4th Trampolin World Cup: Olympic champion Karavaeva and Nikitin lead

At the  "International Astronaut Alexandrov-Tournament" - which is also the fourth World Cup Competition of the present FIG series - athletes representing 19 countries competed this weekend in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. Olympic champion of 2004, Yuri Nikitin (Ukraine) and Olympic champion of 2000 Irina Karavaeva (Russia) once again won the competition.
The Synchronized competition was dominated by  Yasuhiro Ueyama / Tetsuya Sotomura from Japan, ...  

* Men's individual trampoline:
1. Yuri Nikitin (UKR)             41.10
2. Tetsuya Sotomura (JPN)  40.50
3. German Khnychev (RUS)  39.60
>> TR, ind. Men's detailed Results 

* Women's individual trampoline:
1. Irina Karavaeva (RUS)     38.00
2. Natalia Chernova (RUS)   36.80
3. Yulia Domchevska (UKR)  36.40
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* Men's synchronized trampoline:
1. Yasuhiro Ueyama/Tetsuya Sotomura (JPN) 49.40
2. Dimitri Ushakov/Sergei Chumak (RUS)        47.50
3. Jacob Hansen/Peter Jensen (DEN)             46.80
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* Women's synchronized trampoline:
1.Yulia Domchevska/Elena Movchan (UKR)   46.80
2. Tatiana Petrenia/Ekaterina Mironova (BLR) 46.00
3. Ekaterina Khilko/Anna Savkina (UZB)         45.30
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* Men's tumbling:
1. Wang Jiexu (CHN)          79.10
2. Li Zhenqiu (CHN)              75.40
3. Jozef Wadecki (POL)      74.20
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* Women's tumbling:
1. Laura Housan (GBR)          66.60
2. Anna Terenia (BLR)            65.90
3. Samantha Palmer (GBR)  65.20
>> TUM, Women's detailed Results

>> Next weekend the 5th world cup will take place in Belgium, where both Trampoline and Tumbling will be presented. After a two-month summer break the competitions nO. 6 and 7 will take place in August in Russia and Poland.Info: hpm