TODAY: Chinese victory in Women s World Cup at the DTB-Cup / Russian men win team event

Today the third A-World Cup of the new series created by the FIG in 2011 has started with the women's all-around. After the American Cup in March in Jacksonville and the Grand Prix in Glasgow (April) now the 29th DTB-Cup in the venue "Porsche-Arena" in Stuttgart is being presented.

The Women's World Cup in Stuttgart has ended with the expected victory by China's HUANG, Qiushuang (58.032). The second place suprisingly was reached by Germany's Kim BUI (54.732), who only recently was included in the entry field to replace the injured Elisabeth Seitz. Yulia INSHINA from Russia narrowly secured herself the bronze medal (54.432) in front of Lauren Mitchell from Australia. On the places 5 - 8 follow Giulia Steingruber (SUI), Marlies Rijken (NED), Nadine Jarosch (GER) and Emily Little (AUS).

In the following final of the men's team event the Russian team won the gold medal in front of Great Britain, Germany and Switzerland.

And it could be seen again - the audience in Stuttgart which is already known for its' enthusiasm.
"Although the intention of the FIG - to bring together the World-best all-arounders in the new World Cup series - could not be realised: It nonetheless was a World Cup - worthy event today", said GYMmedia-correspondent Ronny Ziesmer. "Good gymnastics was presented and it was an exciting competition. However, China's Huang, Qiushuang was the only one to present truely World-class performances. This was also underlined by the fact that she won the event more than three points ahead of her competitors!"

At the end of the year and only a few weeks after the highlight, the World Championships in Tokyo, it was obvious that the competitors are tired. Most of the participants showed a reduced content of difficulty - but this might also be a reason for only very few instabilities in today's performances. Especially convincing was the motivated performance by Germany's Vice- national champion Kim Bui. She replaced Germany's national champion Elisabeth Seitz who had to cancel her participation due to an injury only a few days before the event. Kim Bui is an experienced gymnast and due to this managed to get well also through difficult situations during her routines.

Other participants, like Nadine Jarosch, were already back into their daily lives after the World Championships. The 16-year-old German still was busy with a written test at school yesterday! Also Australia's Lauren Mitchell has to return to her home country right after the competition: The student of biomedical sciences  has to be back at university for an exam which absolutely can't be postponed anymore! Like other competitors also she didn't manage to show her top performances today.
However, also this belongs to the life of the gymnasts and shows that not always only the grade of perfection of the performances an be judged.
Already before it was known that it would not be realised to see the top-8 all-arounders in the women's field in Stuttgart. 

* WOMEN'S WORLD CUP-RANKING
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With one event of the series with four A- World Cups in 2011 still to come, at the moment the ranking list of the women is as follows:

1. HUANG, Q.       (CHN)  35 + 50 = 85
2. Lopez, J.           (VEN) 65 + -- = 65
3. Mitchell, L.      (AUS)  25 + 35 = 60

4. Steingruber, G.  (SUI)  25 + 30 = 55
5. Wieber, J.            (USA)  50 + -- = 50
     Racea, E.            (ROU)  50 + -- = 50
7. Mustafina, A.       (RUS)  45 +  -- = 45
    Whelan, H.           (GBR)  45 + -- = 45
    Bui, Kim                (GER)  -- + 45 = 45
10. Raisman, A.        (USA) 40 + -- = 40
       Haidu, R.           (ROU)  40 + -- = 40
       Imschina, Y.       (RUS)  -- + 40 = 40
13. Seitz, E.               (GER)  35 + -- = 35
       Rijken, M.            (NED)  -- + 35 = 35
15.  Käslin, A.              (SUI)  30 + -- = 30
16. Jarosch, N.          (GER)  -- + 20 = 20
       Millouso, V.          (GRE)  20 + -- = 20
18. Pinches, J.           (GBR)  15 + -- = 15
       Little, E.                 (AUS)  -- + 15 = 15

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*Men's team final

After the Women's World Cup competition followed the final of the men's team event, which is being presented in addition to the World Cup program in Stuttgart.

Final team results
1. Russia - 176.600
2. Great Britain - 176.150
3. Germany - 175.100
4. Switzerland - 173.650
>> Detailed results

With a solid and closed team performance especially the Russians presented themselves well with their best all-arounder Andrei Tcherkassov (4th / 86.050) and with Denis Ablyasin (6th / 85.700) as well as Yemin Garibov. They won the team final with a score of 176.600 points.
Only narrowly - 0.5 points - behind them the British team won the silver medal. With Ruslam Pantelemonov (1st / 87.850) and Kristian Thomas (2nd / 87,700) also the top two all-arounders today came from their team. The total team score for Great Britain was 176.150.

The third place went to the German team with 175.100. Andreas Toba showed a convincing performance which brought him the fourth place in the all-around ranking (85.800) behind the two British gymnasts and Switzerland's Claudio Capelli (86.750) as well as Andrei Tcherkassov (RUS).
The Swiss team ended the team final on the fourth place with 173.650 points.

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The 29th DTB-Cup will continue on Sunday, Nov. 13th 2011 with the Men's World Cup at  12:30 p.m. After that will follow the women's team final at 4:00 p.m.

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> > LIVE STREAMING of the TV-channel SWR:

Saturday, Nov. 12th 2011:
* From 12.30 - 2.30 p.m. - Women's World Cup

* From 5.15 - 6.00 p.m.  - Summary of the Women's World Cup
                                          and the men's team final

Sunday, Nov. 13th 2011:
* From 2.00 - 3.30 p.m. - Men's World Cup
* From 4.30 - 5.10 p.m. - Women's team final

* ...For more information about the 29th DTB-Cup please see also the
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