16. April 2008  
Tokio / Japan  
Artistic Gymnastics

First Japanese national Olympic Trials in Tokyo

Kohei UCHIMURA (JPN) - a youngster won the trials!

The 19-year-old Koehei UCHIMURA beats the expierenced members of the Japanese golden Olympic team at the first national Olympic trials with a score of 182.500 points after the second day in Tokyo.

Uchimura made his first international events in Europe last year and was finalist of the world cup event in Paris...

On women's side, the 22-year-old Miki UEMURA from the Japanese WOLRDS- team, which ranked 12th in Stuttgart, won the all-around with 116,900 points ...
2008 Japanese Secondary Olympic Trial
- Tokyo, Japan 2008, April 12-13 -

* Men's All-Around
1. Kohei Uchimura 182.500
2. Hiroyuki Tomita 182.000
3. Kazuhito Tanaka 180.050

4. Takehiro Kashima 179.050
5. Kensuke Murata 179.000
6. Shun Kuwahara 178.400
7. Naoya Tsukahara 178.250
8. Koki Sakamoto 178.100
9. Yosuke Hoshi 177.550
10. Isao Yoneda 177.300

11. Hisashi Mizutori 177.150
12. Kyoichi Watanabe 176.700
13. Eiichi Sekiguchi 175.900
14. Takuya Nakase 175.750
15. Mitsuyasu Ota 175.600
15. Shun Nishimura 175.600
17. Takehito Mori 175.500
18. Makoto Okiguchi 174.800

Miki UEMURA (JPN)


* Women's All-Around
1. Miki Uemura 116.900
2. Koko Tsurumi 116.800
3. Yu Minobe 116.350

4. Kyoko Oshima 115.450
5. Mai Yamagishi 114.900
6. Yuko Shintake 114.500
7. Mayu Kuroda 114.400
8. Keiko Mukumoto 113.250
9. Rie Tanaka 112.450
10. Momoko Ozawa 111.900

11. Erica Lynn Danko* 111.100
12. Setsubai Takaseki (He Xuemei) 110.200
13. Sayuri Minobe 110.050
14. Akiho Sato* 109.450
15. Yuma Imanishi 109.200
16. Haruhi Uchimura 107.900
17. Chinami Otaki 107.350
18. Serina Takeuchi 107.000