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    International Gymnast
    March 29 2015


    Steingruber Takes Two Titles in Doha

    Written by Amanda Turner for International Gymnast Magazine | Friday,
    27 March 2015 01:13

    Swiss star Giulia Steingruber grabbed two golds and a silver in the
    finals at the 8th Doha World Challenger Cup, held Thursday and Friday
    in Qatar.

    Steingruber, the two-time European champion on vault, handily won the
    title on on her best event with a layout Rudi and Yurchenko full. She
    averaged 14.575 to top Vietnamese world medalist Phan Th� H� Thanh
    (14.100 average) and Slovenian Teja Belak (13.900).

    On floor, the Swiss powerhouse appeared to walk into her four tumbling
    passes (full-in double layout; double layout; double tuck; double
    pike) to win the title with a healthy 14.550. First-year senior Laura
    Jurca (Romania) was second with 13.800 over Swistzerland's Ilaria
    Käslin (13.750).

    The elegant Phan was won the balance beam title with just a few
    wobbles (front aerial; ff, two-foot layout; side somi), scoring 14.250
    to Steingruber's 14.125. Romanian Olympian Diana Bulimar won the
    bronze with 14.025

    French Olympian Youna Dufournet won the uneven bars title
    (Maloney-half; toe-half to Jaeger; toe-on piked Tkatchev to Pak; low
    double layout), edging Bulimar, 13.650-13.600. Jessica Diacci brought
    another medal for Switzerland with the bronze, bumping top qualifier
    Jurca off the podium.

    In the men's competition, Armenia was the only double winner with
    Harutyum Merdinyan swinging to the pommel horse title and Artur
    Davtyan winning men's vault (clean layout Randi; double-twisting
    Tsukahara).

    U.S. Olympian Jake Dalton won the men's floor exercise title, just
    edging top qualifier Diego Hypólito of Brazil, 15.475-15.425. Dalton
    tumbled to a 6.7 Difficulty score (1 1/2-twisting double layout; whip,
    piked Arabian double front; 1 1/2 to front double twist; 2 1/2 front
    full; layout Thomas; triple twist) while Hypólito earned 6.5 (layout
    half to Randi; Arabian double front to front full; 2 1/2 to front
    double twist; triple twist) Japan's Shotaro Shirai, older brother of
    superstar Kenzo, was third (15.025; 6.8D) but could have won the title
    had he not landed out of bounds on his opening 3 1/2, layout barani
    full pass.

    Olympic still rings king Arthur Zanetti was once again untouchable on
    his speciality, winning the title by three tenths over Armenia's Artur
    Tovmasyan, 15.725-15.425. Romania's Andrei Muntean was third with
    15.325.

    Oleg Stepko (Azerbaijan) performed his lengthy routine well to take
    the title on parallel bars, ending with a near stick on his double
    pike (15.750). Colombia's Jossimar Calvo capped off his intricate
    routine with a full-in off the end to place a close second (15.725)
    over Muntean (15.550).

    On high bar, Argentina's Nicolas Cordoba grabbed first with a routine
    featuring three Tkatchevs (layout; layout-half and straddled-half) and
    a stuck layout double-double. Japan's Kazuyuki Takeda (Kovacs; Kolman)
    matched the Argentine's D-score but settled for second.

    Top qualifier Danell Leyva (United States) fell on his Kolman to place fourth.

    See table of final results at:
    http://www.intlgymnast.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4252: steingruber-takes-two-titles-in-doha&catid=5:competition-reports&Itemid=164

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