Zeina Ibrahim
The FIG has released the nominative roster for the world cup in Cairo, Egypt, the third of four world cups where gymnasts from 29 countries will compete for prize money as well as spots at this year’s world championships.
Many of the gymnasts expected to attend are also on the roster for the world cups in Cottbus next week and then in Doha the following, as athletes will need to count three scores toward their world championships qualification rankings.
The field most notably includes 2020 Olympic floor champion Artem Dolgopyat of Israel, high bar silver medalist Tin Srbic of Croatia, and vault bronze medalist Artur Davtyan of Armenia, as well as 2021 world pommel horse champion Stephen Nedoroscik of the United States, rings bronze medalist Salvatore Maresca of Italy, vault bronze medalist Andrey Medvedev of Israel, and high bar bronze medalist Brody Malone of the United States.
Host nation Egypt is sending several strong competitors, including 2020 Olympians Omar Mohamed and Zeina Ibrahim, along with Nancy Taman, who had a history-making performance at last year’s world championships, where she became the first Egyptian woman to make an individual final, finishing fourth on vault. The men’s team also includes Ahmed Abdelrahman, Mohamed Afify, Abdelrahman Abdelhaleem, Zaid Khater, and 2020 Melbourne world cup rings bronze medalist Ali Zahran, while the women’s team includes Jana Mahmoud and Jana Abdelsalam.
The Cairo world cup will be held from March 17 through March 20. The full nominative roster is below.
| ALBANIA | |
| Matvei Petrov | |
| ALGERIA | |
| Hmida Djaber Hilal Metidji Mohamed Amine Yousfi |
Lahna Salem Rihab Sidra Sedhane Chama Temmami |
| ARMENIA | |
| Artur Avetisyan Artur Davtyan Vahagn Davtyan Gagik Khachikyan Harutyun Merdinyan |
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| AUSTRIA | |
| Xheni Dyrmishi Vinzenz Höck |
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| AZERBAIJAN | |
| Javidan Babayev Nikita Simonov |
Samira Gahramanova Milana Minakovskaya |
| BELARUS | |
| Sviataslau Dranitski Dzmitry Hurynovich Yahor Sharamkou |
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| CANADA | |
| Chris Kaji Jayson Rampersad Leandre Sauve |
Laurie Denomée Sophie Marois |
| CROATIA | |
| Aurel Benovic Tin Srbic Filip Ude Mateo Zugec |
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| CYPRUS | |
| Michalis Chari Ilias Georgiou Marios Georgiou Sokratis Pilakouris |
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| EGYPT | |
| Abdelrahman Abdelhaleem Ahmed Abdelrahman Mohamed Afify Zaid Khater Omar Mohamed Ali Zahran |
Jana Abdelsalam Zeina Ibrahim Jana Mahmoud Nancy Taman |
| FINLAND | |
| Leo Lehtinen Pavel Titov |
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| GREECE | |
| Stavros Gkinis Nikolaos Iliopoulos Christoforos Konstantinidis Konstantinos Konstantinidis Antonios Tantalidis Stefanos Tsolakidis |
Elvira Katsali Areti Pagoni |
| HONG KONG | |
| Ng Ka Ki Shek Wai Hung |
Charlie Chan Cheuk Lam Angel Wong Hiu Ying |
| HUNGARY | |
| Krisztian Balazs Krisztofer Meszaros Benedek Tomcsanyi David Vecsernyes |
Csenge Bacskay Dorina Böczögö Zsofia Kovacs Bianka Schermann |
| ICELAND | |
| Jon Gunnarsson | |
| INDIA | |
| Abhijeet Kumar Ashish Kumar Yogeshwar Singh |
Aruna Budda Reddy Pranati Das Pranati Nayak |
| ISRAEL | |
| Artem Dolgopyat Andrey Medvedev Alexander Myakinin |
Ofir Netzer Lihie Raz |
| ITALY | |
| Carlo Macchini Salvatore Maresca |
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| KAZAKHSTAN | |
| Ilyas Azizov Nariman Kurbanov Dmitriy Patanin |
Aida Bauyrzhanova Medina Kenenbay Darya Yassinskaya |
| LITHUANIA | |
| Robert Tvorogal | |
| MALAYSIA | |
| Muhammad Sharul Aimy Tan Fu Jie |
Tan Ing Yueh Rachel Yeoh Li Wen |
| MOROCCO | |
| Abderrazak Nasser Achraf Quistas Zakariae Setti Mehdi Tougui Nabil Zouhair |
Nisrine Hassanaine |
| NORWAY | |
| Mari Kanter | |
| POLAND | |
| Kacper Garnczarek Sebastian Gawronski Filip Sasnal |
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| SLOVENIA | |
| Luka Bojanc Nikolaj Bozic Luka Kisek |
Lucija Hribar Tjasa Kysselef Zala Trtnik |
| SOUTH AFRICA | |
| Naveen Daries Caitlin Rooskrantz |
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| UKRAINE | |
| Vladyslav Hryko Mykyta Melnykov |
Anastasiia Bachynska |
| UNITED STATES | |
| Riley Loos Brody Malone Stephen Nedoroscik |
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| UZBEKISTAN | |
| Rasuljon Abdurakhimov Abdulla Azimov Khabibullo Ergashev Utkirbek Juraev |
Dildora Aripova Oksana Chusovitina Ominakhon Khalilova |
Article by Lauren Hopkins
The Gymternet 
Why again doesn’t USA send WAG to these events? W such a deep field of elites whose parents have spent mortgages on training over the years, and Oly/Worlds teams constantly shrinking, why aren’t the ‘B squad’ gymns sent to get their tastes of intl competition experience?
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Traditionally the US has favored sending athletes to team style events, hence Gymnix international and Jesolo and now this year they are sending a team to DTB Cup.
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Unfortunately, the WAG field is so weak in Cairo this year… almost the same level as some world challenge cups… I mean they have the most gorgeous arena and live broadcast arrangement of all world cups. What a pity.
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I am hoping it will still be broadcast by Olympic Channel, they broadcast almost all of the Challenge Cups last year and it was so much fun to watch gymnasts we never get to see. There are some really great beam routines and expressive floor routines from lower ranked teams, just with less difficulty than the top tier.
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This and all of the world and challenge cups will be on the Olympic Channel regardless of the field! I think because there are still COVID issues preventing athletes from traveling as easily, the majority of countries prioritizing world cups this year are those who are hoping to qualify to world championships via apparatus spots. But since the majority of berths will come from continental spots, especially for the stronger programs, most are just focusing on these single meets instead of traveling around to 3-4 world cups to rack up points. China and Japan normally send as many athletes as possible to world cups, but they’re not attending any of them this year, so it’s a bit of a bummer but I think the fields still have lots of really talented people and it’ll be nice to see them highlighted on the streams!
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Oh i will really miss China’s WAG on these because usually you can see the new talents and many talented with athletes
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Me too! Seeing Liu Tingting and Luo Huan doing beam in Melbourne is one of my favorite memories of last quad, Liu really set the standard on beam in that early 2017 competition and made it impossible to match!
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