Danell Leyva and Jordyn Wieber Win At 2012 AT&T American Cup
Danell Leyva and Jordyn Wieber win the all-around titles at the 2012 AT&T American Cup. The competition took place inside Madison Square Garden in New York City. How did I not know about this? I didn't even get to watch it on tv.
Danell Leyva of Homestead, Fla./Team Hilton HHonors (Universal Gymnastics), and Jordyn Wieber of DeWitt, Mich./Gedderts' Twistars USA, won the all-around titles at the 2012 AT&T American Cup inside New York City's Madison Square Garden Saturday. Wieber posted a 61.032, while Alexandra Raisman of Needham, Mass./Brestyan's American Gymnastics, 60.832, and Romania's Larisa Iordache, 59.332, finished second and third, respectively. On the men's side, Leyva scored 90.664 to win the all-around gold medal, Ukraine's Mykola Kuksenkov took the silver medal (90.498) and Germany's Marcel Nguyen won the bronze (89.925).Team USA's John Orozco of the Bronx, N.Y./Team Hilton HHonors (U.S.O.T.C.), finished fifth in the all-around with an 89.331.
Leyva came from behind to take the title, after scoring a 15.933 on the horizontal bar. His routine, which included four catch-and-release moves, was punctuated by a stuck double-twisting double layout to the delight of the more than 12,000 fans on hand at Madison Square Garden.
"Being the AT&T American Cup champion is amazing," Leyva said. "It's great to be on that list with people like Blaine Wilson, Jonathan Horton and Paul Hamm – and to say it was in the Garden is even better."
The Florida-native began his competition on the floor exercise, mounting with a double-twisting, double layout for a 15.033. Leyva earned a 14.433 on the pommel horse, a 14.666 on the still rings and a 15.633 for his Kasumatsu double full on vault. In the fifth rotation, Leyva took to the parallel bars displaying the precision that won him the World title on the event and earned a 14.966.
Wieber, the reigning World all-around champion and defending AT&T American Cup champion, led from start-to-finish en route to her second, consecutive American Cup title and her third overall. Wieber began on the vault performing a nearly flawless Amanar for a 16.100.
"It feels amazing to win my third American Cup," Wieber said after the competition. "I'm really excited to get started with the Olympic year."