Final chance to book Olympic berths as Doha World Cup begins

Doha: Olympic champion Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) and three-time Olympian Vanessa Ferrari (ITA) are among those aiming to clinch tickets to this summer’s Tokyo Games at the Artistic Gymnastics Apparatus World Cup, which gets underway at Aspire Dome, today. 

The final major event in Artistic Gymnastics before the Olympic Games, Doha is the eighth and final stop on the 2018-2021 FIG Apparatus World Cup series, where top-ranked specialists on each apparatus have one last chance to lock down their places at the Games. The event will conclude on June 26.  The pressure is on for Petrounias, who did not qualify for Tokyo 2020 at the 2019 World Championships, leaving the Apparatus World Cup series as his only viable path to the Games.