China claim four golds on the opening day of FIG World Cup finals
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Yang Liu of China during qualification of 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Cottbus, Germany, November 22, 2018. /VCG Photo

Yang Liu of China during qualification of 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Cottbus, Germany, November 22, 2018. /VCG Photo

November 23 saw the finals of five events at the 2019 FIG Individual Apparatus World Cup in Cottbus, Germany, in which Chinese athletes claimed four titles in hang rings, uneven bars, pommel horse, and vault.

In men's hang rings final, Liu Yang outscored Eleftherios Petrounias of Greece with 15.133. Having captured three World Cup titles, Liu Yang's ticket to the Tokyo Olympics is guaranteed unless Petrounias earns all three golds in the last three World Cups of the season. Armenia's Artur Avetisyan won bronze.

In women's uneven bars final, Fan Yilin claimed gold with 14.800, while another Chinese athlete Yin Sisi won bronze. Silver went to Russia's Anastasiia Agafonova.

Yu Linmin of China had an average score of 14.649 with her two attempts in the women's vault final and beat Slovenia's Teja Belak, earning her first World Cup gold. Yesenia Ferrera of Cuba earned bronze. 

Fan Yilin of China competes on the uneven bars during the individual apparatus finals of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships on October 7, 2017, Montreal, Canada. /VCG Photo

Fan Yilin of China competes on the uneven bars during the individual apparatus finals of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships on October 7, 2017, Montreal, Canada. /VCG Photo

China's Weng Hao earned 15.000 in men's pommel horse final and won gold over Japan's Kaito Imabayashi by 0.033. Ukraine's Oleg Verniaiev, the 2016 Rio Olympics parallel bars champion, finished third on 14.866. China's Tan Di ranked seventh.

The men's floor event saw Japanese athlete Minami Kazuki winning gold, with Rayderley Zapata of Spain and Hayden Skinner of Britain winning 2nd and 3rd places.

The competition will conclude on November 25, and will see finals of five other events that day, including men's parallel bars, men's horizontal bar, men's balance beam, men's vault, and women's floor, among which Chinese athletes are not involved in in the last two.