06. March 2008  
Doha / Qatar  
Artistic Gymnastics

WORLD CUP: Five Gold Medals for China in Doha

Chusovitina (GER)
- breaching the Chinese Front

The former Uzbek and now German citizen Oksana CHUSOVITINA was the only non-Chinese winner of the first world cup event of the Olympic year, which was held for the first time in Doha, Qatar. HE, Kexin (uneven bars), DENG, Linlin (beam) and JIANG, YuYuan (floor ex.) emphasized the Chinese top position in Doha.
With the paralell bars' (FENG, Zhe) and high bar's (GUO, Weiyang) winners on men's side, China was the most successful nation there, five months before the Olympic Games in Beijing...
2008 Doha World Cup
- March 5/6, Doha, Qatar -

* Women's Vault
1. Oksana Chusovitina GER 14.962
2. Anna Pavlova RUS              14.712
3. Deng Linlin CHN                   14.487

4. Kim Bui GER 14.062
4. Dorina Boczogo HUN 14.062
6. Aagje Vanwalleghem BEL 13.875
7. Alyssa Brown CAN 13.787

* Uneven Bars
1. He Kexin CHN                       16.550
2. Jiang Yuyuan CHN               15.825
3. Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs CAN 14.400

4. Aagje Vanwalleghem BEL 13.650
5. Anna Pavlova RUS 13.525
6. Lyudmila Yezhova RUS 13.425
7. Kim Bui GER 12.675
8. Vasiliki Millousi GRE 12.200
* Balance Beam
1. Deng Linlin CHN                                     15.825
2. Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs CAN                    15.425
3. Lyudmila Yezhova Grebenkova RUS 15.025

4. Jiang Yuyuan CHN 14.825
5. Adela Sajn SLO 14.625
6. Anna Pavlova RUS 14.450
7. Gaelle Mys BEL 13.925
8. Hannah Whelan GBR 13.000

* Women's Floor Exercise
1. Jiang Yuyuan CHN 14.925
2. Deng Linlin CHN 14.875
3. Anna Pavlova RUS 14.800

4. Kristina Goryunova RUS 14.700
5. Sidney Sanabria PUR 14.225
6. Oksana Chusovitina GER 14.200
7. Gaelle Mys BEL 14.075
8. Hannah Whelan GBR 13.050

* Men's Floor Exercise
1. Eleftherios Kosmidis GRE 15.850
2. Makoto Okiguchi JPN        15.775
3. Markovic Tomislav CRO    15.500

4. Razvan Selariu ROU 15.400
5. Alexander Rodriguez PUR 15.100
6. Takuya Nakase JPN 15.025
7. Fadi Bahlawan SYR 14.675
8. Dmitry Gogotov RUS 14.625

* Pommel Horse
1. Prashanth Sellathurai AUS 16.075
2. Zhang Hongtao CHN              15.950
3. Daniel Keatings GBR             15.650

4. Krisztian Berki HUN 15.600
4. Deniel Popescu ROU 15.600
6. Louis Smith GBR 15.575
7. Robert Seligman CRO 15.475
8. Guo Weiyang CHN 15.075

* Still Rings
1. Yuri van Gelder NED         16.650
2. Irodotos Georgallas CYP 16.250
3. Alexander Balandin RUS 16.125

4. Pierre-Yves Beny FRA 16.050
5. Matteo Morandi ITA 16.000
6. Walid Eldariny EGY 15.675
7. Takuya Nakase JPN 15.475
8. Danny Rodrigues FRA 14.850

* Men's Vault
1. Daniel Popescu ROU  16.187
2. Makoto Okiguchi JPN 16.037
3. Luis Rivera PUR           16.000

4. David Sender USA 15.950
5. Takuya Nakase JPN 15.750
6. Anatoly Vasilyev RUS 15.587
7. Razvan Selariu ROU 15.550
8. Ha Thanh Nguyen VIE 15.287

* Parallel Bars
1. Feng Zhe CHN              16.400
2. Mitja Petkovsek SLO 16.150
3. Yann Cucherat FRA    16.050

4. Kazuhito Tanaka JPN 15.925
5. Guo Weiyang CHN 15.800
6. Sergei Khorokhordin RUS 15.450
7. Ildar Valeyev KAZ 15.125
8. Dmitry Karbanenko FRA 11.425

* High Bar
1. Guo Weiyang CHN     15.950
2. Hiroyuki Tomita JPN 15.700
3. Philippe Rizzo AUS     15.650

4. Kazuhito Tanaka JPN 15.250
5. Sergei Khorokhordin RUS 15.175
6. Aljaz Pegan SLO 14.475
7. Jeffrey Wammes NED 14.250
8. Marko Brez CRO 14.175