Kohei Uchimura Wins 2009 Japan Cup All-Around Title
Posted on 19 July 2009 by admin
Japan’s Kohei Uchimura made a statement to the world today at the 2009 Japan Cup. He hit on all six events to post an outstanding 92.75 to win the men’s all-around competition, thus establishing him as the favorite going into Worlds in October. Germany’s Fabian Hambuchen followed-up his impressive performance in yesterday’s team competition, tallying a 92.10 to finish in second place.
For Team USA, Danell Leyva finished a respectable seventh place with an 88.50. Steve Legendre struggled on four events to place a distant tenth (84.35). Overall, it was tough weekend for Team USA, but nonetheless, it was an important tune-up for next month’s VISAs.
According to Sho Nakamori’s blog , Sho suffered a hyper-extended knee after sticking his high bar landing yesterday in the team competition. We hope the images show no damage and wish him a speedy recovery.
TOP 10 ALL-AROUND:
- Kohei Uchimura (JPN) - 92.75
- Fabian Hambuchen (GER) - 92.10
- Kazuhito Tanaka (JPN) - 90.85
- WonChul Yoo (KOR) - 90.05
- WeiYang Guo (CHN) - 89.70
- Bo Lu - CHN) - 89.35
- Danell Leyva (USA) - 88.50
- Maxim Devyatovsky (RUS) - 88.30
- Eugen Spiridonov (GER) - 87.55
- Steve Legendre (USA) - 84.35
July 19th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
What more can we expect when we send our national team to 3 international meets a year. Of course they are going to get nervous and not do there best. We need to send our guys to all of the world cup meet just like the rest of the world does so that they have experience. Because maybe after this meet we will realize that some of the guys who went don’t belong at worlds and then we are going to end up sending someone that has never competed internationally before. It’s a shame!
July 20th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
I would like to see out guys compete more internationally, but let’s face it, we’re probably going to end up seeing some new faces on the ‘12 team. Leyva now has another int’l meet under his belt and he flat-out loves to compete anywhere anytime. We’ve got some outstanding all-arounders at the junior and senior level who are champing at the bit. You’re right about the rest of the world. It seems like Hambuchen competes darn near every month. The Japanese are really building a juggernaut.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:34 am
Kohei looked good but with either a little home scoring or the judging just wasn’t that strict
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK5h-Khl0lU
here’s fabian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yWqNJXHc24
fabian should have beaten kohei on vault
July 21st, 2009 at 11:44 am
a few more videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d-Xv5XtQTg
pretty poor routine… terrible angle on first full spin, piked yamawaki, piked tkachev
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8Bp3ELFI8I
good vault by horton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITdqr1dSuck
a little Mathias Fahrig