2010 Glasgow Grand Prix
Kelvin Hall - November 20th
The female British gymnasts finished with a magnificent 3 medals at the Glasgow Grand Prix World Cup Event.
Hannah Whelan Silver on Beam, Jenni Pinches Bronze on Floor, Imogen Cairns Silver on Vault.
Imogen Cairns , Commonwealth Vault Champion and recent World Vault finalist took the Silver on “her” piece, with 13.875.
Hannah Whelan , 2010 British Champion took Australian Lauren Mitchell on in the Beam competition and came a very close second with 14.500 behind Lauren's 14.675.
Jenni Pinches then took her first ever Grand Prix medal with the Bronze on Floor scoring 14.150.
Results-
Womens-
Vault
1 KURBATOVA Ekaterina RUS 13.912
2 CAIRNS Imogen GBR 13.875
3 PINTO ADASME Makarena CHI 13.762
Bars
1 WU Liufang CHN 14.750
2 LOPEZ Jessica VEN 13.800
3 MITCHELL Lauren AUS 13.725
Beam
1 MITCHELL Lauren AUS 14.675
2 WHELAN Hannah GBR 14.500
3 LOPEZ Jessica VEN 13.975
Floor
1 MITCHELL Lauren AUS 14.800
2 PIHAN-KULESZA Marta POL 14.250
3 PINCHES Jennifer GBR 14.150
WOMENS VAULT
With Yurchenko 1 1/2 twist and Yurchenko half on piked front off Imogen vaulted to a Silver medal, 13.875. Jennifer Pinches scored 13.337 with the Gold medal won by Ekaterina Kurrbatova of Russia, certainly the most accurate vaulter with Yurchenko 1 1/2 and Yurchenko half on piked front half off, 13.912.
ASYMMETRIC BARS
Liufang Wu of China confirmed her qualifications dominance of the Bars with 6.1 difficulty and 14.75 to take Gold. Jessica Lopez, 13.8 and 13.725 for Lauren Mitchell of Australia were a league behind in difficulty and precision.
BEAM
Lauren Mitchell of Australia found herself in a real battle with Britain’s Hannah Whelan with just 0.175 sending the Gold “down-under”. A great result for Hannah establishing her as a competitor on the World stage.
WOMENS FLOOR
2 British gymnasts in such a quality final was a great inspiration for the audience. Jennifer Pinches held the Bronze medal with 14.15 as World champion Lauren Mitchell made a positive Gold performance. Hannah Whelan finished 5th.
World Cup winners-
As the final event of the 2010 Grand Prix series the World Cup winners for the year were also announced-
Women’s Vault – Tijana Tkalcec (CRO)
Bars – Liufang Wu (CHN)
Beam - Liufang Wu (CHN)
Floor – Jessica Lopez (VEN)
