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Elisabeth Seitz celebrated her 19th birthday Sunday by pairing with Fabian Hambüchen to bring the Swiss Cup back to Germany.

2010 champions Elisabeth Seitz and Fabian Hambüchen teamed up to bring the Swiss Cup back to Germany with a victory Sunday in Zurich.

The annual event pairs a female and male gymnast, each competing one event per round. Eight teams advance to the semifinal and four teams advance to the final. The gymnasts cannot compete the same event through the first three rounds of competition, but can compete any event in the four-team final. Gymnasts who choose compete on the high-scoring vault event must show two different vaults.

Seitz, who celebrated her 19th birthday Sunday, scored 14.350 on uneven bars in the final round (Maloney back uprise to Stalder-half; Gienger; Jaeger; toe-on piked Tkatchev; toe-full to full-twisting double). World and Olympic medalist Hambüchen hit a 6.9-Difficulty high bar set for 15.850, giving Germany a winning total of 30.200.

Switzerland's Giulia Steingruber and Claudio Capelli placed second with 29.650. In 2011, the pair defeated Seitz and Hambüchen to become the first home team to win the Swiss Cup.

A second German pair of Kim Bui and Marcel Nguyen took third, .1 behind Switzerland. Nguyen, the silver medalist in the all-around and parallel bars at the 2012 Olympics, scored 15.650 on p-bars in the second round, but managed only 14.950 in the final.

Anastasia Marachovskaya and Andrei Likhovitsky (Belarus) rounded out the four teams that advanced to the final.

South Korea, a second Swiss team, Italy and Russia stalled after the semi-final. Teams from Ukraine and Great Britain failed to advance out of the first round.

Seitz and Hambüchen brought Germany its third Swiss Cup victory in four years. In 2009, Bui teamed up with Matthias Fahrig to win the event. Romanian remains the most successful nation in the competition history, with seven Swiss Cup wins since the competition began in 1982. Two additional wins included a Romanian gymnast in a "mixed" mixed pair, competing with a gymnast from a different country.

External Link: Swiss Cup

2012 Swiss Cup
Nov. 4, Zurich

		Round 1			Round 2			Semifinal			Total	Final
1.	Germany 1										86.550			30.200
	Elisabeth Seitz		6.1	14.550		5.4	13.750		5.6	13.950			5.9	14.350
	Fabian Hambüchen		5.7	14.500		6.5	15.100		5.8	14.700			6.9	15.850
2.	Switzerland 1										87.025			29.650
	Giulia Steingruber		5.7	13.550			14.825		5.3	13.900				14.600
	Claudio Capelli			15.500		6.1	14.600		5.6	14.650			6.1	15.050
3.	Germany 2										88.450			29.550
	Kim Bui		6.1	14.550			14.050		5.1	13.600			6.1	14.600
	Marcel Nguyen		6.1	14.900		6.6	15.650			15.700			6.8	14.950
4.	Belarus										84.350			27.850
	Anastasia Marachovskaya		5.3	12.600			13.950		5.0	13.000				13.200
	Andrey Likhovitsky			15.300		5.7	14.500		6.4	15.000			5.7	14.650
5.	South Korea										83.975
	Sung Ji-Hye		5.7	11.000			13.750		6.3	14.350
	Yang Hak-Seon			16.475		6.2	14.450		5.9	13.950
6.	Switzerland 2										81.150
	Jessica Diacci		5.2	13.150		5.9	13.800		5.1	12.000
	Nils Haller		6.1	14.550		6.2	14.800		5.1	12.850
7.	Italy										80.500
	Carlotta Ferlito		5.2	12.400			11.700		4.9	13.350
	Paolo Ottavi			14.750		6.3	14.800		5.6	13.500
8.	Russia										80.225
	Yulia Belokobylskaya		5.3	13.200			12.875		5.2	11.300
	Igor Pakhomenko		6.1	14.150		6.9	14.200		5.9	14.500
9.	Ukraine										53.100
	Maria Livchikova		5.3	12.950		5.4	12.400
	Oleg Stepko		6.0	13.850		6.4	13.900
10.	Great Britain										52.225
	Niamh Rippin		4.5	9.350			13.200
	Sam Oldham			14.875		6.5	14.800

Swiss Cup Champions, 1982-2012

2012	Elisabeth Seitz		Fabian Hambüchen
2011	Giulia Steingruber		Claudio Capelli
2010	Elisabeth Seitz		Fabian Hambüchen
2009	Kim Bui		Matthias Fahrig
2008	He Ning		Lu Bo
2007	Steliana Nistor		Flavius Koczi
2006	Oksana Chusovitina		Jordan Jovtchev
2005	Han Bing		Teng Haibin
2004	Catalina Ponor		Marius Urzica
2003	Oana Ban		Marian Dragulescu
2002	Monica Rosu		Philippe Rizzo
2001	Silvia Stroescu		Marian Dragulescu
2000	Yelena Zamolodchikova		Alexei Bondarenko
1994-1999	Individual event competition
1993	Yelena Piskun		Vitaly Scherbo
1992	Svetlana Boginskaya		Vitaly Scherbo
1991	Shannon Miller		Scott Keswick
1990	Natalia Laschenova		Valery Belenky
1989	Kim Zmeskal		Lance Ringnald
1988	Gabriela Potorac		Marius Toba
1987	Daniela Silivas		Nicusor Pascu
1986	Ecaterina Szabo		Marian Rizan
1985	Yang Yanli		Li Ning
1984	Simona Pauca		Daniel Wunderlin
1983	Not Held
1982	Natalia Soloveya		Dmitry Bilozerchev

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