Vanessa Ferrari (ITA) and Igor Radivilov (UKR) claim gold in Melbourne

Several European countries sent gymnasts to compete at the first World Cup stage of the year, in the Australian city of Melbourne.

2007 European all-around champion Vanessa Ferrari (ITA) made her return to competition after tearing her Achilles' tendon at the 2017 World Championships. The 28-year-old showed off great skills including a double layout, to claim the gold medal on floor, more than a full point ahead of her rivals. The second European victory was for Ukraine’s Igor Radivilov who nicely landed two huge vaults:  a Dragulescu and a Tsukahara double pike. He was joined on the podium by France’s Loris Frasca (silver) and Great Britain’s Dominick Cunningham who picked up his second bronze medal of the competition after tying Spain’s Rayderley Zapata on floor earlier on. Turkish teammates Ahmet Onder and Ferhat Arican both medalled on parallel bars, earning silver and bronze respectively.

A spectacular high bar final concluded the meet with Japan’s Hidetaka Miyachi and 2018 World Champion Epke Zonderland (NED) posting the same score for their dare-devil routines. A tie-breaker based on the higher execution score bumped Zonderland to second place.

 

Results

Men

Floor

1. Carlos Edriel Yulo (PHI) 14.566

2. Hibiki Arayashiki (JPN) 14.500

3. Rayderley Zapata (ESP) 14.500

3. Dominick Cunningham (GBR) 14.500

5. Hansol Kim (KOR) 14.200

6. Casimir Schmidt (GER) 13.833

7. Christopher Remkes (AUS) 13.733

8. Ahmet Onder (TUR) 13.166

 

Pommel horse

1. Chih Kai Lee (TPE) 15.266
2. Hao Weng (CHN) 15.233
3. Tomomasa Hasegawa (JPN) 14.666
4. Thierry Pellerin (CAN) 13.700
5. Ferhat Arican (TUR) 13.133
6. Bram Louwije (NED) 12.766
7. Akim Mussayev (KAZ) 12.700
8. Cyril Tommasone (FRA) 12.033

 

Rings

1. Yang Liu (CHN) 15.166
2. Hao You (CHN) 15.133
3. Arthur Zanetti (BRA) 14.966
4. Kazuya Takahashi (JPN) 1600
5. Courtney Tulloch (GBR) 14.600
6. Igor Radivilov (UKR) 14.566
7. Ali Zahran (EGY) 14.400
8. Ryan Oerhlein (CAN) 14.000

 

Vault

1. Igor Radivilov (UKR) 14.949
2. Loris Frasca (FRA) 14.900
3. Dominick Cunningham (GBR) 14.749
4. Hidenobu Yonekura (JPN) 1579
5. Jeahwan Shin (KOR) 14.566
6. Christopher Remkes (AUS) 14.083
7. Hansol Kim (KOR) 13.999
8. Milad Karimi (KAZ) 13.583

 

Parallel bars

1. Hao You (CHN) 15.066
2. Ahmet Onder (TUR) 14.633
3. Ferhat Arican (TUR) 14.366
4. Mitchell Morgans (AUS) 1200
5. Hibiki Arayashiki (JPN) 14.066
6. Mikhail Koudinov (NZL) 12.933
7. Akim Mussayev (KAZ) 12.266
8. Tomomasa Hasegawa (JPN) 11.466

 

High bar

1. Hidetaka Miyachi (JPN) 14.733
2. Epke Zonderland (NED) 14.733
3. Chenglong Zhang (CHN) 14.333
4. Mitchell Morgans (AUS) 1033
5. Tyson Bull (AUS) 13.966
6. Ahmet Onder (TUR) 13.900
7. Tin Srbic (CRO) 13.266
8. Milad Karimi (KAZ) 12.200

 

Women

Vault

1. Seojeong Yeo (KOR) 14.266
2. Oksana Chusovitina (UZB) 14.200
3. Linmin Yu (CHN) 14.083
4. Alexa Moreno (MEX) 1066
5. Ayaka Sakaguchi (JPN) 13.833
6. Tjasa Kysselef (SLO) 13.833
7. Paula Mejias (PUR) 13.533
8. Asuka Ogawa (JPN) 12.962

 

Uneven bars

1. Yilin Fan (CHN) 14.833
2. Jiaqi Lyu (CHN) 14.366
3. Georgia-Rose Brown (AUS) 1366
4. Jonna Adlerteg (SWE) 13.166
5. Romi Brown (AUS) 12.500
6. Valeria Osipova (UKR) 12.366
7. Hua-Tien Ting (TPE) 12.300
8. Martina Rizzelli (ITA) 12.000

 

Beam

1. Shiting Zhao (CHN) 13.566
2. Emma Nedov (AUS) 13.500
3. Mana Oguchi (JPN) 1066
4. Elena Chipizubov (AUS) 13.033
5. Pin-Ju Lai (TPE) 12.433
6. Dohyun Eom (KOR) 12.400
7. Valeria Osipova (UKR) 11.233
8. Oksana Chusovitina (UZB) 10.533

 

Floor

1. Vanessa Ferrari (ITA) 13.600
2. Paula Mejias (PUR) 1533
3. Shiting Zhao (CHN) 12.266
4. Emma Nedov (AUS) 11.833
5. Pin-Ju Lai (TPE) 11.733
6. Valeria Osipova (UKR) 11.633
7. Aida Bauyrzhanova (KAZ) 11.000
8. Hua-Tien Ting (TPE) 10.566

 

The World Cup circuit continues in Baku (AZE) from 14 to 17 March.