Live Blog: Senior Men | 2024 Winter Cup

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 8:51 p.m.

Men’s Senior National Team:

• Yul Moldauer
• Fred Richard
• Paul Juda
• Khoi Young
• Asher Hong
• Colt Walker
• Shane Wiskus
• Riley Loos
• Cameron Bock
• Fuzzy Benas
• Donnell Whittenburg
• Curran Phillips
• Patrick Hoopes
• Brody Malone
• Taylor Burkhart
• Josh Karnes
• Jeremy Bischoff

Senior Developmental Team:

• Kai Uemura
• Landen Blixt

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 8:35 p.m.

Event titles:

Floor: Yul Moldauer (28.8)

Pommel horse: Patrick Hoopes (29.6)

Still rings: Alex Diab (29.2)

Vault: Kameron Nelson (27.675)

Parallel bars: Curran Phillips (32.05)

High bar: Curran Phillips (28.6)

All around: Yul Moldauer (169.75)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 8:05 p.m.

Yul Moldauer claims back-to-back Winter Cup wins!

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 8:03 p.m.

Curran Phillips has an electric high bar routine, including five release moves (Cassina, Kolman, Straight Tkachev, straddle and piked Tkachev combined) and a stuck lay double double dismount for a 14.3 to claim to the high bar title!

Donnell Whittenburg’s insane strength and control on rings to end the meet guarantees him a spot on the National Team with a 14.65.

Score updates:

• Shane Wiskus 13.7 (high bar)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 7:56p.m.

Yul Moldauer leads off the sixth rotation on rings – hitting his rings routine and sticking his tuck double-double dismount for a 14.2, all but claiming the All-Around title!

Cameron Bock has a solid routine for a 13.75 on pommel horse.

Shane Wiskus catches his Cassina, Kolman, and Tkachev sequence, finishing with a stuck lay 1/2 1/2 dismount.

Score updates:

• Riley Loos 14.0 (vault)
• Fuzzy Benas 13.6 (rings)
• Jeremy Bischoff 13.7 (vault)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 7:43p.m.

End of Fifth Rotation. Event Leaders:

• Floor: Yul Moldauer (28.8)
• Pommel horse: Patrick Hoopes (29.6)
• Still rings: Alex Diab (29.2)
• Vault: Kameron Nelson (27.0)
• Parallel bars: Curran Phillips (32.05)
• High bar: Jeremy Bischoff (27.9)
• All around: Yul Moldauer (155.55)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 7:36p.m.

Ignacio Yockers has a beautiful horse routine before falling on the dismount.

Brody Malone sticks his double pike dismount to cap off an awesome parallel bars routine for a 15.0

Score updates:

• Cameron Bock 13.6 (floor)
• Riley Loos 14.2 (rings)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 7:29 p.m.

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 7:18 p.m.

End of Fourth Rotation. Event Leaders:

• Floor: Yul Moldauer (28.8)
• Pommel horse: Patrick Hoopes (29.6)
• Rings: Alex Diab (29.2)
• Vault: Kameron Nelson (27.0)
• Parallel bars: Yul Moldauer (30.4)
• High bar: Jeremy Bischoff (27.9)
• All Around: Yul Moldauer (141.8)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 7:12 p.m.

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 7:07 p.m.

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 7:00 p.m.

Paul Juda not competing due to elbow discomfort, said he wants to rest up for the rest of the year.

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 6:53 p.m.

End of third rotation. Event Leaders:

• Floor: Shane Wiskus (28.5)
• Pommel horse: Patrick Hoopes (29.6)
• Still rings: Alex Diab (29.2)
• Vault: Kameron Nelson (13.9)
• Parallel bars: Yul Moldauer (30.4)
• High bar: Jeremy Bischoff (27.9)
• All around: Yul Moldauer (127.4)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 6:50 p.m.

Shane hits rings, highlighted by a stuck tucked double-double dismount (13.9).

Josh Karnes joins the club and sticks his Kaz 3.2 on vault (14.4).

Score updates:

• Yul Moldauer 13.05 (high bar)
• Cameron Bock 13.55 (parallel bars)
• Fuzzy Benas 13.2 (high bar)
• Alex Diab 14.45 (rings)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 6:46 p.m.

Donnell Whittenburg catches Cassina, but misses a couple of handstands for a 13.1 on high bar

Yul Moldauer does not do the Cassina, but lands his triple-twisting double layout dismount on high bar.

Cameron Bock has small mistake on parallel bars.

Score updates:

• Josh Karnes 14.05 (vault)
• Taylor Burkhart 13.35 (floor)
• Jack Freeman 13.3 (high bar)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 6:40 p.m.

Brody Malone’s adds maltese press to planche to ring routine, followed by inverted cross, and lands his tuck 1/2 1/2 dismount to put up a 14.05!

Alex Diab’s 6.1 D-score on rings is capped with a stuck lay 1/2 1/2 dismount.

Score updates:

• Riley Loos 13.6 (floor)
• Jeremy Bischoff 13.4 (floor)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 6:30 p.m.

Yul Moldauer pulls away from Shane Wiskus in the all-around with a 15.4 on parallel bars.

Gage Kile (Junior) lands triple back on floor but falls later in the routine.

Score updates:

• Fuzzy Benas 14.35 (parallel bars)
• Dallas Hale 14.5 (parallel bars)
• Jeremy Bischoff 13.9 (high bar)
• Taylor Burkhart 13.65 (high bar)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 6:30 p.m.

End of second rotation. Event leaders:

• Floor: Shane Wiskus (28.5)
• Pommel Horse: Patrick Hoopes (29.6)
• Still Rings: Javier Alfonso (28.65)
• Vault: Kameron Nelson (13.9)
• Parallel Bars: Yul Moldauer (30.4)
• High Bar: Jeremy Bischoff (27.9)
• All Around: Yul Moldauer (114.35)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 6:22 p.m.

Stephen Nedoroscik falls on Wu; scoring a 14.25 putting him second to Hoopes on horse.

Donnell Whittenburg improves one tenth from Day 1 to score a 14.25 on parallel bars.

Score updates:

• Riley Loos 13.5 (high bar)
• Cameron Bock 13.7 (vault)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 6:18 p.m.

Shane Wiskus gets through pommel horse, does not pirouette on dismount (12.25)

Brody Malone puts up a solid pommel horse routine (14.25)

Score updates:

• Taylor Christopulos 14.35 (vault)
• Fuzzy Benas 14.35 (parallel bars)
• Matt Cormier 13.1 (rings)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 6:14 p.m.

End of first rotation. Current Event leaders:

• Floor: Shane Wiskus (28.5)
• Pommel horse: Patrick Hoopes (29.6)
• Still rings: Javier Alfonso (28.65)
• Vault: Kameron Nelson (13.9)
• Parallel bars: Noah Newfeld (28.3)
• High bar: Curran Phillips (14.3)
• All Around: Yul Moldauer (98.95)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 6:04 p.m.

Shane Wiskus opens with a hit 13.95 on floor.

Patrick Hoopes hits horse with a 14.75, putting the pressure on Nedoroscik to hit.

Laid-out double-double from junior Danila Leykin (EVO) on high bar – 13.976 to win the junior high bar title.

Score updates:

• Riley Loos 13.25 (parallel bars)
• Brandon Nguyen 13.9 (parallel bars)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 5:58 p.m.

Kameron Nelson nails triple back (and floor routine)

Blake Sun falls on parallel bars.

Score updates:

• Cameron Bock 13.65 (rings)
• Donnell Whittenburg 13.55 (vault)
• Taylor Christopulos 13.45 (rings)

Sun. Feb. 25 @ 5:52 p.m.

Yul Moldauer (14.5) and Fuzzy Benas (14.4) both stick their Kaz 3/2’s to open Day 2!

Josh Karnes hits a solid 13.45 on pommel horse.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 3:53 p.m.

The Al-Around standings after Day 1:

1. Shane Wiskus: 84.850
2. Yul Moldauer: 84.450
3. Cameron Bock: 82.950
4. Taylor Christopulos: 81.900
5. Riley Loos: 81.800

Event Leaders after Day 1:

• Floor: Shane Wiskus 14.550
• Pommel: Stephen Nedoroscik 15.200
• Rings: Alex Diab 14.750
• Vault: Fuzzy Benas 14.650
• Parallel Bars: Curran Phillips 15.950
• High Bar: Curran Phillips 14.300

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 3:50 p.m.

Riley Loos drills a unique peach to 1 bar mount straight to healy. 14.100 score on the event for Loos

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 3:46 p.m.

Brody Malone finishes his day with a 41.650 score on 3-events including a fall on the rings. His Evo teammate, Curran Phillips puts up a massive 44.550 3-event score on day 1, holding the top score on 2 events.

Jeremy Bischoff beats out Fuzzy Benas scoring a 12.900 on the parallel bars.

Donnell Whittenburg stay on the High Bar to jump into the top-5 in All-Around. 12.650 score.

Javier Alfonso hits his rings routine to score 14.100 to close out the day.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 3:41 p.m.

Shane Wiskus drills his landings, sticking his final passes to seal the day-1 lead with a 14.550 score.

Score update:

• Ignacio Yockers: 14.250
• Joshua Karnes: 12.150

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 3:39 p.m.

Cameron Bock performs a clean ring set with a double twisting double back dismount for a 13.600 score.

Ian Gunther does not complete his parallel bar routine due to injury.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 3:37 p.m.

Connor McCool debuts new vault (Half on entry to front double full) but falls on the landing. McCool sticks his second vault (Kas 1.5).

Fuzzy Benas (Not Shown) had mistakes on his final event scoring a 12.150.

Yul Moldauer sticks his Kas 1.5 vault and finishes his day with a 14.350.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 3:28 p.m.

Heading into the final rotation, the top 5 in the All-Around include:

1. Shane Wiskus 70.300
2. Yul Moldauer 70.100
3. Cameron Bock 69.350
4. Taylor Christopulos 68.700
5. Donnell Whittenburg: 68.500

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 3:25 p.m.

Curran Phillips takes the lead on the High Bar with a 14.300.

Taylor Christopulos hits clean floor set to score 13.750 and puts himself back into the Top-5 in the All-Around.

Donnell Whittenburg drills his parallel bar dismount for a 14.150 score.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 3:22 p.m.

Shane Wiskus snags Cassina and Kolman on the High Bar and finishes the routine with a stuck dismount. Scores 13.850 to stay in the lead.

Curran Phillips takes out Liukin on the High Bar but performs clean Cassina, Kolman and sticks his double twisting double back dismount.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 3:18 p.m.

Fuzzy Benas stays clean on the floor exercise, landing triple full dismount with a small step. Delivers 13.400 score.

Riley Loos sticks front 2.5 vault to score 14.600.

Score Updates:

• Brandon Nguyen: 14.000 on Vault
• Garrett Braunton: 13.350 on Parallel Bars
• Landen Blixt: 13.250 on Pommel Horse

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 3:15 p.m.

Yul Moldauer performs clean uprise straight planche and unique Whip-It to Handstand on the rings. Scores 14.150 with a stuck double twisting double back dismount.

Score Updates:

• Jeremy Bischoff: 13.850 on Vault
• Ian Gunther: 13.100 on Vault
• Toby Liang: 13.250 on Floor
• Cameron Bock: 13.650 on Pommel Horse

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 3:12 p.m.

Taylor Burkhart opens the rotation with a half on entry on the vault with a double front twist off. Burkhard scores 14.650 which ties for the top score on the event.

Score Updates:

• Landen Blixt: 13.250 on Pommel Hrose
• Ian Gunther: 13.100 on Vault

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 3:03 p.m.

Shane Wiskus finishes the 4th rotation with crisp Peach Handstand, Bhavsar and double front dismount to score 14.800 and to take the top spot in the All-Around.

The top-5 in All-Around include:

1. Shane Wiskus 56.450
2. Yul Moldauer 55.950
3. Cameron Bock 55.700
4. Fuzzy Benas 55.100
5. Taylor Christopulos 54.950

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 3:01 p.m.

Cameron Bock lands triple connection and front double pike on floor. Scores 13.600 on the event to remain in the top 3.

Yul Moldauer (Not Shown) hits pommel horse but has mistake on pommel horse dismount. Moldauer recieves 13.350 score to remain on top in the All-Around.

Score Update:

• Riley Loos: 14.000 on Rings
• Fuzzy Benas: 12.950 on High Bar
• Noah Newfeld: 13.500 on Pommel Horse
• Jeremy Bischoff: 13.700 on Rings

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:57 p.m.

Brody Malone switches dismount on the parallel bars for back double pike. Deliver solid routine with clean Makutz. 14.850 score for 3rd on the event.

Brandon Dang (Not Shown) scores 14.200 on Pommel Horse.

Donnell Whittenburg takes two steps on Kas 1.5.

Score Update:

• Toby Liang: 13.200 on High Bar
• Riley Loos: 14.000 on Rings
• Fuzzy Benas: 12.950 on High Bar
• Noah Newfeld: 13.500 on Pommel Horse

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:54 p.m.

Joshua Karnes has major error on the Vault. performed tuck half twisting Kas instead of 1.5. 11.150 score.

Score Update:

• Toby Liang: 13.200 on High Bar
• Riley Loos: 14.000 on Rings
• Fuzzy Benas: 12.950 on High Bar

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:53 p.m.

15.950 for Curran Phillips. Unbelievable score with no bonus! Phillips is now the clear event leader over Yul Moldauer.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:49 p.m.

Curran Phillips opens the rotation with an outstanding display of difficulty. Nails front uprise Makutzs and double front half out dismount.

Kameron Nelson opts for double twisting double back instead of Liukin on Floor. Delivers clean routine overall for 13.550 score.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:43 p.m.

Third Rotation has concluded

Event Leaders:

• Floor: Joshua Karnes 14.450
• Pommel: Stephen Nedoroscik 15.200
• Rings: Alex Diab 14.750
• Vault: Fuzzy Benas 14.650
• Parallel Bars: Yul Moldauer 15.000
• High Bar: Jeremy Bischoff 14.000
• All-Around: Yul Moldauer 42.600

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:42 p.m.

Colin Flores appears to be injured on the vault. Flores has scratched the rest of the competition.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:41 p.m.

Yul Moldauer hits his upgraded double layout with a full twist on floor as his opening pass. Claims lead All-Around spot with a 14.400 score.

Joshua Karnes delivers 13.500 score on the Rings to jump into the top 6 in the All-Around.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:37 p.m.

Connor McCool sticks 2.5 twisting double back but falls on his front Randi (2.5 twist).

Toby Liang scores 13.500 on the Parallel Bars to put himself into the top 10 in the All-Around.

Taylor Burkhart (not shown) has errors on Pommel Horse leading to 11.650 score.

Ian Gunther survives mistake on Pommel Horse and prevent fall on Bezugo. 11.700 score.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:32 p.m.

Garrett Braunton drills double twisting double layout (F) on the rings for a 13.100 score.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:28 p.m.

Donnell Whittenburg performs perfect Malteses and straight Planches for 14.450.

Taylor Christopulos jumps Shane Wiskus in the All-Around standing with a 14.150 on the Parallel Bars.

Dallas Hale opens his floor routine with a huge front double twist connected to a double front (+0.2 connection bonus). 13.050 score.

Curran Phillips takes large step forward on an otherwise perfect Yurchenko 2.5 vault for a 14.300 score.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:25 p.m.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:19 p.m.

Second Rotation has concluded.

Event Leaders:

• Floor: Joshua Karnes 14.450
• Pommel: Stephen Nedoroscik 15.200
• Rings: Alex Diab 14.750
• Vault: Fuzzy Benas 14.650
• Parallel Bars: Yul Moldauer 15.000
• High Bar: Jeremy Bischoff 14.000
• All-Around: Cameron Bock 28.500

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:18 p.m.

Score Updates as rotation closes

• Crew Bold: 14.150 on Parallel Bars

• Javier Alfonso: 13.00 on Pommel Horse

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:15 p.m.

Yul Moldauer executed clean High Bar routine for a 13.200 score. Did not perform Cassina but nailed Kolman.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:10 p.m.

Alex Diab opens his ring routine with back lever push to maltese followed by an uprise to inverted cross. Large hop on double layout with a full twist dismount. 14.750 score to become event leader.

Score Update:

• Cameron Bock: 14.300 on Parallel Bars
• Jordan Kovach: 12.600 on High Bar
• Noah Newfeld: 12.000 on High Bar

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:06 p.m.

Shane slightly downgraded his ring routine, switching a straight leg Planche for a straddle Planche.

Riley Loos delivers solid floor routine including a Maltese non-acro skill. Steps throughout the routine left a lot of room for growth on day 2. 13.450 score

Fuzzy Benas sticks Kas 1.5 vault to score 14.650 and is now the leader on Vault.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 2:00 p.m.

Patrick Hoopes hits a G Flop, Bezugo, and Kehr on the Pommel to open the rotation. Scores a 14.850 and is sitting in 2nd on the event.

Taylor Christopulos nearly sticks his Kas 1.5 for a 14.350.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 1:55 p.m.

First Rotation has concluded

Event Leaders:

• Floor: Joshua Karnes 14.450
• Pommel: Stephen Nedoroscik 15.200
• Rings: Fuzzy Benas 13.450
• Vault: Cameron Bock 14.200
• Parallel Bars: Yul Moldauer 15.000
• High Bar: Jeremy Bischoff 14.000

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 1:53 p.m.

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 1:46 p.m.

Dallas Hale hit his E rated Peach to 1 rail, followed by Healy from 1 rail for a 13.800

Scores Update:

• Brody Malone: 13.950 on Pommel Horse
• Taylor Burkhart: 13.750 on High Bar
• Michael Artlip: 13.500 on Floor

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 1:44 p.m.

Paul Juda has scratched the competition. Does not appear injured but is currently out of uniform supporting the team.

• Kameron Nelson landed his 5.2 vault for a 13.900 score.
• Shane Wiskus gets through his weaker event to score 13.450 on Pommel Horse
• Riley Loos sticks dismount and nails Liukin (F) release for a 13.550
• Brody Malone nails full Kehr, Wu and Dismount on the Pommel Horse

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 1:40 p.m.

Scores coming in:

• Stephen Nedoroscik: 15.200
• Cameron Bock: 14.200 on Vault
• Yul Moldauer: 15.000 on Parallel Bars (Not Shown)
• Jeremy Bischoff: 14.000 on High Bar
• Donnell Whittenburg: 13.400 on Floor

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 1:35 p.m.

Stephen Nedoroscik (EVO) nails is pommel routine with a full Kehr, Wu and two E Flops. It is a downgrade from his potential 7.1 start

Fri. Feb. 23 @ 12:30 p.m.

Welcome to our live blog of the senior men’s competition at the 2024 Winter Cup! We are live inside Kentucky International Convention Center, where Day 1 of competition will begin at 1:30 p.m. ET. See the top of the page for how to watch, a link to live scores, and our meet preview.