The third
World Cup of the 2009 World Cup Series came to an end today at
the Ostend Sports Centre in Ostend, Belgium. This Ostend
World Cup was held in connection with the Flanders Fliffis
Cup.
In the men's
individual trampoline competition, Logan
Dooley (USA) won the first World Cup of his career by
prevailing over 2004 Olympic Champion Yuri
Nikitin (UKR) and Viacheslav Model
(BLR). Olympic silver medalist Jason
Burnett (CAN), who had the lead after the
preliminaries, had to settle for the 6th place.
In the
women's, Katherine Driscoll (GBR) also won the
first World Cup of her career. She was joined at
the awards ceremony by Elena Movchan
(UKR) and Claudia Prat (ESP).
In the men's
synchronized trampoline competition, Logan
Dooley (USA) won an additional gold medal, this
time paired with Steven Gluckstein
(USA). Evgeni Doka-Andrei Matveev
(UKR) and Manabu Yamaguchi-Hideyasu
Ishikawa (JPN) won respectively the silver and
bronze medals.
The women's synchronized trampoline
competition saw Yulia Domchevska-Elena
Movchan (UKR) add a new gold medal to their
extensive collection. Anna Gorchenok-Tatiana
Leoniuk (BLR) and Andrea Lenders-Tara
Fokke (NED) joined them at the awards
ceremony.
In men's
tumbling, the gold medal went to Andrei Krylov
(RUS), who barely edged Kalon Ludvigson
(USA). Alex Seifert (CAN) captured the
bronze medal.
The women's
tumbling competition saw Anna Korobeynikova
(RUS) win her sixth consecutive World Cup.
Racheal Letsche (GBR) and Elena
Chabanenko (UKR) took the silver and bronze
medals.
The next World
Cup will be held next week in Zielona Gora, Poland, followed by
the fifth and final World Cup of the 2009 World Cup Series
the week after in Salzgitter, Germany.
MEN'S INDIVIDUAL
TRAMPOLINE
Logan
Dooley (USA) became the first American to win a
World Cup in men's individual trampoline history as he claimed
the gold medal of this Ostend World Cup. Actually,
Dooley became the first male American
trampolinist to ever win an individual World Cup
medal. Dooley, who won the bronze medal
at the 2008 Pan American Championships, has been consistently
delivering high quality performances all year.
In the Ostend World Cup final where he was competing second to
last and which was the first World Cup final of his career,
Dooley managed the pressure efficiently and
stepped up to the plate in a big
way. Dooley competed a routine with
very neat execution, good elevation, and very little
traveling. Overall, Dooley scored 40.80
pts (16.20 pt tariff) and made history with this
routine. Olympic silver medalist and 2-time Pan
American Champion Jason Burnett (CAN),
who was competing right after Dooley and
was the clear favorite of the final, did not manage to perform
a winning routine. Burnett suffered from
a little traveling throughout the routine and had
to settle for a score of 39.20 pts (16.00 pt tariff),
which meant that the Stars-Spangled Banner would be risen the
highest that night.
The silver
medal of this 2009 Ostend World Cup went to 2004 Olympic
Champion and 2-time European Champion Yuri
Nikitin (UKR). Nikitin,
who has 9 World Cup career wins including the 2004
World Cup Final, had to settle for the silver medal once again,
just few months after also taking the silver medal at the
Sofia World Cup. In Ostend, Nikitin
competed a reduced tariff (15.80 pts instead of his traditional
16.60 pt tariff). Nikitin performed the
routine with height and very strong execution. However,
his strategy proved successful enough for a silver medal, but
not for the gold medal. It was the 15th individual
World Cup medal in Nikitin's career. Overall,
Nikitin scored 40.20 pts, 0.60 pts off
Dooley.
Viacheslav Model (BLR) won the
first World Cup medal of his career by competing a solid
routine in Ostend. Model displayed his
technical qualities in a fine routine that scored 40.00
pts (16.20 pts). Model's most notabel
individual accomplishment before this Ostend World Cup was
probably earning the bronze medal at the 2004 European
Youth Championships. Steven
Gluckstein (USA), who like his teammate
Dooley was competing in the first World Cup
final of his career, bet on strong execution and reduced degree
of difficulty (15.60 pts). Gluckstein
initially took the 4th place of this final with 39.30 pts
(but ended up being ranked in 5th place after appeals).
He initially was closely followed by 2-time Russia Champion
Sergei Chumak (RUS).
Chumak was initially ranked 5th with
39.20 pts and a 15.70 pt tariff, but upon appeal, his
tariff was corrected to 16.10 pts. As a result, his score
was adjusted to 39.60 pts, which meant that
Chumak was 4th and Gluckstein
5th. Burnett took the 6th place.
Ben Wilden (AUS) and Amadeu
Neves (POR) unfortunately struggled in the final
and had to respectively settle for the 7th and 8th
places.
WOMEN'S INDIVIDUAL
TRAMPOLINE
The women's individual
trampoline final of this 2009 Ostend World Cup saw another
trampolinist win the first gold medal of her career.
Katherine Driscoll (GBR - pictured
right) executed a very well mastered routine to cruise to
victory. Driscoll's routine feature neat
execution and the highest degree of difficulty of the final
(13.50 pts). Overall, she scored 36.90 pts.
Driscoll became the first British
trampolinist to win an individual World Cup gold
medal since Claire Wright's gold medal at the
2005 Sofia World Cup. This gold medal was also
Driscoll's first World Cup medal in individual
trampoline. Competing right after
Driscoll and last in the final was 2007
World bronze medalist Rosannagh MacLennan
(CAN), who was the favorite for the gold medal in Ostend.
Unfortunately, the 2008 Loule World Cup winner could not
manage the pressure and failed to complete her
routine. As a result, MacLennan finished
6th with 28.30 pts, and
Driscoll triumphed.
2003 World
silver medalist Elena Movchan (UKR) won her
second silver medal in these 2009 World Cup Series,
scoring 35.70 pts. Movchan opted to
compete a lower tariff than usual, in a fashion similar to
Nikitin's for a similar payoff. It
was the 18th World Cup medal in Movchan's
career, and the 12th silver medal. Her unique World
Cup gold medal dates back to 1997. Claudia
Prat (ESP) offered Spain its first ever
trampoline World Cup medal as she claimed the bronze medal
in Ostend. Prat scored 34.70 pts
with a solid routine for which she had chosen to
compete reduced difficulty. The promising
Samantha Sendel (CAN) took a good 4th place
with 34.40 pts (13.10 pt tariff), edging Yulia
Domchevska (UKR - 5th with 33.90 pts).
Justine Brodelet (BEL), competing with a wild
card, Andrea Lenders (NED), and Luba
Golovina (GEO) all failed to complete their routines,
and respectively finished in 7th, 8th, and 9th of this
final.
MEN'S SYNCHRONIZED
TRAMPOLINE
Logan
Dooley (USA) won a second gold medal at this
Ostend World Cup as he claimed the top award in the men's
synchronized trampoline competition, paired with teammate
Steven Gluckstein (USA - pictured left).
It was the first time in World Cup history that a men's U.S.
pair won a gold medal. The last time a male U.S. pair
won a World Cup medal was at the 2005 Ostend
World Cup where Chris Estrada-Ryan Weston
(USA) took the silver medal. In the final of this
2009 Ostend World Cup where they were competing last after
dominating the preliminaries,
Dooley-Gluckstein, dominated their rivals
in part thanks to superior difficulty (15.60 pts).
Overall, the talented U.S. pair won the gold medal with 49.30
pts.
The silver medal went to Evgeni
Doka-Andrei Matveev (UKR), who scored 48.90 pts
thanks to strong synchronization that helped them move up one
spot in the final. It was the first World Cup medal for
Doka-Matveev. Manabu
Yamaguchi-Hideyasu Ishikawa (JPN) captured the
bronze medal with 48.60 pts with a nice performance.
Ben Wilden-Blake Gaudry (AUS), who were competing 2nd
to last in the final after taking the 2nd place of the
preliminaries, missed the medal by only 0.10 pts, and had
to settle for the 4th place with 48.50 pts.
Samuel Castela-Amadeu Neves (POR) came in 5th
with 47.20 pts, followed by Phil Barbaro-Kyle
Soehn (CAN - 6th with 46.20 pts.
Jack Helme-Steven Williams
(GBR - 42.40 pts) and Viacheslav Kuznetsov-Sergei
Azarian (RUS - 25.00 pts) struggled in the final and
had to settle for the last two places of the final. Some
of the main victims of the preliminaries included Jason
Burnett-Charles Thibault (CAN - 13th)
and 2004 European Champions Alexander
Chernonos-Yuri Nikitin (UKR - 14th).
WOMEN'S SYNCHRONIZED
TRAMPOLINE
World Games Champions
and 2008 European Champions Yulia
Domchevska (pictured right)-Elena
Movchan (UKR) won the fourth World Cup gold
medal of their career with a great performance in
Ostend. This World Cup medal was the 19th for the
Ukrainian pair. The 2008 European Champions won their
third medal in the World Cup Series following silver
medals at the Loule and Sofia World Cups.
Domchevska-Movchan, who were competing last
after dominating the preliminaries, chose to compete
a reduced degree of difficulty. Their strategy paid off
as they claimed the gold medal with 46.10 pts. Youngsters
Tatiana Leoniuk-Anna Gorchenok (BLR) claimed
their first World Cup medal as they took the silver medal with
45.40 pts. Andrea Lenders-Tara Fokke
(NED) completed the podium as they scored 44.70 pts.
Lenders-Fokke barely edged Alaina
Williams-Nani Vercruyssen (USA - 4th with 44.70 pts)
under the tie-breaking rules. Katherine
Driscoll-Cara Jamieson (GBR) had to settle for the 5th
place with 44.60 pts, just 0.10 pts off
Lenders-Fokke and
Williams-Vercruyssen. 2008 Arosa
World Cup silver medalists Anastasia Velichko-Viktoria
Voronina (RUS) took the 6th place of this Ostend
World Cup, scoring 44.10 pts. Rosannagh
MacLennan-Kailey McLeod (CAN) and Claudia
Prat-Katish Hernandez (ESP) struggled in the final and
came respectively in 7th and 8th places.
Marina Kyiko-Natalia Moskvina (UKR) were
elminated in the preliminaries despite taking the 2nd place as
only one pair per country could qualify for the
final.
MEN'S TUMBLING
The men's tumbling
final of this Ostend World Cup offered a face off between World
Games Champion and World Champion Andrei
Krylov (RUS - pictured left), who is the former world
record holder of the highest degree of difficulty over one
pass, and Pan American Champion Kalon
Ludvigson (USA), who is the new world
recordholrder with a 14.80 pt tariff. The faceoff between
the two men did not reach new difficulty heights, but proved to
be very suspenseful. In the end, Krylov
prevailed over Ludvigson by only 0.10
pts. Krylov took the lead after the
first pass with 36.50 pts (11.10 pt tariff), taking a 1.20 pt
lead over Ludvigson (35.30 pts).
Competing last after taking the lead in the preliminaries,
Krylov responded to
Ludvigson's brilliant second pass (38.40 pts
with an 11.40 pt tariff) by performing a strong second pass
(37.30 pts with also an 11.40 pt tariff). Overall,
Krylov scored 73.80 pts, whereas
Ludvigson obtained 73.70 pts. This World
Cup gold medal was the sixth in Krylov's
career. It was the fourth time that
Ludvigson, who is still looking for his first
World Cup gold medal, won a World Cup silver
medal.
Alex
Seifert (CAN) claimed the first tumbling World Cup
ever won by a male Canadian
tumbler. Seifert performed two good
passes, scoring 69.50 pts, capturing the bronze
medal. 2006 European Youth Champion and 2009 Sofia World
Cup bronze medalist Evgeni Zinukov (RUS) took
the 4th palce with 67.10 pts after struggling in his first
routine. Zinukov's second
routine was brilliantly performed as he scored 37.30 pts.
Jonathan Duyols (BEL - 66.80 pts) took a good
5th place, ahead of Danni Nielsen (DEN).
World Games bronze medalist Viktor Kiforenko
(UKR), who had taken the 3rd place of the preliminaries,
struggled in both passes and finished 7th.
Peter Rasmussen (DEN) took the 8th
place.
WOMEN'S TUMBLING
In the women's tumbling
final, Anna Korobeynikova (RUS - pictured
right) secured her sixth consecutive World Cup victory, a
record, and her 18th overall World Cup gold medal, also a
record. In Ostend, Korobeynikova made
the difference with her first pass that scored 34.00 pts
thanks to a 7.90 pt tariff. Competing
last, the 2-time World Champion and 2009 World Games Champion
chose to perform a pass with a tariff, which despite being
the highest of the second passes, was not as high as what she
usually competes. Her strategy paid off, and she secured
the gold medal with 67.10 pts. After three wins in
three World Cups of the 2009 Series, it is difficult to imagine
Korobeynikova not winning the 2009 World Cup Series. The
four best results of each tumbler are taken into
account.
In Ostend,
2008 European Youth Champion Racheal Letsche
(GBR) took a brilliant silver medal with 66.50 pts thanks to
superb execution, neat landings and a strong second pass (33.50
pts) of the competition. 3-time World Champion and 2-time
World Games Champion Elena Chabanenko
(UKR) claimed the bronze medal of this Ostend World Cup
with 66.20 pts thanks to two consistent passes. It was
the 14th World Cup gold medal in Chabanenko's
career. 2009 World Games bronze medalist Emily Smith (CAN) took
the 4th place in Ostend with 66.00 pts. Zara
McLean (GBR) captured the 5th place with 64.30
pts, edging 2009 Sofia World Cup medalist Ashley
Speed (CAN), who scored 63.80 pts. 2009 World
Games silver medalist Anzhelika
Soldatkina (RUS) had a very unsuccessful first
routine, which could not be fully redeemed by the
best second pass of the competition (34.10 pts with a 7.50 pt
tariff). Soldatkina had to settle for
the 7th place with 63.00 pts. Kara
Wilson (RSA) finished 8th with 62.80
pts.
Link to the detailed
results
Link to the official website
Link to the FIG World
Cup Series Rankings
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