Chinese Young Gymnasts Shine at International Master Challenge

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Chinese Young Gymnasts Shine at International Master Challenge

Chinese unknown gymnasts Zhang Nanand Teng Haibin outshone a group of world stars on the second and last day of the Li Ning Cup International Gymnastics Master Challenge in Beijing on Sunday.

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Kang Xin Claimed Title on Balance Beam

Chinese unknown gymnasts Zhang Nanand Teng Haibin outshone a group of world stars on the second and last day of the Li Ning Cup International Gymnastics Master Challenge here on Sunday.

The Chinese gymnasts wrapped up nine gold medals out of 10 of the final event competition.

Zhang Nan performed elegantly on the women's floor exercise, collecting 9.400 points, well ahead of Verona Van de Leur of the Netherlands 8.850 and Maud Collas France of France 8.763.

Romanian world champion Andrea Raducan, who finished fourth on vault yesterday, suffered faults on both floor exercise and balance beam and had to concede the fourth and sixth places.

Zhang, last year's national champion on beam, said:"I was nervous during the competition. Fortunately, I did not have big mistakes on floor like my other rivals did. I did not expect I canwin."

Teng Haibin surprised his big-name fellows by taking the title on men's high bar with a day-high 9.825 points. Olympic Games teamand parallel bars champion Li Xiaopeng had to concede a silver medal with 9.750 and Xing Aowei 9.725.

Teng, who entered the national team for only one year, revealedthat his routine was very difficult. He said:"My routine has some striking connections that help to my victory. Besides, I did very well today."

Li Xiaopeng scored the highest point on vault with 9.768 and the second on parallel bars with 9.762 while Huang Xu won the parallel bars for 9.787.

Kang Xin claimed title on balance beam with 9.575, with world bronze medalist Sun Xiaojiao came to second 9.500.

Li Ning Cup, named in honor of world and Olympic gold medalist Li Ning, has drew about 30 athletes from Romania, France, Cuba, Belarus, Latvia, Holland, Ukraine, United States and China.

World and Olympic champions received the appearance fees of 3,000 U.S. dollars with additional prize money 1,500 and 1,000 awarded to the top two finishers in each event.

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