World Gymnastics Championships : Soviet Women Win Title; Romanians Second

Oksana Omeliantchik and Elena Shoushounova both scored perfect 10s in the floor exercise Thursday night as the Soviet Union easily won its third straight women’s team title in the World gymnastics championships.

Ecaterina Szabo and her Romanian teammates, gold medalists at the 1984 Olympic Games and the world champions in 1979, took silver this time. East Germany was third and Bulgaria fourth.

Czechoslovakia was the No. 5 team, and the United States, using strong optional exercises and overcoming a serious injury to Jennifer Sey, pulled up from seventh after the compulsory exercises to sixth.

Omeliantchik, 16, had the crowd on its feet as she laughed and danced across the carpet to music featuring the sound of chirping birds.

Shoushounova, also 16, followed with a more mature but equally daring and crowd-pleasing routine.

The Soviets, also No. 1 after the compulsories, rolled up 393.375 points to Romania’s 388.850. The East Germans had 387.500 and the Bulgarians 382.650. The Czechs were just behind with 382.600, and the Americans edged out the Chinese by four-tenths of a point for sixth with a composite score of 379.750.

The Soviets dominated the list of top individual gymnasts, but Szabo had a score of 78.750 of a possible 80.0 to lead the all-around standings. Next were Soviets Natalia Yurchenko, Olga Mostepanova and Irina Baraksanova.

Sey dislocated her left knee in an accident on the uneven parallel bars, the last event for the Americans. She was knocked sideways as she grabbed the high bar and hit it with her foot after a twisting, somersault release, and U.S. Coach Don Peters said he had never seen such a serious knee injury in gymnastics.

Sey, of Haddonfield, N.J., was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital for emergency surgery.