WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Vanessa Atler (Canyon Country, Calif.) picked up gold medals in vault and floor exercise and the United States added three more medals in individual event finals as the 1998 Pacific Alliance Championships came to a conclusion at Winnipeg Arena Sunday evening. The competition was held as a test event for the 1999 Pan American Games, which will be held in Winnipeg next summer.
Individual Event Finals, 1998 Pacific Alliance Championships
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, July 12, 1998
Men
Floor Exercise — 1, Xing Aowei, CHN, 9.400. 2, Andrei Kravtsov, AUS, 9.350. 3, Kris Burley, CAN, 9.000. 4 (tie), Tatsuya Yamada, JPN, and Bret Hudson, AUS, 8.800. 6, Sebastien Fortier, CAN, 8.500. 7, Chris Young, Winston-Salem, N.C., 8.400. 8, Zhao Zhe, CHN, 8.100.
Pommel Horse — 1, Xing Aowei, CHN, 9.675. 2, Andrei Kravtsov, AUS, 9.625. 3 (tie), Lu Bin, CHN, Amomthep Unchai, THA, and Yewki Tomita, Tucson, Ariz., 9.400. 6, Alexander Bangel, COL, 9.000. 7, Richard Ikeda, CAN, 8.600. 8, Sattra Suwansa, THA, 8.500.
Still Rings — 1 (tie), Zhao Shen, CHN, and Tatsuya Yamada, JPN, 9.625. 3, Amomthep Unchai, THA, 9.600. 4 (tie), Kuan-Hui Chen, TPE, and Shigeru Kurihara, JPN, 9.500. 6, Zhao Zhe, CHN, 9.450. 7, John Roethlisberger, Minneapolis, Minn., 9.250. 8, Yu-Jen Lu, TPE, 9.100.
Vault — 1, Zhao Zhe, CHN, 9.400. 2, Bret Hudson, AUS, 9.275. 3, Lu Bin, CHN, 9.262. 4, Nien-Kuang Tung, TPE, 9.237. 5, Julio Garcia Cantu, MEX, 9.137. 6, Sean Townsend, Houston, Texas, 9.025. 7, Sebastien Fortier, CAN, 8.775. 8, Chris Young, Winston-Salem, N.C., 4.450.
Parallel Bars — 1, Andrei Kravtsov, AUS, 9.625. 2 (tie), Xing Aowei, CHN, and Zhao Zhe, CHN, 9.375. 4, Sean Townsend, Houston, Texas, 9.350. 5, Sattra Suwansa, THA, 9.000. 6, Shigeru Kurihara, JPN, 8.875. 7, Leonardo Gonzalez, COL, 8.375. 8, Mutsumi Harada, JPN, 8.200.
High Bar — 1, Bret Hudson, AUS, 9.700. 2, Brennon Dowrick, AUS, 9.500. 3, Xing Aowei, CHN, 9.475. 4, Mutsumi Harada, JPN, 9.425. 5, Kris Burley, CAN, 9.275. 6, Lu Bin, CHN, 8.700. 7, Roshan Amendra, CAN, 8.600. 8, Tatsuya Yamada, JPN, 8.550.
Women
Vault — 1, Vanessa Atler, Canyon Country, Calif., 9.456. 2, Brenda Magana, MEX, 9.299. 3, Veronique Leclerc, CAN, 9.012. 4, Huang Mandan, CHN, 8.750. 5, Peng Sha, CHN, 8.625. 6, Zeena McLaughlin, AUS, 8.069. 7, Melinda Cleland, AUS, 7.868. 8, Katie McAvoy, CAN, 7.731.
Uneven Bars — 1, Huang Mandan, CHN, 9.788. 2, Elise Ray, Rockville, Md., 9.738. 3, Rao Meizhen, CHN, 9.600. 4, Kristen Maloney, Pen Argyl, Pa., 9.537. 5, Zeena McLaughlin, AUS, 9.513. 6, Brooke Walker, AUS, 9.438. 7, Risa Sugawara, JPN, 9.400. 8, Akiko Kawai, JPN, 9.088.
Balance Beam — 1, Zeena McLaughlin, AUS, 9.537. 2, Melinda Cleland, AUS, 9.500. 3 (tie), Kristen Maloney, Pen Argyl, Pa., and Peng Sha, CHN, 9.475. 5, Lise Leveille, CAN, 9.412. 6, Sierra Sapunar, Wyoming, Ohio, 9.400. 7, Kana Yamawaki, JPN, 8.750. 8, Huang Mandan, CHN, 8.600.
Floor Exercise — 1, Vanessa Atler, Canyon Country, Calif., 9.762. 2, Zeena McLaughlin, AUS, 9.600. 3, Katie Rowland, CAN, 9.562. 4, Ann Maree Vallence, AUS, 9.550. 5, Rao Meizhen, CHN, 9.512. 6, Risa Sugawara, JPN, 9.462. 7 (tie), Sierra Sapunar, Wyoming, Ohio, and Kana Yamawaki, JPN, 9.450.