The Spanish Thierno Diallo hangs the bronze in the final of parallel of the European

The Spanish Thierno Diallo won this Sunday the bronze medal in the end of parallels of the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships disputed in the Turkish city of Antalya, where nestor abbot was fourth in bar and Laura Casabuena sixth in the women’s floor final.

The 22-year-old Catalan gymnast obtained a score of 14.733 (6.4 in difficulty and 8.333 in execution) in his first European final, behind the Ukrainian Illia Kovtum who made the Ukrainian anthem sound by achieving gold with a note of 15,166, and the Turkish Ferhat Arican, who added 14,933 to hang the silver.

Thierno Diallo He entered today’s final, the last day of the competition, with the fifth best grade and had been tenth in the complete competition. Olympic in Tokyo, the Catalan of Guinean origin, was silver last year in the parallels final of the Szombathely World Cup (Hungary).

a splendid day

In the last round of the championship, the bar final, nestor abbot he was one step away from adding another medal for the Spanish delegation, but he finally finished in fourth place. The Spaniard had a score of 13,666, the same as the Hungarian Kristofer Meszarosbut he achieved with a better evaluation in execution than this one with 8.366 and 5.3 in difficulty.

Abad, who three days ago was thirteenth in the event, was on the podium to be bronze until the Ukrainian competed Illia Kovtun, who closed the performance of the eight finalists after having been gold in parallel, and completed a great exercise with which he overtook the Spaniard (13.966).

The gold medal went to the Croatian Tin Srbicsilver at the Tokyo Games, with a score of 14,222, and silver for the Italian Carlo Macchini, which totaled 14,200.

The other Spanish present in today’s finals was Laura Casabuena who finished sixth on floor, with a score of 13,033 (5.2 in difficulty and 7,833 in execution). Gold went to the British Jessica Gadirova (14,000), followed by his compatriot Alice Kinsella (13,666) and the Romanian Sabrina Msneca-Voinea (13.566).

The young 17-year-old gymnast from Alicante entered the final with the ninth best grade and completed her exercise to the sound of the music of Madonna and its theme “Material girl” to finish sixth, a result that improves the eighth place achieved last February in the final of the Cottbus World Cup (Germany), where she was also sixth in the vault final.

By teams, spain closes the European with the sixth place of the masculine team, made up of Ray Zapata, Thierno Diallo, Nestor Abad, Adrià Vera and Daniel Carrión, same position as at last year’s World Championships in Liverpool. The title went to Italy, with Turkey second and Great Britain third.

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spain had the loss in Antalya of Joel Plata, who is recovering from the broken femur he suffered last March due to the traffic accident that the team suffered in Portugal when they were traveling to a competition.

The women’s team, made up ofr Laura Casabuena, Alba Petisco, Ana Pérez, Laia Font and Maia Llacer, He finished in eighth place and the victory went to Great Britain, followed by Italy for silver and the Netherlands.