Aruna finishes 7th in floor event at Gymnastics World Cup

Aruna Reddy finished seventh in the final round of women’s floor event on Sunday, a day after clinching a historic bronze medal in vault at the Gymnastics World Cup.

Published : Feb 25, 2018 18:38 IST , Melbourne

Ashish Kumar finished eighth on Vault, while Aruna Reddy and Rakesh Kumar finished in the seventh place in the women's floor event and parallel bars respectively.
Ashish Kumar finished eighth on Vault, while Aruna Reddy and Rakesh Kumar finished in the seventh place in the women's floor event and parallel bars respectively.
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Ashish Kumar finished eighth on Vault, while Aruna Reddy and Rakesh Kumar finished in the seventh place in the women's floor event and parallel bars respectively.

After clinching a historic bronze medal in vault at the Gymnastics World Cup, Aruna Budda Reddy finished a lowly seventh in the final round of women’s floor event on Sunday.

Aruna had created history on Saturday by becoming the first Indian gymnast to win an individual medal at the Gymnastics World Cup, but the 22-year-old from Hyderabad couldn’t bring her best on Sunday as she scored 10.833 to finish in the seventh position.

READ: Aruna’s feat ‘a great moment’ for family

Among others, Rakesh Patra also finished seventh in the final round of the parallel bars after scoring 13.433, 1.400 points behind gold medallist Xiaoming Wu of China.

Delhi Commonwealth Games and 2014 Asian Games bronze medallist Ashish Kumar also endured a difficult day as he finished eighth in the men’s vault event final round after scoring 13.583.

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