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Gymnastics World Championships: Chinese women's team 2 people 3 items to advance to the final 15-year-old Xiaohua Balance Beam Preliminary Round First

author:China News Network

Beijing, October 19 (China News Service) -- The preliminaries for the women's event at the 2021 World Gymnastics Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, ended on the 19th, and Luo Rui, a 15-year-old youngster of the Chinese team, not only qualified for the balance beam and uneven bars finals, but also topped the balance beam preliminaries. 17-year-old Wei Xiaoyuan advanced to the final in his individual all-around and uneven bars events.

According to the rules, the top eight in each individual event and the top 24 in the all-around competition in the qualifiers reach the final.

In the balance beam preliminaries, Guangdong youngster Luo Rui, who participated in the World Championships for the first time, ranked first among the 94 participants with a score of 14.566 points, and the other two Chinese players, Wei Xiaoyuan and Li Shijia, missed the final.

Wei Xiaoyuan and Luo Rui, who scored 14.733 and 14.500 points respectively in the high and low bars competition, ranked second and third in the preliminaries, while Brazil's famous player and Tokyo Olympic women's vault champion Andrade ranked first with a high score of 15.100.

In the vaulting and free gymnastics preliminaries, two chinese players, Qi Qi and Wei Xiaoyuan, did not qualify for the final. Andrade is expected to be at the top of the vaulting horse; Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist and Japan's Jasmine Murakami is at the top of the free gymnastics table.

Russia's Melnikova played well in four individual competitions, winning the first place in the preliminary round of the women's individual all-around, and Wei Xiaoyuan advanced to the all-around final as seventh place.

Balance beams and uneven bars are the dominant events of the Chinese gymnastics women's team. At the Tokyo Olympics, China's Guan Chenchen and Tang Xijing won the balance beam championship and runner-up, and Lu Yufei won the fourth place on the uneven bars. This time, if Luo Rui and Wei Xiaoyuan can play normally in the final, they are expected to impact the two gold medals of balance beam and high and low bar in this World Championships.

According to the schedule, the gymnastics world championships will continue to be held in the men's event preliminaries on the 20th. The women's all-around and men's all-around finals will be held on the 21st and 22nd, respectively, and the 10 individual events of men and women will be decided on the 23rd and 24th respectively. (End)

Source: China News Network

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