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GRAND PRIX OF ITALY By Les Sasvary The Grand Prix of Italy was held in Balzano, Italy. This was the last World Cup qualifying event and the U.S. was expectant of good performances. The all-California U.S. delegation consisted ofSadao Hamada, coach; Conrad Voorsanger and Jair Lynch, gymnasts; and Les Sasvary as judge and delegation leader.
Coach Sadao Hamada, Conrad Voorsanger and Jair Lynch Voorsanger and Lynch both had difficulties on floor scoring 9.0 and 8.25, respectively. Lynch executed a very nice routine on pommel horse for 9.40, but unfortunately, Voorsanger, who usually has a very powerful pommel routine, fell from his Magyar travel and scored an 8.65. Ring routines were difficult with most of the top
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CHEW STACK By Pat Panichas Chelle Stack, along 9.394. Canada'sColleen with her coach, Kevin Johnson earned second Weaklim travelled to with 9.350 and Daniela Varna, Bulgaria for the Bartova from CzechoGolden Sands Invitaslovakia placed third tional on May 11-13. Pat with 9.319. Stack took sixth place in this event Panichas was the judge and delegation leader for with a score of 9.263. On bars, Fraguas the U.S. Stack made an exceltook the gold with 9.888 lent showing atthe World and Bulgaria's Nikolina Cup qualifying event by Petrova placed second earning the silver medal with 9.688. Third went in the all-around with a to Bartova with 9.638 score of 75.425. She not and Stack placed fifth only won second allwith 9.538. around, but she also was Florentina Cirnporiano from Romania given the Miss Golden Sands Award. This presearned a 9.713 for the gold-medal ou beam and tigious award-is_given to- - - . ; : ~~~~~::::~~~ the gymnast based on ability, personality Stack earned the silver medal with a 9.450. and appearance. The People's Republic of China's Kim Ok The gold medal in the all-around was Gum earned third place with a 9.387. won by Spain's Sonia Fraguas with a score Fraguas scored 9.70 on floor for first followed byCirnporiano with a 9.637 and of 76.225 and the bronze medal went to Bulgaria's Silvia Mitova with a 75.175. Mitova with a 9.625. Stack placed eighth Mitova won the vaulting finals with a with an 8.90. - - - - - - - - - ringmen using three to four "D" strength parts, among them inverted crosses, Maltese, planche presses, etc. Voorsanger did a fine job and scored a 9.45. Lynch, because of lack of "D" strength elements, scored 9.15. Voorsanger had a nice vault, scoring a 9.30. Lynch took a fall and scored 8.50. On parallel bars, both U.5. gymnasts did a fine job with Voorsanger scoring a 9.5 and Lynch scoring a 9.30. It was exciting to watch Paolo Bucci from Italy,
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Alfonso Rodriguez from Spain, Chungyang Li from China and Curtis Hibbert from Canada battle for the all-around title on high bar. It all came down to the last event. Bucci needed a 9.50 to win and he scored exactly that. Rodriguez put up a valianteffort, winning the event with 9.65, but fell short winning the all-around championship by .05 point. Li fell from his Gaylord salta and placed tenth all-around. Hibbert w ith his 9.550 secured third place in the all-
around. Voorsanger and Lynch finished in 24th and 25th, resp ectively. During the individual event finals, Thomas Neil from Great Britain won the gold on floor, Li Jing from China earned first in pommel horse, Boris Preti from Italy tookfirst in rings, Italy s Paolo Bucci finished with the gold in vault, Andre Hempel from the German Democratic Republic placed first in parallel bars and Csaba Fajkusz from Hungary won high bar.
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