With a convincing team performance the team GERMANY 1 won the traditional "Leverkusen Cup", an international artistic gymnastics Cup for female gymnasts for the 42^nd time (!) in the Ostermann-Arena of the host city Leverkusen:
With 98.75 points the German gymnasts with Lisa Schoeniger, Lara Hinsberger and Aiyu Zhu referred a national team from ENGLAND to rank 2 (97.35) with Laure Cooke (1), and Tomique Gibson (3)  followed by the team GERMANY II (96.25). The Italian team's...

China’s XIAO Ruoteng emerged from a breathtakingly tight competition as the new World All-around champion, ahead of his teammate LIN Chaopan and Japan’s Kenzo Shirai. Xiao, 21, succeeds Japan’s Kohei Uchimura, who has reigned over the men’s All-around competition since 2009 but was forced to cede his throne after injuring himself in Monday’s qualifications. That permitted China to return to the forefront of the world stage following an Olympic Games where the country’s gymnasts did not capture...