CANYON COUNTRY'S ATLER TIES FOR U.S. TITLE.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Kristy Powell made up .65 points on the final apparatus and tied 15-year-old Vanessa Atler Vanessa Marie Atler is a retired American elite gymnast. She was best known for her explosive, difficult vaults and tumbling skills, and was the first female American gymnast to perform a Rudi vault, which she debuted at the 1999 American Cup. of Canyon Country for the women's all-around title Saturday night in the U.S. Gymnastics gymnastics, exercises for the balanced development of the body (see also aerobics), or the competitive sport derived from these exercises. Although the ancient Greeks (who invented the building called a gymnasium Championships. Powell, 17, was in second place, behind Atler, after Thursday's preliminaries, and maintained that position through the first three of Saturday's four events. Powell, scars visible on her legs from surgery in May to relieve pressure on her calf muscles, scored a 9.3 on her final routine, the balance beam. Atler, leading by .65 points going into that event, then fell from the uneven bars Noun 1. uneven bars - a pair of parallel bars set at different heights; used in women's gymnastics uneven parallel bars bars, parallel bars - gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights and got an 8.65, producing the tie. Powell, a native of River Forest, Ill., who trains in Cincinnati, and Atler each finished with 74.612 points. Rules do not provide for a tiebreaker tie·break·er n. An additional contest or period of play designed to establish a winner among tied contestants. Also called tiebreak. tie . Mohini Bhardwaj Mohini Bhardwaj (मोहिनी भारद्वाज) (born September 29, 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American gymnast. of Cincinnati was third at 74.212, followed by Kristen Maloney Kristin Ann Maloney (born March 10 1981, Hackettstown, New Jersey) is an American gymnast who competed in the 2000 Olympics. Maloney trained at the Parkettes National Gymnastics Training Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and was a consistent member of the U.S. (73.862), Lindsay Wing (73.712) and Jamie Dantzscher Jamie Annette Dantzscher (b. May 2, 1982, Canoga Park, California, U.S.) is a retired American gymnast. She was a member of the fourth-place US team at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. (73.587). The U.S. meet is a qualifier for the world championships, but Atler, at 15, doesn't meet a new age rule that requires competitors in the worlds to be at least 16 years old by the end of this year. The top six finishers qualify for the U.S. team that will compete in the world championships Aug. 31-Sept. 7 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The meet also determined the 20 members of the national team. But because Atler, Wing and Dantzscher are too young to compete on the world team, the seventh-, eighth- and ninth-place finishers moved up. That means Jennie Thompson, Kendall Beck Kendall Rhea Beck (August 6 1981–) is an artistic gymnast from the United States. She was a member of the US junior national team from 1996–1997, and was the US national junior vault champion that year. and Dominique Moceanu Dominique Helena Moceanu (born September 30, 1981 in Hollywood, California) is an American gymnast of Romanian descent who was a member of the Olympic Gold medal winning 1996 U.S. Women's Gymnastics team in Atlanta (the "Magnificent 7"). will join Powell, Bhardwaj and Maloney at the worlds. Moceanu, the only member of the gold medal-winning 1996 U.S. Olympic team still competing, was in danger of not making the world team. She ranked 12th after the prelims but moved into ninth after scoring a 9.325 on her first routine Saturday, the floor exercise. Moceanu, 15, of Houston had a bad landing on the uneven bars, scoring an 8.85, but she recovered on her last event, the beam, getting 9.375. Atler, who doesn't turn 16 until Feb. 17, has been dominant in junior competition the past two years and was the 1996 junior national champion. Considered the top up-and-coming American woman gymnast and a likely medal contender in the 2000 Olympics, she showed why throughout this competition. Atler began the night with a slender lead of one-tenth of a point over Powell (37.187-37.087). She scored a 9.55 on her first apparatus, the balance beam, while Powell had a 9.3 on the floor exercise. Then Atler had a 9.65 on the floor compared to Powell's 9.375 average on two vaults. That boosted Atler's lead to six-tenths of a point. Bhardwaj moved from fourth place after the prelims to third, past Maloney, when Bhardwaj scored a 9.375 on her first event, the vault, while Maloney fell on the uneven bars and had an 8.35. Atler performed two powerful, precise vaults for an average of 9.575, just after Powell, who competed in the 1996 world championships, had scored a 9.55 on the uneven bars, leaving Atler's lead at .65 points. It was the first tie for the women's all-around at the nationals since 1972, when Joan Moore and Cathy Rigby were co-champions. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Canyon Country's Vanessa Atler fell from the uneven bars and wound up in a first-place tie for the women's all-around title at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships. Associated Press |
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