GYMNASTICS: Ellie Black is back, wins four medals at World Challenge Cup

Canada's Ellie Black

Canada’s first World Championships All-Around medalist, Ellie Black, was the star of the final World Challenge Cup in Paris (FRA), winning four medals and winning the Beam event.

Black, 23, won two gold medals at the Commonwealth Games earlier in the year, and won silvers on Sunday in the Vault and Floor Exercise, plus a bronze in the Uneven Bars.

The remarkable Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan, now 43, won the Vault at 14.250; she was a World Champion as far back as 1991 for the USSR and won 11 total World Championships medals through 2011. She shows no signs of slowing down!

The men’s events had five winners in the six events, with only Japan’s Seiya Taura winning two events, the Parallel Bars and High Bar. Summaries:

FIG Artistic World Challenge Cup
Paris (FRA) ~ 29-30 September 2018
(Full results here)

Men

Floor: 1. Artem Dolgopyat (ISR), 14.950; 2. Jorge Vega Lopez (GUA), 14.650; 3. Rayderley Zapata (ESP), 14.550.

Pommel Horse: 1. Cyril Tommasone (FRA), 14.850; 2. Thierry Pellerin (CAN), 14.650; 3. Saso Bertoncelj (SLO), 14.550.

Rings: 1. Samir Ait Said (FRA), 15.100; 2. Igor Radivilov (UKR), 14.950; 3. Denis Abliazin (RUS), 14.850.

Vault: 1. Loris Frasca (FRA), 14.825; 2. Andrey Medvedev (ISR), 14.775; 3. Hamza Hossaini (MAR), 14.625.

Parallel Bars: 1. Seiya Taura (JPN), 14.600; 2. Julien Gobaux (FRA), 14.400; 3. Ahmet Onder (TUR), 13.800.

High Bar: 1. Taura (JPN), 14.300; 2. David Vecsernyes (HUN), 14.150; 3. Nestor Abad (ESP), 14.100.

Women

Vault: 1. Oksana Chusovitina (UZB), 14.250; 2. Elisabeth Black (CAN), 14.200; 3. Tjasa Kysselef (SLO), 13.600.

Uneven Bars: 1. Juliette Bossu (FRA), 14.200; 2. Jonna Aldertag (SWE), 13.850; 3. E. Black (CAN), 13.600.

Balance Beam: 1. E. Black (CAN), 13.900; 2. Marine Boyer (FRA), 13.350; 3. Helena Bonilla (ESP), 13.050.

Floor: 1. Melanie de Jesus dos Santos (FRA), 13.750; 2. E. Black (CAN), 13.050; 3. Aneta Holasova (CZE), 12.850.