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Japanese gymnast wins gold at FIG World Cup in Baku

19 March 2017 18:50 (UTC+04:00)
Japanese gymnast wins gold at FIG World Cup in Baku

By Trend

Japanese gymnast Naoto Hayasaka won gold in horizontal bar exercises of the FIG Artistic Gymnastics Individual Apparatus World Cup in Baku March 19.

He scored 14.333 points in the final.

Croatian athlete Anton Kovacevic with 14.000 points won silver.

Luthuanian gymnast Tomas Kuzmickas with 13.866 points won bronze.

The last day of the FIG Artistic Gymnastics Individual Apparatus World Cup was held at the National Gymnastics Arena in Baku March 19.

The men were competing in vault, pommel horse and horizontal bar finals, while the women - in balance beam and floor finals.

Azerbaijan was represented by Marina Nekrasova in balance beam and floor exercises.

A total of ten sets of medals were awarded at the competitions.

The FIG Artistic Gymnastics Individual Apparatus World Cup finals ended Mar. 19. Gymnasts from 23 countries took part in the FIG World Cup in artistic gymnastics, which was hosted by Azerbaijan for the second time.

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