Carey Closes on Tokyo with Gold Medals in Melbourne

MELBOURNE, Australia – Future Oregon State gymnast, Jade Carey, earned a pair of gold medals at the Melbourne World Cup, which concluded on Sunday.

The meet is the sixth of eight in the FIG individual World Cup series, which provide an additional route of qualifying to this summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.

Carey, who now has three wins each on the vault and floor exercise, leads the world cup rankings on both event with just two events remaining in the series she is nearly certain to earn an individual qualifying spot to the Olympics. Individuals who qualify through the World Cup series on any event are allowed to compete in the all-around.

The Phoenix, Ariz. native, who signed a National Letter of Intent to join the Oregon State gymnastics program in November of 2017, now has a maximum 90 points on the two events. On the vault, China's Yu Linmin or Brazil's Rebeca Andrade could still get to 90 points by winning World Cups in Baku, Azerbaijen, March 12-15, and Doha, Qatar, March 18-21. Yu would need to score higher than 14.900 and Andrade nearly as high in both meets to surpass Carey's combined vault total (44.465) to win a tiebreaker.

On the floor exercise, Carey now has a 15-point lead over Italy's Vanessa Ferrari and Lara Mori. Ferrari, Ukraine's Anastasiia Bachynska and Brazil's Jade Barbosa could get to 90 points.

Women's Vault Finals Results
1. Jade Carey (USA) – 14.866/6.0-5.4
2. Coline Devillard (FRA) – 14.249/5.8-5.4
3. Shoko Miyata (JPN) – 14.149/5.4-5.2
4. Angelina Radivilova (UKR) – 13.983/5.4-5.2
5. Tjasa Kysselef (SLO) – 13.716/5.0-4.8
6. Ahtziri Sandoval (MEX) – 13.650/5.6-4.4
7. Teja Belak (SLO) – 13.466/5.4-5.0
8. Maria Paseka (RUS) – 13.233/5.8-4.8

Women's Floor Exercise Finals Results
1. Jade Carey (USA) – 14.366/6.0
2. Vanessa Ferrari (ITA) – 13.700/5.5
3. Lara Mori (ITA) – 12.900/5.3
4. Ondine Achamong (GBR) – 12.700/4.7
5. Isabela Onyshko (CAN) – 12.533/5.0
6. Breanna Scott (AUS) – 12.400/4.8
7. Georgia Godwin (AUS) – 12.333/5.4
8. Emma Spence (CAN) – 12.100/4.9

Individual qualifications will become official in March after the last two World Cup qualifying events are complete.

Click here to see Jade Carey's Melbourne World Cup winning vaults.
Click here to see Jade Carey's Melbourne World Cup winning floor exercise routine.

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