I’ve been looking at the official 2009 Valeri Liukin Invitational webpage all weekend. (Some great photos.)
But it took Blythe on Gymnastics Examiner to put together a proper write-up of the FIG meet.
Ukraine’s Nikolai (Mykola) Kuksenkov, ninth all-around at the 2009 World Championships, won the Valeri Liukin Invitational last weekend in Frisco, Texas.
Kuksenkov posted the highest scores of the meet on floor (14.8) and high bar (15.4) to finish ahead of runner-up Jonathan Horton of Houston and Takuto Tatikani of Japan. Horton had the highest score of the entire meet on rings (16.1) and tabbed second place finishes on floor (14.7) and parallel bars (15.45) but was as usual outdone on pommel horse (13.0). He finished with an 89.45 all-around total to Kuksenkov’s 90.1. …
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Congratulations to Valeri and WOGA for putting together such an important men’s meet.
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