23. Oktober 2005  
Stuttgart / GERMANY  
Artistic Gymnastics

23rd DTB-Cup: Second day of finals

Catalina Ponor (ROM),
one start, one victory

During the 23rd DTB-Cup - Worldcup - in Stuttgart, the Russian Nikolai Krjukov achieved the first rank of the pommel horse final, after top runner Marius Urzica (ROM) had dropped out in the qualification already.
Lais Souza (BRA) won the women's vault final.
There were two champions in the high bar final: After the spectators' reclamations, Aljaz Pegan's (SLO) score was upvalued, so that he achieved the same position as Vlasios Maras from Greece.

Front-runner and threefold Olympic Champion Catalina Ponor from Romania won the beam final. ....
Brandon O'Neill from Canada won the floor final in the end.

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Nikolai Krjukov (RUS): '...I'm very satisfied!'

Reporting from Stuttgart: Eckhard Herholz

Pommel horse
1. Nikolai Krjukov RUS 9,725
2. Zhang , Hongtao CHN 9,700
3. Victor Cano ESP 9,662
4. Ioan Suciu ROM 9.625
5. Vid Hidvegi HUN 9.462
6. Alberto Busnari ITA 9.425
7. Alexei Ihnatovich BLR 9.312
8. Louis Smith GBR 9.225

The final's highlight was presented by the Russian Nikolai Krjukov , who showed his great experience in his exercise. He 'celebrated' a wonderful handstand-drop with several turns over the whole horse.
Ioan Suciu with excellent elements on one pommel before the end of his exercise.
Victor Cano showed very attractive straddles across and the youngest of the field Lousi Smith from Great Britain presented all versions across, partly done with vigor in the end, however.

Lais Souza (BRA): - Brazil, best nation in women's category!

Vault women
1. Lais Souza BRA 9.237
2. Joanna Skowronska POL 9.175
3. Monette Russo AUS 9.156
4. Imogen Cairns GBR 9.093
5. Katheleen Lindor FRA 9.000
6. Jana Komrskova CZE 8.975
7. Oksana Chusovitina UZB 8.968
8. Valeriya Maksyuta UKR 8.706

All in all it was a rather low level at this apparatus - the break between the old scoring rules and the expected new ones has been sensible: No one has been taking a risk.
The only exception to that was the leading gymnast of the qualification, Oksana Chusovitina (UZB), who started with a basic score of 9,80 twice, but left the mat with a kneeling down after her second vault (Tsukahara straight with one and a half screws).

Aljaz Pegan (SLO) explained Krukov: 'I was shure, it was a clearly 10 start value!'

High bar final
1. Aljaz Pegan SLO 9.750
1. Vlasios Maras GRE 9.750
3. Christoph Schaerer SUI 9.700
4. Yann Cucherat FRA 9.687
5. Daisuke Nakano JPN 9.675
6. Robert Juckel GER 9.212
7. Valeri Goncharov UKR 8.387
8. Zhou, Kai CHN 8.200

The Slovanian Aljaz Pegan excellently performed flights at his favourite apparatus, including his own element, of course - the Pegan somersault - forward, half a turn - with the threefold combination Tkatschew-Tkatschew-Gienger and a supersafe threefold somersault in the end. The rules only prescribed a basic score of 9,90, he received a score of 9,650 - which made the spectators wheeze loudly in the Schleyer-Halle.
Twofold World Champion (2001/ 02) and winner of the qualification Vlasios Maras presented an excellent performance , including a Kovacs with one turn and a lot of elegantly performed turns, which made the high score of 9,750 justified.
The Chinese Zhou, Kai foozled with the Def and had to leave the apparatus.
Valeri Goncharov was unlucky, too, he fell during his Kovacs with a turn.
Robert Juckel , who had been the German hope after the dropping- out of Fabian Hambüchen, did the ducked Markelow well, but had to accept deductions due to his open legs during the Stalder-revulsions and in the end (double Tsukahara straight with a big lunge).
After some discussions, Pegan's score was upvalued and was then equal with the one of champion Maras - hence there were two champions in the high bar final of the DTB-Cup 2005.

Catalina Ponor (ROM) - first mobile phone contacts with home after the competition!

Beam
1. Catalina Ponor ROM 9.650
2. Wang, Lili CHN 9.512
3. Marine Debauve FRA 9.350
4. Zhou, Zhuoru CHN 9.150
5. Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs CAN 8.837
6. Valeria Maksyuta UKR 8.750
7. Monette Russo AUS 8.550
8. Daria Zgoba UKR 7.700

European Champion and threefold Olympic Champion Catalina Ponor from Romania on the beam was the attractive last point of the women's concurrence of the 23rd DTB-Cup in Stuttgart. She presented herself in shape for the World ChShips already, showing the best exercise, including two threefold combinations and a safe double ducked somersault.
The Chinese's ranking on the second position led to amazement - in front of vice European Champion on this apparatus und allround European Champion Marine Debauve (FRA), who convinced with the longest exercise with many difficult elements and still only achieved the third rank.
Both gymnasts from the Ukraine had to leave the apparatus and the Australian Monette Russo had to leave the beam involuntarily after a long row.

All results of the women's finals
Floor men
1. Brandon O´Neill CAN 9.562
2. Patrick Dominguez SUI 9.525
3. Robert Gal HUN 9.362
4. Eugen Spiridonov GER 9.087
5. Jeffrey Wammes NED 9.050
6. Daisuke Nakano JPN 9.000
7. Zhou, Kai CHN 8.700
8. Alin Jivan ROM 8.150

The old scoring rules, applied for the last time at the DTB-Cup, were received with wheezing by the spectators.
Especially the Dutch Champion of the America Cup, second in Cottbus and Sao Paulo Jeffrey Wammes , who showed a double twist ducked, a double somersault straight with a directly following somersault forward, but had to accept a basic note of 9,40 by the jury must have heard this. He fell back to the fifth rank, a reclamtion by the Dutch coach is being debated, however.
The score of the Japanese Daisuke Nakano effected wheezing as well. He had presented safe stands and outstanding combinations, but received two tenth deduction due to time exceedance.
Eugen Spiridonov (TV Bous) achieved the best German position today - he was fourth of the final with a convincing effort.
It was apparent that outstanding contents and spectacular elements, which enthuse the spectators, are not appreciated adequately in the scoring rules - effecting the public's disapproval.The latter may - as the decision at the high bar shows - lead to the correction of a score at least.
This was no convincing conclusion of the in other respects felicitous DTB-Cup 2005.

All results of the men's finals

German World Championships-team for Melbourne is ready
Kim Bui won her ticket to the World ChShips with her performance at the uneven bars during the DTB-Cup. Junior Marcel Nguyen qualified for the World ChShips in Melbourne at the end of November as well. Chief coach Andreas Hirsch had designated him for the national tournament in Colorado Springs (USA) after the injury of Christian Berczes and Nguyen convinced the jury above all with his performance at the parallel bars.
Parts of the DTB team are furthermore Daria Bijak (TT Köln) and Kim Bui (TSG Tübingen) and of the men Thomas Andergassen (MTV Stuttgart), Robert Juckel (SC Cottbus), Eugen Spiridonov (TV Bous) and Marcel Nguyen (TSV Unterhaching), Matthias Fahrig (SV Halle) and Fabian Hambüchen (TSG Nidergirmes).

Translation: Janka Schmeißer

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