Ferrari, Petrounias, Zapata and Zonderland secure Olympic participation

Last weekend, Doha hosted the final 2021 World Cup event, thus concluding the Olympic qualifying process.

In men’s artistic gymnastics, the 6 Olympic places from the Apparatus World Cup series go to Rayderley Zapata (ESP) on floor, Kohei Kameyama (JPN) on pommel horse, Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) on rings, Shin Jeahwan (KOR) on vault, You Hao (CHN) on parallel bars and Epke Zonderland (NED) on high bar.

In addition to that another spot goes to the 2020 European Champion on pommel horse Matvei Petrov (ALB) who was chosen for the Tripartite Commission Invitation place.

In the women’s field Jade Carey (USA) secures the Olympic place on vault, Fan Yilin (CHN) tops the bars ranking, Urara Ashikawa (JPN) is best in the Olympic qualification at the World Cups on beam and Vanessa Ferrari (ITA) on floor.

6 out of the 10 victories at the last 2021 World Cup in Doha went to European gymnasts with Israel’s Artem Dolgopyat winning gold floor. Rayderley Zapata (ESP) thrilled the audience with an evolution of his “Zapata”, double front somersault with 1.5. turns, shown in Doha for the first time in a layout position. This brought him the silver medal and equally to the top of the ranking for the Olympic Games qualification. A very happy Eleftherios Petrounias from Greece secured himself both the Doha World Cup title on rings and the Olympic qualification. 2 months after winning silver on parallel bars at the European Championships it now got the gold medal for Turkey’s Ferhat Arican on parallel bars. The title in Doha on high bar went to the 2019 all-around European bronze medallist from Cyprus Marios Georgiou.

Saeedreza Keikha from Iran won his first ever World Cup title on pommel horse. The gold medal on vault went to Japan’s specialist on this apparatus Hidenoru Yonekura.

After a World Cup victory on uneven bars in Melbourne 2020 it now was gold on beam in Doha for Diana Varinska from Ukraine. On floor Italy’s Vanessa Ferrari won not only the race for the gold medal, but also for the Olympic spot against her team mate Lara Mori.

Shortly before her 46^th birthday and her 8^th participation in Olympic Games Oksana Chusovitina (UZB) added another title to her large collection on vault. The victory on uneven bars went to Rebeca Andrade from Brazil.

 

Congratulations to all medallists!

Men

Floor

1. Artem Dolgopyat (ISR) 15.033

2. Rayderley Zapata (ESP) 14.933

3. Antonios Tantalidis (GRE) 14.700

 

Pommel horse

1. Saeedreza Keikha (IRI) 15.200

2. Nariman Kurbanov (KAZ) 15.033

3. Kohei Kameyama (JPN) 14.600

 

Rings

1. Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) 15.500

2. Arthur Zanetti (BRA) 14.933

3. Mahdi Ahmad Kohani (IRI) 14.800

 

Vault

1. Hidenobu Yonekura (JPN) 15.016

2. Igor Radivilov (UKR) 14.774

3. Andrey Medvedev (ISR) 14.733

 

Parallel bars

1. Ferhat Arican (TUR) 15.566

2. Petro Pakhniuk (UKR) 15.000

3. Caio Souza (BRA) 14.633

 

High bar

1. Marios Georgiou (CYP) 14.466

2. Arthur Mariano (BRA) 14.400

3. Milad Karimi (KAZ) 14.366

 

Women

Vault

1. Oksana Chusovitina (UZB) 14.066

2. Coline Devillard (FRA) 13.966

3. Nancy Taman (EGY) 13.366

 

 

Bars

1. Rebeca Andrade (BRA) 14.500

2. Anastasiia Bachynska (UKR) 13.433

3. Lorrane Oliveira (BRA) 13.400

 

Beam

1. Diana Varinska (UKR) 13.200

2. Zsofia Kovacs (HUN) 13.166

3. Rebeca Andrade (BRA) 13.133

 

Floor

1. Vanessa Ferrari (ITA) 14.266

2. Lara Mori (ITA) 13.633

3. Lorrane Oliveria (BRA) 12.633

 

Find the full results on the FIG website: https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/events/searchresults.php