01. November 2015  
Glasgow, GBR  
WM, Männer

Men's Apparatus Final: Shirai and Uchimura with two more gold - Japan in leading position again!

♦ At the final day of the 46th Artistic Gymnastics Worlds in Glasgow men's all-around champion Kohei UCHIMURA of Japan added a gold in the high bar final just topping American Danell LEYVA and Cuban teenager Manrique LARDUET. It was his first title of the vice-champion from 2014 at this apparatus and his 10th Golden in his career (!)
China's YOU Hao topped the field in the parallel bars final, with Oleg VERNIAIEV of the Ukraine second, but it was the only one men's gold this year for the top gynsatics nation China!
And the former Ukrainian Oleg STEPKO, starting now for Azerbaijan ranked third und brought the very first medal for his new homeland. ,
North Korea's titleholder RI, Se Gwang won his second straight gold in men's vault, edging the former 4-times vault world champion from Romania, the 34-years old Marian DRAGULESCU, and also Donnell WHITTENBURG of the U.S. on third.

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* Saturday, October 31
♦♦ MEN's APPARATUS FINALS
At the 1st day of the  46th Men's World Championships 2015 in the Hydro Arena of Glasgow took place part I of final events and saw the first three World champions on floor exercises - Kenzo SHIRAI (JPN), Max WHITLOCK (GBR) an pommel horse and the reigning European champion from Greece, Eleftherios PETROUNIAS, on still rings.
Max WHITLOCK scored a phenomenal 16.133 to take Great Britain’s first ever men’s gymnastics gold at a World Championships with the most difficult routine of the competition!

♦ M E N - Day 1  (→ STARTLISTE 1)

    F L O O R  E X E R C I S E S

The rebound of Mr. Twist
Even in the absence of Kohei Uchimura, the Japanese hit parade continued Saturday, with twisting sensation Kenzo Shirai regaining the World Floor title he won in 2013. As Shirai slayed the audience and judges by nailing his quadruple twist final pass to win his second gold of this championships, Great Britain's Max Whitlock was no less happy in silver, while Spain's Rayderley Zapata won bronze.

**  R E S U L T S

 1. SHIRAI, Kenzo    (JPN) -   (7.6) = 16,233
 2. WHITLOCK, Max  (GBR) - (6.8) = 15,566
 3. ZAPATA SANTANA  (ESP) - 6.7) = 15,200
4. DENG Shudi (CHN) – 15,166
5. PURVIS Daniel (GBR) – 15,100
6. KIM Hansol (KOR) – 14,933
7. LARDUET Manrique (CUB) – 14,800
8. GONZALEZ Tomas (CHI) – 14,733
      ► Detailed results

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    P O M M E L  H O R S E

The first king of Britain
Since Beth Tweddle became the British women's first World champion in 2006, the British men have been waiting for the gymnast who would win them a world crown as well. It came to an end Saturday as Max Whitlock spun his way to the Pommel Horse title, besting teammate Louis Smith by a mere tenth of the point. The two 2012 Olympic Pommel Horse medallists thus combined to produce their country's best ever result in Gymnastics: British gymnasts on the first and second steps of the podium.
If anything helped Whitlock and Louis Smith on Pommel Horse, it was the absence of reigning World and Olympic champion Krisztian Berki of Hungary, who did not qualify for the medal round. With a gold, three silvers and a bronze already in their pockets, Glasgow 2015 has is already Great Britain's most successful World Championships. It's not over yet, either: The British will have three more chances to medal tomorrow on the second day of finals.


* Max WHITLOCK - the very first British World champion of men's history!

* R E S U L T S:
  1. WHITLOCK Max      (GBR) – 16,133

 2.  SMITH Louis            (GBR) – 16,033
 3. MERDINYAN Hartyun (ARM) – 15,500
      3. KAYA Kazuma            (JPN) – 15,500
5. HIDVEGI Vid ((HUN) – 15,366
6. VERNIAIEV Oleg (UKR) – 15,266
7. NADDOUR Alexander (USA) – 15,200
8. SELIGMAN Robert (CRO) – 14,433
    ► Detailed results

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   S T I LL  R I N G S

In the name of the father
The reigning European champion, Greece's Eleftherios Petrounias, came to the World Championships with one mission: win a medal on Rings to honor his father, who recently passed away.
By relegating China's You Hao and 2014 World champion Liu Yang silver and bronze, respectively, Petrounias delivered a fitting memorial. It's the second rings title after the "Colossus of Rhodes" Dimosthenes Tambakos in Anaheim 2003.

* R E S U L T S


 1. PETROUNIAS, Eleftherios (GRE) - 15,800
 2. YOU, Hao                      (CHN)  - 15,733
 3. LIU, Yang                     (CHN)   - 15,700
4. AIT SAID Samir                    (FRA) – 15,633
5. WYNN Brandon                    (USA) – 15,600
6. Van GELDER Lambertus       (NED) – 15,500
7. VAHAGN Davtyan                 (ARM) – 15,333
8. WHITTENBURH Donnell        (USA) – 15,300

       ► Detailed results

 

* FINALS Part II, Sunday, Nov 01 (→ STARTLIST 2)

"Dragulescuing" pays off for Dragulescu
The challenge was simple: Beat Marian Dragulescu at his own game. Competing at Worlds for the first time in four years, the master of the famous Vault that bears his name (two front flips with a half twist) returned for a round of "can-you-stick-this-better-than-I-can" in finals.
Fourteen years after the Romanian won his first World title, only one person could: Dragulescu was edged by a mere 0.05 by reigning World champion Ri Se Gwang. In taking the gold, Ri, an innovator himself, performed his own siganture Vault (two backflips off the horse with a full twist). For good measure, he also threw a Dragulescu Vault of his own, this one in the piked position, even harder than the original.

  V A U L T

* R E S U L T S
1. RI Se Gwang (PRK) – 15,450
2. DRAGULESCU Marian (ROU) – 15,400
3. WHITTENBURG Donnell (USA) – 15,350

4. VERNIAIEV Oleg (UKR) – 15,283
5. RADIVILOV Igor (UKR) – 15,083
6. ABLIAZIN Denis (RUS) – 14,850
7. SHIRAI Kenzo (JPN) – 14,516
8. KIM Hansol (KOR) – 14,500
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  P A R A L L E L   B A R S

Parallel Bars gold passes again under the yoke of the Chinese
Six of the past 10 World champions on Parallel Bars have held a Chinese passport, and You Hao once again put China's seal on the event. After a superbly performed exercise with the highest difficulty component of any gymnast in the final, You succeeded in dethroning 2014 World champion Oleg Verniaiev of Ukraine. After winning every competition he's entered this year, Verniaiev, fourth in the Men's All-around and on Vault, leaves with a single silver medal. In tying Azerbaijan's Oleg Stepko, China's Deng Shudi took bronze, his third of the competition.
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* RESULTS
1. YOU Hao                 (CHN) – 16,216
2. VERNIAIEV Oleg     (UKR) – 16,066
3. STEPKO Oleg          (AZE) – 15,966
4. DENG Shudi            (CHN) – 15,966
5. LARDUET Manrique (CUB) – 15,733
6. LEYVA Danell          (USA) – 15,666
7. TANAKA Yusuke      (JPN) – 15,600
8. WILSON Nile          (GBR) – 15,233
    >> Detailed results

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  H I G H   B A R
    (Starting order)

Uchimura, the gold standard
Already golden with the Japanese men's team and in the Men's All-around for the sixth straight World Championships, Kohei Uchimura's midas touch continued as he too won the 10th World gold of his celebrated career. After finishing third in 2011 and 2013 and second last year on High Bar, Uchimura finally scaled the top of the podium on one of his best events. Impeccable to the tips of his toes, he topped American Danell Leyva, who hit the routine of his life to finish just 0.133 behind, and Cuba's Manrique Larduet, who won bronze. Already considered the greatest gymnast of all time, Uchimura departs Glasgow with three World titles, two of which (team and High Bar) he has never won before.
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* RESULTS:
1. UCHIMURA Kohei (JPN) – 15,833
2. LEYVA Danell (USA) – 15,700
3. LARDUET Manrique (CUB) – 15,600

4. OYAKAWA MARIANO Arthur (BRA) – 15,166
5. BRETSCHNEIDER Andreas (GER) – 14,966
6. BROOKS Christopher (USA) – 13,800
7. HAMBÜCHEN Fabian (GER) – 13,500
       ► Detailed results

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