2014 Winter Cup Challenge

Chris Brooks Leads Winter Cup Prelim 1

Chris Brooks Leads Winter Cup Prelim 1

Feb 20, 2014 by Anne Phillips
Chris Brooks Leads Winter Cup Prelim 1


Chris Brooks
of Cypress Academy/Team Hilton HHonors leads all around competition after one of two preliminary sessions at the 2014 Winter Cup Challenge. Brooks totaled 85.80 in the all around highlighted by a 15.20 on high bar. 

Watch Brooks on high bar:


2012 Olympic All Around bronze medalist Danell Leyva of Universal Gymnastics/Team Hilton HHonors sits in second place with room for improvement. Leyva has big room for improvement in the finals after counting falls on two of his strongest events, pommel horse and high bar.   



Reigning Winter Cup Champion Jake Dalton will not attempt to defend his title this year. He's pacing himself for the season and recovering from surgery on his thumb after the World Championships. Dalton only competed still rings and hit his set for a 15.10, the second highest rings score of the meet thus far. 

Check back for results and finals qualifiers at the conclusion of today's preliminaries. Follow live scoring on USAG here.  

About Winter Cup and National Team Qualification
This event serves as Winter Nationals for the USA men. Performances at the 2014 Winter Cup Challenge will help determine the 15 men who will comprise the U.S. Men's Senior National Team through the 2014 P&G Gymnastics Championships in Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 21-24. The six members of the 2013 World Championships squad, plus the two World alternates, retain their spots on the national team. The remaining seven spots will be determined based on the following criteria: the top two ranked all-around athletes who are not already on the senior national team; two based on the National Team Points System; two athletes selected by the Men's Program Committee; and one selected by the national team coordinator.

The Winter Cup competition schedule is: two preliminary sessions on Thursday (4 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. ET). The finals will begin at 10 p.m. ET on Saturday. Junior and senior gymnasts will be competing in the same field.

After Thursday's two preliminary sessions, the top 42 gymnasts, according to the Men's Program Committee's points ranking system, will advance to Saturday's finals competition, along with the top three gymnasts on each apparatus. The all-around and individual event champions will be determined via a combined two-day score.
 

Session 1 Top 20 Results via USA Gymnastics 



Click here for live scores on USAG

Videos
USA Gymnastics will be showing every routine to their youtube page. We'll be featuring the best routines here.