2020 Winter Cup: Final results, National Team named

The 2020 Winter Cup Challenge wrapped on Saturday evening in Las Vegas, following an exciting two days of competition.

This meet serves as a National Team qualification event as well as a good warmup to start the elite season.

On day 2 of Winter Cup, event champions (seniors) and all-around and event medalists (juniors) were crowned. In addition, the initial 2020 U.S. Men’s Senior National Team was announced in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Note: The top 6 senior all-round athletes from prelims automatically earned National Team spots.

Read on for day 2 results, video of the winning routines, and the national team announcement. Click here for day 1 results.

Results

Senior All-Around & Senior Event

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Senior All-Around Top 6 (Automatic National Team Qualifiers)

1. Sam Mikulak (USOPTC) – 86.800
2. Shane Wiskus (Minnesota) – 84.550
3. Brody Malone (Stanford) – 83.950
4. Grant Breckenridge (Stanford) – 83.900
5. 5T Yul Moldauer (Oklahoma) – 82.350
6. 5T Allan Bower (Oklahoma) – 82.350

Senior Event Winners (By Combined Two-Day Event Score)

• Floor Exercise: Gage Dyer (Oklahoma) – 29.050
• Pommel Horse: Alec Yoder (Ohio State) – 30.0
• Still Rings: Alex Diab (Illinois) – 29.450
• Vault: Yul Moldauer (Oklahoma) – 28.80
• Parallel Bars: Sam Mikulak (USOPTC) – 29.40
• High Bar: Colin Van Wicklen (Oklahoma) – 27.60

Junior All-Around & Junior Event

Junior All-Around Podium

1. Fuzzy Benas (EnRich) – 157.850
2. Asher Hong (Cypress) – 156.650
3. Fred Richard (MEGA MA) – 155.80

Junior Event Winners

• Floor Exercise: Matt Cormier (MEGA MA) – 27.9
• Pommel Horse: Zachary Nunez (Cypress) – 27.050
• Still Rings: Fuzzy Benas (EnRich) – 27.50
• Vault: Brandon Nguyen (EGA) – 28.90
• Parallel Bars: Zachary Nunez (Cypress) – 26.350
• High Bar: Fred Richard (MEGA MA) – 25.650

Winning Routines

2020 U.S. Men’s Senior National Team

• Allan Bower (Automatic Qualifier)
• Grant Breckenridge (AQ)
• Trevor Howard (Petition – Illness)
• Paul Juda
• Brody Malone (AQ)
• Sam Mikulak (AQ)
• Akash Modi
• Yul Moldauer (AQ)
• Stephen Nedoroscik (Petition – Melbourne World Cup Pommel Horse Champion)
• Colin Van Wicklen
• Donnell Whittenburg (Petition – Injury)
• Shane Wiskus (AQ)

For the senior division, all-around ranking was determined on the first day of competition and individual event champions were determined via a combined two-day score. For the junior division, all-around ranking and individual event champions were determined via a combined two-day score.