EVENT FINALS REPORT #1
May 5, 2002: EVENT FINALS - SESSION ONE
(Note: no routine info from first rotation is available)
SENIOR MEN - POMMEL HORSE
Huang Xu (CHN)
-8.90/9.6
Philippe Rizzo (AUS)
-solid, relatively clean
-8.95/9.6
JUNIOR MEN - RINGS
Jamie Henderson (USA)
-good strength, nice iron cross
-a good rings worker
SENIOR MEN - RINGS
Yang Wei (CHN)
- steady, excellent inverted cross
-9.575
Huang Xu (CHN)
- perfect position on iron cross
-stuck double layout, great exercise!
-9.750
Damian Istria (AUS)
-nice Maltese, bounce to iron cross
-high on his inverted cross
-low on his full-twisting double layout, step forward
Paul Hamm (USA)
-decent inverted cross, not as good as the Chinese athletes
-O'Neill (layout double back)
-small hop on full-twisting double layout dismount
-9.375
Kuo-Cheng Lai (TPE)
-struggling with extra swing throughout
-weak form on dismount
Sean Townsend (USA)
-nice strength sequence to begin
-stuck double layout
-good exercise
-9.550
JUNIOR MEN - VAULT
Masaki Endo (JPN)
-Yurchenko full
-clean, step
-Tsuk full - low landing (hands down?)
-8.862
Santiago Lopez (MEX)
-Tsuk full
-loss of form, off-centre
-fall on second vault
-8.825
Brandon O'Neill (CAN)
-long wait for judges before his vault
-very clean double twisting Yurchenko, large step back
-double twisting Tsuk - also clean, step forward
-very nice effort, head and shoulders above the competition thus far!
-9.112
Karl Lorenz (AUS)
-Yurchenko full - decent
-fall on handspring front
-8.450
Huang Tai-I (TPE)
-full-twisting tucked Tsuk - weak vault, poor form
-weak handspring piked front-1/2, low landing
D.J. Bucher (USA)
-missed his first vault, very poor form (legs apart and bent), but good landing
-rudi - better form, but still not great
-8.125…did he do the same vault twice?
Final Results
Senior men's floor
1. Golding (CAN)
2. Shinohara (JPN)
3. Hamm (USA)
Senior men's pommel horse
1. Huang Feng On (MAS)
2. McClure (USA)
3. Kikuchi (CAN)
Senior men's rings
1. Huang (CHN)
2. Yang (CHN)
3. Townsend (USA)
Junior men's pommel horse
1. Lorenz (AUS)
2. Endo (JPN)
3. Henderson (USA)
Junior men's rings
1. Henderson (USA)2. Bucher (USA)
3. Jefferis (AUS)
Junior men's vault
Results have been delayed due to scoring difficulties
Senior rhythmic rope
1. Sanders (CAN)
2. Murata (JPN)
3. Howard (USA)
Senior rhythmic hoop
1. Sanders (CAN)
2. Howard (USA)
3. Yokochi (JPN)
Junior rhythmic hoop
1. Wang (USA)
2. Carew (CAN)
3. Kang (KOR)
Junior rhythmic ball
1. Wang (USA)
2. Zakon (CAN)
3. Kyung-Hua (KOR)