Claudia Fragapane - Commonwealth All-Around Champion

30th July 2014
As if the Results from the Men's All-Around wasn't good enough, the England Women took their turn tonight in the All-Around Final at The Hydro and set off to go just one better.  It was neck and neck all the way, with the No 1 position changing frequently.  In the end, it was pretty clear that Ruby Harrold (ENG) would get a medal, but the outcome of who the other two recipients would be could have gone one of three ways.  In the end, it was all on the last two gymnasts, Elsabeth Black (CAN) and Claudia Fragapane (ENG) and how they performed on the last apparatus - Floor.

Both gymnasts had high scoring routines, but when the pressure was on Elsabeth cracked and ended with a score of 12.766.  On the other hand, Claudia rose to the challenge and for the second day running performed a near perfect Floor routine, which had everyone holding their breath in anticipation.  As she finished, it was clear to everyone that she had given the performance of her life and would be suitably rewarded.  The score came in and it was 14.733. 


With Elsabeth scoring lower than anticipated, it meant that she had lost her place in the medals and had been replaced by Hannah Whelan (ENG).

What a result for the England girls - total domination of the Medal podium with Claudia Fragapane (GOLD), Ruby Harrold (SILVER) and Hannah Whelan (BRONZE).  An unbelievable result and a fantastic sight to be seen.  All three girls totally deserved the outcome after some fabulous performances on all apparatus, but the night went to Claudia, who clearly was very emotional as she received her Gold medal (for the second day running) and three England flags were raised to the England anthem.

FULL RESULTS

GOLD	ENG	Claudia Fragapane	56.132
SILVER	ENG	Ruby Harrold	55.232
BRONZE	ENG	Hannah Whelan	54.599
4th	CAN	Elsabeth Black	54.157
5th	AUS	Olivia Vivian	52.632
6th	WAL	Georgina Hockenhull	52.598
7th	CAN	Isabela Maria Onyshko	52.565
8th	WAL	Elizabeth Beddoe	52.540
9th	CAN	Maegan Chant	52.032
10th	SCO	Emma White	51.532
11th	MAS	Farah Ann Abdul Hadi	51.065
12th	NZL	Brittany Robertson	50.682
13th	AUS	Georgia Rose Brown	50.598
14th	SCO	Amy Regan	50.432
15th	RSA	Kirsten Beckett	49.533
16th	NZL	Charlotte Sullivan	49.098
17th	NIR	Nicole Mawhinney	48.565
18th	SIN	Janessa Dai	48.465
19th	SIN	Heem Wei Lim	48.299
20th	RSA	Bianca Mann	47.665
21st	IOM	Grace Harrison	47.599
22nd	IND	Dipa Karmakar	47.432
23rd	RSA	Claudia Cummins	46.890
24th	CYP	Stelutsa Savvidou	45.632

All photographs courtesy of Linda Gore