Max Whitlock (GBR) |
2016 Glasgow WORLD CUP - (All-around)
- Emirates Arena, March 12 -
Host Great Britain took three medals at the 2016 World Cup in Glasgow in front a packed home crowd in the Emirates Arena.
2015 Pommel horse World Champion Max Whitlock took gold in the men’s competition after an impressive performance, finishing ahead of Brazil’s Arthur Nory Oyakawa Mariano in silver with Britain’s Dan Purvis clinching the bronze.
On his special apparatus, the world champion scored the highest points of the day 15,500 on Pommel horse for the winner Max Whitlock:
Max Whitlock commented after: “I’m very happy my target was to do clean routines across all six pieces in my first Glasgow World Cup so I’m really happy. I really enjoy competing in Glasgow it’s a place I look forward to coming too knowing the crowd are really supportive. There’s plenty more competitions coming up quickly now and we all know what’s at stake with Rio the final aim, so to start off this way with World Cup gold is a great feeling.”
♦ MEN's R e s u l t s:
1. WHITLOCK Max (GBR) - 89.299
2. NORY OYAKAWA MARIANO Arthur (BRA) - 86.598
3. PURVIS Daniel (GBR) - 86.465
4. MODI Akash (USA) 85.698
5. YAMAMOTO Masayoshi (JPN) 85.697
6. BELYAVSKIY David (RUS) - 85.464
7. BAUMANN Christian (SUI) - 84.032
8. CEN Yu (CHN) - 83.932
9. LEE Junho (KOR) - 80.432
► Detailed results
In the women’s event, powerhouse Claudia Fragapane took the bronze behind the USA’s MyKayla Skinner and Germany’s Elizabeth Seitz.
MyKayla Skinner's performance on floor ...:
The German Elisabeth Seitz from Stuttgart was the best gymnast today on uneven bars, scoring 14,800 poins ...:
With three competitors and three medals, it was an impressive outing for the British team in one of the first major competitions of the season.
♦ WOMEN's R e s u l t s:
1. SKINNER, MyKayla (USA) - 56,999
2. SEITZ, Elisabeth (GER) - 55,732
3. FRAGAPANE, Claudia (GBR) - 55,398
4. TERAMOTO, Asuka (JPN) - 54,765
5. MARIANI, Enus (ITA) - 54,432
6. COPIAK, Madison (CAN) - 53,233
7. VAN POL, Vera (NED) - 51,465
► Detailed results
It is the first time that all the three such high-quality and complex top events take place within 15 days only!
This contradicts all of meaningful planning in the season of an Olympic year. Along with the series of the Challenge Cup (world cups of B-category) and the European Championships and also other international and national trials created unreasonable burdens for the athletes! Therefore the top stars and their coaches have to select their start strong in particular. This again contradicts the original intent of increasing media appeal and leads rather to the contrary ...! The most athletes of the American Cup last week will not participate in Glasgow.
Area initially the FIG wanted to organize an A- World Cup serie as a showdown of world top stars - This intention was completely missed!