Valuable victory for Anastasia Bachynska (UKR) at Cottbus World Cup

Ukraine had a wonderful weekend in Cottbus at the first of four 2020 World Cup series counting towards the Olympic qualifying system. Igor Radivilov won vault, Oleg Verniaiev claimed victory on parallel bars and Anastasia Bachynska clinched the gold on floor. While the men qualified a full team to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the women didn’t. Diana Varinska qualified via her all-around ranking leaving European Games floor winner Bachynska to fight for her entry ticket on the World Cup circuit or 2020 Europeans. With her win on floor, Bachynska scored valuable points. Italy’s Lara Mori also has her sights set on securing her Tokyo participation via her best event floor. She finished third in Cottbus, a tenth behind Germany’s Kim Bui.

Greek rings master Eleftherios Petrounias, who recently became a father to baby Sofia with Vasiliki Millousi, claimed the silver behind China’s Yang Liu but ahead of Armenia’s Artur Avetisyan. Both Petrounias and Avetisyan missed an Olympic spot at the Stuttgart World Championships and need the World Cup series victory to compete in Tokyo.

 

Medallists

Men

Floor

1.       Kazumi Minami (JPN) 15.100

2.       Rayderley Zapata (ESP) 14.800

3.       Hayden Skinner (GBR) 14.533

 

Pommel horse

1.       Hao Weng (CHN) 15.000

2.       Kaito Imbayashi (JPN) 14.966

3.       Oleg Verniaiev (UKR) 14.866

 

Rings

1.       Yang Liu (CHN) 15.133

2.       Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) 14.866

3.       Artur Avetisyan (ARM) 14.833

 

Vault

1.       Igor Radivilov (UKR) 14.849

2.       Audrys Nin Reyes (DOM) 14.754

3.       Yahor Sharamkou (BLR) 14.749

 

Parallel bars

1.       Oleg Verniaiev (UKR) 15.400

2.       You Hao (CHN) 15.400

3.       Vladislav Poliashov (RUS) 15.366

 

High bar

1.       Hidetaka Miyachi (JPN) 14.933

2.       Ilias Georgiou (CYP) 14.166

3.       Alexey Rostov (RUS) 14.166

 

Women

Vault

1.       Yu Linmin (CHN) 14.649

2.       Teja Belak (SLO) 14.216

3.       Yesenia Ferrera (CUB) 14.199

 

Bars

1.       Fan Yilin (CHN) 14.800

2.       Anastasia Agafonova (RUS) 14.733

3.       Sisi Yin (CHN) 14.566

 

Beam

1.       Urara Ashikawa (JPN) 13.700

2.       Diana Varinska (UKR) 13.533

3.       Qi Li (CHN) 13.400

 

Floor

1.       Anastasia Bachynska (UKR) 13.533

2.       Kim Bui (GER) 13.500

3.       Lara Mori (ITA) 13.400

 

Find the full results on the FIG website: https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/events/searchresults.php

The World Cup series continues in Melbourne (AUS) from 20 to 23 February 2020.