Coupe Avenir, also know as The Future Cup, was held November 22-23 in Malmedy, Belgium. Romania and Canada each brought home three gold medals, with Romania earning the team title and Canada’s Sydney Soloski becoming all-around champion.

In the team competition, the silver medal went to the Belgian team, while the Canadians picked up bronze, though Canada was doomed from the start as they were only able to field two athletes on each event in this four-up, three-count format. The all-around silver medalist was Romania’s Andreea Ciurusniuc while Canada’s Sydney Laird won bronze.

During Sunday’s event finals, Canada picked up two more golds with Soloski winning vault (with a gorgeous FTY as her first vault!) and Laird posting the top score on the uneven bars, and then Romania picked up the final two golds on balance beam and floor exercises with two winning performances from Asiana Peng.

Peng was actually super impressive on both of her golden events. I loved her energy on floor, especially…she opened with a big double arabian, had a near-stuck double tuck, and a clean double pike in addition to dynamic leaps. Floor overall was an excellent final, with very clean routines from all gymnasts, and though there wasn’t much in the name of difficulty, Peng and Soloski especially showed their potential for upgrades on that event.

The competition featured junior talent from nations across the globe, including Belgium, Canada, Romania, Qatar, Sweden, the Netherlands, Iceland, and the United States.

Results are below. For videos, PuzzleGym has a few of the Romanian girls on Facebook.

All Around Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	VT	UB	BB	FX	AA
1	Sydney Soloski	Canada	13.866	12.050	13.460	12.950	52.332
2	Andreea Ciurusniuc	Romania	13.833	10.850	13.960	12.900	51.549
3	Sydney Laird	Canada	13.566	12.750	11.800	12.600	50.716
4	Maria Holbura	Romania	13.633	10.650	13.000	12.400	49.683
5	Asiana Peng	Romania	12.666	10.500	13.100	12.850	49.116
6	Emma Medina-Severino	Belgium	13.033	12.350	10.660	12.300	48.349
7	Adelia Galofaro	Belgium	13.400	10.750	12.130	11.650	47.933
8	Rahma Al Dulaimi	Qatar	13.600	11.000	10.200	12.250	47.050
9	Corina Galanu	Romania	11.366	11.100	12.630	11.450	46.549
10	Laurie-Lou Vezina	Canada*	12.366	8.300	12.930	11.850	45.449
11	Estelle Pitti	Belgium	12.633	10.100	11.800	10.350	44.883
12	Saga Tran	Sweden	12.733	9.850	9.866	11.300	43.749
13	Halley Dickson	United States	12.866	——	9.866	9.900	32.632
14	Olessya Dadema	Netherlands	12.200	——	2.533	——	14.733
15	Helia Hocquet	Belgium	——	9.600	——	——	9.600
16	Kristjana Gudmundsdottir	Iceland	——	7.450	——	——	7.450

* Participated as an individual, not as part of the Canadian team

Team Results

Rank	Nation	VT	UB	BB	FX	Total
1	Romania	40.132	32.600	40.066	38.150	150.948
2	Belgium	39.066	33.200	34.599	34.300	141.165
3	Canada	27.432	24.800	25.266	25.550	103.048

Vault Event Final Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	D	E	ND	Total	Average
1	Sydney Soloski	Canada	5.0	9.050		14.050	13.775
			4.4	9.100		13.500
2	Sydney Laird	Canada	5.0	8.850		13.850	13.650
			4.4	9.050		13.450
	Andreea Ciurusniuc	Romania	4.4	9.000		13.400	13.650
			5.0	8.900		13.900
4	Maria Holbura	Romania	5.0	8.700		13.700	13.250
			4.0	8.800		12.800
5	Rahma Al-Dulaimi	Qatar	5.0	8.800		13.800	13.175
			4.0	8.550		12.550
6	Adelia Galofaro	Belgium	4.4	9.050		13.450	13.075
			3.8	8.900		12.700
7	Estelle Pitti	Belgium	4.0	8.750		12.750	12.850
			4.2	8.750		12.950

Bars Event Final Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	D	E	ND	Total
1	Sydney Laird	Canada	5.0	7.900		12.900
2	Sydney Soloski	Canada	4.8	7.650		12.450
3	Andreea Ciurusniuc	Romania	5.1	6.950		12.050
4	Emma Medina-Severino	Belgium	5.3	5.900		11.200
5	Laurie-Lou Vezina	Canada	4.3	6.800		11.100
6	Saga Tran	Sweden	3.7	7.250		10.950
7	Corina Galanu	Romania	3.7	7.100		10.800
8	Rahma Al-Dulaimi	Qatar	4.0	5.800		9.800

Beam Event Final Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	D	E	ND	Total
1	Asiana Peng	Romania	5.7	8.250		13.950
2	Andreea Ciurusniuc	Romania	5.5	8.400		13.900
3	Adelia Galofaro	Belgium	5.3	7.600		12.900
4	Sydney Soloski	Canada	5.1	7.250		12.350
5	Laurie-Lou Vezina	Canada	5.3	6.650		11.950
6	Sydney Laird	Canada	4.9	6.350		11.250
7	Estelle Pitti	Belgium	4.2	6.350		10.550
8	Rahma Al-Dulaimi	Qatar	4.7	4.250		8.950

Floor Event Final Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	D	E	ND	Total
1	Asiana Peng	Romania	5.4	8.750		14.150
2	Sydney Soloski	Canada	5.2	8.700		13.900
3	Andreea Ciurusniuc	Romania	5.2	8.500		13.700
4	Laurie-Lou Vezina	Canada	4.9	8.450		13.350
5	Rahma Al-Dulaimi	Qatar	4.7	8.450	-0.1	13.050
6	Adelia Galofaro	Belgium	4.8	8.050		12.850
7	Sydney Laird	Canada	5.1	7.700		12.800
8	Emma Medina-Severino	Belgium	4.5	7.900		12.400

Article by Lauren Hopkins
Photo by Dan Mares