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China captures team title at World Gymnastics Championships
Anaheim (California), Aug 20: Reigning Olympic champion China captured their fifth world championship title in the past six events, finishing 0.875 points ahead of runner-up United States.
Anaheim (California), Aug 20: Reigning Olympic champion China captured their fifth world championship title in the past six events, finishing 0.875 points ahead of runner-up United States.
China's men's gymnastics team took the gold with 171.996
points from the US on 171.121 points and Japan were third with
170.708 points. Russia finished fourth with 168.771 points.
Teng Hai-Bin clinched the title for china by nailing the final routine high bar routine in convincing fashion with a 9.725 score. Teng also had a 9.712 on the vault.
"I feel great," said Teng. "This is a difficult competition. My performance will be even better in the individual finals."
China got another superb performance from Li Xiao-Peng on the parallel bars (9.762) to help pad their overall lead heading into the final high-bar routine.
"We did pretty good," said Li. "We weren't too nervous. We could feel the pressure on the last three events, but we just tried to focus and hit our routines as we usually do."
This is China's sixth world title. They also won in 1983, 1994, 1995, 1997 and 1999. They sent a second-string team to the 2001 worlds in Ghent, Belgium where they placed seventh in preliminaries and fifth in the medal round.
China finished third in team qualifying behind the US and Japan in Anaheim.
Romania rounded out the top five with 167.909 points. South Korea (166.283) was sixth, France (165.546) placed seventh and Ukraine finished eighth (165.108).
Bureau Report
Teng Hai-Bin clinched the title for china by nailing the final routine high bar routine in convincing fashion with a 9.725 score. Teng also had a 9.712 on the vault.
"I feel great," said Teng. "This is a difficult competition. My performance will be even better in the individual finals."
China got another superb performance from Li Xiao-Peng on the parallel bars (9.762) to help pad their overall lead heading into the final high-bar routine.
"We did pretty good," said Li. "We weren't too nervous. We could feel the pressure on the last three events, but we just tried to focus and hit our routines as we usually do."
This is China's sixth world title. They also won in 1983, 1994, 1995, 1997 and 1999. They sent a second-string team to the 2001 worlds in Ghent, Belgium where they placed seventh in preliminaries and fifth in the medal round.
China finished third in team qualifying behind the US and Japan in Anaheim.
Romania rounded out the top five with 167.909 points. South Korea (166.283) was sixth, France (165.546) placed seventh and Ukraine finished eighth (165.108).
Bureau Report