China, Russia, Portugal golden at T+T worlds

The first medals were handed out today at the Trampolining and Tumbling world championships in Metz.

In the Men's trampolining competition Dong Dong of China took gold over his team-mate Shuai Ye in a tiebreaker. The two ended on the same score but Dong had the higher execution score to clinch the gold.

GOLD : Dong Dong (CHN) - 43.100
SILVER : Shuai Ye (CHN) - 43.100
BRONZE : Yasuhiro Ueyama (JPN) - 42.400
4. Nikita Fedorenko (RUS) - 41.400
5. Dmitry Ushakov (RUS) - 41.300
6. Gregoire Pennes (FRA) - 41.300
7. Tetsuya Sotomura (JPN) - 41.300
8. Martin Gromowski (GER) - 9.000


Portugal's Andre Lico took gold in the 'blink-and-you'll-miss-it' sport of double mini trampoline.

GOLD : Andre Lico (POR) - 73.400
SILVER : Austin White (USA) - 73.000
BRONZE : Evgeny Chernoivanov (RUS) - 72.700
4. Alexander Renkert (USA) - 72.100
5. Jack Penny (AUS) - 70.700
6. Alejandro Ruiz-Cuevas Quintero (ESP) - 69.900
7. Alexander Seifert (CAN) - 68.600
8. Alexander Zebrov (RUS) - 60.400

Russia took gold in the Women's tumbling and women's syncro trampoline. For Russian tumbler Anna Korobeynikova this was her 4th consecutive world title and no-one could really come close. In the syncro competition the reigning champions from china ended up 8th after a mistake in the final - gold went to olympic champ Irina Karavieva and team-mate Victoria Voronina of Russia.


Women's tumbling
GOLD : Anna Korobeynikova (RUS) - 68.200
SILVER : Elena Krasnokutskaya (RUS) - 65.500
BRONZE : Marine Debauve (FRA) - 63.400
4. Yuliya Hall (USA) - 61.600
5. Zara McLean (GBR) - 61.400
6. Kyla Phillips (RSA) - 61.300
7. Karly Judkins (USA) - 60.000
8. Emily Smith (CAN) - 58.000

Women's synchro
GOLD : Irina Karavaeva / Victoria Voronina (RUS) - 47.500
SILVER : Carina Baumgärtner / Anna Dogonadze (GER) - 46.800
BRONZE : Tatiana Piatrenia / Katsiaryna Mironava (BLR) - 46.800
4. Mika Futagi / Ayana Yamada (JPN) - 46.200
5. Marine Jurbert / Marina Murinova (FRA) - 46.000
6. Ekaterina Khilko / Anna Savkina (UZB) - 45.100
7. Amanda Parker / Bryony Page (GBR) - 43.300
8. Xingping Zhong / Dan Li (CHN) - 42.500

Finals wrap up tomorrow - find more results and reports here (FIG)