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TEN TITLISTS AT 25th DTB CUP A different gymnast won each of the 10 events at the 25th DTB Cup, a World Cup competition held Oct. 26-27 in Stuttgart. The Australian women were the most successful, winning five medals. Only two of the 2006 champions — Hungary’s Krisztian Berki and the Netherlands’ Yuri van Gelder — repeated this year.

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BY JOHN CRUMLISH

Women’s VT: 1. Oksana Chusovitina GER 14.762; 2. Jade Barbosa BRA 14.537; 3. Daria Joura AUS 14.262; 4. Marissa King GBR 14.237; 5. Enikoe Korcsmaros HUN 13.80; 6. Danielle Englert SUI 13.625; 7(t). Aagje Vanwalleghem BEL, Katja Abel GER 13.362.

UB: 1. Daria Zgoba UKR 15.125; 2. Joura 14.675; 3. Zhou Zhuoru CHN 14. 25; 4. Lauren Mitchell AUS 13.90; 5. Lichelle Wong NED 13.80; 6. Abel 13.50; 7. Irina Krasnyanskaya UKR 12.775; 8. Barbosa 12. 20. BB: 1. Zhou 15.50; 2. Mitchell 15. 20; 3. Lyudmila Yezhova Grebenkova RUS 14.815; 4. Barbosa 14.675; 5. Daniele Hypolito BRA 14.525; 6. Joura 14. 40; 7(t). Geralen Stack-Eaton USA, Krasnyanskaya 14. 15.

FX: 1. Joura 14.825; 2. Barbosa 14. 30; 3. Mitchell 14. 15; 4. Kim Bui GER 13.825; 5. Hypolito 13.775; 6. King 13.65; 7. Adela Sajn SLO 13. 45; 8. Alyona Pron-ina RUS 12.925.

Men’s FX: 1. Diego Hypolito BRA 15.775; 2. Razvan Selariu ROM 15.575; 3. Eleftherios Kosmidis GRE 15.50; 4. Anatoly Vasilyev RUS 15. 35; 5. Alexander Suprun UKR 15.275; 6. Victor Rosa BRA 14.975; 7. Kristian Thomas GBR 14.375; 8. Flavius Koczi ROM 14. 10.

PH:1. Krisztian Berki HUN 16.00; 2. Robert Seligman CRO 15. 25; 3. Anton Fokin UZB 15.175; 4. Daniel Popescu ROM 15.05; 5. Vid Hidvegi HUN 14.85; 6. Daniel Keatings GBR 14.625; 7. Donna-Donny Truyens BEL 13.975; 8. Robert Weber GER 12.50. SR:1. Yuri van Gelder NED 16.50; 2. Irodotos Georgallas CYP 16. 15; 3. Konstantin Pluzhnikov RUS 15.80; 4. Danny Rodrigues FRA 15.70; 5. Fokin 15. 40; 6. Alexander Vorobyov UKR 15. 35; 7. Selariu 15.225; 8. Olli Torkkel FIN 15.075. VT: 1. Jeffrey Wammes NED 16.125; 2. Luis Araujo POR 15.95; 3. Koczi 15.812; 4. Popescu 15.537; 5. Yevgeny Sapronenko LAT 15. 45; 6. Stravos Kekelos GRE 15.412; 7. Thomas 15.325; 8. Mohamed Serour EGY 7.55. PB:1. Mitja Petkovsek SLO 15.975; 2. Fokin 15.85; 3. Samuel Piasecky SVK 15.425; 4. Marcel Nguyen GER 15.325; 5. Johan Mounard FRA 14.975; 6. Keatings 14.875; 7. Popescu 14.85; 8. Kamil Hulboj POL 13.225. HB: 1. Valery Goncharov UKR 15.225; 2. Enrico Pozzo ITA 15. 20; 3. Piasecky 14.625; 4. Keatings 14.55; 5. Wammes 14.525; 6. Weber 14. 25; 7. Marco Baldauf AUT 13.95; 8. Robert Juckel GER 13.275.

nia’s Mitja Petkovsek won the same events at the Glasgow Grand Prix (a World Cup competition held Nov. 9-10) as they did at the DTB Cup. Beth Tweddle of Great Britain, a favorite to win the title on bars, fell on her dismount but placed first on floor exercise. Russia’s 25-year- old Lyudmila Yezhova Grebenkova (married to fellow 2004 Olympian Georgy Grebenkov) won balance beam.

Vault champion Marissa King was the other gold medalist for Great Britain. Born April 20, 1991, in Cambridge, King began training in 1999. She is coached by Paul Hall and Monica Desalermos at Huntingdon Olympic Gym Club. King placed sixth on vault at the ’07 Europeans.

Chile’s Tomas Gonzalez, who would turn 22 on Nov. 22, earned his first World Cup gold medal by winning floor exercise. In previous World Cup meets, Gonzales won one silver medal and three bronze medals.

Women’s VT: 1. Marissa King GBR 14.237; 2. Enikoe Korcsmaros HUN 14.037; 3. Marina Kostyuchenko UKR 13.825; 4. Kim Bui GER 13.775; 5. Marina Sergiyenko UKR 13.737; 6. Valeria Maksyuta ISR 13.487; 7. Paula Plichta POL 13.475; 8. Nansy Damianova CAN 13.00.

UB: 1. Steliana Nistor ROM 15. 20; 2. Daria Zgoba UKR 15.05; 3. Krystina Palesova CZE 15.00; 4. Darlene Hill USA 14.675; 5. Jenny Brunner GER 14.525; 6. Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs CAN 14.425; 7. Beth Tweddle GBR 14.025; 8. Jana Sikulova CZE 12.90. BB:1. Lyudmila Yezhova Grebenkova RUS 15.475; 2. Hopfner-Hibbs 15. 30; 3. Zgoba 15. 20; 4. Fan Ye CHN 15.025; 5(t). Natasha Kelley USA, Nistor 14.875; 7. Zhou Zhuoru CHN 14.80; 8. Sanne Wevers NED 14.50. FX: 1. Tweddle 14.55; 2. Nicole Pechancova CZE 13.65; 3(t). Daniela Druncea ROM, Nistor 13.625; 5. Adela Sajn SLO 13.55; 6. Bui 13. 25; 7. Zhou 13.075; 8. Damianova 12.975. Men’s FX: 1. Tomas Gonzalez CHI 15.80; 2. Elefthe-

Jack Rockwell: 1925-2007

FORMER U.S. National Team Trainer John “Jack” Rockwell died from heart failure on Oct. 22 at his home in Oakmont, Calif. He was 81.

A native of Seattle, Rockwell began working with the U.S. gymnasts in 1977. When he retired in 1990, Rockwell told IG, “Of all the sports I’ve worked in, the gymnastics community is the nicest group of people. I’ll miss the people, and, of course, watching the kids [on the U.S. team] grow up.”

Rockwell was a self-made man. Drafted out of high school, he served in the Army from 1943-46, and received a Purple Heart and the Bronze Star for bravery in combat.

After the end of World War II, Rockwell returned to Washington and worked as a dishwasher at a restaurant, where he met his wife-to-be, Jean. He finished his high school education through the GED program.

Using the G.I. Bill, Rockwell earned a

degree in physical therapy at the University of Kansas, where he began work as an assistant athletic trainer. He earned a master’s degree at the University of Colorado, where he became head athletic trainer. From 1960-71 he was the head trainer for the St. Louis Cardinals football team.