The good news is that Tatiana Nabiyeva has won the all around competition today at the Russia Cup with a total of 56.026, ahead of Alla Sosnitskaya and Anna Pavlova. Full results are provided below. Please beware : the apparatus qualifying scores do not appear in qualifying order by the scores. I am presenting them here in the same order as they appear on the Russian language score sheets; perhaps these are the working orders for EF on Tuesday and Wednesday. As a brief digest of this presentation, the top three on each apparatus are : Vault - Paseka, Sosnitskaya, Pavlova; Uneven Bars - Nabiyeva, Sosnitskaya, Paseka; Beam - Rodionova, Kramarenko, Nabiyeva; Floor - Sosnitskaya, Paseka, Pavlova. The bad news is that neither Anastasia Grishina nor Viktoria Komova competed here. There is further information on Viktoria Komova, who is suffering from a nasty bout of gastro enteritis, but will still be eligible to qualify for Worlds via the various internal competi...
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