Koko Tsurumi and two-time world all-around
champion Kohei Uchimura won their third
consecutive all-around titles at the 50th NHK
Cup, held June 11-12 in Tokyo. Using scores
combined with April’s national championships,
which Tsurumi and Uchimura also won, the
NHK Cup served as the second part of Japan’s
team trials for the world championships in Tokyo
in October. (Japan relies on a point system to
automatically determine its teams.)
Three Tanaka siblings finished among the top
six: Rie (second, women), Kazuhito (second,
men) and Yu s u k e (sixth, men).
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• Romania’s Iordacheshinesin Slovakia
BY JOHN CRUMLISH
Women’s AA: 1. Koko Tsurumi 219.65; 2. Rie Tanaka
218.70; 3. Yuko Shintake212.75; 4. Asuka Teramoto
211.00; 5. Tomomi Iiduka 209.00; 6. Yu Minobe
208.05; 7. Kyoko Oshima 207.65; 8. Mai Yamagishi
205.05; 9. Keiko Mukumoto 202.75; 10. Yuma Iman-ishi 202.65; 11. Yuki Uchiyama 202.35; 12. Sakura
Noda 200.40.
Men’s AA: 1. Kohei Uchimura 278.750; 2. Kazuhito
Tanaka 270.825; 3. Kenya Kobayashi 269.675; 4. Koji
Yamamuro 266.375; 5. Makoto Okiguchi 264.725; 6.
Yusuke Tanaka 264.025; 7. Shogo Nonomura
262.625; 8. Ryohei Kato 262.075; 9. Takuya Nakase
260.75; 10. Masahiro Yoshida 260.550; 11. Ryuzou
Sejima 260.425; 12. Shouichi Yamamoto 260.20.
IORDACHE DOMINATES IN TRNAVA
Romania’s Larisa Iordache won the all-around, uneven bars, balance beam and floor
exercise at the 24th Gym-Festival of Trnava, Slovakia, held June 4-5. Two-time Russian
Olympian Anna Pavlova finished second all-around and first on vault.
All-around bronze medalist Maria Balea of
Romania continued her impressive series of
results. Born Sept. 8, 1996, in Cimpeni, Balea
placed fifth all-around at the ’ 10 Romanian
junior championships. In June, Iordache and
Badea helped Romania defeat Great Britain in a
junior dual meet held in Lilleshall, England.
PETIT, TOMMASONE FIRST IN FRANCE
Marine Petit regained her senior women’s all-around title and Cyril Tommasone earned his
first senior men’s all-around title at the French
championships, held May 20-22 in Toulouse.
Petit, the 2009 winner, finished first over
defending champion Marine Brevet. Youna
Dufournet, the ’09 world vault bronze medalist,
did not compete all-around. Returning from a
knee injury and focused this year on her studies,
Dufournet won the apparatus title on uneven
bars. Defending men’s champion Hamilton
Sabot made big mistakes on pommel horse and
high bar to place eighth.
AA: 1. Larisa Iordache ROU 59.50; 2. Anna Pavlova
RUS 55.60; 3. Maria Balea ROU 53.65; 4. Mária
Homolova SVK 51.35; 5. Nikola Chung AUS 51.30; 6.
Dorina Jelencsics HUN 50.65.
BORN IN JULY
BORN IN AUGUST
Jade Barbosa BRA......................7/1/91
Hannah Whelan GBR...................7/1/92
Julie Croket BEL ........................7/1/94
Jana Sikulova CZE......................7/2/88
Stoyan Deltchev BUL .................. 7/3/59
Cyril Tommasone FRA .................7/4/87
Kelly Garrison USA .....................7/7/67
Veronica Wagner SWE.................7/7/87
Kristina Vaculik CAN ...................7/9/92
Rebecca Bross USA...................7/11/93
Larrissa Miller AUS...................7/12/92
Jordyn Wieber USA ...................7/12/95
Scott Johnson USA....................7/12/61
Chen Cuiting CHN .....................7/15/71
Shigeru Kasamatsu JPN .............7/16/47
Maria Filatova RUS ...................7/19/61
Mo Huilan CHN ........................7/19/79
Eberhard Gienger GER ...............7/21/51
Helge Vammen DEN ..................7/21/86
Marta Pihan-Kulesza POL............7/23/87
Philipp Boy GER .......................7/23/87
Lauren Mitchell AUS..................7/23/91
Ronny Ziesmer GER ..................7/26/79
Li Xiaopeng CHN ......................7/27/77
Anton Golotsutskov RUS .............7/28/85
Courtney Kupets USA .................7/28/86
Nelli Kim BLR..........................7/29/57
Lia Parolari ITA........................7/30/90
Blaine Wilson USA .....................8/3/74
Thomas Bouhail FRA...................8/3/86
Kyoko Oshima JPN .....................8/5/86
Martin Konecny CZE....................8/6/84
Alexander Ditiatin RUS ................8/7/57
Yelena Davydova RUS .................8/7/61
Terin Humphrey USA .................8/14/86
Olesya Dudnik UKR ...................8/15/74
Lilia Podkopayeva UKR ..............8/15/77
Igor Cassina I TA .......................8/15/77
Thomas Taranu GER ..................8/15/87
Diana Chelaru ROU ...................8/15/93
Eddie Penev BUL ......................8/16/90
Nicole Pechancova ...................8/17/89
Catalina Ponor ROU ..................8/20/87
Alexei Bondarenko RUS..............8/23/78
Vid Hidvegi HUN ......................8/23/86
Yuri Korolev RUS......................8/25/62
Melissa Marlowe USA................8/25/71
Flavius Koczi ROU ....................8/26/87
Yang Yilin CHN ........................8/26/92
Emma Willis CAN .....................8/27/92
David Sender USA ....................8/27/85
Gabriela Dragoi ROU .................8/28/92
Joshua Jefferis AUS ..................8/29/85
Alexander Artemev USA..............8/29/85
Amelia Racea ROU ...................8/29/94
Koji Uematsu JPN.....................8/30/86
Women’s Sr. AA: 1. Marine Petit 55.20; 2. Marine
Brevet 55.15; 3. Clara Della Vedova 51.70; 4. Sophia
Serseri 51.65; 5. Camille Coudret 51.30; 6. Eva Mau-rin 49. 35.
Jr. AA: 1. Anne Kuhm 54.35; 2. Toscane Bougeard
49.85; 3. Valentine Sabatou 49.75.
Men’s Sr. AA: 1. Cyril Tommasone 87.20 2. Pierre-Yves Beny 86.40; 3. Cyril Vieu 86.05; 4. Gael Da Silva
85.10; 5. Axel Augis 85.10; 6. Arnaud Willig 85.00.
Jr. AA: 1. Mathias Philippe 80.55; 2. Brandon Prost
78.95; 3. Jordan Kpata 78.25.
GARDINER, PAYNE TOP CANADIANS
Moving up one position from last year, Madeline Gardiner and Jackson Payne won their
first senior all-around titles, respectively, at the
Canadian championships, held May 24-28 in
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Several veteran men competed in five events
or fewer, including Olympians Brandon O’Neill
(71.45, no rings), Ken Ikeda (55.25, no floor or
rings) and Nathan Gafuik ( 11.90, pommel
horse only).
Women’s Sr. AA: 1. Madeline Gardiner 54.475; 2.
Jessica Savona 53.75; 3. Bianca Dancose-Giambat-tisto 53.10; 4. Brittany Rogers 53.00; 5. Coralie
Leblond-Chartrand 52.525; 6. Talia Chiarelli 52.375;
7(t). Sabrina Gill, Dominique Pegg 51.575; 9. Bianca
Jordaan51.375; 10. Taylor Ricci50.025; 11. Krishna Yemany 49. 35; 12. Silvia Colussi-Pelaez 48.925.
Jr. AA: 1. Victoria Moors 56.925; 2. Natalie Vaculik
54.55; 3. Jordyn Pedersen 53.125; 4. Stefanie Merkle
52.225; 5. Paraskevi Babalis 51.90; 6. Maegan Chant
51.00.
Men’s Sr. AA: 1. Jackson Payne 86.60; 2. Hugh
Smith 85.60; 3.Casey Sandy 85.35; 4. Jayd
