Gymnast Andreas Toba remained without a final place in his second competition after a long injury break.
The 33-year-old Hanoverian once again failed to make it into the top eight in qualifying on both the pommel horse and the horizontal bar at the World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan.
On the horizontal bar, the German champion’s exercise was graded with 13.566 points, which was enough for 17th place in the elimination. The 10,866 points on the pommel horse only meant 48th place.
At the end of September last year, Toba suffered a partial tear of the cruciate ligament in his right knee during the final training before the team competition at the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. The European Championship runner-up on the high bar in 2021 now feels physically better. “I’m getting fitter all the time,” he said before the World Cup. The day before it wasn’t enough for a place in the final on the parallel bars and rings.
Milan Hosseini from Böckingen, the second German starter in Baku, also missed the final battles on both devices. On the pommel horse, the third place finisher at the European Championships came in 42nd place on floor with 11,500 points. 12,733 points on the horizontal bar meant he ended up in 27th place.