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Victor Bolorunduro
Doha
The curtains were drawn on the 10th FIG Artistic Gymnastics Individual Apparatus World Cup with Chinese gymnasts carrying the day after claiming gold in four of the five events held at the Aspire Dome in Doha on Saturday.
China finished tops of the competition with five gold with Luo Huan's giving them their first gold in the four-day championship in the uneven bars on Friday.
Liu Tingting, who surprisingly was condemned to the fourth position in the uneven bars on Friday, bounced back in grand style on the last day of the competition to claim gold in all the two women final events of the day.
The 16-year-old Tingting eviscerated a field which included Australia's Emily Little, Romania's Catalina Ponor and Hungary 's Zsofia Kovacs among others to grab her first gold of the day in the balance beam apparatus with 14.466 points.
Saturday's gold in the event was her second successive in the World Cup series as she also won at the first leg held in Melbourne, Australia.
Tingting, who is one of the rising stars in world gymnastics, had one of the best performances of the day as she displaced Ponor, a five-time Olympic medalist, to the second position.
The 29-year-old Ponor, a triple gold medallist at the 2004 Athens Olympics, had 13.900 points while third-placed Huan Luo of China garnered 13.700 points.
A few hours after her first performance, Tingting was back on the canvass again for the second and final event of the day for the women the floor exercise.
The petite lady from Guangdong, who is also the 2015 China junior national all-around champion, was once again on fire as she gave a performance worthy of a champion she is to win her second gold of the night with 13.366 points.
Australia's Little could only managed the second position with 13.133 points performance while Croatia's Ana Derek completed the podium finish with 12.900.
Hungary 's Zsofia Kovacs missed bronze by a whisker (12.633) followed by Turkey's Goksu Sanli Uktas (12.600), Czech Republic's Vendula Merkova 12.433 and Adela Merkova (12.300).
The 41-year-old Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan, the oldest athlete at the competition surprisingly finished last (12.266).
It was a contrasting performance to the one she gave on Friday for Chusovitina, a 1992 Olympic team gold medalist, where she won the gold in the vault as her performance on the day fell short of the expectations the fans have, especially after dominating the vault apparatus.
"I'm happy with my performance and for winning these two gold here. I will continue to work on myself and not relent because I believe that greater things lie ahead of me. I've enjoyed the championship and I'm looking forward to the next," the excited Tingting said after her triumph.
In the men's event, the Chinese duo of Ruoteng Xiao and Zhou Jingyuan gave their country the gold medal in their respective apparatus.
While Xiao was the winner in the horizontal bar with 14.533 points, Jingyuan, on the other hand, was the clear leader in the parallel bars after scoring an impressive 15.900 points. Xiao had earlier claimed the silver in pommel horse on Friday to take his medal tally to two.
He piped Tin Sribic of Croatia (14.400) to the second position while Switzerland's Christian Baumann finished third with 14.166 points.
For Jingyuan, Saturday's gold also took his medal tally to two as he had earlier won won a bronze in the rings on the first day of the finals.
Germany's Marcel Nguyen came second (15.066) on the day while Switzerland's Pablo Braegger finished third (14.800).
Turkey's Ferhat Arican was fourth (14.766) followed by Vietnam's Hung Phuoc Pham (14.600) and Thanh Phuong Dinh (14.466), Lithuania's Tomas Kuzmickas (13.966) and Armenia's Artur Davytan (13.900).
Meanwhile, Vietnam's Thanh Tung Le had a perfect landing to win the men's vault final with 14.733 points.
Armenia's Artur Davytan, a crowd favourite, had an excellent execution, but could not match Thanh and came second with 14.433 while Finland's Heikki Saarenketo (14.366) finished third. Germany's Felix Remuta (14.283) was fourth followed by Turkey's Ferhat Arican (14.266).
