German victory at the Swiss Cup

The hosts from the Swiss Gymnastics Federation presented an exciting mode to the audience in the with 6,000 spectators quite crowded venue in Zurich. 10 teams consisting of one female and one male gymnast from 8 different countries started with two routines each in a preliminary round. After this 8 teams continued in the semi-final for which the scores from the preliminary round were taken over. The higlight with the final followed in the end for 4 teams. Here the scores started at zero again, so the excitment was certain to remain until the end.
With only a few regulations the gymnasts could decide for themselves on which apparatus they want to compete. So it was also possible to compete on the same apparatus twice during the day and through that to push one´s luck by upgrading the level of difficulty between the different competition rotations.

The title holders from team Switzerland 1 Giulia Steingruber and Claudio Capelli missed the victory by half a point this year but nonetheless showed good performances and through this won well-deserved silver medals.

A lot of cheers from the audience were especially heard for Giulia's thrilling "Chusovitina" (handspring - layout fwd. with 1 1/2 twists) on vault.

The final was completed by the team from Belarus.
Right at the beginning Nastassia Marachkouskaya fell on her handspring - somersault fwd. piked on vault. Also the well-executed and difficult (D-score 6.9) routine on parallel bars of her team mate Andrey Likhovitski could not secure them a medal. It was not enough to reach the final today for the teams from Korea with Ji Hye Sung and Hak Seon Yang, the second Swiss team consisting of Jessica Diacci and Nils Haller, the team from Italy with Carlotta Ferlito and Paolo Ottavi and the russian Team with Yulia Belokobylskaya and Oleg Stepko.
All teams overall showed a solid competition, however didn't manage to get through preliminary round and semi-final without mistakes.
For the team from Great Britain with Niam Rippin and Sam Oldham the competiton was over after the preliminary round and a floor routine with 3 falls from Rippin for which she received less than 10 points (9.350).
Also the Ukraine (Maria Livchikova and Oleg Stepko) did not have the best day today and finished the event after the first round with two scores under 13 points for Maria (12.950 on floor and 12.400 on uneven bars).