2018 American Cup

The 2018 American Cup was part of the World Cup circuit in artistic gymnastics.

2018 American Cup
Venue	Sears Centre Arena
Location	Hoffman Estates, Illinois, U.S.
Dates	March 3, 2018
Competitors	18 from 11 nations
Medalists
Morgan Hurd Yul Moldauer   Mai Murakami James Hall   Maile O'Keefe Petro Pakhniuk
← 2017 2019 →

Participants

NOC	Women (WAG)	Men (MAG)
United States	Morgan Hurd	Yul Moldauer
United States Wildcard	Maile O'Keefe	Allan Bower
Brazil	Fabiane Brito	Francisco Barretto Júnior
Canada	Brooklyn Moors	—
China	Mao Yi	Sun Wei
France	Lorette Charpy	—
Germany	Elisabeth Seitz	Philipp Herder
United Kingdom	Kelly Simm	James Hall
Japan	Mai Murakami	Kenzo Shirai
Spain	—	Néstor Abad
Ukraine	—	Petro Pakhnyuk

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Results

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Women

Rank	Gymnast					Total
	Morgan Hurd (USA)	14.566	14.200	13.800	14.033	56.599
	Mai Murakami (JPN)	14.600	13.400	13.600	14.033	55.633
	Maile O'Keefe (USA)	14.600	13.233	13.066	13.466	54.365
4	Lorette Charpy (FRA)	13.400	13.833	12.866	12.866	52.965
5	Kelly Simm (GBR)	13.833	12.966	12.633	12.466	51.898
6	Elisabeth Seitz (GER)	13.600	14.200	11.600	12.466	51.866
7	Brooklyn Moors (CAN)	12.433	12.166	11.466	13.433	49.498
8	Fabiane Brito (BRA)	14.233	–	–	–	DNF
9	Mao Yi (CHN)	12.900	–	–	–	DNF

Men

Rank	Gymnast							Total
	Yul Moldauer (USA)	14.666	14.066	14.333	14.733	14.500	13.666	85.964
	James Hall (GBR)	13.766	14.166	14.033	14.333	13.133	13.866	83.297
	Petro Pakhniuk (UKR)	13.066	13.066	13.800	14.766	14933	13.433	83.064
4	Philipp Herder (GER)	13.766	13.100	13.433	14.400	14.166	13.100	81.965
5	Allan Bower (USA)	13.333	13.966	13.400	14.533	13.766	12.866	81.864
6	Kenzo Shirai (JPN)	14.966	11.100	13.700	15.066	14.500	12.166	81.498
7	Sun Wei (CHN)	14.433	13.733	14.133	14.733	12.600	11.300	80.932
8	Francisco Barretto Júnior (BRA)	12.700	13.466	13.300	13.666	13.500	12.200	78.832
9	Néstor Abad (ESP)	13.433	11.600	13.733	14.200	13.133	12.333	78.432

Nastia Liukin Cup

Main article: Nastia Liukin Cup

The Nastia Liukin Cup
Venue	Sears Centre Arena
Location	Hoffman Estates, Illinois, U.S.
Dates	March 2, 2018
Competitors	36
← 2017 2019 →

The 9th annual Nastia Liukin Cup was held in conjunction with the 2018 American Cup. Since its inception in 2010,^[3][4] the competition has always been held on the Friday night before the American Cup, in the same arena.

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Senior
All-around	Haleigh Bryant	Andrea Li	Raegan Walker
Junior
All-around	Tory Vetter	Jacey Vore	Faith Torrez

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Notable competitors

Senior winner Haleigh Bryant would go on to win the 2020 Nastia Liukin Cup.^[6] Additionally she was the 2021 NCAA champion on vault.^[7] Senior competitor Natalie Wojcik would go on to win the balance beam title at the 2019 NCAA Championships.^[8] Junior bronze medalist Faith Torrez, alongside fellow juniors Olivia Greaves and Kailin Chio, would go on to make the USA national team.

References

1. "Bower, O'Keefe added to American Cup roster". USA Gymnastics. February 6, 2018.
2. "Hurd, Moldauer win American Cup titles". USA Gymnastics. March 3, 2018.
3. "Priessman wins inaugural Nastia Liukin Supergirl Cup". USA Gymnastics.
4. Turner, Amanda. "Nastia Liukin Cup to Launch in 2010".
5. "Bryant, Vetter win 2018 Nastia Liukin Cup". USA Gymnastics. March 2, 2018.
6. "Bryant, Rorich win titles at 2020 Nastia Liukin Cup". USA Gymnastics. March 7, 2020. Archived from the original on April 20, 2021. Retrieved February 25, 2022.
7. "LSU gym suffers heartbreaking, frustrating loss in NCAA Semifinals". The Daily Reveille. April 19, 2021.
8. Just, Amie (April 20, 2019). "Michigan's Natalie Wojcik wins national beam title". mlive.com.