Star Gymnasts to Compete in China Gymnastics Master Challenge

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Star Gymnasts to Compete in China Gymnastics Master Challenge

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A total of 28 world top gymnastics, including Romanian world champions Andrea Raducan and Marious Urzica, will participate in the International Gymnastics Master Challenge to be held from August 17-18, the organizers announced Friday.

Chinese Olympic Games men's team champion members Li Xiaopeng, Huang Xu, Yang Wei and Xing Aowei and 13 gymnasts from Romania, Ukraine, Latvia, France, Cuba, Belarus and the Netherlands will compete in the individual-format Challenge.

Raducan, who was stripped off her all-around title at the Olympic Games two years ago and came back to win the trophy at theworld championships last year, will be the limelight together withher men's compatriots Urzica, Olympic and world champion on pommelhorse and floor exercise and vault world gold medalist Marian Dragulescu.

The men's gymnasts will compete in the six apparatus as of floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars and highbar while women contest on vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise.

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