Gymnastics World Cup finalists

Piked has been tracking who confirmed and who declined invitation to the World Cup Final, Dec. 15-16 in Madrid. The timing is terrible, of course, for Olympians from Beijing.

Vault
1. Cheng Fei
2. Yelena Zamolodchikova
3. Jana Komrskova
4. Ariella Kaeslin
5. Dorina Boczogo
6. Aagje Vanwallenghem
7. Marissa King
8. Elsa Garcia

Uneven Bars
1. Dariya Zgoba
2. He Kexin
3. Jana Sikulova
4. Yang Yilin
5. Anastasia Koval
6. Jiang Yuyuan
7. Koko Tsurumi
8. Daniele Hypolito

Balance Beam
1. Cheng Fei
2. Sandra Izbasa
3. Li Shanshan
4. Yulia Lozhecko
5. Daniele Hypolito
6. Lauren Mitchell
7. Dariya Zgoba
8. Alina Kozich

Floor Exercise
1. Cheng Fei
2. Sandra Izbasa
3. Jiang Yuyuan
4. Alina Kozich
5. Suzanne Harmes
6. Daniele Hypolito
7. Yelena Zamolodchikova
8. Koko Tsurumi

Piked

Hopefully it will still be an entertaining competition despite many of the highest ranked gymnasts giving it a miss. (See the original list of invitees.)

If you are wondering where the Americans are … be informed that the World Cup Circuit has always been Eurocentric, even now only slowly expanding to Asia.

Past Men’s Technical Chairman Hardy Fink made a real effort to have FIG turn the series into truly a “World” Cup. But faced stiff resistance.

Elsa Garcia – official website