English cup victory at the 47th International Leverkusen Cup 2024

Sieg England I

In the 58-year history of the oldest European artistic gymnastics tournament of its kind, the 47^th International Leverkusen Cup 2024, an English team won the trophy for the third time after 2012 and 2022:
Team England I won in front of 1,300 spectators in the Ostermann Arena in Leverkusen / GER with 96.750 points and a clear lead over the young German selection (91.650) and Team England II (90.900). The best individual gymnast was Tiegan TRAFFORD (ENG; 47.750) in the team with Ema Grace Kandalova and Shanna-Kae Grant.
The trio from Germany in second place consisted of Lucia Bracke (10^th/ 44.500) from Berlin, Lara Baumgartl (11^th / 44.400) from Chemnitz and Frederike Suhl (13th / 93.960), also from Berlin.

♦♦ TEAM CUP DECISION 2024

1. British Gymnastics        (ENG) - 96,750
2. German Selection         (GER) - 91,650
3. British Gymnastics       (ENG) - 90,900
4. KSG Litvinov                     CZE) - 90,850
5. Oslo Turnforening I           (NOR) - 89,850
6. Topturnen Z.d.Bosch (       (NED) - 89,400
7. National Team Südafrika (RSA) - 87,100
8. Oslo Turnforening II       (NOR) - 87,000
9., GD Zelena Jama   (SLO) - 83,350.
   ►► Detailed Results

♦ An English trio underlined their team superiority
    in the individual all-around:

Tiegan TRAFFORD from Team England I won with 47.750 points ahead of her team-mate Eman Grace Kandalova (46.000) and Daisy Wise (45.75) from Team England II. Just 0.1 points behind her was Daniela Halova from Litvinov (CZE) in fourth place, while the gap to the best German gymnast, Lucia Brake from Berlin, in 10^th place was already -1.25 points.

This traditional competition with an almost 50-year tradition (!) once again offered an excellent opportunity for young talents to gain important competition experience in front of over 1,300 spectators at its 47th edition, especially at the start of a new Olympic cycle!
Thanks are therefore due to the Leverkusen organisers led by Dieter Schulz, his son Heiko Schulz and the entire TC 72 Leverkusen organisation team, because this half-century-long tradition alone, with the ever-increasing quality of the events, has a historic and valuable dimension! Chapeau!
!! Teams from the Netherlands (40 participations), who last won the team competition in 2023, and from England (41 participations), who have now won the coveted Leverkusen Cup 2024 for the third time after 2012 and 2022, have participated for almost the same number of years.
Now already on the way to the 50^thanniversary in two years' time, we will meet again in the autumn of the World Cup and Gymnastics Festival year - then for the 48th International Leverkusen Cup in 2025.
(c) gymmedia / Eckhard W.Herholz
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