2012 Stuttgart World Cup

2012 Stuttgart World Cup Wrap Up: Russian women & Nguyen Win Titles

2012 Stuttgart World Cup Wrap Up: Russian women & Nguyen Win Titles

Dec 2, 2012 by Anne Phillips
2012 Stuttgart World Cup Wrap Up: Russian women & Nguyen Win Titles


Competition concluded Sunday at the 2012 Stuttgart World Cup with a better showing for the Russian women. The team of Aliya Mustafina, Kristina Goryunova, Yulia Inshina, and Anna Radionova took the team title ahead of Japan and Germany 1. 
 
Impressively, Goryunova competed all around for a third day in a row after helping team Russia advance to team finals Friday, and competing in all around finals Saturday. She hit her difficult beam routine similar to her stellar performance on day 1 for the highest score of the day on any event, 14.60 (6.0D). 
 
2012 Olympic medalist Mustafina was crucial to the Russian win with a 14.45 on uneven bars and 14.40 on balance beam. She also filled in on vault with a simple yurchenko layout. 
 
Japan improved three points from their qualification performance thanks to strong routines from Wakana Inoue and Mai Murakami

In the mens' team final, the Japanese team of Yusuke Salto, Kenya KobayashiKohei Kameyama, and Koji Uematsu stole the show with a massive 181.629 team total ahead of Russia's 176.295. Great Britain finished 3rd and Brazil 4th.

The World Cup came to a close with the men's all around final. 2012 Olympic all around silver medalist Marcel Nguyen of Germany thrilled the home crowd, using clutch performances on the final two events, parallel bars (15.566) and high bar (15.60), to clinch the title ahead of the deep field. 
 
Great Britain's Daniel Purvis finished in second place with fellow Olympian David Belyavsky of Russia close behind in third. Kazuhito Tanaka of Japan finished just two tenths out of the medals, followed by London all around bronze medalist Danell Leyva who finished fifth after delivering the meet's highest score on high bar, a 15,766.
 
The strong field of seven men will face each other once more next weekend (December 8th) in Scotland for the 2012 Glasgow World Cup. 

 
The first gold medal of the weekend went to USA's Elizabeth Price for the women's all around title. Read that full recap here








 
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