Foreigners Dominate Zakharova Cup

Foreigners Dominate Zakharova Cup
Written by Amanda Turner for International Gymnast Magazine \| Sunday, 01 April 2007 22:13

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Foreign gymnasts won 13 of the 16 titles at the Stella Zakharova Cup, held March 31-April 1 in Kiev. The competition is held in honor of 1980 Olympic gold medalist Stella Zakharova.

The Chinese women in Kiev

Asia dominated the women's competition with a complete sweep of the gold medals. Japan's Keiko Mukumoto won the senior women's all-around title, and the winnning Chinese team took the remainder of the golds. Xiao Sha won the junior all-around and the golds on uneven bars and balance beam. Deng Ying won vault and Li Shanshan won floor exercise.

The host Ukrainians won three golds on the men's side: team, junior all-around (Viktor Stepanenko) and pommel horse (Alexander Koltakov).

Daniel Keatings won the senior all-around title and led Great Britain to the team silver over Russia. Teammate Luke Folwell won vault.

Most of Ukraine's top athletes were absent. Zakharova, the former president of the Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation, was removed from her post in 2006 after a lawsuit was filed contesting the results of the election.

2007 Zakharova Cup
March 31-April 1, Kiev

Women's Team
1. China 171.850
2. Russia 170.700
3. Japan 166.350
4. Ukraine 165.150
5. Spain 163.900
6. Australia 163.300
7. Canada 157.600
8. Belarus 147.100
9. Kazakhstan 142.650

Men's Team
1. Ukraine 257.200
2. Great Britain 256.150
3. Russia 255.750
4. Japan 254.750
5. China 254.000
6. Spain 251.250
7. Israel 240.200
8. Poland 239.300
9. Canada 235.450
10. Belarus 233.100

Women's Senior All-Around
1. Keiko Mukumoto JPN 57.250
2. Nadezhda Chikhiryova RUS 57.000
3. Lauren Mitchell AUS 56.950
4. Alyona Zmeu RUS 56.550
5. Mercedes Alcaide ESP 55.300
6. Valeria Maksyuta UKR 54.950
7. Xiao Tingting CHN 54.850
8. Ishizaka Mannami JPN 54.100
9. Marina Sergienko UKR 52.550
10. Cynthia Lemieux CAN 52.500
11. Thais Escolar ESP 52.250
12. Stephanie Desjardins-Labelle CAN 51.950
13. Angelina Kislaya UKR 51.050
14. Karina Tapalova KAZ 49.600
15. Olga Shakot BLR 49.600

Senior Men's All-Around
1. Daniel Keatings GBR 86.900
2. Yevgeny Vasilyev RUS 85.950
3. Makoto Okiguri JPN 85.700
4. Artyom Lyubonevich UKR 84.900
5. Tu Ting CHN 84.550
6. Kenichi Watanabe JPN 84.200
7. Alexander Shatilov ISR 83.600
8. Roman Kulesza POL 83.600
9. Luke Folwell GBR 83.300
10. Cristian Gulen ESP 83.200
11. Kamil Hulboj POL 83.150
12. Dmitry Paramanov RUS 82.950
13. Eduard Gholub ISR 82.750
14. Vitaly Kochkin KAZ 81.250
15. Waldemar Eichhorn GER 80.800

Junior Women's All-Around
1. Xiao Sha CHN 58.200
2. Aliya Mustafina RUS 55.150
3. Anastasia Koval UKR 54.800

Junior Men's All-Around
1. Viktor Stepanenko UKR 86.000
2. Pyotr Pakhnyuk UKR 85.500
3. Cristian Bazan ESP 85.150
4. Chen Xuezhang CHN 84.750
5. Wang Peng CHN 84.250
6. Mikhail Bodner RUS 84.250
7. Vladimir Yaroslavtsev UKR 83.100
8. Reece Pearson GBR 82.750
9. Takuya Inatera JPN 82.500
10. Sam Oldham GBR 82.450
11. Dmitry Stolyarov RUS 81.000
12. Retaka Deguchi JPN 80.650
13. Paolo Principi ITA 79.325
14. Jackson Payne CAN 77.250

Women's Vault
1. Deng Ying CHN 14.480
2. Valeria Maksyuta UKR 14.350
3. Alyona Zmeu RUS 14.187
4. Dorina Boszogo HUN 14.150
5. Marina Sergienko UKR 13.850
6. Ivana Kovachova SVK 13.837
7. Keiko Mukumoto JPN 13.537
8. Nadezhda Chikhiryova RUS 12.987

Uneven Bars
1. Xiao Sha CHN 15.500
2. Anastasia Koval UKR 15.125
3. Keiko Mukumoto JPN 14.750
4. Aliya Mustafina RUS 14.600
5. Lauren Mitchell AUS 14.400
6. Li Shanshan CHN 14.350
7. Alyona Zmeu RUS 13.975
8. Manami Ishizaka JPN 13.875

Balance Beam
1. Xiao Sha CHN 15.475
2. Lauren Mitchell AUS 14.975
3. Li Shanshan CHN 14.825
4. Mercedes Alcaide ESP 14.572
5. Valeria Maksyuta UKR 14.525
5. Keiko Mukumoto JPN 14.525
7. Alyona Zmeu RUS 13.675
8. Manami Ishizaka JPN 13.450

Women's Floor Exercise
1. Li Shanshan CHN 14.900
2. Thais Escolar ESP 14.425
3. Valeria Maksyuta UKR 14.325
4. Erika Rin Danko JPN 14.225
5. Deng Ying CHN 14.025
6. Aliya Mustafina RUS 13.700
7. Lauren Mitchell AUS 13.650
8. Nadezhda Chikhiryova RUS 13.300

Men's Floor Exercise
1. Daniel Keatings GBR 15.575
2. Alexander Shatilov ISR 15.475
3. Retaka Deguchi JPN 14.850
4. Nikita Yermak UKR 14.350
5. Luke Folwell GBR 14.200
6. Pavel Gofman ISR 14.075
7. Cristian Bazan ESP 13.875
8. Waldemar Eichhorn GER 13.475

Pommel Horse
1. Alexander Koltakov UKR 14.700
2. Alexei Ignatovich BLR 14.125
3. Daniel Keatings GBR 13.775
4. Mikhail Bodnar RUS 13.700
5. Reece Pearson GBR 13.400
6. Pyotr Pakhnyuk UKR 13.150
7. Igor Kozlov BLR 13.000
8. Roman Kulesza POL 12.600

Still Rings
1. Tu Ting CHN 15.025
2. Eduard Gholub ISR 14.825
3. Yevgeny Vasilyev RUS 14.725
3. Cristian Bazan ESP 14.725
5. Dmitry Paramonov RUS 14.375
6. Takuya Inatera JPN 14.300
7. Igor Kozlov BLR 14.150
8. Sus Asaf ISR 14.075

Men's Vault
1. Luke Folwell GBR 15.750
2. Makoto Okiguri JPN 15.675
3. Igor Kozlov BLR 15.462
4. Oleg Shakirov UKR 15.215
5. Cristian Bazan ESP 15.162
6. Mikhail Bodnar RUS 14.987
7. Vladimir Yaroslavtsev UKR 14.50
8. Ivan Bykov GER 6.90

Parallel Bars
1. Roman Kulesza POL 14.825
2. Keichi Vatanabe JPN 14.600
3. Tu Ting CHN 14.375
4. Oleg Osipov KAZ 13.700
5. Mikhil Bodnar RUS 13.662
6. Dmitry Paramonov RUS 13.250
7. Wang Pen CHN 13.225
8. Viktor Stepanenko UKR 11.900

High Bar
1. Yevgeny Vasilyev RUS 14.900
2. Daniel Keatings GBR 14.500
3. Artyom Lyubonevich UKR 14.400
4. Waldemar Eichhorn GER 14.350
5. Dmitry Paramonov RUS 14.200
6. Ignacio Losantos ESP 14.050
7. Chen Xuezhang CHN 13.525

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