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Chinese teen Li claims first WCup balance beam title

Source: Shanghai Daily | 00:05 UTC+8 March 25, 2019 | Print Edition

Chinese teenager Li Qi collected her first World Cup championship on the balance beam in Doha, Qatar.

With the highest difficulty score at 6.0 points, Li put on a clean performance to hit a total of 14.333 points on Saturday night. Belgian world champion Nina Derwael took silver at 13.633 with a far lower difficult score at 5.2. French gymnast Marine Boyer was third at 13.333. “I was so nervous that I couldn’t move on the beam at Baku (Azerbaijan). I was injured and had to leave the field for a long time,” said the 17-year-old Li, who ranked fifth one week ago at the Baku World Cup on the same apparatus. Zou Jingyuan, a promising star for Tokyo 2020, snatched the gold medal on the parallel bars with clear point advantage over Russian Vladislav Poliashov.

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