Ilya Kovtun became the best in parallel bars exercises.
Ukrainian Ilya Kovtun won the gold medal at the World Cup in artistic gymnastics in Baku (Azerbaijan).
20-year-old Ukrainian athlete became the best in parallel bars exercises, scoring 14,900 points.
In the fight for gold, our compatriot beat the current Olympic champion in this discipline, Chinese Zou Jinyuan (14,900), and Colombian Angel Barajas (14,700) completed the top three ).
Another Ukrainian Oleg Vernyaev took 5th place with a score of 14.566 points.
We would like to add that at the end of February Kovtunwon “gold” in exercises on parallel bars at the World Cup stage in Cottbus, Germany, and Vernyaev became a silver medalist.
Before this, both Ukrainians choseawards at the World Cup stage in Egyptian Cairo: Kovtun won gold on parallel bars, Vernyaev finished the competition with silver.
It was previously reported that, despite the permission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Russians will not compete at the Olympics -2024 in artistic gymnastics.