Keisha Lockert and Sofus Heggemsnes
First-year senior Keisha Lockert continued her stellar debut season together with her first nationwide all-around titles at Norwegian Championships this previous weekend, together with an all-around win greater than some extent greater than the remainder of the sector.
Lockert, who kicked off her senior profession earlier this 12 months by making plenty of worldwide groups that included each the European and Nordic Championships, returned following a summer season hiatus to earn her prime rating of the season with a 49.550, defeating fellow first-year senior Christine Kubon in second with a 48.500 and veteran Juliane Tøssebro in third with a 47.850.
A complete of 45 athletes competed within the ladies’s area, which confirmed a number of younger skills along with those that landed on the rostrum proving themselves as having robust potential for the upcoming Northern European Championships. Rounding out the highest eight had been Amalie Dalene in fourth with a 47.450, Mali Neurauter in fifth with a 47.350, Olivia Bergem in sixth with a 47.100, Selma Halvorsen in seventh with a 46.200, and Hedda Folden in eighth with a forty five.250.
Notably outdoors this group was the skilled Mari Kanter, who struggled on bars and flooring to complete tenth with a 44.750, whereas Hannah Ifeanyi, one other standout first-year senior who competed at a number of world cups this 12 months along with making the European and Nordic Championships groups, competed solely on beam, although did incredible work on each days of competitors and shared the gold with Lockert within the last.
Lockert additionally received the ground title together with a pair of silver medals on vault and flooring, whereas Dalene received the vault title and Tøssebro received bars.
Within the males’s competitors, we noticed 2020 Olympian Sofus Heggemsnes again on prime within the all-around after lacking final 12 months’s meet. Although not at full energy right here, he received the title with a 77.800 forward of 2023 champion Peder Skogvang in second with a 77.050, whereas Joar Amblie was third with a 75.650.
Additionally competing within the all-around right here had been Harald Wibye in fourth with a 75.050 after struggling on pommel horse, Sebastian Sponevik in fifth with a 73.850, Kasper Berntsen in sixth with a 71.850, Edvard Roppen in seventh with a 66.300, and Jakob Kvamsøe in eighth with a 64.850.
Skogvang received the ground, pommel horse, and excessive bar gold medals, whereas Wibye took the gold on vault and parallel bars, and Sponevik rounded out the equipment titles with the highest spot on rings.
Maybe most notable on this area was the return of Jacob Karlsen, who suffered two fractures in his proper leg on the Baku World Cup. With solely six months since this severe harm, he was solely capable of come again on rings for this competitors, however he did effectively with each routines, incomes a 12.95 on the primary day of competitors after which a 12.5 to complete fourth within the last.
Full outcomes can be found on our occasion web page.
Article by Lauren Hopkins
