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Romania dominated their annual
invitational held this past weekend in Ploiesti. World champ Maria Olaru
topped the women's standings with a stunning 39.05, scoring no lower than a 9.65 (vault)
and tying for the
highest score of the day with a 9.875 on floor. Olaru was followed in the standings by
teammate Simona
Amanar (38.763; also 9.875 on floor). Russian Ekaterina Lobazniuk was the top foreigner,
finishing third (38.563), but would have been bumped to fourth by Andreea Raducan, who
scored a 38.750, if her "exhibition" all-around performance had counted. (Only
three athletes per country can finish in the official standings.) French star Ludivine
Furnon struggled on vault (9.1), but rallied for fourth place, followed by Aussie Katerina
Frketic, back from an injury that kept her off the '99 world team. Sixth went to Dutch
star Monique Nuijten, the only Netherlands gymnast to qualify for the world all-around,
and U.S. junior national team member Larissa Stewart finished an impressive 7th in her
first senior international event.
(source: Intl.Gymnast)
| Women, All around |
| 1 |
Maria Olaru |
ROM |
39,050 |
| 2 |
Simona Amanar |
ROM |
38,763 |
| 3 |
Ecaterina Lobazniuk |
RUS |
38,563 |
| 4 |
Ludivine Furnon |
FRA |
37,475 |
| 5 |
Katerina Frketic |
AUS |
37,200 |
| 6 |
Monique Nuijten |
NED |
37,000 |
| 7 |
Larissa Stewart |
USA |
36,838 |
| 8 |
Alicia Capitani |
ITA |
36,838 |
| 9 |
Sigrid Pearson |
BEL |
36,675 |
| 10 |
Elizabeth Wong |
AUS |
36,563 |
| 11 |
Hu, Tonghui |
CHN |
36,550 |
| 12 |
Gabriella Onodi |
HUN |
36,255 |
| *) - 32 participants |
|
| Men, All around |
| 1 |
Dorin Petcu |
ROM |
|
| 2 |
Orzata |
CUB |
56,300 |
| 3 |
Cedric Guille |
FRA |
54,950 |
| 4 |
Lazaro Lamelas |
CUB |
54,600 |
| 5 |
Andrei Lypsky |
UKR |
54,450 |
| 6 |
Adonis Vazquez |
CUB |
54,100 |
| 7 |
Pavel Gofman |
ISR |
53,500 |
| 8 |
Renat Murtazov |
RUS |
52,950 |
| 9 |
Li, Ronjie |
CHN |
52,900 |
| 10 |
Ross Brewer |
GBR |
52,600 |
| 11 |
Jorge Giraldo |
COL |
51,80 |
| 12 |
Craig Pellowe |
GBR |
51,70 |
|
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WOMEN'S
EXHIBITION ALL-AROUND
(no official rank awarded):
1. Andreea Raducan (38.750); 2. Andreea
Isarescu (38.438); 3. Silvia Stroescu (38.250);
4. Sabina Cojogar (38.238); 5. Ioana Petrovschi (37.900);
6. Carmen Ionescu (37.775); 7. Andreea Ulmeanu (37.775);
8. Loredana Boboc (37.613); 9. Cristina Sabou, (all ROM)
(37.300);
10. Jacqui Dunn, AUS (36.563); 11. Anouk Jong, NED (35.875); 12. Anneke
Lucke,NED (35.425);
13. Inbal Ben-Zione, ISR (32.1);
14. Fieke Willems, NED (36.238) |
MEN'S
EXHIBITION ALL-AROUND
(no official rank awarded):
1. Ioan Suciu (56.25); 2. MarianDragulescu (55.95);
3. Florentin Pescaru (55.85); 4. Dan Potra (55.65);
5. Nistor Sandro (54.4) (all ROM);
6. Panayotis Shippi, CYP (45.55);
Francisco Diaz**, CUB (35.65);
Adbelkarim Raouf**, Egypt (31.75)
** Did not complete all-around |
On last day (Sunday, April 16th)
, the top eight athletes on each event advanced to event finals (based on results from the
all-around competition). Exhibition performers could qualify to EF, but there was a
two-per-country limit on each event. As expected, Romanians won all but two of the 10
titles (everything except men's p-bars and high bar) ...
| WOMEN: |
| VAULT: |
1. Amanar (9.656); 2. Lobaznyuk (9.638);
3. Olaru (9.594); 4. Persoon (9.45); 5. Lucke (9.338); 6. Capitani (8.362); Croak (8.075) |
| BARS: |
1t. Olaru (9.725); 1t.
Lobaznyuk (9.725); 3. Amanar (9.675); 4. Reubl (9.475); 5. Mason (9.4); 6.
Stewart (9.375); 7. Furnon (9.088); 8. Frketic (9.025) |
| BEAM: |
1. Olaru (9.85); 2. Raducan (9.775); 3.
Frketic (9.688); 4. Dunn (9.588); 5. Hu (9.412); 6. Sekerova
(9.15); 7. Lobaznyuk (8.825); 8. Hofstra (8.45) |
| FLOOR |
1t. Amanar (9.863); 1t.
Olaru (9.863); 3. Furnon (9.663); 4. Lobaznyuk (9.525); 5.
Heine (9.325); 6. Sekerova (9.213); 7. Hofstra (9.05); 8. Jong (8.625) |
| MEN |
| FLOOR |
1. Dragulescu (9.638); 2. Pescaru
(9.413); 3. Lypsky (9.388); 4t. Li (9.075); 4t. Guille
(9.075); 6. Vazquez (8.925); 7. Gofman (8.425); 8. Bouallegue (8.325) |
| POMMELS |
1. Suciu (9.6); 2.
Petcu (9.525); 3. Gofman (9.313); 4t. Vazquez (9.2); 4t. Lamelas (9.2); 6.
Pellowe (9.175); 7. Giraldo (8.575); 8. Lypsky (8.5) |
| RINGS |
1t. Walid (9.475); 1t. Orzata (9.475); 3.
Kousios (9.45); 4. Vazquez (9.375); 5. Diaz (9.3); 6.
Gofman (9.263); 7. Georgalas (9.2); 8. Sandro (9.0) |
| VAULT |
1. Suciu (9.625); 2.
Pescaru (9.3); 3. Raouf (9.25); 4. Stefanov (9.137); 5. Vazquez (8.975);
6. Bouallegue (8.875); 7. Li (8.712); 8. Murtazov, (8.65) |
| P-BARS |
1. Lypsky (9.55); 2. Suciu (9.425); 3.
Petcu (9.225); 4. Guille (9.175); 5. Giraldo (9.15); 6.
Murtazov (9.0); 7. Bezugo (8.65); 8. Lamelas (8.55) |
| HIGH BAR |
1. Diaz (9.638); 2.
Guille (9.6); 3. Lamelas (9.55); 4. Petcu (9.538); 5. Orzata (9.5); 6t. Schaerer
(9.213); 6t. Brewer (9.213); 8. Giraldo (5.75) |
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