24. August 2003  
Anaheim/USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Event Finals I: Golden Rain at the first day

Jovchev (BUL), Tambakos (GRE)
Double winners on rings

Eight golden medals went to the athletes at the first final day: On every of the three men's apparatuses were two winners :
- Floor: Paul Hamm (USA & Jordan Jovtchev (BUL),
- Pommel: Teng (CHN) & Kashima (JPN) and
-Jovchev again and Tambakos (GRE).
Also in women's finals two medals on bars went to the US-gymnasts Chellsie Memmel and Hollie Vise.
The oldest gymnast of these Worlds, Oksana Chusovitina (UZB) got her first title on vault....

All-around Champion Paul HAMM (USA): Second Gold on Floor
(C) Photos by Tom Theobald, San Diego


... Couverage of the host:
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Paul HAMM - one of the gold medallists


FLOOR EXERCISES:
Bulgaria's Jordan Jovtchev and the USA's Paul Hamm tie for the gold medal! Canada's Kyle Shewfelt wins his first world medal with the bronze.
1 HAMM Paul USA 9.762
1 JOVTCHEV Jordan BUL 9.762
3 SHEWFELT Kyle CAN 9.737
4 HYPOLITO Diego BRA 9.662
4 DRAGULESCU Marian ROM 9.662
6 VIHROVS Igors LAT 9.612
7 GAL Robert HUN 9.487
8 NG Shu Wai MAS 9.475

Takehiro Kashima (JPN) &
Teng, Haibin (CHN)

POMMEL HORSE
China's Teng Haibin and Japan's Takehiro Kashima tie for the gold medal! Nikolai Kryukov wins the bronze. Two-time defending champion Marius Urzica and two-time runner-up Xiao Qin both finished out of the medals.
1 TENG Haibin CHN 9.762
1 KASHIMA Takehiro JPN 9.762
3 KRYUKOV Nikolai RUS 9.725
4 SUCIU Ioan Silviu ROM 9.712
5 URZICA Marius Daniel ROM 9.650
6 IVANKOV Ivan BLR 9.575
7 XIAO Qin CHN 9.350
8 CASIMIR Eric FRA 9.150
STILL RINGS:
Improbability: A score of 9.600, that's tha last place on rings!! Ingedible high level of technics and power on this apparatus.
Gold went to the Greece Olympic silvermedallist Dimosthenis Tambakos, after winning bronze in 1999. A second gold wins the world champion from Ghent, Jordan Jovchev - his second title this year. There are also two bronze medals for the two Italian Andrea Coppolino and Matteo Morandi.
1 Dimosthenis Tambakos )GRE) 9,787
1 Jordan Jovchev (BUL) 9,787
3 Andrea Coppolino (ITA) 7,700
3 Matteo Morandi (ITA) 9,700
 5 Tatsuya Tamado (JPN) 9,687
6 Blaine Wilson (USA) 9,675
7Jason Gatson (USA) 9,602
8 Pierre- Yves Beny (FRA) 9,600

Oxana Chusovitina- Silver in Ghent, Gold in Anaheim

VAULT
12 years after her first world championships appearance, Oksana Chusovitina wins the gold on vault! Chusovitina has been twice second (1991, 2002) and three times third (1992, 1993, 2002) on the vault, but this is her first world title on the event. North Korea's Kang Yun Mi and defending champion Yelena Zamolodchikova of Russia tie for second.
1 CHUSOVITINA Oksana UZB 9.481
2 KANG Yun Mi PRK 9.443
2 ZAMOLODCHIKOVA Elena RUS 9.443
3 ROSU Monica ROM 9.374
4 PAVLOVA Anna RUS 9.356
5 CHACON Coralie FRA 9.306
6 GONZALEZ CALERO Leyanet CUB 9.275
7 KVASHA Alona UKR 9.031

Beth Tweddle (GBR)
Flying to the first medal ever

UNEVEN BARS:
: Chellsie Memmel and Hollie Vise , both from USA, tie for the gold medal! Beth Tweddle wins the first-ever world championship medal for a British woman!
1 MEMMEL, Chellsie (USA) 9,612
1 VISE, Holly (USA) 9,612
3 TWEDDLE, Beth (GBR) 9,512
 4 PYONG, Kwang Sun PRK 9,500
5 LIN, Li (CHN) 9,350
6 Irina Yarotska (UKR) 9,300
7 KRASNYANSKAYA, Irina (UKR) 8,875
8 FAN, Ye (CHN) 8,525
source: INTERNATIONAL GYMNAST. Thanks!


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