[Titan Road News]Hong Kong gymnast Shi Weixiong competed in the third World Cup leg in Baku, Azerbaijan today (10th). In the men’s vault final, he scored 14.866 points, beating British player Harry Hepworth with the same score in the higher difficulty score. Get the silver medal. According to preliminary calculations, Shi Weixiong will be promoted to second place in the Olympic standings after completing this race. With only one World Cup race left, the situation for the three Olympic Games will improve.
Shi Weixiong, who advanced to the first place in the preliminary round last Friday with a high score of 14.916 points, will appear in the final after a day of rest. “Shi Zai” once again used an action with a difficulty score of 6.0 as the first jump and obtained an execution score of 8.966. The second jump had an execution score of 9.166 with a difficulty score of 5.6. The average score of the two jumps was 14.886 points. Although his points were the same as Harry Hepworth’s, “Stone” was able to outdo his opponent and win the silver medal because of his better difficulty points. Ukraine’s Nazar Chepurnyi won the championship with 14.900 points.
(Picture: Shi Weixiong Facebook)
Since Nazar Chepurnyi, the Ukrainian representative who won the gold medal, has already qualified for the Olympics through the team competition, preliminary calculations indicate that the second-placed “Shizi” can obtain the highest 30 Olympic points in this station, and together with the same score in the first station, he will receive a total of 60 points. As for Mahdi Olfati, the Iranian representative who ranks first in the Olympic standings, he only ranked ninth in the preliminary round of this station and only scored 12 Olympic points. After completing three rounds, he scored 62 points and still beat “Stone” to rank first. Although Chinese Taipei’s Tsang Wei-sheng could only score “fourth”, because the third-placed British Harry Hepworth also had an Olympic ticket, he scored 25 points and overcame James Bacueti of Australia with 43 points to take the third place in the standings.
The World Cup’s Olympic points will only be calculated for the best three of the four races. As long as “Stone” gets on the podium at the Qatar race next month, he will almost certainly become one of the two representatives to qualify for the Olympics.
This article is written by “Sportsroad“Originally published in “Gymnastics｜Shi Weixiong, Azerbaijan wins silver medal, strives for better Olympic situation in three games」
2024-03-10 11:51:32
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