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Yao, Liu strike gold for China
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YAO Jinnan and Liu Yang upset the established order as they claimed gold for host China with their maiden individual titles at the world gymnastics championships in Nanning yesterday.
Yao, 19, pipped defending champion and compatriot Huang Huidan by a razor-thin 0.067 points in the women’s uneven bars for her first world crown, which follows her four-gold rampage at the Asian Games last month.
And Liu, 20, stunned Olympic and world champion Arthur Nabarrete Zanetti of Brazil on the men’s rings in a show of strength that lifted him from last year’s fourth place.
Yao, sixth on the uneven bars last year, outdid Huang in qualifying and she carried her momentum into the eight-way final at the Guangxi Gymnasium.
Yao has changed her given name this year to Ziyi because Jinnan phonetically sounds similar to words meaning “hard to get gold.”
She will start using the new name in competition next year but the change has paid off with her successful defence of the national title in May and her Asiad one-woman show in South Korea.
As the last performer, Yao dazzled with high-level pirouetting and aerial skills and finished with a lofty double layout somersault. She earned 15.633 points with Huang at 15.566. Russian Daria Spiridonova came in third at 15.283.
Liu, who contributed to China’s men’s team victory over Japan with a top rings score, outdid the 24-year-old Zanetti in both difficulty and execution.
Displaying solid strength moves and clockwork swings, Liu collected 15.933 points against Zanetti’s 15.733. Another Chinese competitor, You Hao, tied for third spot with Russia’s Denis Abliazin.
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