INDIANAPOLIS – All told, Vanessa Atler (Canyon Country, Calif.), Chris Young (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Trent Wells (Berkeley, Calif.) will bring home eight medals, including five gold, from the Australia Cup, which concluded in Melbourne, Australia, earlier today.

Atler won a total of three golds, claiming the all-around title and individual event medals in vault and floor exercise. On the floor, Atler scored a 9.763, easily outdistancing Australia’s Allana Slater’s 9.587. In vault, she posted a 9.612, surpassing Australian Trudy McIntosh, who took the silver with a 9.543.
Young, a member of the men’s resident training program at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, will bring home the most hardware with a total of four medals. He won gold in a low-scoring floor exercise event with an 8.900, edging past Spain’s Jesus Carballo, who had an 8.850. Young added silvers in vault and pommel horse and a bronze on high bar.
Wells, who was a member of the 1997 NCAA team champion squad at California, earned the gold in parallel bars with a 9.400, surpassing Carballo’s 9.300 for the silver.
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Australia Cup, Melbourne, Australia
Nov. 8, 1998

Women’s Results
Individual Event Finals

Vault
1, Vanessa Atler, Canyon Country, Calif., 9.612. 2, Trudy McIntosh, Australia, 9.543. 3, Yuliya Korostelova, Russia, 9.356. 4, Nina Kartseva, Russia, 9.212. 5, Alona Palazkova, Belarus, 8.987. 6, Fan Wen, China, 8.912. 7, Melinda Cleland, Australia, 8.718. 8, Liu Wei, China, 7.943.

Uneven Bars
1, Yuliya Korostelova, Russia, 9.587. 2, Allana Slater, Australia, 9.537. 3, Zeena McLaughlin, Australia, 9.525. 4, Alona Palazkova, Belarus, 9.337. 5, Sara Moro, Spain, 9.312. 6, Fan Wen, China, 9.262. 7, Yuliya Sabko, Belarus, 9.200. 8, Vanessa Atler, Canyon Country, Calif., 8.662.

Balance Beam
1, Trudy McIntosh, Australia, 9.725. 2, Zeena McLaughlin, Australia, 9.675. 3, Yuliya Korostelova, Russia, 9.637. 4, Fan Wen, China, 9.625. 5, Liu Wei, China, 9.500. 6, Alona Palazkova, Australia, 9.487. 7, Nina Kartseva, Russia, 9.337. 8, Vanessa Atler, Canyon Country, Calif., 8.775.

Floor Exercise
1, Vanessa Atler, Canyon Country, Calif., 9.763. 2, Allana Slater, Australia, 9.587. 3, Yuliya Sabko, Belarus, 9.512. 4, Sara Moro, Spain, 9.387. 5, Alona Palazkova, Belarus, 9.375. 6, Nina Kartseva, Russia, 9.312. 7, Zeena McLaughlin, Australia, 9.125. 8, Fan Wen, China, 9.100.


Men’s Results
Individual Event Finals

Floor Exercise
1, Chris Young, Winston-Salem, N.C., 8.900. 2, Jesus Carballo, Spain, 8.850. 3, Daniel Grigson, Australia, 8.500. 4, Li Dezhi, China, 8.250. 5, Adrian Looney, Australia, 8.100. 6, Dmitri Kaspiarovich, Belarus, 7.700. 7, Victor Cano, Spain, 7.550.

Pommel Horse
1, Vitali Fedotov, Russia, 9.400. 2, Chris Young, Winston-Salem, N.C., 9.200. 3, Lui Jinyu, China, 9.100. 4, Trent Wells, Berkeley, Calif., 9.050. 5, Bret Hudson, Australia, 9.000. 6, Li Dezhi, China, 8.800. 7, Victor Cano, Spain, 8.700. 8, Dmitri Kaspiarovich, Belarus, 8.650.

Still Rings
1, Jesus Carballo, Spain, 9.575. 2, Renat Murtazov, Russia, 9.450. 3, Dmitri Kaspiarovich, Belarus, 9.375. 4, Daniel Grigson, Australia, 8.825. 5, Chris Young, Winston-Salem, N.C., 8.500. 6, Vitali Fedotov, Russia, 8.350. 7, Victor Cano, Spain, 8.250. 8, Trent Wells, Berkeley, Calif., 5.500.

Vault
1, Bret Hudson, Australia, 9.250. 2, Chris Young, Winston-Salem, N.C., 9.100. 3, Victor Cano, Spain, 9.025. 4, Dmitri Kaspiarovich, Belarus, 8.850. 5, Murtazov, Russia, 8.850. 6, Adrian Looney, Australia, 8.525. 7, Trent Wells, Berkeley, Calif., 0.100.

Parallel Bars
1, Trent Wells, Berkeley, Calif., 9.400. 2, Jesus Carballo, Spain, 9.300. 3, Bret Hudson, Australia, 9.250. 4, Lui Jinyu, China, 9.150. 5, Chris Young, Winston-Salem, N.C., 9.100. 6, Daniel Grigson, Australia, 9.000. 7, Vitali Fedotov, Russia, 8.650. 8, Li Dezhi, China, 8.600.

High Bar
1, Jesus Carballo, Spain, 9.525. 2, Bret Hudson, Australia, 9.350. 3, Chris Young, Winston-Salem, N.C., 9.200. 4, Vitali Fedotov, Russia, 9.000. 5, Victor Cano, Spain, 8.700. 6, Dmitri Kaspiarovich, Belarus, 8.550. 7, Trent Wells, Berkeley, Calif., 8.500. 8, Daniel Grigson, Australia, 6.850.