Pictured: Giulia Steingruber

Just a few weeks after the 2014 World Championships, some of the world’s top gymnasts will be competing at the Swiss Cup in Zurich, Switzerland on November 2nd.

 

For this competition, gymnasts will compete in pairs with a teammate from their same country. There will be multiple rounds of competition including the pre-round, half-final, and final round. The two gymnasts in each pair will perform on one event, back to back, then combine their scores for their team score. In the final round, the teams scores will be wiped clean and whichever pair has the highest score from solely the final round will win the competition. 

 

Below are the teams for this year’s competition. 

 

Switerland 1

Giulia Steingruber and Claudio Capelli

 

Switzerland 2

Ilaria Kaslin and Pascal Bucher

 

Brazil

Daniele Hypolito and Caio Souza 

France
Youna Dufournet and Axel Augis

 

Germany

Elisabeth Seitz and Fabian Hambuchen

 

Italy

Vanessa Ferrari and Andrea Cingolani

 

Japan

Mai Murakami and Kenzo Shirai

 

Russia

Daria Spiridonova and Nikita Ignatyev

 

 

At the 2013 Swiss Cup, Romania’s Iordache and Andrei Muntean won first place. This year, Iordache will be looking to win the title again and is in top condition, coming off of a great performance at the 2014 World Championships where she won silver in all-around as well as floor.

Many of the other competitors also competed at Worlds including Verniaiev who won gold on p-bars, Shirai who won silver on floor, and Spiridonova who won bronze on uneven bars.

Information from the 2014 Swiss Cup official website.