USA Wins Every Event They Compete In on Individual Finals Day at Pacific Rim Championships

The US cleaned up on Sunday at the Pacific Rim Championships with the only competition for gold medals coming from their teammates. In the women’s artistic events the US didn’t have a participant in the vault but won gold in other three events. Ashton Locklear took gold in the uneven bars with a 15.625, nearly a full point ahead of second place Larissa Miller of Australia. Brenna Dowell took fifth with a 14.000. Ragan Smith was the gold medalist on the balance beam as her 15.225 held off the 15.100 of teammate Aly Raisman. Raisman would get her gold though on the floor as her score of 15.100 was tops with Dowell coming in second at 14.825.

On the men’s side five different Americans won gold with Donnell Whittenburg winning two. He won gold in the parallel bars with a small margin of 15.800 to 15.750 over Weifeng Cal of China. John Orozco was fourth with a 15.375. His other gold came on the rings where his 15.925 provided a more comfortable 0.600 margin over teammate Orozco. Orozco would win gold himself on the horizontal bars with a 15.400 with Naoki Yamane of Japan back in second at 14.650. Whittenburg would be sixth with a 13.600.

Also winning gold for the US was Eddie Penev on the vault with a slim margin of 15.100 to 15.075 over Whittenburg, Alex Naddour on pommel horse with a 15.650 as teammate Sam Mikulak scored at 14.950, and Jacob Dalton with a close win on the floor 15.625 to 15.525 over Penev.

 

Finally in rhythmic gymnastics the US had the top two in all four events with Aliya Protto winning three golds alone. Protto would win gold over Camilla Feeley by a score of 17.316 to 16.616 with the hoop and narrowly 17.033 to 17.016 with the ball. She also won gold over Brigita Budginas with the clubs 16.900 to 15.783. Feeley did win gold with the ribbon as she scored a 17.200 to Protto’s 17.050.

 

There is an Olympic test event down in Rio on April 16th but US Olympic Trials are not until June 23rd-26th for the men and July 8th-10th for the women.

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