Tumbling to glory
Tumbling to glory
Israel snags bronze at World Cup
First place shared by US and Romania
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World bronze medalist Alexander Shatilov (photo credit: CC BY-SA Noaa, Wikimedia Commons)
Israeli gymnast Alexander Shatilov nabbed a bronze medal at the World Cup in Zibo, China on Sunday.
The Uzbek-born Shatilov competed on the floor exercise and finished with a score of 15.3 points, beating, among others, the 2010 world silver medalist Eleftherios Kosmidis of Greece.
First place was shared by Steve Le Gendre (USA) and Flavius Koczi (Romania).
Shatilov’s achievement cemented his place as one of the best gymnasts in the world on the apparatus, and gave the Olympic Committee of Israel great hope for a similar or better result at the upcoming Olympic Games in London this summer.
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