year-old Wolfurter nervous: "At first I felt very good. Bar with the bars well controlled, I unfortunately dropped once in each of the following three shots. "On the high bar, the state champion in charge of this unit scored a first-line result after having scored a superb performance triple-alto.

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