12. Dezember 2004  
Birmingham / Great Britain  
Artistic Gymnastics

WORLD CUP FINAL: Brazil - best nation on Floor!

China and USA and Brazil were the countries who won two titles at the World Cup Final in Birmingham this weekend:
China was successful in men's category with Xiao, Qin on pommels yesterday and with LU, Bin at vaulting table today.
The other men's titles were won by Brazil, Netherlands, Slovenia and Ukraine.

In women's category the USA was the most successful country by Alicia SACRAMONEChellsie MEMMEL /u.bars) yesterday; the today's titles went to Catalina PONOR (ROM; beam) and on floor Daiane dos Santos from Brazil won the second gold medal after winning of her team mate Diego HYPOLITO one day before, also on floor..

Pommels: Marius URZICA (ROM) - Winner XIAO, Qin (CHN) - Ioan SUCIU (ROM)

MEN’S FLOOR
1. HYPOLITO Diego (BRA) - 9,737

2. YONEDA Isao (JPN) 9.550
3. GAL Robert (HUN)9.537
4. O’NEIL Brandon (CAN) 9.475
5. DRAGULESCU Marian (ROM) 9.362
6. WAMMES Jeffrey (NED) 9.350
7. YERIMBETOV Yernar (KAZ) 9.337
8. SUCIU Ioan Silviu (ROM) 9.325

MEN’S POMMELS
1. XIAO Qin CHN 9.825

2. URZICA Marius ROM 9.812
3. SUCIU Ioan ROM 9.662
4. KRYUKOV Nikolai RUS 9.637
5. KASHIMA Takehiro JPN 9.537
6. BERKI Krisztian HUN 9.412
7. BREWER Ross GBR 9.337
8. BUSNARI Alberto ITA 9.137

MEN’S RINGS
1. VAN GELDER Yuri NED 9.737

2. TOMITA Hiroyuki JPN 9.712
3. MORANDI Matteo ITA 9.700
4. SAFOSHKIN Alexander RUS 9.700
5. BENY Pierre-Yves FRA 9.625
6. HUANG Xu CHN 9.562
7. CARMONA Regulo VEN 9.562
8. MASSAM David GBR 9.400

LU, Bin - second success for China

WOMEN’S VAULT
1. SACRAMONE Alicia USA 9.481

2. ROSU Monica ROM - 9.456
3. PAVLOVA Anna RUS - 9.418
4. ZAMOLODCHIKOVA Elena RUS - 9.412
5. CHENG Fei (CHN) - 9.362
6. WANG Tiantian CHN - 9.343

WOMEN’S Uneven BARS
1. MEMMEL Chellsie USA - 9.625

2. TWEDDLE Elizabeth GBR - 9.612
3. Li Ya CHN - 9.600
4. KRASNINSKAYA Irina UKR - 9.462
5. HYPOLITO Daniele BRA - 9.400
6. EZHOVA Ludmila RUS - 9.350
7. LIN Li CHN 9.200
8. VAN LEEWEN Laura NED - 9.075

Catalina Ponor - only one title for Romania!

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