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US women lead at gymnastic worlds
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-11-24 14:11

Set to salsa music, Dos Santos smoldered her way through a virtually flawless routine that enraptured the small crowd, who produced the loudest cheer of the first session when the 22-year-old finished.

"I took a couple of steps on one of my landings so I can improve but I'm happy with that," she said.

Athens triple gold medallist Catalina Ponor is in danger of missing the top-eight qualifiers for the weekend's floor final after recording 9.200 to stand ninth with the last sub-divisions still to come.

She could still make the final as Memmel is fifth on the floor, but is the third-ranked American. Only two competitors from one country can contest an individual apparatus final.

Romania's Ponor, Olympic beam champion, ended her routine on that apparatus with a double back somersault and led qualification with a score of 9.562.

China's Cheng Fei produced two superbly-executed new vaults for scores of 9.662 and 9.600 respectively to lead the vault competition with an average of 9.631.


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