2023 African Championships Results

/ May 28, 2023

The 2023 African Championships were held from May 26 through May 27 in Pretoria, South Africa.

All-Around Results

Rank Athlete Nation VT UB BB FX AA
1 Kaylia Nemour Algeria 12.966 15.066 13.533 12.166 53.731
2 Caitlin Rooskrantz South Africa 12.800 13.866 11.800 12.166 50.632
3 Jana Abdelsalam Egypt 13.266 12.033 12.333 12.200 49.832
4 Naveen Daries South Africa 12.800 12.600 11.933 12.200 49.533
– Caleigh Anders South Africa 12.666 11.500 11.000 12.600 47.766
5 Sandra Elsadek Egypt 13.300 9.966 11.933 11.500 46.699
– Nada Awad Egypt 12.633 10.433 10.366 12.100 45.532
6 Lahna Salem Algeria 12.600 9.933 11.300 11.566 45.399
– Sihem Hamidi Algeria 12.533 9.766 10.200 10.400 42.899
– Nancy Taman Egypt 13.533 —— —— 12.500 26.033
– Garcelle Napier South Africa 13.066 —— —— 11.666 24.732
7 Ajara Petsadjui Cameroon 10.133 0.400 5.033 8.933 24.499
– Malek Rezagui Algeria 12.333 —— —— 10.933 23.266
8 Moira Teneku Cameroon 9.433 0.366 4.866 8.133 22.798
– Jana Mahmoud Egypt —— 12.100 10.300 —— 22.400
– Cynthia Letono Cameroon 9.700 0.000 4.733 7.866 22.299
– Shanté Koti South Africa —— 11.200 10.733 —— 21.933
– Veronique Ornela Mengue Cameroon 8.866 0.000 4.400 6.933 20.199
– Chama Temmami Algeria —— 7.966 10.433 —— 18.399
– Aminatou Niasse Senegal 9.833 —— —— 7.100 16.933

Team Final Results

Rank Nation VT UB BB FX Total
1 SOUTH AFRICA (Caleigh Anders, Naveen Daries, Shanté Koti, Garcelle Napier, Caitlin Rooskrantz) 38.666 37.966 34.733 36.966 148.331
2 EGYPT (Jana Abdelsalam, Nada Awad, Sandra Elsadek, Jana Mahmoud, Nancy Taman) 40.099 34.566 34.632 36.800 146.097
3 ALGERIA (Sihem Hamidi, Kaylia Nemour, Malek Rezagui, Lahna Salem, Chama Temmami) 38.099 34.765 35.033 34.665 142.562
4 CAMEROON (Cynthia Letono, Veronique Ornela Mengue, Ajara Petsadjui, Moira Teneku) 29.266 0.766 14.632 24.932 69.596

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    • They don’t have a set of regulation bars to train on so they don’t really have any skills there. Two of their athletes who competed bars got scores of 0.000 because they aren’t doing FIG-level skills, so no difficulty combined with an 8.0 ND for missing elements means their scores were 0.000 or even negative. The other two gymnasts were in the same situation with low difficulty and massive ND penalties, so while they received scores, both were under a point.

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      • Are there any videos of them competing in bars or any other event? I would really enjoy seeing that. I am also interested to see how a gymnast could get a 0.00

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        • I haven’t seen any videos of their bars, they used to post some footage from national-level events on this YouTube account but it hasn’t seen any action over the past couple of years:

          https://www.youtube.com/@fantome1687

          You can see some of their performances on other events (mostly vault and floor), and some athletes were featured in the African Championships youtube coverage from 2022, but I haven’t seen any clips from their bars at all.

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        • But basically, to get a 0.000, the following would need to occur:

          – Gymnast performs 0-2 elements at low/no difficulty
          – Gymnast receives execution deductions
          – Gymnast receives short exercise penalty

          Let’s say a gymnast performs 2 skills recognized in the code of points and totals a 0.5 D score. If she performed really well and got an 8.500 E score, her total score would be a 9.000, but then she’d receive -8.0 ND for the short exercise penalty, bringing her down to a 1.000 total score.

          However, if the gymnast performed that same routine but had mistakes and only received a 6.500 E score, her total score would be a 7.000, and then with the -8.0 ND, she’d be at a negative score, and would receive a 0.

          There’s also the case of a gymnast performing with zero elements that are included in the COP (for example, a kip that doesn’t cast to handstand, or a hip circle, the most basic low-level elements). In this case, she’d receive a 0.0 D score. Let’s say she performed it PERFECTLY, no deductions, and gets a 10.0 E score. In this case, with zero FIG COP elements in the routine, she’d receive a -10.0 ND short exercise penalty, so her score would be a 0.000 for a perfect routine.

          The girls from Cameroon who received scores of 0.000 in South Africa last fit both of these examples. Cynthia Letono had a 0.1 D score and 7.300 E score for a 7.400 total, but then with -8.0 ND, her score becomes negative and she receives a zero. Veronique Ornela Mengue had a 0.0 D score and a 6.966 E score, making her total a 6.966, but her -10.0 ND brought her down to a negative score and she also received a zero.

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        • Back in 2020-2021 or so they had been asking for equipment on their YouTube channel and I put some feelers out there on Twitter to see how the gym community could make that happen, but some redditors went wild with it and said it was “too white savior” of me and so it kind of died out. Like, yes, if we were coming out of nowhere to be like “let’s save this poor gymnastics federation in Africa” then I’d see their point, but their athletes and coaches truly wanted, needed, and were asking for help so it sucks that the idea got shot down so quickly. The federation hasn’t really been active online since then so I’m not sure how to contact them or who the right person to organize this would be…I’m sure every gym in the U.S. with 10 sets of every piece of equipment could pool their resources and then people could crowdfund to ship it or something!

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    • Some competitions will just do a courtesy score of 1.0 in these situations where gymnasts aren’t competing at the FIG level, but either way their UB score was going to be very low.

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        • Thank you, and happy to help! It’s very rare that we see competitors in major FIG/elite competitions performing this far below the level, but there are a few countries that just don’t have access to equipment. I believe gymnasts from Kosovo don’t even do bars because they don’t have a single set in any of their gyms…I’m not sure how Cameroon even trains the basics on that event at all. They also don’t have a sprung floor (just dead mats!) and they train bigger tumbling passes using a springboard on their dead floor, and they have an old wooden beam and an old-school 80s vaulting horse. It’s a dire situation but love that they always bring so much passion and joy to how they compete.

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