Last years champions, Koko Tsurumi & Kohei Uchimura defended their titles in style, cementing their status nationally and making a statement about the readiness of the deep japanese teams to challenge at the upcoming world championships, hopefully in Tokyo.
Uchimura, the 2009 and 2010 World all around champion posted the highest score recorded under the current scoring system in the first round of competition. It was also great to see Tsurumi perform upto standard, she had a difficult worlds in Rotterdam and could not live upto the promise she showed in 2009 in London.
The consistency of high scores in both the male and female results though are perhaps the greatest testament to the resilience and quality of the Japanese gymnasts. Compete to the same level in October and they should have no trouble qualifying teams to the Olympics.
Full Results - International Gymnast
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