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Ukrainian gymnast Ilya Kovtun won two medals at the World Cup in Baku (Azerbaijan). A 19-year-old athlete from Cherkasy became a silver medalist in floor exercise and parallel bars. In floor exercises, the Ukrainian scored 13.933 points in the final. He was only ahead of Milad Karimi from Kazakhstan (14.2 points). The third was the American Riley Luz (13.733 points).
In the parallel bars competition, Kovtun's performance in the finals was rated by the judges at 15.366 points.. The Ukrainian was only 0.034 points behind the winner Carlos Hulot from the Philippines. "
We add that this year Kovtun twice won the " Ukrainian became the best in competitions in German Cottbus and Qatari Doha.