Senior Men’s AA (2-day total): 1. Sam Offord
172.40; 2. Thomas Pichler 171.35; 3. Luke
Wadsworth 168.45; 4. Luke Wiwatowski 139.15; 5.
Jayden Bull 164.95; 6. Aaron Thanas 161.50.
Junior Men’s AA: 1. Tyson Bull 156.90; 2. Brody-Jai
Hennessy 153.80; 3. Kevin James 152.50.
All Around the World
DUTCH CHAMPIONSHIPS
Veterans Mayra Kroonen and Jeffrey
Wammes won the women’s and men’s all-around titles, respectively, at the Dutch championships held June 19-20 in Heerenveen.
Women’s AA: 1. Mayra Kroonen 54.60; 2. Wyomi
Masela 52.60; 3. Joy Goedkoop 51.80; 4(t). Marlies
Rijken, Dianne Teunisse 51.75; 6. Yvette Moshage
50.80.
Men’s AA:1. Jeffrey Wammes 84.85; 2. Melvin Ornek
80.35; 3. Carlo van Minde 80.05; 4. Boudewijn de
Vries 78.55; 5. Jorian Ilbrink 78.45; 6. Martijn Kuik-man 77.50.
RUSSIA HIGHEST AT “OLYMPIC
HOPES”
Russia’s Yulia Belokobylskaya and Daniil
Kazachkov won the women’s and men’s all-around title, respectively, at “Olympic Hopes,” a
junior meet for gymnasts from former CIS and
Baltic states, held June 16-19 in Penza, Russia.
WHELAN WINS BRITISH TITLE
Two days after her 18th birthday, Olympian
Hannah Whelan won the senior women’s all-around title at the British championships held
July 3-4 in Guildford. Nicole Hibbert, the 2009
junior champion, finished second. Olympians
Rebecca Wing and Imogen Cairns were
fourth and fifth, respectively. Team star Beth
Tweddle competed only on uneven bars, which
she won.
Women’s AA: 1. Yulia Belokobylskaya RUS 55.70; 2.
Maria Paseka RUS 52.85; 3. Kristina Sankova UKR
51.45; 4. Inna Vasilyeva KAZ 49.05; 5. Raisa Shapo-valova UKR 48.90; 6. Valeria Grishanye LAT 48.30.
Men’s AA: 1. Daniil Kazachkov RUS 83.50; 2. Sergei
Karachkin RUS 81.40; 3. Vaan Vardanyan ARM
81.30; 4. Oleg Vernyayev UKR 81.20; 5. Sergei
Stepanov RUS 80.55; 6. Robert Tvorogal LIT 80.40.
Senior AA: 1. Hannah Whelan 57.80; 2. Nicole Hibbert 55.85; 3. Danusia Francis 55.35; 4. Rebecca
Wing 54.95; 5. Imogen Cairns 54.55; 6. Niamh Rippin
53.55.
Junior AA: 1. Laura Mitchell 54.30; 2. Rebecca Tunney 53.90; 3. Venus Romaeo 53.20; 4. Ruby Harrold
52.80; 5. Loriah James 52.75; 6. Elizabeth Beddoe
52.40.
BONORA, OFFORD WIN IN OZ
Georgia Bonora and Samuel Offord won the
senior women’s and men’s all-around titles,
respectively, at the Australian championships
held July 8-11 in Perth (women) and July 14-17
in Canberra (men).
Bonora outscored Mary-Anne Monckton
(second) and fellow 2008 Olympian Shona
Morgan (third). Defending champion Lauren
Mitchell, who is recovering from injury, did not
compete. Olympian Ashleigh Brennan, who is
returning from a break after the 2008 games,
was second after the first day but withdrew
because of an ankle injury. Another 2008
Olympian, Olivia Vivian, won the Level 10
title. Vivian now competes for Oregon State University.
In the men’s meet, veteran Joshua Jefferis
competed on seven events only (85.75), and
world pommel horse medalist Prashanth Sell-athurai competed on three events. Sellathurai’s
pommel horse scores were 16.00 on the first day
and 16. 15 on the second day. Top guest finishers were Japan’s Na o ya Ts u k a h a r a (175.00),
and New Zealand’s Misha Koudinov (167.25)
and Patrick Peng (163.20).
HannahWhelan (GreatBritain)
INTERNATIONAL I.D.
Senior Women’s AA (2-day total): 1. Georgia Bonora
109.375; 2. Mary-Anne Monckton 104.00; 3. Shona
Morgan 103.225; 4. Emma Dennis 102.80; 5. Georgia
Wheeler 102.20; 6. Sophie Budack 99.15.
Junior Women’s AA: 1. Angela Donald 106.325; 2.
Svetlana Sanders 101.45; 3. Amelia McGrath 101.15.
• Paul Hamm/USA: The 2004 Olympic champion, whose comeback for the 2008 Olympics
ended with a hand injury, has decided to train for
the 2012 London games (interview on p. 39).
• Amy Chow/USA: Two-time U.S. Olympian
Amy Chow married Jason Ho in Saratoga,
Calif., on July 10. Chow, who won a silver on
uneven bars in 1996 and the team bronze in
2000, recently finished her residency after
attending medical school at Stanford. Ho is an
orthopedic surgeon.
• Li Xiaopeng/CHN: 2000 Olympic parallel
bars champion Li Xiaopeng married Angel Li,
daughter of 1981 world pommel horse champi-
on Li Xiaoping and Wen Jia, who are co-own-
ers of South Coast Gymnastics in Los Angeles.
Xiaopeng and Angel, who met at the 2003 Ana-
heim world championships, had two wedding
ceremonies: in Los Angeles June 5, and in Bei-
jing July 11.
