(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 11. The
National Gymnastics Arena in Baku has held an awarding ceremony for
the winners of the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup, trend reports.
Gymnasts in men's gymnastics were awarded medals in
the floor exercise, and exercises on parallel bars and rings, while
athletes in women's gymnastics were awarded medals in the vaults
and in the exercises on the uneven bars.
In floor exercises, Milad Karimi (Kazakhstan) won the
gold medal, Illia Kovtun (Ukraine) took second place, and Riley
Loos (US) took third place.
In the vaults, the medal was won by Coline Devillard
(France), the silver medal by Oksana Chusovitina (Uzbekistan), and
the bronze medal by Lingming Yu (China).
In the parallel bars exercise, Carlos Edriel Yulo
(Philippines) took first place, Illia Kovtun occupied second
position, and Cameron-Lie Bernard (France) took third place.
In the exercise on uneven bars, Qiyuan Qiu (China) won
the gold medal, Giorgia Villa (Italy) won the silver, and Sanna
Veerman (the Netherlands) was awarded the bronze medal.
Nikita Simonov (Azerbaijan) took first place in the
ring exercise, Mahdi Ahmad Kohani (Iran) took second place, and
Vinzenz Hoeck (Austria) occupied the third position.
The awards were presented to the winners by Minister
of Youth and Sports of Azerbaijan Farid Gayibov, MP of the Milli
Majlis (Parliament), member of the Executive Committee of the
Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federation Rauf Aliyev, President of the
African Gymnastics Union, President of the Egyptian Gymnastics
Federation Ehab Esawy, Sports Director of the Azerbaijan Gymnastics
Federation Natalia Bulanova, technical delegate of the
International Gymnastics Federation Jeffrey Thomson.
The FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup is held on March
9-12 at the National Gymnastics Arena in Baku. Some 173 gymnasts
from 48 countries around the world will take part in the
competition, which is a record number of participating countries in
the history of the World Cups in gymnastic disciplines in
Azerbaijan.
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