After both sessions of competition on day one of the 2012 Winter Cup Challenge in Las Vegas, John Orozco leads the pack with an 89.350 all around score. Chris Brooks is close behind in 2nd place with 89.200 and reigning US Champion Danell Leyva sits in 3rd despite having 3 uncharacteristic falls, finishing with 87.650.

 

Competition continues with the Winter Cup Challenge Finals on Saturday at 7 p.m. Pacific time, where the top 42 athletes according to the men's program points system will compete.

 

The surprise of the day is that 2004 Olympic Champion Paul Hamm failed to advance to Saturday's finals. This was his first competition since the 2008 Olympic Trials. Though it was a disappointing day, don't count him out of the Olympic mix just yet. There were some bright spots in warm up, and he competed very nervous today. Hamm will be back. 

 

Comeback of the day goes to David Sender, 2008 US Champion, competing in just his 2nd competition since retiring in 2009. Sender is currently ranked 1st on vault with a 16.250 for his 2.5 twisting yurchenko. 

 

Below are the top 10 all arounders and event leaders. Click here for full results from USA Gymnastics. Then check out which guys advanced to Saturday's finals based solely on the Men's Program Committee points system. 

 

Winter Cup Day 1 - All Around Top 10

1 John Orozco, USOTC, 89.350 - interview

2 Christopher Brooks, Cypress Academy 89.200 - interview

3 Danell Leyva, Universal Gymnastics, 87.650 - interview

4 Brandon Wynn, Ohio State alum, 87.000

5 Steven Legendre, Oklahoma alum, 86.500

6 David Sender, Stanford alum/training at Illinois, 86.350

7 Paul Ruggeri, Illinois, 86.200

8 Sho Nakamori, Champions Academy, 86.050

9 Ryan Lieberman, Stanford alum, 85.500

10 C.J. Maestas, Illinois, 85.400

 

Event Leaders:

Floor: Steven Legendre,  15.90 (7.0/8.90)

Pommel Horse: Glen Ishino, 15.650 (6.70/ 8.95) - video

Rings: C.J. Maestas, 15.450 (7.0/8.45) 

Vault: David Sender, 16.250 (6.60/9.65) - video

Parallel Bars: Chris Brooks 16.00 (6.90/9.10) - video & Danell Leyva 16.00 (7.0/9.40/-0.3) - video

High Bar: Chris Brooks 15.40 (6.90/8.50) 

 

 

20 Point Program Results for Qualification to Finals

Top 42 Athletes Qualify to the Senior Division Finals

Place - Athlete - AA - Total Points

1 Christopher Brooks  89.2  85

2 John Orozco  89.35  81

3 Danell Leyva  87.65  72

4 Brandon Wynn  87.0  58

5 Sho Nakamori  86.05  54

6 Jesse Silverstein  85.20  54

7 Paul Ruggeri III  86.20  53

8 Alexander Buscaglia  82.0  52

9 Christopher Maestas  85.40  51

10 Steven Legendre  86.50  50

11 David Sender  86.35  49

12 Samuel Mikulak  57.25  48

13 Ryan Lieberman  85.50  47

14 Bryan Del Castillo  83.40  43

15 Adrian De Los Angeles  84.45  39

16 Donothan Bailey  83.350  37

17 Glen Ishino  43.40  34

18 Jacob Dalton  42.75  29

19 Randall Heflin  44.5  29

20 Jake Martin  83.45  27

21 Tyler Mizoguchi  84.6  27

22 Chandler Eggleston  77.0  25

23 Yul Moldauer  79  19

24 Kyle Bunthuwong  82.90  18

25 Ellis Mannon  77.85  18

26 Maximilian Mayr  78.55  17

27 Ty Echard  37.45  17

28 Marvin Kimble  80.55  17

29 Stacey Ervin  67.35  16

30 Hunter Justus  80.80  15

31 Troy Nitzky  27.70  13

32 Ian Makowske  27.20  12

33 Edward Mesa  81.40  12

34 Timothy Wang  81.05  11

35 Alexander Naddour  40.25  10

36 Tyler Evans  77.05  10

37 Akash Modi  83.0  10

38 Seung Tai Lee  81.50  9

39 M. Parker Raque  80.0  9

40 Miguel Pineda  76.7  9

41 Jacob Dastrup  78.35  9

42 Donnell Whittenburg  78.90  6

 

Did Not Qualify to the Winter Cup Finals

Andrew Elkind  66.3  5

Sean Melton  81.1  5

Presten Ellsworth  42.60  4

Dylan Akers  80.85  3

Kanji Oyama  51.2  3

Paul Hamm  55.75  2

Jesse Glenn  53.45  2

Landon Funiciello  25.3  2

Only athletes who received points are listed in the points result