Armenia’s Artur Davtyan vaults to fifth consecutive gold at World Cup of Cair

For the fifth consecutive time in the history of the competition, four-time Olympian Artur Davtyan won gold on vault at the World Cup of Cairo that ended Monday.

AIN gymnast Daniel Marinov earned gold on floor exercise. Born December 17, 2004, Bulgaria, he finished seventh all-around, third on parallel bars, seventh on vault and eighth on horizontal bar at last year’s World Championships in Jakarta.

China’s Li Hongyan claimed gold on horizontal bar. Li, a 23-year-old native of Sichuan, placed 13th all-around and sixth on parallel bars at the 2019 Junior World Championships in Gyor, and fourth on horizontal bar at last year’s World Cup of Osijek. He was a member of China’s gold medal-winning squad at last month’s American Cup.

The other men’s winners were defending champion Hamlet Manukyan of Armenia on pommel horse, Eleftherios Petrounias of Greece on still rings and Liu Yang of China on parallel bars.

In the women’s competition, Kaylia Nemour of Algeria finished first on uneven bars, even with a fall, and followed up with gold on balance beam. She won the same two events at last year’s competition.

Spain’s Laia Font placed first on vault. Born February 20, 2007, in Gironella, she placed 22nd all-around at the 2025 World Championships in Jakarta and sixth on vault at the 2025 European Championships in Leipzig. Font took bronze on vault at last month’s World Cup of Antalya, where she was fourth on floor exercise, sixth on uneven bars and sixth on balance beam.

Ke Qinqin of China took gold on floor exercise and silver on balance beam. Ke, a 15-year-old from Hubei, was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese team at last month’s American Cup mixed team competition in Nevada.

2026 World Cup of Cairo
April 3-6

Women:

Vault:

1. Laia Font ESP 13.533
2. Hillary Heron PAN 13.499
3. Yu Linmin CHN 13.349

Uneven Bars:

1. Kaylia Nemour ALG 14.033
2. Jiang Shuting CHN 13.700
3. Lucija Hribar SLO 13.100

Balance Beam:

1. Kaylia Nemour ALG 14.266
2. Ke Qinqin CHN 14.166
3. Qiu Qiyuan CHN 12.833

Floor Exercise:

1. Ke Qinqin CHN 12.966
2. Hillary Heron PAN 12.933
3. Laia Font ESP 12.900

Men:

Floor Exercise:

1. Daniel Marinov AIN 14.233
2. Arsenii Dukhno AIN 14.133
3. Karl Yulo PHI 14.000

Pommel Horse:

1. Hamlet Manukyan ARM 14.800
2. Zeinolla Idrissov KAZ 14.566
3. Nariman Kurbanov KAZ 14.566*

*tie broken by Idrissov’s higher Execution score

Still Rings:

1. Eleftherios Petrounias GRE 14.366
2. Artur Avetisyan ARM 14.300
3. Liu Yang CHN 13.866

Vault:

1. Artur Davtyan ARM 14.666
2. Assan Salimov KAZ 14.083
3. Jonas Danek CZE 14.016

Parallel Bars:

1. Liu Yang CHN 14.366
2. Mohamed Afify EGY 14.200
3. Arsenii Dukhno AIN 14.166

Horizontal Bar:

1. Li Hongyan CHN 14.200
2. Marios Georgiou CYP 13.900
3. Karl Yulo PHI 13.733