Best Balance Beam Specialists of All Time - WAG

[@aaron-onuigbokingsley5145]

Please Simone just needs an OG gold on beam before she retires. So close this year.

[@fll7181]

Thanks for the great video :)

[@saragrant9749]

The part that made Lysenko’s gold so nice was it came after so many mistakes and injuries. Great to see her finally have success.

[@johnhazel3551]

She didn’t deserve that medal! Shannon’s difficult made her look like a joke. Look how low her chest was on that landing of the double tuck. That whole team was full of lies. Screw the Russians and I say that for today too!

[@saragrant9749]

@@johnhazel3551 while the Soviet Union did mess with a great number of results and usurp many a deserved medal from other, better routines, THIS gold was very much deserved. Shannon had a couple of little things herself and wasn’t completely perfect either. Back then a low chest landing wasn’t as serious a markdown as it is today.

[@Qusland]

Not seeing Kui Yuan Yuan here hurts and like Gina did not deserve that gold at all.

[@fishtail1129]

Most of these are not really specialists. Only Wevers, Schaefer and Guan. And I’m still not over Yang Bo never getting a world or Olympic medal- she was the best ever!

[@AlbaRosa-ui3xs]

Sui Lu fantastica! Korbut fenomenale eleganza! Comaneci magnifica! Biles esorbitante!

[@rachelplows3001]

It's too bad the Miller isn't still in the CoP.

[@LilianDutra-t8o]

When i see bb i think in Catalina Ponor

[@edagley]

The first girl was really talented but she needs to point her toes then again I could be just a retired ballet dancer who would like to see more dance moves in the Beam and Floor Excersize like "in the old days" but we do have rhythmic gymnastics to fill that niche

[@KaylaTheDaughterOfAthena]

Shawn Johnson should be way higher. I mean she's perfect! And Nastia's 9th so it's not fair to Johnson who was better or as good

[@evoandy]

This is based on success at Meets. Shawn was far from perfect. She never once stuck that dismount and her chest was low in nearly all of her acrobatic skills. she landed that standing full with her chest practically against her thighs every single time I saw her do it. Just because she was consistent and didn’t have many balance checks doesn’t mean she was perfect. Liukin was consistently superior in several ways and was more successful in competition.

[@gymnasticfan9148]

@@evoandy She only competed at 2 major competitions. She fell in the 2007 Worlds Final and won the Gold at Olympics. I’m pretty sure she would’ve won the gold in a normal day.

[@KaylaTheDaughterOfAthena]

@@evoandy It's actually the only skill she had a low landing. Everywhere else was great. And Nastia just competed more.

[@Stephan6510]

@@KaylaTheDaughterOfAthena The only acrobatic skill she HADN'T a low landing was her back layout

[@KaylaTheDaughterOfAthena]

Look, she's my favorite gymnast. Let's just agree to disagree.

[@mydobie130]

Shannon waa great at "cheating" her tumbles on the beam.

[@ArtByDesign80]

I mean can you really call World and Olympic ALL-AROUND medalist “Beam Specialists”?!?

[@gymnasticfan9148]

@@ArtByDesign80 Can’t a person be specialist in more than one thing? Or be be a specialist in one apparatus and good in the rest?

[@ArtByDesign80]

@ I would use the term specialist for someone who focuses on 1 or 2 events…like Stephen Nedoroscik being a pommel horse specialist…he literally does not train/compete other events…if someone medals in All-Around I think they can have stronger events…but I would not say they were event specialists. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@gymnasticfan9148]

@ You can use specialist for both, a person who focus in only 1 thing and a person who excels in one thing

[@ArtByDesign80]

⁠@@gymnasticfan9148is “excels at one thing”…Simone is #1 on the Beam Specialist list…but wouldn’t she also be a Vault Specialist, a Floor Specialist, and All-Around Specialist?

[@gymnasticfan9148]

@ One doesn’t exclude the other, you can be specialist in more than one thing, that’s what I’m saying since the beginning

[@hellotoeveryone8045]

based on medals ya, but overall suni and shawn are the best beam workers of all time

[@gymnasticfan9148]

@@hellotoeveryone8045 My top 2 all time favorites are Shawn and Sui Lu

[@fenny1430]

Simone in first? LOL

[@gymnasticfan9148]

@@fenny1430 I only see 1 gymnast with more than 2 Golds at Worlds here.

[@fenny1430]

@@gymnasticfan9148 Se as outras que estão abaixo dela tivessem as mesma oportunidades, provavelmente iriam ter mais que ela. Simone ultimamente não faz trave tão bem. Só ganha ponto por dificuldade e ligação.

[@gymnasticfan9148]

@@fenny1430 Não faz a trave tão bem? É só a trave mais consistente dos últimos 12 anos. E isso é muito importante kkk, ela só não é mais de longe a melhor trave como era no ciclo de 2016. Mas conseguiu se manter sempre ali no top 2-3 do ciclo.

[@gymnasticfan9148]

@@fenny1430 Só não é disparada na frente aqui pq rogaram praga nela nas olimpiadas, ela tinha a melhor trave de 2016 e 2021.

[@cocoroni1031]

Her beam consistency is unreal. She’s not a “paper difficulty” beam queen.

[@TheMajesticice01]

Boring Gina Gogean! I was so mad in 97 when she won over Kui!

[@brookseggerth7338]

Lysenkos was very boring

[@johnhazel3551]

Sanna Wevers????? Lmao that was the biggest waste of a medal ever! Performing a level 3 dismount at the Olympics please

[@lizk1780]

100% agree! Although her beam routine is very pretty to watch, there is low risk in learning difficult turns. Gymnasts who combine artistry with difficult acrobatic skills have a far superior routine.

[@cocoroni1031]

Biggest waste how? Only she can do these difficult turns and the turn combo on beam. You don’t have to be great on everything to get a medal. Besides, on-beam acro difficulty is useless thanks to the beam code. Most importantly, she hits when it matters on beam.

[@cocoroni1031]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@lizk1780 it’s not of low risk. No one does double L turn and triple turn on beam. “Difficult acrobatics” is a lie because many people’s most difficult acro excluding the dismount is an aerial nowadays.