The gymnastics world will turn its attention to Stuttgart, Germany this weekend for an exciting World Cup meet featuring a team competition and all around finals. 

Oddly, the gymnasts may only take part in one portion of the competition. For instance, if a gymnast is registered for the team competition they may not compete in the all around finals. 

The All Around field in Stuttgart:

Men

David Belyavskiy, Russia

Gonzalez Fabian, Spain

Danell Leyva, USA

Marcel Nguyen, Germany

Daniel Purvis, Great Britain

Kazuhito Tanaka, Japan

Kristian Thomas, Great Britain
(Claudio Capelli of Switzerland has scratched)

Women

Kim Bui, Germany

Vanessa Ferrari, Italy

Kristina Goryunova, Russia

Elizabeth Price, USA

Niamh Rippin, Great Britain

Elisabeth Seitz, Germany

Giulia Steingruber, Switzerland

Rebecca Tunney, Great Britain


2012 Olympic uneven bars Champion Aliya Mustafina of Russia will highlight the team competition

Who you can expect to see in the Team Competition:
WOMEN

Austria

Lisa ECKER  

Katharina FA    

Elisa HÄMMERLE  

Tina MEIXNER

Germany 1

Janine BERGER  

Lisa-Katharina HILL

Annabell HÖLZER (replacing Oksana Chusovitina who scratched due to illness)

Isabelle MARQUARD

Germany 2

Marie-Sophie HINDERMANN

Nadine JAROSCH

Anja RHEINBAY

Pia TOLLE

 

Japan

Mai MURAKAMI  

Sakura NODA  

Wakana INOUE

Wakiko RYU

Russia

Yuliia INSHINA  

Aliya MUSTAFINA  

Anna RODIONOVA  

Kristina GORYUNOVA

Switzerland

Sara METZGER  

Nadia BAERISWYL  

Jessica DIACCI  

Caterina BARLAGGIO

Mixed Team  

Lara WONDRAK

Christina KUHN

MEN

Brazil  

Francisco BARRETO  

Felipe FERREIRA

Arthur MARIANO    

Arthu rZANETTI

 

Canada

Joshua STEWART

Robert WATSON  

Scott MORGAN  

Anderson LORAN

Great Britain

Sam OLDHAM

Daniel KEATINGS

Theo SEAGER    

Frank BAINES

Germany

Philip HERDER

Christopher JURSCH

Andreas TOBA

Daniel WEINERT

Japan

Yusuke SAITO

Kenya KOBAYASHI  

Kohei KAMEYAMA  

Koji UEMATSU

Netherlands

Glenn SMINK

Melvin OMEK  

Boudewijn DE VRIES  

Bart DEURLOO

 

Puerto Rico  

Rafael MORALES CASADO

Luis RIVERA  

Angel RAMOS RIVERA  

Nestor RODRIGUEZ COLON

Russia

Denis ABLIAZIN  

Andrey CHERKASOV  

Nikita IGNATYEV  

Switzerland

Pablo BRÜGGER  

Pascal BUCHER

Nils HALLER  

Simon NÜTZI

   

Mixed Team

Christian AUER

Alexander MAIER

Helge LIEBRICH

Shakir SHIKHALIEV (AZE)

Meet schedule for the 2012 Stuttgart World Cup:
Friday, November 30: Team Qualification 

Saturday, December 1 - Men’s Team Final and Women’s All Around Final

Sunday, December 2 - Women’s Team Final and Men’s All Around Final

How to Follow: 

The event’s official website is www.dtbpokal.de, and live commentary on the competition will be available at www.dtb-liveticker.de in German.

You can find videos as they become available on this page. 

 
In the meantime, watch as USA's Elizabeth Price talks about the competition. 

 

Coming up next will be the Glasgow World Cup on December 8th. In Glasgow, both men’s and women’s all-around are scheduled for Dec. 8 at the National Indoor Sports Arena. Both of these events are part of the International Gymnastics Federation’s all-around World Cup series, which also includes the AT&T American Cup.