Postell Earns Beam Gold and Floor Silver; Townsend Wins Parallel Bars Silver
Indianapolis – The U.S. Team brought home three medals, including one gold and two silver, from the 2001 Glasgow Grand Prix that took place December 15 and 16 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Ashley Postell
(Mitchellville, Md./Capital GTC) earned the balance beam gold medal and the floor exercise silver while 2001 World Parallel Bars Champion Sean Townsend (Houston, Texas/Houston Gymnastics Academy) took the silver on parallel bars.
Also competing for the United States was Courtney Kupets (Gaithersburg, Md./Hill’s Gymnastics) who took fourth on vault, sixth on beam and seventh on floor. Todd Thornton (Houston, Texas/Houston Gymnastics Academy) finished fifth on vault and sixth on floor. Postell also placed sixth on vault while Townsend was fourth on still rings.
“USA Gymnastics continues to make a positive impression internationally,” said Bob Colarossi, President of USA Gymnastics. “I look forward to another strong year in 2002.”

Women’s Results

VAULT
1. Oksana Chusovitina UZB 9.437
2. Verona van de Leur NED 9.200
3. Jana Komrskova CZE 9.162
4. Courtney Kupets USA 9.037
4. Gabriella Wammes NED 9.037
6. Ashley Postell USA 9.012
7. Katja Abel GER 8.975
8. Emma Williams GBR 8.800
UNEVEN BARS
1. Oksana Chusovitina UZB 9.100
2. Yevgenia Kuznetsova BUL 8.925
2. Verona van de Leur NED 8.925
4. Courtney Kupets USA 8.800
5. Katerina Maresova CZE 8.675
6. Jana Komrskova CZE 8.300
7. Birgit Schweigert GER 8.250
8. Nicola Willis GBR 8.200
BALANCE BEAM
1. Ashley Postell USA 8.825
2. Verona van de Leur NED 8.775
3. Oksana Chusovitina UZB 8.650
4. Katja Abel GER 8.575
6. Courtney Kupets USA 8.500
6. Gabriella Wammes NED 8.425
6. Jana Komrskova CZE 8.425
8. Yevgenia Kuznetsova BUL 7.900
FLOOR EXERCISE
1. Verona van de Leur NED 9.125
2. Ashley Postell USA 9.075
3. Yevgenia Kuznetsova BUL 8.925
4. Oksana Chusovitina UZB 8.900
5. Nicola Willis GBR 8.600
6. Katja Abel GER 8.550
7. Courtney Kupets USA 8.500
8. Karolina Bohman SWE 8.300

Men’s Results

FLOOR EXERCISE
1. Igors Vihrovs LAT 9.750
2. Yevgeny Sapronenko LAT 9.725
2. Jordan Jovtchev BUL 9.725
4. Kyle Shewfelt CAN 9.675
5. Dmitry Karbanenko FRA 9.575
6. Todd Thornton USA 9.225
7. Alexander Jeltkov CAN 9.075
8. Alexander Beresch UKR 8.950
POMMEL HORSE
1. Marius Urzica ROM 10.00
2. Dmitry Karbanenko FRA 9.575
3. Alexander Beresch UKR 9.525
4. Thomas Zimmermann AUT 9.400
5. Sven Kwiatkowski GER 9.175
6. Runar Alexandersson ISL 9.050
7. Ioan Suciu ROM 8.975
8. Levente Fekete HUN 8.600
STILL RINGS
1. Jordan Jovtchev BUL 9.850
2. Olli Torkkel FIN 9.474
3. Stephan Zapf GER 9.325
4. Sean Townsend USA 9.300
5. Scott Mirceta GBR 9.250
6. Levente Fekete HUN 9.225
7. Mark Freeman GBR 8.800
8. Kevin Bachmann SUI 8.625
VAULT
1. Dmitry Karbanenko FRA 9.475
1. Yevgeny Sapronenko LAT 9.475
3. Ioan Suciu ROM 9.412
4. Kyle Shewfelt CAN 9.337
5. Todd Thornton USA 9.312
6. Michael Hjorth SWE 9.225
7. Robert Gal HUN 9.212
8. Dmitry Kasperovich BLR 9.175
PARALLEL BARS
1. Andreu Vivo ESP 9.750
2. Sean Townsend USA 9.575
3. Jordan Jovtchev BUL 9.275
4. Dmitry Karbanenko FRA 9.200
5. Aljaz Pegan SLO 9.100
6. Marius Urzica ROM 8.950
7. Blaz Puljic SLO 8.850
8. David Spilka CZE 8.100
HIGH BAR
1. Jari Monkkonen FIN 9.775
2. Andreu Vivo ESP 9.650
3. Alexander Jeltkov CAN 9.625
4. Marius Urzica ROM 9.550
5. Sven Kwiatkowski GER 9.400
6. Aljaz Pegan SLO 9.200
7. Alexander Beresch UKR 9.100
8. Philippe Rizzo AUS 8.500