Emil Soravuo
The final world challenge cup of the season is set to take place in Szombathely beginning tomorrow, where a handful of Olympians will make their returns to competition alongside a number of top athletes we didn’t get to see in Paris.
Always a great show-off meet for the Hungarians, we’ll see two 2024 Olympians representing the host country this year, including Krisztofer Meszaros on the MAG side and Greta Mayer on the WAG side. Other men expected to compete include Balzas Kiss, Botond Molnar, Benedek Tomcsanyi, and Szilard Zavory while the women’s team includes Hanna Kutasi, Lilla Makai, and Nikolett Szilagyi. The hosts will also send a few athletes to compete in exhibition spots, with Krisztian Balazs and Istvan Mentovai for MAG along with Luca Agnecz for WAG.
Most notable here is perhaps the return of Emil Soravuo, the Finnish athlete who won the bronze medal on floor at world championships in 2021 and was expected to be a top contender for an apparatus spot in Paris until an Achilles injury took him out of the running. This will be his first international competition since Euros in 2022, and he plans on competing a start value of 5.4, with his goal simply to go clean and make the final.
The competition will begin with qualifications on Friday, October 4, and will continue with finals over the weekend. The full list of competitors is below.
| ALBANIA | |
| Matvei Petrov | |
| AUSTRALIA | |
| Vedant Sawant | |
| AUSTRIA | |
| Manuel Arnold David Bickel Martin Miggitsch Ricardo Rudy |
Leni Bohle Carina Kröll |
| AZERBAIJAN | |
| Murad Agharzayev Nikita Simonov |
Nazanin Teymurova |
| BULGARIA | |
| Isus Marinov Daniel Trifonov |
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| CANADA | |
| Léandre Sauvé | |
| CROATIA | |
| Marko Sambolec Jakov Vlahek |
Tijana Korent Mila Prpic Sara Sulekic Tina Zelcic |
| CYPRUS | |
| Georgios Angonas Michalis Chari Marios Georgiou Michalis Isaias Sokratis Pilakouris |
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| CZECHIA | |
| Nela Kaplanova Patricie Makovickova Lucie Marikova Lucie Trnkova |
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| EGYPT | |
| Sirine Abouelhoda | |
| FINLAND | |
| Niila Sinivuori Emil Soravuo Pavel Titov Aleksi Vesala |
Minea Antila Misella Antila Anni Vuorikoski |
| GERMANY | |
| Alexander Kunz Glenn Trebing |
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| GREAT BRITAIN | |
| Danny Crouch Jonas Rushworth |
Charlotte Booth Abigail Roper |
| HUNGARY | |
| Krisztian Balazs (HC) Balazs Kiss Istvan Mentovai (HC) Krisztofer Meszaros Botond Molnar Benedek Tomcsanyi Szilard Zavory |
Luca Agnecz (HC) Hanna Kutasi Lilla Makai Greta Mayer Nikolett Szilagyi |
| ICELAND | |
| Agust Davidsson Dagur Olafsson |
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| INDIA | |
| Rakesh Patra Yogeshwar Singh |
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| ITALY | |
| Lorenzo Bonicelli Edoardo de Rosa Stefano Patron Gabriele Targhetta |
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| KAZAKHSTAN | |
| Ilyas Azizov Zeinolla Idrissov Dmitriy Patanin Assan Salimov Diyas Toishybek |
Aida Kurbanova Darya Yassinskaya |
| LATVIA | |
| Anastasija Ananjeva Katrina Jurevica Marija Mihailova |
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| LUXEMBOURG | |
| Ronan Foley | Céleste Mordenti |
| MONGOLIA | |
| Enkhtuvshin Damdindorj | |
| NORWAY | |
| Christine Kubon Keisha Lockert |
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| POLAND | |
| Sebastian Gawronski Marceli Ludynia Filip Sasnal Radoslaw Szymczyk |
Wiktoria Grzesikiewicz Nadia Majchrzak Martyna Szumna |
| SLOVAKIA | |
| Lucia Dobrocka Sara Surmanova |
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| SLOVENIA | |
| Luka Bojanc Nikolaj Bozic Anze Hribar Beno Kunst Gregor Rakovic |
Lucija Hribar Meta Kunaver |
| SOUTH AFRICA | |
| Alejandra Martinez Nkazimlo Matyolo Chantae Moller Karma Visagie |
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| SRI LANKA | |
| Jaydon Attygalle | |
| SWEDEN | |
| Luis Il-Sung Melander Filip Lidbeck William Sundell |
Tonya Paulsson |
| SWITZERLAND | |
| Jan Imhof Kilian Schmitt |
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| TAIWAN | |
| Chou Deng-Peng Chuang Chia-Lung Hung Yuan-Hsi Lin Guan-Yi Shiao Yu-Jan |
Lin Yi-Chen Pan Guan-Chen Wang Zhi-Ti |
| TÜRKIYE | |
| Altan Dogan Ahmet Burak Ekici Mehmet Ayberk Kosak Kerem Sener |
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Article by Lauren Hopkins
The Gymternet 