Gymnast Thanh bags silver medals in Bulgarian Cup

Olympian Phan Thi Ha Thanh grabbed two silver medals at the Gymnastics Federation’s Individual Apparatus World Challenge Cup which closed in Varna, Bulgaria, on May 15.
Gymnast Thanh bags silver medals in Bulgarian Cup ảnh 1 Phan Thi Ha Thanh (left) on the podium with her silver medal in women’s vault at the Gymnastics Federation’s Individual Apparatus World Challenge Cup. (Photo: laodong.com.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) - Olympian Phan Thi Ha Thanh grabbed two silver medals at the Gymnastics Federation’s Individual Apparatus World Challenge Cup which closed in Varna, Bulgaria, on May 15.

Thanh finished second in the women’s balanced beam with 14.367 points.

Marine Boyer of France and Ilaria Kaeslin of Switzerland took gold and bronze, respectively.

Earlier, Thanh came in second with a score of 14.400 points in the women’s vault, behind her familiar rival, Guilia Steingruber of Switzerland, who earned 15.134 points.

The bronze medal went to Katarzyna Jurkowaska-Kowalska of Poland who scored 14.147 points.-VNA

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