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XIAO, DENG WIN IN CHINA
Guizhou gymnasts Xiao Sha and Deng Shudi
won the all-around titles at the Chinese Gymnastics Championships, held July 21-26 in Xiantao.
Xiao, an alternate to the Chinese women’s
gold medal-winning team at the 2008 Olympics,
defeated Olympic team member Deng Linlin,
who placed third. Huang Qiushuang, who
won the all-around title at the Japan Cup on July
18, won the bronze medal.
In the women’s apparatus finals, Jiang Tong
scored 13.95 to win vault. Olympic uneven bars
champion He Kexin scored 15.775 to win
uneven bars over Olympian Jiang Yuyuan
( 14.85) and Wu Liufang ( 14.80). Xiao claimed
balance beam, scoring 15.525 to finish ahead of
Tang Sixin ( 14.80), and Deng ( 14.65). Sui Lu
won the floor exercise with 14.100, over co-sil-ver medalists Hu Yuhong and Chen Yixin
( 13.75).
Deng Shudi scored 85.50 to win the men’s all-around title. Olympic floor exercise champion
Zou Kai placed first on floor ( 15. 20) over Liang
Fuliang ( 15.175). Zhang Hongtao won pommel horse ( 16. 25). Complete results were not
available at IG press time.
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the women’s and men’s all-around titles, respectively, and led Russia to the team titles at the
11th European Youth Olympic Festival, held July
21-24 in Tampere, Finland.
HUANG, UCHIMURA WIN JAPAN CUP
Huang Qiushuang of China and 2008 Olympic all-around silver medalist Kohei Uchimura
of Japan won the women’s and men’s all-around
titles, respectively, and led their teams to victory
at the first Japan Cup, held July 18-19 in Chiba.
Born May 28, 1992, in Hubei, Huang finished
fifth all-around and second to Nastia Liukin on
uneven bars at the ’08 Pacific Rim championships in San Jose, Calif.
RUSSIA ROMPS AT EYOF
Viktoria Komova and David Belyavsky won
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Tracee Talavera USA....................9/1/66
Shona Morgan AUS .....................9/1/90
Shayla Worley USA .....................9/2/90
Luis Rivera PUR .........................9/4/86
Tatiana Gutsu UKR ......................9/5/76
Jorge Giraldo COL.......................9/5/79
Anna Pavlova RUS ......................9/6/87
Raj Bhavsar USA ........................9/7/80
Daniele Hypolito BRA...................9/8/84
Marcel Nguyen GER.....................9/8/87
Sho Nakamori USA......................9/9/85
Vasileios Tsolakidis GRE...............9/9/79
Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs CAN.............9/12/89
Kathy Johnson USA....................9/13/59
Laura Campos ESP ....................9/13/88
Kyle Bunthuwong USA ................9/13/89
Steliana Nistor ROM ..................9/15/89
Denis Savenkov BLR ..................9/17/83
Kim Dae Eun KOR......................9/17/84
Sanne Wevers NED ....................9/17/91
Valery Goncharov UKR................9/19/77
Yelena Zamolodchikova RUS ........9/19/82
Kevin Tan USA..........................9/24/81
Paul & Morgan Hamm USA...........9/24/82
Danut Grecu ROM......................9/26/50
Mohini Bhardwaj USA.................9/28/78
Koko Tsurumi JPN .....................9/28/92
Umit Samiloglu TUR ..................9/29/80
Marius Urzica ROM....................9/30/75
Dominique Moceanu USA ............9/30/81
Women’s Team: 1. RUS 113.15; 2. ROM 111.25; 3.
NED 110.60.
AA:1. Viktoria Komova RUS 57.30; 2. Amelia Racea
ROM 55.80; 3. Celine van Gerner NED 55.20; 4. Violetta Malikova RUS 54.80; 5. Chahdi Naoual Ouazzani
NED 54.45; 6. Raluca Haidu ROM 53.95.
VT: 1. Racea 14.487; 2. Ouazzani 14. 20; 3. Komova
14.175. UB: 1. Komova 15.00; 2. Racea 13.95; 3.
Nicole Hibbert GBR 13.95. BB: 1. Racea 14.65; 2.
Komova 14.65; 3. van Gerner 13.80. FX: 1. Malikova
14.125; 2. Racea 14.05; 3. Haidu 13.90.
Men’s Team: 1. RUS 164.00; 2. SUI 162.80; 3. ROM
159.20.
AA: 1. David Belyavsky RUS 82.15; 2. Andrei
Muntean ROU 80.65; 3. Igor Pakhomenko RUS
80.50; 4. Michael Meier SUI 80.10; 5. Cameron
Mackenzie GBR 79.50; 6. Artur Davtyan ARM 79.20.
FX: 1. Belyavsky 14.225; 2. Muntean 14.05; 3. Pablo
Braegger SUI 13.65. PH: 1. Sam Oldham GBR
13.775; 2. Pakhomenko 13. 45; 3. Maxim Semyankov
UKR 13. 40. SR: 1. Belyavsky 13.875; 2. Nikita Yer-mak UKR 13.80; 3. Pakhomenko 13.70. VT: 1. Tomas
Thys BEL 14.962; 2. Jim Zona FRA 14.90; 3. Braegger 14.862. PB: 1. Oldham 13.775; 2. Thomas
Neuteleers BEL 13.60; 3. Oliver Hegi SUI 13.525. HB:
1. Max Bennett GBR 13. 35; 2. Velislav Valchev BUL
13. 20; 3. Hegi 13.05.
Women’s Team: 1. CHN (Huang, He, Xiao, Zhang)
171.20; 2. RUS (Mustafina, Nabiyeva, Dementyeva,
Kurbatova, Myzdrikova) 171.10; 3. JPN (Tsurumi,
Uemura, Minobe, Oshima, Shintake) 166.50; 4. AUS
(Mitchell, Coley, Greeley, Miller) 159.85.
AA: 1. Huang Qiushuang CHN 58.90; 2. Aliya Mustafina RUS 58.25; 3 . Tatiana Nabiyeva RUS 57.45; 4.
Koko Tsurumi JPN 57.40; 5. Lauren Mitchell AUS
56.30; 6. Miki Uemura JPN 55.40.
Men’s Team: 1. JPN (Uchimura, Tanaka, Sakamoto,
Sekiguchi, Yamamuro) 275.50; 2. CHN (Guo, Lu,
Chen, Feng, Teng) 273.85; 3. GER (Hambüchen, Boy,
Fahrig, Nguyen, Spiridonov) 266.80; 4. RUS (
Devya-tovsky, Golotsutskov, Khorokhordin, Olennikov,
Ryazanov) 266.10; 5. KOR (Yoo, Kim Hyun Soo, Kim
Seung Il, Lee, Shin) 260.40; 6. USA (Horton,
Legendre, Leyva, McNeill, Nakamori) 258.55.
AA: 1. Kohei Uchimura JPN 92.75; 2. Fabian Hambüchen GER 92.10; 3. Kazuhito Tanaka 90.85; 4. Yoo
Won Chul KOR 90.05; 5. Guo Weiyang CHN 89.70; 6.
Lu Bo CHN 89.35.
Van Gelder Admits Cocaine Use
THOMAS SCHRE YER
YURI van Gelder failed a doping test at the Dutch champi- onships in June, which cost him his rings title, his job
in the Dutch Army and his sponsors. Time will tell if it
ended his career, too. The 2005 world and current European
champ on rings admitted to using cocaine three days before
the competition, and the Dutch federation suspended him
temporarily. That van Gelder, 26, would use the drug before
a big meet suggests that his “recreational” use was more
of a habit. The strongman, who said he will seek professional help for his weakness, could be suspended for up to
two years. Such a setback could make it difficult for van
Gelder to resume his competitive career. “I am a fighter
and I want to stay up there with the best in the world,” he
said. Surely, this is a battle worth fighting. —IGStaff
