Uchimura, Komova Golden in Tokyo Event Finals

Uchimura, Komova Golden in Tokyo Event Finals
Written by Amanda Turner for International Gymnast Magazine \| Saturday, 15 October 2011 01:38

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Japanese superstar Kohei Uchimura won another gold medal Saturday at the world gymnastics championships in Tokyo, where several gymnasts clinched berths to the 2012 Olympic Games.

Uchimura, who won his third consecutive world all-around title on Friday evening, won the gold medal on floor exercise. He opened with a triple-twisting double tuck, which the judges originally mistook for a double-double, awarding him a lower Difficulty score. A successful inquiry pushed Uchimura to first for his first world apparatus title.

Uchimura, who qualified to five of six individual apparatus finals in Tokyo, showed he was human with errors on the other two events Saturday. He fell off pommel horse while attempting to upgrade his routine, showing two new skills. He also appeared tired on still rings, finishing sixth.

Hungary's Krisztian Berki (pommel horse) and China's Chen Yibing (still rings) successfully defended their world titles from 2010.

American McKayla Maroney won the gold medal on women's vault with near perfect execution. And after a controversial silver medal in the all-around, Russian star Viktoria Komova was untouchable for the title on uneven bars.

Five-time Olympian Oksana Chusovitina, 36, won the silver on vault, her 11th world medal. Chusovitina now has won world medals in three different decades for three different nations, including vault silvers every 10 years: 1991 for the Soviet Union, 2001 for Uzbekistan and 2011 for Germany.

The apparatus medals also came with tickets to the 2012 Olympics for gymnasts from countries that did not advance to the Olympics or the pre-Olympic qualification, provided the gymnasts met the criteria. On men's floor exercise, Israel's Alexander Shatilov tied Brazil's Diego Hypolito for the bronze, qualifying him to the Olympics.

On women's vault, Phan Thi Ha Than burst into tears upon securing the bronze, which is not only her ticket to the Olympic Games but also the first world championship medal for a Vietnamese gymnast.

Competition concludes Sunday afternoon with the second day of apparatus finals.

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2011 World Gymnastics Championships
Oct. 15, Tokyo, Japan

Women's Vault Final		D	E	Score	Average
1.	McKayla Maroney	6.5	9.300	15.800	15.300
		5.6	9.200	14.800
2.	Oksana Chusovitina	6.3	8.766	15.066	14.733
		5.5	8.900	14.400
3.	Phan Thi Ha Than	5.9	8.700	14.600	14.666
		5.8	8.933	14.733
4.	Jade Barbosa	5.8	9.066	14.866	14.566
		5.6	8.666	14.266
5.	Giulia Steingruber	6.3	8.600	14.900	14.450
		5.2	8.800	14.000
6.	Tatiana Nabiyeva	5.8	8.766	14.566	14.349
		5.2	8.933	14.133
7.	Alexa Moreno	6.3	8.433	14.733	14.216
		5.2	8.500	13.700
8.	Yamilet Peña	5.3	8.600	13.900	6.950
		0.0	0.000	0.000

Uneven Bars Final		D	E	Score
1.	Viktoria Komova	6.7	8.800	15.500
2.	Tatiana Nabiyeva	6.6	8.400	15.000
3.	Huang Qiushuang	6.7	8.133	14.833
4.	Jordyn Wieber	6.3	8.200	14.500
5.	Gabrielle Douglas	6.3	7.900	14.200
5.	Asuka Teramoto	6.3	7.900	14.200
7.	Koko Tsurumi	6.4	7.666	14.066
8.	Youna Dufournet	6.3	6.341	12.641

Men's Floor Exercise Final		D	E	ND	Score
1.	Kohei Uchimura	6.7	8.933		15.633
2.	Zou Kai	6.9	8.600		15.500
3.	Diego Hypolito	6.8	8.666		15.466
3.	Alexander Shatilov	6.7	8.766		15.466
5.	Steven Legendre	6.8	8.600		15.400
6.	Flavius Koczi	6.7	8.633		15.333
6.	Tomas Gonzalez	6.5	8.833		15.333
8.	Jake Dalton	6.6	8.633	0.1	15.133

Pommel Horse Final		D	E	Score
1.	Krisztian Berki	6.7	9.133	15.833
2.	Cyril Tommasone	6.5	8.766	15.266
3.	Louis Smith	7.0	8.066	15.066
4.	Vid Hidvegi	6.4	8.600	15.000
5.	Kohei Uchimura	6.7	7.833	14.533
6.	Prashanth Sellathurai	6.6	7.733	14.333
7.	Saso Bertoncelj	6.5	7.766	14.266
7.	Teng Haibin	6.6	7.666	14.266

Still Rings Final		D	E	Score
1.	Chen Yibing	6.8	9.000	15.800
2.	Arthur Zanetti	6.5	9.100	15.600
3.	Koji Yamamuro	6.7	8.800	15.500
4.	Matteo Morandi	6.8	8.400	15.200
5.	Yuri van Gelder	6.8	7.866	14.666
6.	Kohei Uchimura	6.4	8.233	14.633
7.	Jonathan Horton	6.1	8.200	14.300
8.	Regulo Carmona	6.7	7.566	14.266

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Rachel T said:

	Amazing Chusovitina! Congrats to McKayla! I also want to add that I think Chusovitina is absolutely amazing! I am so happy she won the silver. It is so hard to believe how she has continued to do so well after all these years. She needs to be highlighted for that.....love her!
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