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U.S. RULES PAN AM CHAMPIONSHIPS
The U.S. won the men’s and women’s team
titles at the Pan American Championships, held
in Guadalajara, Mexico, Sept. 2-5. Canada
placed second for both men and women, sharing
the men’s silver with Brazil. Mexico’s Daniel
Corral won the men’s all-around over Glen
Ishino (USA), while Americans Kyla Ross and
Sabrina Vega went 1-2 in the women’s competition. The top seven teams qualified to the 2011
Pan American Games, also in Guadalajara.
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BY JOHN CRUMLISH
Men’s Team: 1. USA 352.15; 2(t). BRA, CAN 343.95;
4. COL 342.00; 5. PUR 341.70; 6. MEX 338.15; 7.
ARG 336.60; 8. VEN 335.95; 9. CUB 330.85; 10. CHI
324.05; 11. ECU 293.20; 12. PER 290.65.
AA: 1. Daniel Corral MEX 88.75; 2. Glen Ishino USA
88.15; 3. Jorge Huge Giraldo COL 87.45; 4(t). Wes
Haagensen USA, Tomas Sepulveda Gonzalez CHI
86.45; 6. Mosiah Rodrigues BRA 86.30.
Women’s Team: 1. USA 232.030; 2. Canada
213.463; 3. Brazil 212.994; 4. Mexico 211.961; 5.
Venezuela 210.594; 6. Colombia 207.962; 7. Cuba
197.730; 8. Argentina 197.128; 9. Ecuador 190.529;
10. Puerto Rico 184.397; 11. Chile 179.362.
AA: 1. Kyla Ross USA 57.998; 2. Sabrina Vega USA
57.633; 3. Jessica Lopez VEN 57.099; 4. Elsa Garcia
MEX 56.232; 5. Gabrielle Douglas USA 55.833; 6.
Kristina Vaculik CAN 54.833.
MUSTAFINA, KHOROKHORDIN WIN
RUSSIAN CUP
Aliya Mustafina and Sergei Khorokhordin
won the women’s and men’s all-around title,
respectively, at the Russian Cup held Aug. 25-28
in Chelyabinsk. Last year, Mustafina also placed
first; and Khorokhordin placed second behind
Yuri Ryazanov, who was killed in a car accident
last fall. Absent in Chelyabinsk was 2010 Russian all-around women’s champion Viktoria
Komova, who had just won the all-around title
at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.
Pommel horse champion Matvei Petrov
continues his series of medal-winning performances on his specialty. Born July 16, 1990, in
Kaliningrad, Petrov won the silver medal on
pommel horse at the ’06 and ’08 European
junior championships. Earlier this year on the
event, he won the Russian championships and
placed third at the World Cup of Cottbus, Germany.
Guo, who placed second in qualifications,
scored 90.45 to finish ahead of runner-up Liao
Qiuhua (89.85) and co-bronze medalists Lu Bo
and Tong Yingjie (89.75). Fifth was reigning
Olympic and world rings champion Chen Yibing (85.75). Top qualifier Teng Haibin made
mistakes on three events and placed 12th.
BORN IN OCTOBER
KHOANG, SAVITSKY WIN IN
BELARUS
Lilia Khoang and Dmitry Savitsky won the
women’s and men’s all-around title, respectively,
at the Belarusian championships, held Aug. 23-
25 in Minsk.
Born Aug. 23, 1994, in Pinsk (not to be confused with Minsk), Khoang is coached by Yuri
Smirnoy. She had a string of solid results in
2009, including third place all-around at the
Belarus Cup, ninth place all-around at the Stella
Zakharova Cup in Kiev, and 11th place all-around at the Vitaly Scherbo Cup.
Ross Brewer GBR ......................10/1/79
Prashanth Sellathurai AUS ...........10/1/86
Jair Lynch USA .........................10/2/71
Yann Cucherat FRA ....................10/2/79
Alexander Vorobyov UKR .............10/5/84
Charlotte Mackie CAN .................10/6/93
Yekaterina Kurbatova RUS............10/7/92
Matteo Morandi ITA....................10/8/81
Maxi Gnauck GER.....................10/10/64
Sawao Kato JPN ......................10/11/46
Julianne McNamara USA............10/11/65
Yuri Chechi I TA........................10/11/69
Ariella Käslin SUI.....................10/11/87
Nikolai Andrianov RUS ..............10/14/52
Dmitry Kasperovich BLR.............10/15/77
Fieke Willems NED...................10/18/82
Kim Un Hyang PRK ...................10/18/90
Youna Dufournet FRA ................10/19/93
Ksenia Semyonova RUS .............10/20/92
Yana Demyanchuk UKR..............10/21/93
Anna Myzdrikova RUS ...............10/22/92
Fan Ye CHN ............................10/23/86
Kyla Ross USA ........................10/24/96
Fabian Hambüchen GER.............10/25/87
Marisela Cantu MEX .................10/25/90
Olga Bicherova RUS..................10/26/66
Miroslav Cerar SLO ..................10/29/37
Nastia Liukin USA ....................10/30/89
Danell Leyva USA ....................10/30/91
Regulo Carmona VEN ................10/31/80
Women’s AA: 1. Aliya Mustafina 62.271; 2. Ksenia
Afanasyeva 58.674 3. Ksenia Semyonova 56.868; 4.
Yulia Inshina 55.307; 5. Anna Pavlova 55.234;
6.Tatiana Nabiyeva 55.210; 7. Daria Yelizarova
54.847; 8. Anna Dementyeva 54.437; 9. Yulia
Belokobylskaya 52.674; 10. Anastasia Novikova
52.144; 11. Yekaterina Kurbatova 52.137; 12. Irina
Sazonova 50.507.
Men’s AA: 1. Sergei Khorokhordin 89.55; 2. Igor
Pakhomenko 87.80; 3. Maxim Devyatovsky 14.80; 4.
David Belyavsky 87.00; 5. Alexander Dyomin 85.85;
6. Andrei Cherkasov 85.75; 7. Andrei Likhovitsky
85.60; 8. Mikhail Kudashov 83.80; 9. Ruslan Nig-madzyanov 83.15; 10. Nikita Lezhankin 82.25; 11.
Pavel Russinyak 82.10; 12. Anton Lobachyov 80.45.
SUI, GUO WIN CHINESE TITLES
Sui Lu and Guo Weiyang won the women’s
and men’s all-around titles, respectively, at the
Chinese championships held Aug. 26-31 in
Zhuzhou, Hunan Province.
Coached by Wang Qunce, Sui scored
56.900 to finish ahead of silver medalist Jiang
Yuyuan (56.35) and bronze medalist Huang
Qiushuang (55.60). Sui also won China’s
spring national championships in May. Olympian Deng Linlin, who won the 2009 National
Games all-around title, missed the competition
because of a pulled thigh muscle.
Women’s AA:1. Lilia Khoang 52.10; 2. Alina Sotniko-va 51.60; 3. Olga Mokhovtsova 50.20; 4. Sasha Sta-shevskaya 49.80; 5. Yekaterina Fedutik 48.90; 6.
Nadezhda Vysotskaya 48.80.
Men’s AA: 1. Dmitry Savitsky 87.70; 2. Artyom Bykov
83.40; 3. Artur Kuzmin 81.10; 4. Alexander Dem-chikhin 80.00; 5.Alexander Pristavko79.50; 6.
Vladislav Grib 79.50.
YOUTH OLYMPICS
Viktoria Komova of Russia and Yuya Kamoto of Japan won the women’s and men’s all-around titles at the inaugural Olympics in Singapore, Aug. 14-26 (see feature on p. 15).
Russia’s Alexandra Merkulova won the
rhythmic all-around, and Russia was the top
group.
In trampoline, Dong Yu (China) won the
women’s gold, and Alexander Satin (Ukraine)
topped the men’s field.
RHYTHMIC AA: 1. Alexandra Merkulova RUS
103.500; 2. Arina Charopa BLR 100.400; 3. Jana
Berezko-Marggrander GER 98.875; 4. Wan Nin Lee
MAS 98.200; 5. Anastasiya Kisse BUL 96.375; 6. Victoria Filanovsky ISR 92.850; 7. Polina Kozitskiy USA
92.125; 8. Viktoria Shynkarenko UKR 91.000.
GROUP: 1. RUS 52.350; 2. EGY 45.275; 3. CAN
43.425; 4. JPN 42.475.
