31. März 2008  
San Jose, Calif. / USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

USA won 15 medals in event finals at 2008 Pacific Rim Championships


2008 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships

On the last day of the individual event finals, the U.S. men and women claimed a total of 15 medals, nine gold, two silver and four bronze, at the 2008 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships in San Jose, Calif. / USA.
Adding in the men’s and women’s team gold medals, as well as both the men’s and women’s junior and senior all-around gold medals and three silver medals, the U.S. squad collected 15 gold, five silver and four bronze for a total of 24 medals for the three-day competition.

* USA GYMNASTICS FEDERATION
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2008 Pacific Alliance Gymnastics Championships
San Jose, Calif. / USA /McEnery Convention Center
- March 28-30 -

In individual event finals, Paul HAMM of Waukesha, Wis., won both the pommel horse and parallel bars titles, as well as a silver in the floor exercise and a bronze on the horizontal bar, in addition to his all-around title earlier in the week.

Nastia LIUKIN  (Parker, Texas), who won the women’s all-around title, took top honors on the balance beam, as well as second on the uneven bars.
Jana Bieger (Coconut Creek, Fla.), was the uneven bars champion and took second on the balance beam.

Darlene Hill (Mt. Laurel, N.J.), won the floor exercise crown.
 In the junior division,
Rebecca Bross (Plano, Texas), the junior all-around titlist, claimed three gold medals – vault, balance beam and floor exercise. Samantha Shapiro (Los Angeles) won the uneven bars....

>> Detailed information  (US Gymn. Fed.)
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* The Pacific Rim Championships, is the official championships of the Pacific Alliance Gymnastics Federations. and were previously known as the Pacific Alliance Championships, were held in Honolulu in 2004 and 2006.

>> World champions Nastia Liukin and Chellsie Memmel tied for the women’s all-around title in 2006.
>>  In 2004, Paul Hamm won the all-around gold medal before becoming the 2004 Olympic all-around champion.
>> In 2007, the San Jose McEnery Convention Center hosted rhythmic and acrobatic gymnastics competition during the Visa Championships.
* SOURCE: USA Gymnastics Federation