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Viktoria Komova wins four golds at the Voronin Cup

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Olympic all around silver medallist Viktoria Komova confirmed her continuing presence in gymnastics today at Moscow Dynamo's Voronin Cup with a strong winning performance leading to four golds - all around, floor, bars and beam.

In the junior competition national team member Evgeniya Shelgunova also did well, securing gold medals overall, on vault and on floor, while Maria Bondareva sealed a recent comeback to competition with silver all around and gold on bars and beam.

In the men's competition there was strong international rivallry with Russia's Andrei Cherkasov coming out on top in the senior all around and Japan's Takumi Sato taking the junior.  Olympic team member Denis Ablyazin achieved a gold medal on floor but was forced to settle for bronze on vault behind Britain's Kristian Thomas.   The junior men's apparatus saw Japan and Britain sharing the gold, with Frank Baines taking home three gold medals to add to his silver in the all around.

Full results are available at the Dynamo website. 

There are some videos of the competition at this Youtube channel.

A note on the competition format.   * indicates an international performer whose all around score appears out of sequence, but reflects the finish in the international all around.  In the individual apparatus finals, participation seems to have been limited to this international field so there are no such inconsistencies.

I am assuming that earlier results released (from Friday) which showed Kharenkova as second to Shelgunova in the all around related to the team competition which took place.  If anyone knows better, please post a comment.

Voronin Cup, 16th December,

Senior WAG all around

1  Viktoria Komova 59.65
2  Yulia Belokobylskaya  56.55
3  Valeria Maksiuta   (ISR) 54.30*
4  Yulia Inshina   56.15
5  Anna Pavlova   56
6  Aliya Mustafina  55.85
7  Anastasia Sidorova   54.55

Junior WAG All Around

1   Evgeniya Shelgunova   55.60
2   Maria Bondareva      54.7
3   Elena Rega   (UZB)  48.65*
4   Ekaterina Baturina 54.55
5   Yulia Tipaeva      53.2
6   Maria Kharenkova   54.25
7   Yulia Chemareva  51.55

Senior MAG All Around 

1   Andrei Cherkasov    89
2   Andrei Likhovitsky  (BLR) 88.95
3   Toremasu Hasegava (JPN)   88.75
4   Oleg Stepko  (UKR) 88.4
5   Denis Ablyazin   88.35
6   Kristian Thomas  (GBR)  88.3

Junior MAG All Around

1   Takumi Satu  (JPN) 85
2   Frank Baines   (GBR) 84.1
3   Kenta Chiba   (JPN) 83.5
4   Kenzo  Shirai  (JPN)  82.4
5   Grigory Zyrianov   81.65


Senior WAG Apparatus finals

Vault

1  Valeria Maksiuta (ISR)  14.875
2  Anastasia Marachovskaya  (BLR) 13.813
3  Anna Pavlova  13.45

Bars

1  Viktoria Komova  15.85
2  Aliya Mustafina   15.475
3  Kristina Sankova 13.625

Beam

1  Viktoria Komova 14.7
2  Valeria Maksiuta  (ISR) 13.7
3  Anna Pavlova   13.525

Floor

1   Viktoria Komova 14.8
2   Anastasia Sidorova 14.225
3  Anna Pavlova 13.45


Junior WAG Apparatus Finals

Vault

1  Evgeniya Shelgunova  14.188
2  Yulia Tipaeva   13.188
3  Olessia Sazonova  (UKR) 12.938

Bars

1   Maria Bondareva  13.95
2   Evgeniya Shelgunova 13.95
3   Yulia Rumbutis (SWE) 12.85

Beam

1    Maria Bondareva  14.45
2   Ekaterina Baturina  14.375
3   Yulia Rumbutis  (SWE) 13.275


Floor

1   Evgeniya Shelgunova  14.00
2   Maria Kharenkova     13.85
3   Olessia Sazanova      (UKR) 13.55

Senior MAG Apparatus finals

Floor

1   Denis Ablyazin  15.85
2   Andrei Cherkasov  15.3
3   Kristian Thomas (GBR) 14.6

Pommel horse

1  Andrei Likhovitsky   (BLR) 15.1
2  Andrei Perevozhnikov  15.1
3  Alexander Tsarevich   (BLR) 14.5
4  Kristian Thomas (GBR) 14

Rings

1  Alexander Vorobiev   15
2  Denis Ablyazin  14.95
3  Anton Fokin   (UZB) 14.8


Vault

1   Kristian Thomas  (GBR) 16.1
2  Mikhail Kudashov   15.8
3   Denis Ablyazin   15.775


Parallel Bars

1  Anton Fokin (UZB) 15.45
2  Alexander Tsarevich (BLR) 15.4
3   Oleg Stepko (UKR) 15.1

High Bar

1  Igor Pakhomenko 14.95
2  Kristian Thomas  (GBR) 14.85
3  Emin Garibov   14.6



Junior MAG Apparatus finals

Floor

1  Kenzo Shirai  (Japan)  15.1
2  Kirill Prokopev  14
3  Kuzmickas Tomas  (Latvia)  13.95

Pommel Horse

1  Frank Baines  (GBR)  14.55
2  Ivan Stretovich  14.1
3  Eduard Ermakov  (UKR) 13.55

Rings

1  Kenta Chiba (JPN)  14.05
2  Takumi Sato (JPN) 13.8
3  Igor Lemeshenko  13.5
4  Frank Baines  (GBR) 13.4

Vault

1   Kenzo Shirai  (JPN) 15.475
2   Shamil Gatiyatov    14.75
3   Iwasa Ryo (JPN)   14.625

Parallel Bars

1   Frank Baines (GBR)   14.55
2   Grigory Zyrianov   14.4
3   Kenta Chiba (JPN) 13.8

High Bar

1   Frank Baines  (GBR)  14.45
2  Takumi Sato (JPN)  14.25
3  Kenta Chiba  (JPN)  13.8
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