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Russia Cup concludes - results and video

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Sunday's event finals concluded with five golds awarded to five different gymnasts: Viktoria Komova (beam), Aliya Mustafina (floor), Denis Ablyazin (vault), Konstantin Pluzhnikov (rings) and David Belyavski (parallel bars). Komova and Mustafina were the most decorated female gymnasts in Penza, finishing with two golds each, while the strongest performance in the men's competition came from David Belyavski, who took three.  Also emerging during event finals, after a shakey start, is this spring's Russian Champion, Nikita Ignatyev, who takes home two golds and a bronze.

Click on the linked names to find videos of the relevant exercises.  More videos from the various stages of the competition can be found at Semenova15650's and Larasidl's Youtube channels.

Aliya Mustafina


Floor EF

1.     Aliya Mustafina                   14.750/5.9
2.     Viktoria Komova                14.300/5.8
3.     Anastasia Sidorova             14.150/5.8
4.     Yulia Inshina                       14.025/5.5
5.     Anna Pavlova                     13.800/4.8
6.     Alyona Polyan                    13.175/5.4
7.     Anna Myzdrikova               13.150/5.3












Viktoria Komova


Beam EF

1.    Viktoria Komova                    15.325/6.3
2.    Aliya Mustafina                       15.000/6.1
3.    Anna Dementieva                    14.950/6.4
4.    Yulia Inshina                           14.500/5.8
5.    Anna Pavlova                         14.050/5.4
6.    Alyona Polyan                        12.600/5.2
7.    Anna Myzdrivkova                 11.925/5.4
8.    Ksenia Afanasyeva                 11.925/4.3












Denis Ablyazin
 
MAG Vault EF

1.    Denis Ablyazin                    15.850/7.2 - 7.0
2.    Maxim Yakubovskiy           15.233/6.2 - 6.6
3.    Nikita Lezhankin                 14.700/6.6 - 6.2
4.    Pavel Suetin                        14.667 6.6 - 6.2
5.    Sergei Danilenko                 14.000/5.4 - 5.8
6.    Pavel Pavlov                        13.800/5.8 - 6.6
7.   Alexei Bikov                         13.667/6.2 - 5.8
8.   Mikhail Tsvetkov                  13.083/4.2 - 5.4



Konstantin Pluzhnikov


Rings EF

1.     Konstantin Pluzhnikov       15.533/6.8
2.     Denis Ablyazin                  15.333/6.6
3.     Alexander Balandin           15.200/6.7
4.     Nikita Ignatyev                  15.067/6.5
5.     Sergei Khorokhordin         14.967/6.3
6.     Daniil Kazachkov              14.467/6.2
7.     Pavel Pavlov                     13.967/5.9
8.     Pavel Russinyak                13.867/6.1






David Belyavski


Parallel Bars EF

1.   David Belyavskiy                           15.267/6.4
2.   Sergei Khorokhordin                     15.033/6.5
3.   Nikita Ignatyev                              14.767/6.3
4.   Konstantin Pluzhnikov                   14.600/6.1
5.   Dmitri Gogotov                             14.567/6.2
6.   Alexander Balandin                       14.433/6.1
7.   Alexander Fafashkin                     13.467/5.6
8.   Kirill Ignatenkov                           11.500/5.8



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  1. Anonymous20 June 2012 at 14:15

    I swear it's only Anya who can get into 9's in execution on floor these days.. stunning.
    Our Olympic teams have been chosen well, I reckon. A bunch of little fighters really. Cannot wait to see them go

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  2. M20 June 2012 at 20:32

    They are on the right track. They just need to clean up their routines, and add whatever else they are going to and just have some self belief.

    Musty has that fighter spirit - really like that about her. Didn't have a good floor in the all around but came back and did great in the event final.

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