19. Juli 2009  
Chiba, Japan  
Artistic Gymnastics

Japan in front of China and Germany at Japan Cup Kohei UCHIMURA in front of Fabian Hambüchen at all-around


Kohei UCHUMURA (JPN),
best of all-around

The Japanese Men's Team - 2004 Olympic Champion in Athens and silver medallist 2008 in Beijing - won the team competition of the 2009 JAPAN CUP in Chiba (JPN) this weekend. With a score of 275.500 JAPAN beat the topical Olympic Champion CHINA with a difference of 1.65 points. Behind the "duel of the giants" the GERMAN Team came on third place with  a score of 266,800 points, but a clearly difference of more than 7 points. Participating the best 6 nations of the last Olympic Games, Russia came on fourth (266.150), Korea on fifth (260.400) and Beijing's bronze medallist USA on sixth place (258.550).
In the women's competition, CHINA (171.200) narrowly defeated RUSSIA (171.100) by one tenth of a point. JAPANESE women's team won the bronze.
At the venue of Makahuri-Messe in Chiba the all-around decision followed on second day:
The Olympic silver medallist  Kohei UCHIMURA (JPN) won with a score of 92.750.

JAPAN CUP 2009
 - Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, July 18 / 19
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On second rank followed the vice world champion of 2007, Stuttgart, the German Fabian HAMBUECHEN, in front of the next Japanese, Kazuhito TANAKA.

* RESULTS, Men's Teams
1. JAPAN        - 275,50   (2)
2. CHINA         - 273,85   (1)
3. GERMANY - 266,80   (4)

4. RUSSIA      - 266,15  (6)
5. KOREA       - 260,40  (5)
6. USA             - 258,55  (3)
* - bracketed: the 2008 Olympic rank)
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* RESULTS, Men's All-around
1. Kohei UCHIMURA (JPN)            - 92,750
2. Fabian HAMBUECHEN  (GER)   - 92,100
3. Kazuhito TANAKA  (JPN)          - 90,850

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JAPAN CUP 2009, Women's Competitions
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From the Olympic top six nations of the  2008 Olympic Games missed the teams of Olympic silver medallist USA and the bronze medallist ROMANIA.
Participating nations in Chiba were Olympic Champion CHINA, the fourth placed RUSSIANS (4.), AUSTRALA (6.) and host JAPAN (5).

* RESULTS, Women's Teams
1. CHINA     - 171,200
2. RUSSIA   - 171,100
3. JAPAN     - 166,500

4. AUSTRALIA  - 159,850
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The Chinese made a hard fight against the resurgent young Russians, led bei the both two best European juniors of the last year's Europeans:

On women's side the Chinese HUANG Qishuang was successfully in front of the the two Russians, Aliya MUSTAFINA and Tatiana NABIEVA, the two best European juniors at the last year all-around competition of the European Championships in Clermont-Ferrand ...

* RESULTS, Women's All-around
1. HUANG Qiushuang (CHN)  - 58,900
2. Alija MUSTAFINA (RUS)      - 58,250
3. Tatiana NABIJEWA (RUS)  - 57,450

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