gymnastics World Cup Ghent

Chinese National Champion Guo Weiyang won 3 apparatus finals.

Men’s Floor
1 KOSMIDIS Eleftherios GRE 15.425
2 GONZALEZ SEPULVEDA Enrique Tomas CHI 15.075
3 MARKOVIC Tomislav CRO 15.025

Pommel Horse
1 GUO Weiyang CHN 15.100
2 SMITH Louis GBR 15.050
3 BUSNARI Alberto ITA 14.550

Still Rings
1 VAN GELDER Lambertus NED 15.475
2 LIAO Junlin CHN 15.400
3 PETROUNIAS Eleftherios GRE 15.275

Men’s Vault
1 WAMMES Jeffrey NED 16.000
2 SAPRONENKO Jevgenijs LAT 15.838
3 TUUHA Tomi FIN 15.800

Parallel Bars
1 GUO Weiyang CHN 15.600
2 KULESZA Roman POL 15.300
3 CARBALLO Manuel ESP 15.050

Horizontal Bar
1 GUO Weiyang CHN 15.425
2 MARAS Vlasios GRE 15.275
3 KULESZA Roman POL 14.975

It was a good day for the Netherlands too. Congratulations on the comeback of drug fiend Van Gelder. We trust he’s given up the habit.

Women’s Vault
1 GIL ORTIZ Jessica COL 13.925
2 CHELARU Diana Maria ROU 13.750
3 WONG Hiu Ying Angel HKG 13.688

Uneven Bars
1 WU Liufang CHN 15.050 (VIDEO)
2 PORGRAS Ana ROU 14.375
3 LOPEZ Jessica VEN 13.950

Balance Beam
1 PORGRAS Ana ROU 14.775
2 YANG Yilin CHN 14.100
3 WU Liufang CHN 13.650

Women’s Floor
1 IZBASA Sandra Raluca ROU.325
2 CROKET Julie BEL 13.600
3 RABINOVITZ Roni ISR 13.450

The big story on the women’s side is the successful return of Romanian veterans Sandra Izbasa (GOLD Floor) and Ana Porgras (GOLD Beam). Suddenly Romania jumps to become a much stronger contender for World’s.

Once again, crisis what crisis. Congratulations to new coaches Octavian Belu and Mariana Bitang.

Click PLAY or watch Ana Porgras’ Beam on YouTube.

official results page

Read commentary on Gymnastics Examiner and Couch Gymnast. Or the official FIG press release.

… The next stopover of the 2010 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup circuit and the last one before the 2010 World Championships in Rotterdam (NED) will be in Ostrava (CZE) from September 29 – October 1 …

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