The star of the Parallel Bars was all over the podium in Szombathely, Hungary at the FIG World Challenge Cup (apparatus only), as Ukraine’s Oleg Verniaiev starred over the two-day event.
The 2016 Olympic gold medalist on the Parallel Bars and silver medalist in the All-Around, he tuned up for the forthcoming FIG World Championships with three medals:
● Silver on Floor, silver on Pommel Horse and won the Parallel Bars, plus
● Fifth in Rings, fourth in Vault and fourth in the high Bar.
The 2017 Worlds Floor silver medalist, Israel’s Artem Dolgopyat, won his specialty; Ukraine’s Igor Radivilov, the 2014-17 Worlds Vault silver medalist, won the Rings. Summaries:
FIG Artistic World Challenge Cup
Szombathely (HUN) ~ 6-8 September 2019
(Full results here)
Men
Floor: 1. Artem Dolgopyat (ISR), 14.866; 2. Oleg Verniaiev (UKR), 14.300; 3. Petro Pakhniuk (UKR), 14.233.
Pommel Horse: 1. Joshua Nathan (GBR), 14.800; 2. Verniaiev (UKR), 14.766; 3. Saso Bertoncelj (SLO), 14.566.
Rings: 1. Igor Radivilov (UKR), 14.733; 2. Ali Zahran (EGY), 14.700; 3. Vinzenz Hoeck (AUT), 14.566.
Vault: 1. Hidenobu Yonekura (JPN), 15.049; 2. Keitaro Okubo (JPN), 14.416; 3. Sofus Heggemsnes (NOR), 14.266.
Parallel Bars: 1. Verniaiev (UKR), 15.200; 2. Pakhniuk (UKR), 15.066; 3. Yordan Aleksandrov (BUL), 14.166.
High Bar: 1. David Vecsemyes (HUN), 13.966; 2. Pakhniuk (UKR), 13.933; 3. Alexander Myakinin ( (ISR), 13.766.
Women
Vault: 1. Marina Nekrasova (AZE), 14.183; 2. Teja Belak (SLO), 14.166; 3. Angelina Radivilova (UKR), 13.916.
Uneven Bars: 1. Rooskrantz Caitlin (RSA), 13.333; 2. Phoebe Jakubczyk (GBR), 13.000; 3. Roxana Popa (ESP), 12.966.
Beam: 1. Makra Noemi (HUN), 13.200; 2. Belak (SLO), 12.466; 3. Emma Spence (CAN), 12.433.
Floor: 1. Marina Gonzalez (ESP), 12.866; 2. Emily Thomas (GBR), 12.833; 3. Radivilova (UKR), 12.833.
