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U.S. men win 15 individual event medals at ’10 Pac Rim Championships
05/01/2010

• Senior Event Finals
• Junior Event Finals
• Pacific Rim Championships Website

Melbourne, Australia, May 1, 2010 – The U.S. men won 15 medals – six gold, four silver and five bronze – in the senior and junior individual event finals at the 2010 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships at the Hisense Arena in Melbourne, Australia. The USA’s gold-medalists were Chris Cameron of Winter Haven, Fla., Danell Leyva of Miami, C.J. Maestas of Corrales, N.M. and John Orozco of the Bronx, N.Y. China had the second highest individual event medal total at nine. Competition concludes on May 2 with the women’s junior and senior individual event finals.
In the senior competition, Leyva, who trains at Universal, won two gold medals (parallel bars and horizontal bar), along with the still rings bronze. Cameron, who trains at the

University of Michigan, captured the pommel horse title, along with the floor exercise silver. Steven Legendre of Flower Mound, Texas/University of Oklahoma, was the floor bronze medalist.

For the juniors, Maestas of Gold Cup Gymnastics took top honors on both still rings and pommel horse, as well as the third on parallel bars. Orozoco of World Cup Gymnastics, who won the junior all-around title earlier in the tournament, was the horizontal bar gold medalist and the silver medalist on pommel horse, still rings and parallel bars. Dylan Akers of Houston/Cypress Gymnastics claimed two bronze medals, vault and horizontal bar.

Cameron bested China’s Leyang Zhang for the senior pommel horse gold, 14.775 to 14.425. China’s Ronbgbing Liu was third at 14.375. On floor, Cameron and Legendre finished second and third, respectively, with a 15.200 and 15.050. China’s Yuguo Huang, who also won the vault competition, took the floor title with his 15.600.

Leyva edged out two Chinese gymnasts to win titles on both parallel bars and horizontal bar. He outscored Huang, 15.175 to 15.150, for the top spot on parallel bard, and Canada’s Nathan Gafuik finished third at 14.800. In the high bar final, Leyva posted a 15.050 to best Ronbgbing Liu, who scored a 14.925. Australia’s Luke Wiwatowski rounded out the top three. The still rings gold went to Australia’s Sam Offord at 15.225, with Hong Kong’s Kiu Chung Ng second at 14.950 and Leyva third at 14.775.

In the junior competition, Maestas and Orozoco went one-two on pommel horse and still rings. Maestas earned the pommel horse with 14.350, followed by Orozco at 14.150 and Australia’s Jack Richards at 13.700. On rings, Maestas posted a 14.725 and Orozco recorded a 14.425. Russia’s Sergey Karachkin was third at 13.825.

Orozco easily won the horizontal bar title with his 14.725. Australia’s Tyson Bull was second at 13.625, and Akers placed third at 13.575. On parallel bars, Orozco’s 14.250 put him behind China’s Shixiong Zhou’s 14.400, and Maestas earned a 14.175 for the bronze. Akers claimed his second bronze on vault with a 15.325.

The remaining junior individual event gold medalists were: floor, China’s Shixiong Zhu; and vault, Jaylan Birl, Canada.

Earlier in the competition, the U.S. men and women won both team titles. Orozco claimed the men’s junior all-around title, and the U.S. women went one-two in the senior and junior all-around competition: Rebecca Bross of Plano, Texas/WOGA, won the senior title, with Alexandra Raisman of Needham, Mass./Brestyan’s in second; and Jordyn Wieber of DeWitt, Mich./Twistars USA, earned the junior all-around title, with Kyla Ross of Aliso Viejo, Calif./Gym-Max, the silver medalist.

Competition wraps up on May 2 with women’s junior and senior individual event finals at 2 p.m. in Melbourne. The individual event finals feature the top eight juniors and eight seniors on each apparatus. NOTE: All times are local to Melbourne, which is 14 hours ahead of New York, N.Y. For example, when it is 1 a.m. on Wednesday in Melbourne, it is 11 a.m. on Tuesday in New York.

2010 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships
Melbourne, Australia
May 1, 2010
Men’s individual event finals
 

2010 Pacific Rim Championships

Men's team and all-around live session report
Thursday, 29 April 2010

Summary

The all-conquering United States have taken out the men’s team competition at the Pacific Rim Championships at Hisense Arena tonight, whilst Commonwealth Games silver medallist Nathan Gafuik of Canada pipped home town hero Sam Offord to secure the all-around title.

Meanwhile at the State Netball Hockey Centre, Australia’s No. 1 rhythmic gymnast Naazmi Johnston is on the verge of causing a major upset at the half way point, where she currently leads her Russian rivals.

In the men’s competition, the focus centred on the team gold when the fired up United States unit hit Hisense Arena tonight.

Despite a shaky start on pommel and floor, the super-six in the stars and stripes bounced back to defeat the powerful combination from China 345.950 to 340.500.

Canada, the 2006 Commonwealth Games champions, finished third with 337.250, tipping Australia out of the medals to finish in fourth place with 333 points.

“The team is always our priority, so we are very happy with the result,” said USA men’s team coordinator Kevin Mazeika.

The victory was led by 2009 USA junior all-around champion John Orozco, who claimed the junior all-around title scoring 86.450. Teammate CJ Maestas collected the silver with 84.300. Under the Pacific Rim rules, teams must contain a minimum of three junior gymnasts.

“I’m very happy to win, it was my goal for this competition (to win the junior title),” said Orozco, whose combined total would have the captured the senior crown.

World high bar finalist Danell Leyva (USA) said there was more to look forward to in the apparatus finals.

“I only took out half of my routine on high bar today, but I will show the full difficulty in the final,” said Leyva.

Heading into the final rotation, the vocal Australian crowd thought reigning Australian champion Sam Offord was in with a chance of pulling off a surprise victory, but it wasn’t to be, Gafuik putting in a clean performance on pommel horse to win the Pacific Rim all-around crown 86.250 to 85.850. Doha World Cup winner Yuguo Huang from China collected the bronze with 85.850.

A delighted Offord, 24, was pleasantly surprised to secure his first all-around medal at a major competition.

“It’s good to get some consistency, particularly with the Commonwealth Games and world championships coming up later in the year,” said Offord.

“It’s good to be in the pressure situations and come through in six apparatus.”

“I still had mistakes and there’s plenty of things to work on but I held it together well enough to get a good all around score. I don’t have a lot of difficulty compared to some of the other athletes, so for me consistency is what I need in order to get good results.”

Gafuik said the win was a confidence booster ahead of the world championships in October.

“It feels pretty good,” said Gafuik. “The Pacific Rim is a big competition on our calendar and I was really happy that I was in good shape to give it a good go and I did a good job tonight.”

“It was pretty sketchy in the middle, but I got there in the end.”

The men will return to Hisense Arena on Saturday night for the apparatus finals.

Full results and the live action report can be found on www.gymnastics.org.au

Men's Sub Division 2 - LIVE

Rotation 1

Offord (AUS) - PH - clean routine to start, good job! 13.350
Akers (USA) - FX - double double tucked, fall on arabian double front, low landing on triple twist to finish. 12.100
Rongbing (CHN) - V - nice Kasamatsu full twist. 15.850
Bull (AUS) - PH - Nice routine, clean form. 12.300
Orozco (USA) - FX - Nice piked Arabian double front. Nice tucked full in to finish. 14.100
Wiwatowski (AUS) - PH - Two falls but finished well. 11.400
Yuguo (CHN) - V - Clean double front, but sat it down. That was his second vault. 15.650.
Scott (CAN) - R - Nice routine, finished with a double piked front dismount. 14.000
Cameron (USA) - FX - Nice routined, finishing with a 2.5 twist. 15.050
Lytwyn (CAN) - R - Yamawaki, Jonasson into cross. Good landing on his dismount. 14.850
Ruzhitskiy (RUS) - PB - Nice form but had some form errors. Double pike dismount. 12.950
Rickards (AUS) - PH - Beautiful triple Russian, very clean circles, very fast swing. Excellent routine. 13.150
Leyva (USA) - FX - Underrotated and fell on layout double double to open. Front layout into double front. Underrotated and fell on 2.5 twist, and a third fall on his double layout dismount. 10.600
Gafuik (CAN) - R - tucked double double dismount, large stumble forwards. 14.500
Wadsworth (AUS) - PH - a few form errors, but got though the routine well. 12.250
Demin (RUS) - PB - Nice routine with nice form. 14.250
Legendre (USA) - FX - Front double twist into front layout.Very high! Arabian double pike full twist out, layout Thomas, Arabian double tuck to finish. Excellent routine, and the USA contingent is very pleased! 15.150
Hennessy (AUS) - PH - Good swing, and made it through without major issue. 12.700
Maestas (USA) - FX - Put his hands down on opening tucked double double. Very nice twisting passes. Tucked full in to finish. Very nice routine. 13.200

After 1 rotation:
1. CHN 63.900
2. CAN 57.150
3. USA 56.400
4. RUS 53.850
5. AUS 51.050

Senior All Around
1. Yuguo (CHN) - 16.250
2. Leyand (CHN) - 15.950
3. Ronbging (CHN) - 15.850

Junior All Around
1. Shixiong (CHN) - 15.850
2. Peng (CHN) - 15.550
3. Xiaodong (CHN) - 15.450

Rotation 2

Rickards (AUS) - R - Planche. Fell out of a handstand, but recovered with a nice tucked full in dismount, just a step forwards. 13.000
Dowers (CAN) - V - Kasamatsu full twist. 14.700
Karachkin (RUS) - HB - Nice Tkatchev, good form, peeled off on his double layout dismount, and almost fell. 12.850
Watson (CAN) - V - Yurchenko full twist, small hop on landing. 14.050
Hennessy (AUS) - R - Nice position on his cross. Jonasson, Yamawaki. Tucked full in dismount. Nice routine. 13.850
Xiaodong (CHN) - PB - Nice form, and good difficulty. Double pike dismount. 14.250
Maestas (USA) - PH - Got through the routine well. 13.600
Birl (CAN) - V - Double twisting Yurchenko. Good height. Second vault was a Kasamatsu 1.5. 15.350
Wiwatowski (AUS) - R - Two crosses, Jonasson, Yamawaki, tucked double double dismount with a few steps back. 14.450
Wadsworth (AUS) - R - Cross, planche, planche. Tucked full in, just about stuck. 13.950
Oroczo (USA) - PH - Good routine. 14.300
Gafuik (CAN) - V - 2.5 twisting Yurchenko (16.250), handspring double front, low landing. 15.675
Leyva (USA) - PH - Fell mid-way through his routine. He's not having a good night so far. 13.300
Offord (AUS) - R - Nice planche, cross, nice position on another planche, Jonasson, Yamawaki, tucked full in, just a small hop forwards. Very good routine. 15.350
Yuguo (CHN) - PB - Tucked double back, pike front, double pike dismount - stuck solid. Very good routine. 14.200
Cameron (USA) - PH - Nice flairs and good form throughout the routine. 13.750
Bull (AUS) - R - Jonasson, Yamawaki, slightly shaky in his handstands but a nice tucked full in to finish. 13.600
Legendre (USA) - PH - A few form errors, and a fall just before his dismount. 10.850
Rongbing (CHN) - PB - piked front, straddled pike front, and double pike dismount. 14.900
Peng (CHN) - PB - Tippelt, very nice healy, nice and high double pike dismount, just a small step forward. 14.350

After Rotation 2:
1. CHN 122.100
2. CAN 119.450
3. USA 111.350
4. AUS 108.650
5. RUS 107.050

Junior AA:
1. Shixiong (CHN) - 30.700
2. Peng (CHN) - 29.900
3. Xiaodong (CHN) - 29.700

Senior AA:
1. Gafuik (CAN) - 30.750
1. Rongbing (CHN) - 30.750
3. Lytwyn (CAN) - 30.550

Rotation 3

Xiaodong (CHN) - HB - Layout Tkatchev but tucked his legs at the end, straddle Tkatchev, nice pirouetting work. Layout double double with a nice landing. 13.000
Bull (AUS) - V - Layout Tsukahara, with a step on the landing. 13.850
Birl (CAN) - PB - Diamodov, Tippelt, large step on dismount. 13.200
Hennessy (AUS) - V - Layout Tsukahara. Fell backwards on the landing. 13.450
Wadsworth (AUS) - V - Very good vault, just a small step on the landing. 15.400
Shixiong (CHN) - HB - Nice in bar work, tucked full in dismount. 13.300
Watson (CAN) - PB - Double pike dismount with steps on landing. Nice position in the air. 13.300
Wiwatowski (AUS) - V - Kasamatsu full twist. Very nice vault, just a small step on landing. 14.950
Offord (AUS) - V - Double twisting Yurchenko with a big lunge forward. 15.250
Leyva (USA) - R - Yamawaki, Jonasson, nice positions in his strength work. Full twisting double layout, with a step. 14.650
Rickards (AUS) - V - Layout Tsukahara, nice vault. 13.850

Yuguo (CHN) - HB - Layout Tkatchev, very nice swing. Nice full twisting double layout dismount, but a large stumble backwards on landing. 13.250
Legendre (USA) - R - Nice planche, cross, almost got stuck in his Yamawaki, full in dismount with a half turn. 14.400
Gafuik (CAN) - PB - Nice double tuck, very high and clean. Double pike dismount, stuck. 14.800
Rongbing (CHN) - HB - Gaylord, markelov, very nice pirouettes and in-bar work, but fell on piked Jaeger. Nice double double dismount. 13.650
Peng (CHN) - HB - Nice and high piked Tkatchev, very nice form and good swing. Nice and clean double layout dismount. 12.600

Russia, encouraged by shouts of STOI! (stick) from the Russian WAG team, performed good floor routines. Not the highest level of difficulty, but solid routines.

After 3rd Rotation:
1. CHN 176.200
2. CAN 174.850
3. USA 170.000
4. AUS 167.850

Senior AA Standings:
1. Gafuik (CAN) - 45.550
2. Rongbing (CHN) - 44.400
3. Lytwyn (CAN) - 44.250
4. Offord (AUS) - 43.950

Junior AA Standings:
1. Shixiong (CHN) - 44.000
2. Orozco (USA) - 42.900
3. Xiaodong (CHN) - 42.700

Rotation 4

Maestas (USA) - V - Yurchenko double twist, very good vault. 15.150
Xiaodong (CHN) - FX - 2.5 twist into rudi, triple twist to finish, low landing. 14.050
Orozco (USA) - V - Very nice Yurchenko double twist. Well appreciated by the enthusiastic crowd! 15.300.
Bull (AUS) - PB - Clean routine, with a tucked double back dismount. 13.600
Watson (CAN) - HB - Tkatchev, full twisting double layout dismount. 12.850
Leyva (USA) - V - Kasamatsu full twist, just a step to the side. 15.000
Hennessy (AUS) - PB - Tippelt, he has very nice form on his skills. Double pike dismount with just a small step. 13.100
Akers (USA) - V - Kasamatsu 1.5. Good vault. 15.850. Second vault was a handspring layout half turn.
Leyang (CHN) - FX - very nice routine, finishing with a clean 2.5 twist. 14.100
Legendre (USA) - V - with huge encouragment from his teammates. Very nice handspring double front. Very high and just a step forwards. 15.600

Wadsworth (AUS) - PB - Nice Tippelt, but almost fell on his double pike dismount, may have put his hand down. 13.750
Lytwyn (CAN) - HB - Huge release, but lost control on a pirouette element. Double twisting double layout dismount. 13.400
Cameron (USA) - V - Rudi. Landed very low and stumbled forward into the vault. 14.200
Yuguo (CHN) - FX - Layout... See more Thomas, 2.5 twist punch barani, Arabian double front to end. Very nice routine. 15.500
Gafuik (CAN) - HB - Nice tucked Kovacs but fell soon after. Great full twisting Kovacs. Double twisting double layout with a stuck landing. 14.200
Wiwatowski (AUS) - PB - Good routine with a few small form errors, nice double pike to finish. 14.200
Peng (CHN) - FX - Twisting pass to start. Clean double twist forwards. Very nice triple twist. 2.5 twist to finish. 13.250
Offord (AUS) - PB - Double tuck, Tippelt, straddled front, a little messy in his hop to one bar, double pike dismount with a small step backwards. 14.350
Rickards (AUS) - PB - beautiful lines. Extra swing, Tippelt, and missed his hand on a healy. Nice double pike dismount.

After 4th Rotation:
1. CHN 233.900
2. USA 232.000
3. CAN 228.900
4. AUS 223.750

Senior AA Standings:
1. Gafuik (CAN) - 59.750
2. Yuguo (CHN) - 59.200
3. Offord (AUS) - 58.300

Junior AA Standings:
1. Oroczo (USA) - 58.200
2. Shixiong (CHN) - 58.050
3. Maestas (USA) - 57.150 

Rotation 5

Bull (AUS) - HB - Nice Voronin, very nice form throughout his routine. Nice double layout dismount. 13.550
Xiaodong (CHN) - PH - Very nice, clean routine. 12.700
Maestas (USA) - PB - Nice felga (peach) half, felga, very good Tippelt, and high double pike to finish. 14.250.
Wadsworth (AUS) - HB - Voronin, nice stoop half, looked like he stopped before a release but just had an extra swing and continued. Nice full twisting double layout dismount, but slightly piked down. 12.700
Shixiong (CHN) - PH - Nice routine but he fell mid-way through his routine. 12.450
Watson (CAN) - FX - 2.5 twist. Nice routine. 13.900
Orozco (USA) - PB - Excellent Tippelt, and nice pirouettes. Stuck double pike dismount. 14.250
Birl (CAN) - FX - Good tumbling, finishing with a full in. 14.250
Hennessy (AUS) - HB - Voronin, clean routine finishing with a nice full twisting double layout.13.300

Lytwyn (CAN) - FX - tuck front full into double twist forward. Whip half - double front. Very good tumbling. Nice 2.5 twist to finish. 14.650
Offord (AUS) - HB - Voronin, stoop in and beautiful L grip giants, stuck full twisting double layout dismount. 14.000
Gafuik (CAN) - FX - Piked double Arabian, very nice. Front double twist, full twist tucked.He looks very determined! 1.5 twist into Rudi. Sat down his final pass of 2.5 twist. 13.550
Wiwatowski (AUS) - HB - Tucked kovacs, Voronin, double twisting double layout dismount. Good routine! 14.450
Yuguo (CHN) - PH - Legs apart during circles, and not the best routine for him. 12.300
Leyva (USA) - PB - Overrotated on his diamadov, and had a big form error. Very nice giant full and pirouetting elements. Stuck double pike. Team USA is very pumped up! 15.450
Rickards (AUS) - HB - Voronin, very clean lines and good technique. Double layout dismount with a large lunge forward. Clean, but low difficulty. 12.000
Peng (CHN) - PH - Fell mid-routine but finished off well. 10.000
Akers (USA) - PB - A few "steps" on his elements, but nice double pike dismount, with just a step.

Standings after 5 Rotations:
1. USA 298.850
2. CHN 285.250
2. CAN 285.250
4. AUS 279.050

Senior AA Standings:
1. Gafuik (CAN) - 73.300
2. Offord (AUS) - 72.300
2. Lytwyn (CAN) - 72.300

Junior AA Standings:
1. Oroczo (USA) - 72.450
2. Maestas (USA) - 71.400
3. Shixiong (CHN) - 70.500

Rotation 6

Bull (AUS) - FX - Front layout into front double twist. Double twist to finish, low landing and step forward. 12.400
Maestas (USA) - HB - Tucked Kovacs, piked Tkatchev, straddled Tkatchev. Full twisting double layout dismount, but it was quite piked. 12.900
Ruzhitskiy (RUS) - Kasamatsu. Nicely done. 14.400... See more
Henessy (AUS) - Front double twist with a big step forwards. Nice 2.5 twist. Finishes with a stuck double twist. 13.550
Karachkin (RUS) - V - Nice double twisting Yurchenko, almost stuck. 15.150
Xiaodong (CHN) - R - Jonasson, Yamawaki, nice form throughout. Big step on his dismount. 14.300
Akers (USA) - HB - Tucked kovacs, Tkatchev. 13.450
Offord (AUS) - FX - Double layout, step out of bounds. 1.5 twist into full twist. Layout Thomas. Nice full in to end, with just a hop forwards. 13.550
Scott (CAN) - PH - Good routine. 13.050
Leyang (CHN) - R - Very nice layout front between the rings, into cross. Jonasson, Yamawaki. Full twisting double layout dismount, with a stumble forwards. 13.150
Wiwatowsi (AUS) - FX - Layout Thomas. Nice routine, with a 2.5 twist to finish. 14.100
Gafuik (CAN) - PH - solid routine, which should be enough for the all around title. 12.950
Orozco (USA) - HB - full twisting layout Tkatchev. Voronin, stop out half into Tkatchev. Layout double twisting double back to finish, just a hop on the landing. 14.000
Wadsworth (AUS) - FX - Double layout, small hop forwards. 1.5 twist into Rudi but put his hands down. Front layout into double twist forwards, but underrotated and fell. Full in to finish. 12.750
Yuguo (CHN) - R - Very good routine with a dobule layout full twist to finish - stuck solid. Good routine. 14.050
Leyva (USA) - HB - Layout Kovacs, layout Tkatchev, Excellent double twisting double layout to finish. 14.750
Rongbing (CHN) - R - Solid routine, with good strength elements. Full twisting double layout to finish. 13.000
Rickards (AUS) - FX - Double twist forwards. Punch double front, but underrotated and fell. 1.5 twist. Stuck double twist to finish. 13.100

Boys' 2010 Region IX Overall Team Result 5th Place

2010 Region IX Team Results:  Level 10 - 9th Place / Level 7 - 8th Place / Level 6 - 6th Place

Individual Results (Top 10)

Cody Bettinger (Level 10/16-18): PH 8th Place

Patrick Duffy (Level 10/16-18): PH 7th Place

Dimitri Floryance (Level 10/14-15): PH 8th/Rings 5th/AA 7th

Jeremy Chemistruvk (Level 9/16-18): FX 2nd/PH 3rd/Rings 2nd/ Vault 2nd/AA 2nd

Thomas Cook (Level 7/12+): FX 2nd/ PH 6th/Rings 3rd/Vault 2nd/PB 9T/AA 5th

Nemi Marotta (Level 7/10-11): PH 10T

Jacob Contreras (Level 6/10-11): Vault 5th

Vladik Rael (Level 6/8-9): PB 7th

Leo Aragon (Level 6/8-9): Vault 1st

Isaac Newman (Level 6/8-9): FX 10th

Congratulations Tory Wilson, Lauren Martinez and Meghan Martinez for your great finish at the Region 3 Regional Championships!!!!

Tori Wilson level10 results Vault 9.625 3 Bars 9.475 3 Beam 9.050 11 Floor 9.500 4 All Around 37.650 2.

Tory is now a member of the Regional Team who will be competing at the National Championships in May!! Good Luck Tory.

Lauren Martinez Level 9 Gold Cup Gymnastics Vault 9.150 6 Bars 9.225 6 Beam 9.500 4 Floor 9.325 11 All Around 37.200 6

Lauren will now represent Region 3 and Gold Cup at the Level 9 Westerns at the end of April!! Good Luck Lauren

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