Graceful David Belyavski has been Russia's leading AAer at these championships. Central beat Moscow (a close result again - 259.95/259.6) ... in today's MAG competition. Find the full results here . Kuksenkov, competing for the gold medal winning team, managed a 15.25 on pommel horse and a 15 on parallel bars - I think these scores could add something to Russia's team totals in international competition. Garibov achieved a 15.1 on p bars and a 15.55 on high bar, with Ablyazin achieving in the 15s on all three pieces he competed. Belyavski is thus looking the strongest - perhaps the only - all around in the senior national field at this competition - are Russia steering their men's team towards specialists? Go Tribe has transliterated the results in full . There are some lovely photographs at the RGF website , where you will find the image of Belyavski above.
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