COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Led by a double-gold-medal performance by junior national champion Marline Stephens (Houston, Texas), the United States claimed four individual event gold medals as competition concluded at the 1997 Junior Pacific Alliance Championships at the U.S. Olympic Training Center here Saturday.
Artistic Gymnastics Individual Finals
Junior Pacific Alliance Championships
Sports Center I, U.S. Olympic Training Center
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Sept. 27, 1997
Women
Vault
1, Marline Stephens, Houston, Texas, 9.274. 2, Lise Leveille, Canada, 8.987. 2, Lin Wan-Chen, Chinese Taipei, 8.987. 2, Laura Robertson, New Zealand, 8.987. 5, Kristen Thome, Sugar Land, Texas, 8.899. 6, Trudy McIntosh, Australia, 8.831. 7, Kana Yamawaki, Japan, 8.650. 8, Daniela Cepeda, Mexico, 8.456. 9, Tsai Min-Hsiu, Chinese Taipei, 8.406
Uneven Bars
1, Sierra Sapunar, Sebastopol, Calif., 9.337. 2, Brooke Walker, Australia, 8.812. 3, Julie Beaulieu, Canada, 8.737. 4, Carri Nagle, Whitehall, Pa., 8.700. 5, Chiharu Machida, Japan, 8.437. 6, Sarah Drovandi, Australia, 8.275. 7, Alethia Boon, New Zealand, 8.000. 8, Laura Robertson, New Zealand, 7.950. 9, Kana Yamawaki, Japan, 6.850
Balance Beam
1, Lise Leveille, Canada, 9.312. 2, Kana Yamawaki, Japan, 9.050. 3, Brooke Walker, Australia, 8.925. 4, Pia Adelle Reyes, Philippines, 8.887. 5, Trudy McIntosh, Australia, 8.762. 6, Carri Nagle, Whitehall, Pa., 8.725. 7, Chiharu Machida, Japan, 8.587. 8, Marline Stephens, Houston, Texas, 8.062. 9, Leidy Viviana, Colombia, 7.762
Floor Exercise
1, Marline Stephens, Houston, Texas, 9.462. 2, Sierra Sapunar, Sebastopol, Calif., 9.175. 3, Brooke Walker, Australia, 8.937. 4, Trudy McIntosh, Australia, 8.912. 5, Lise Leveille, Canada, 8.825. 6, Chiharu Machida, Japan, 8.775. 7, Laura Robertson, New Zealand, 8.400. 8, Brittany Smith, Houston, Texas, 7.537. 9, Kana Yamawaki, Japan, 7.250
Men
Floor Exercise
1, Naoya Tabara, Japan, 8.575. 2, Hsu Wei-Hsun, Chinese Taipei, 8.500. 3, Hsu Chao-Hung, Chinese Taipei, 8.450. 3, Ryoichi Yoshida, Japan, 8.450. 5, Dan Headecker, Canada, 8.325. 6, Jorge Hugo Giraldo, Colombia, 8.250. 7, Anthony Petrocelli, Astoria, N.Y., 8.150. 8, Jonathan Plante, Easton, Pa., 7.750
Pommel Horse
1, Takehiro Kashima, Japan, 9.550. 2, Ryoichi Yoshida, Japan, 8.850. 3, Freddie Umali, San Jose, Calif., 8.375. 4, Philippe Rizzo, Australia, 8.350. 5, Jonathan Plante, Easton, Pa., 8.250. 6, Ken Ikeda, Canada, 7.975. 7, Michael Barrow, Australia, 7.850. 8, Kris Krunick, Canada, 7.450
Still Rings
1, Rafael Garcia, Mexico, 8.050. 2, Freddie Umali, San Jose, Calif., 8.000. 3, Philippe Rizzo, Australia, 7.925. 4, Scott Lang, Canada, 7.850. 4, Kunikazu Matsumura, Japan, 7.850. 6, Kojiro Yanagi, Japan, 7.600. 7, Anthony Petrocelli, Astoria, N.Y., 7.300. 8, Adrian Looney, Australia, 7.200
Vault
1, Rafael Garcia, Mexico, 9.150. 2, Anthony Petrocelli, Astoria, N.Y., 8.950. 2, Julio Garcia, Mexico, 8.950. 4, Naoya Tabara, Japan, 8.925. 5, Roel Ramirez, Philippines, 8.875. 6, Yip Kwok Yan, Hong Kong, 8.775. 7, Kunikazu Matsumura, Japan, 8.750. 8, Freddie Umali, San Jose, Calif., 8.550
Parallel Bars
1, Freddie Umali, San Jose, Calif., 8.650. 2, Kojiro Yanagi, Japan, 8.575. 3, Ryoichi Yoshida, Japan, 8.200. 4, Adrian Looney, Australia, 8.075. 5, Philippe Rizzo, Australia, 8.050. 6, Anthony Petrocelli, Astoria, N.Y., 7.950. 7, Jorge Hugo Giraldo, Colombia, 7.900. 8, Hsu Chao-Hung, Chinese Taipei, 6.400.
High Bar
1, Takehiro Kashima, Japan, 8.600. 2, Ian Barlett, Australia, 8.400. 2, Kojiro Yanagi, Japan, 8.400. 4, Freddie Umali, San Jose, Calif., 8.300. 5, Anthony Petrocelli, Astoria, N.Y., 7.550. 6, Philippe Rizzo, Australia, 6.950. 7, Julio Garcia, Mexico, 6.550. 8, Jorge Hugo Giraldo, Colombia, 5.900