The 2019 FIG All-around World Cup Circuit

* April 07: ... last AA World Cup 2019

♦ WOMEN's results --:
The all-around worldchampion from 2017, Morgan HURD, made her world cup debut at this Sunday and won the gold medal with a score of 55,099 points. The silver medal went to Canada's Elsabeth BLACK (55.032), followed by the loca hero Asuka TERAMOTO (54,799).

1. Morgan Hurd,          USA, 55.099
2. Ellie Black,              CAN, 55.032
3. Asuka Teramoto,      JPN, 54.799
4. Aiko Sugihara,         JPN, 51.966
5. Carolyne Pedro,      BRA, 51.132
6. Liu Jingxing,           CHN, 50.533
7. LEE Junseo          (KOR) - 49,498
8. Ksenia Klimenko  (RUS) - 48,732
9. Carina Kroell       (GER) - 47,732
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* MEN's results:
Only on the last apparatus (high bar) lost the leading Japanese Wataru TANIGAWA the lead and had the US American Sam MIKULAK pass by. Mikulak won the all-around  with 86.599 points ahead of Tanigawa (85.655) and his Japanese compatriot Kenzo SHIRAI (82.964), who was awarded a better placing by mistakes at the parallel bars.

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* fig-Preview ...:
The 2019 Tokyo World Cup is the final of four events in the 2019 FIG Artistic Gymnastics All-around World Cup series, and follows the American Cup in Greensboro (USA) on 2 March, the World Cup in Stuttgart (GER) on 16-17 March, and the World Cup in Birmingham (GBR) on 23 March.
The top eight teams from the 2018 World Championships received priority invitations to the event. The field for each event involves eight male and eight female gymnasts chosen by the participating federations, plus one optional ‘wildcard’ gymnast each from the host federation.
Gymnasts collect points for the 2019 World Ranking lists that will determine the winning federations, and the results of all four events count towards the final ranking.
♦ Participants:

♦ Prize money of a total of CHF116,000–124,000 is at stake in each leg of the series, with the FIG paying an additional CHF100,000 to the overall top three-ranked gymnasts – male and female – at the end of the series.  
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* 2019, March 23

♦♦ Men's AA competition: The second Russian success!
Russian star and All-around bronze medallist of the 2018 Worlds in Doha, Nikita NAGORNYY took gold (85.065) today in the Genting Arena of Birmingham (GBR) with his powerful vaulting (14.900) and huge tumbling on floor (14.366) wowing the crowd. The All-around No. 4 of Doha, the Chinese SUN, Wei took silver with 84.730 and Japan’s Kazuma KAYA scored 83.731 to win bronze. Great Britain’s Joe Fraser has narrowly missed out on a medal, finishing in fourth place at the Gymnastics World Cup in his home city of Birmingham.
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♦♦ Women's AA competition: Double victory for Russia in Birmingham
Alia MUSTAFINA (RUS), the multiple Olympic champion from Russia wowed the Birmingham crowd at the Gymnastics World Cup, winning gold with an all-around score of 53.564. Aliya looked in complete control, with her only error coming on beam where she had to count a fall. Apart from that, her vault, uneven bars and then a clean floor routine guaranteed her the title.
Riley McCusker from America took the silver with a score of 53.065 and Thais Fidelis from Brazil did brilliantly to score 51.832 for bronze. Great Britain’s Ellie Downie had a difficult evening, but fought through for a seventh placed finish and an all-around score of 49.333.

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♦♦ DTB Pokal welcomes both AA World Champions ...!
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♦♦ Women: Simone BILES indomitable!
With a score of 58,800 won the world sportswoman of the year Simone BILES (USA), as expected, undisputedly the second A-World Cup of the year.
However, she had to be beaten by the only 16-year-old Vice World Champion on balance beam, the Canadian Anne-Marie PADURARIU on top of three apparatus and with a top score of 15.400 (vault) gymnast ranked 2 in the World Cup all-round (55,132).
At eye level on at least three apparatus, Germany's Elisabeth SEITZ occupies 3^rd place (54,399) and only showed deficits in content on the uneven bars. The complete World Championship medal trio on the uneven bars of Doha (2018) ensured a spectacular, sporting highlight in Stuttgart in the Porsche Arena! This time the WCh Vice Biles, before the third placed Seitz, and then the bars World Champion Mustafina - worth seeing!
Behind France's Lorette Charpy, Olympic champion Aliia Mustafina (RUS) finished fifth, losing a podium position mainly due to an unstable and crash-prone beam practice. Behind the Japanese Hitomi Hatakeda Stuttgart's Kim Bui was seventh of the nine starters.
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♦♦ Men: The World Champion triumphs
       * Saturday, March 16th
<< Russia's current all-around world champion Artur DALALOYAN was the toughest competitor as the best performances on 3 apparatus (floor exercise, still rings, parallel bars) in front of his strongest opponent, the Chinese SUN Wei - who glittered at pommel horse and vault. With just under one point ahead with 84.497 to 83.465 points the Chines came on second place.
Third place went with 83,331 points to Petro PAKHNIUK of Ukraine, Germany's Marcel Nguyen (82,864) in fourth place, who had his best equipment on the still rings and the parallel bars. After him on fourth place came Akash Modi (USA; 82,098) ...
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Artur DALALOYAN (RUS) - Highest score on parallel bars:  15.066

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♦♦ US double victories at the America Cup 2019
Leanne Wong (USA); of Overland Park, Kansas)  and defending American Cup champion Yul Moldauer (USA; Arvada, Colo./University of Oklahoma) won the women’s and men’s titles, respectively, at the 2019 American Cup, the USA’s most prestigious international event and part of the International Gymnastics Federation’s all-around World Cup series, at the Greensboro (N.C.) Coliseum Complex.
The USA went one-two in both the men’s and women’s competition. In the men’s competition, it came down to the horizontal bar, the last event, and the last routine. When the chalk dust settled, Moldauer, the last male gymnast to compete, had slipped by Sam Mikulak of Colorado Springs, Colo./U.S. Olympic Training Center, for the title, 85.932 to 85.931. China’s Ma Yue was third at 84.465.
Leanne Wong won her first international title with her 56.765 all-around total. Grace McCallum of Isanti, Minn./Twin City Twisters, was on Wong’s heels at 56.465. Elsabeth Black of Canada and Mai Murakami of Japan tied for third at 55.732.
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