Oksana Chusovitina

The FIG released the nominative roster for the Doha world cup, the second of four apparatus world cups in the 2022 season, and included on the list of those expected to attend is eight-time Olympian Oksana Chusovitina, who originally announced her retirement in Tokyo last summer but later said she’d like to come back and make a run for an Asian Games medal in 2022.

We’ll also see the Russians here, including 2020 Olympic champions Viktoria Listunova and Vladislava Urazova on the women’s side, along with 2021 worlds team members Maria Minaeva and Yana Vorona, and the men’s side will feature 2020 Olympic individual competitor Aleksandr Kartsev, 2016 Olympic silver medalist and 2019 world champion Ivan Stretovich, and young senior Ivan Gerget, a member of the silver medal-winning junior worlds team in 2019.

Other notable names on the roster making their 2022 season debuts include 2020 Olympians Ryu Sunghyun and Lee Junho, and three-time Olympian Igor Radivilov of Ukraine, who will be joined by 2021 world all-around bronze medalist Illia Kovtun, set to debut a week earlier in Cottbus along with a number of other world-class talents.

The competition will begin with qualifications on March 2, and should be available to watch on the Olympic Channel. A full list of all competitors who have registered is below.

Article by Lauren Hopkins