There is no stopping Oksana Chusovitina; you can’t even slow her down.
Uzbekistan’s 11-time World Championships medalist and three-time gold medalist is now 44, and won the Vault at the FIG World Challenge Cup Vault in Paris on Sunday. Her score of 14.300 easily out-distanced Sara Peter (HUN: 13.900) for her first win this season and fourth medal in the World Cup and World Challenge Cup programs combined.
France won two events, with Loris Frasca taking the men’s Vault (14.850) and Melanie de Jesus winning on the Uneven Bars (14.650).
The 2017 High Bar World Champion, Tin Srbic (CRO) won his specialty at 14.900, ahead of Russian Sergei Eltcov (14.700). Summaries:
FIG Artistic World Challenge Cup
Paris (FRA) ~ 14-15 September 2019
(Full results here)
Men
Floor: 1. Kazuki Minabe (JPN), 15.100; 2. Artem Dolgopyat (ISR), 14.900; 3. Kirill Prokopev (RUS), 14.850.
Pommel Horse: 1. Joshua Nathan (GBR), 14.600; 2. Prokopev (RUS), 14.500; 3. Thierry Pellerin (FRA), 14.450.
Rings: 1. tie, Ali Zahran (EGY) and Samir Ait Said (FRA), 14.950; 3. Kentaro Yunoki (JPN), 14.600.
Vault: 1. Loris Frasca (FRA), 14.850; 2. Jake Jarman (GBR), 14.375; 3. Adria Vera (ESP), 14.050.
Parallel Bars: 1. Kaito Sugimoto (JPN), 15.300; 2. Eltcov (RUS), 14.850; 3. Ryan Macleod Sheppard (HUN), 13.950.
High Bar. 1. Tin Srbic (CRO), 14.900; 2. Sergei Eltcov (RUS), 14.700; 3. Chia-Hung Tang (TPE), 14.550.
Women
Vault: 1. Oksana Chusovitina (UZB), 14.300; 2. Sara Peter (HUN), 13.900; 3. Franchesca Santi (CHI), 13.750.
Uneven Bars: 1. Melanie de Jesus (FRA), 14.650; 2. Anastasiia Agafonova (RUS), 14.600; 3. Zsofia Kovacs (HUN), 14.200.
Beam: 1. Agafonova (RUS), 13.400; 2. Anastasiia Bachynska (UKR), 13.300; 3. Diana Varinska (UKR), 13,200.
Floor: 1. Varinska (UKR), 13.450; 2. Marine Boyer (FRA), 13.400; 3. Aneta Holasova (CZE), 13.100.