Phillips Scores Two More Wins

Kristie Phillips, the United States’ new all-around gymnastics champion, Sunday won two more gold medals--as well as a silver and a bronze--in the U.S. individual event championships.

Men’s champion Scott Johnson collected two golds and two silvers, and John Sweeney, the 11th-place finisher in the men’s all-around, won gold medals in vaulting and the floor exercise.

Phillips, 15, of Baton Rouge, La., was the only competitor to qualify for the finals in all four women’s events. She won the balance beam and floor exercise, placed second in vaulting and tied for third on the uneven bars, her weakest event.

Johnson, 25, of Lincoln, Neb., a veteran of the 1984 Olympic championship team, won the still rings and parallel bars and placed second on the pommel horse and in the floor exercise.

Tim Daggett of Los Angeles, also a 1984 Olympian, won the pommel horse and was third on the high bar.

David Moriel of UCLA edged 16-year-old Trent Dimas of Albuquerque, N.M., in the high-bar, 19.725 points to 19.675. But, in the four-day championships, Dimas became the first junior-level gymnast to complete a triple backward somersault dismounting from the high bar.

The only other multiple medalist in the individual events was Melissa Marlowe, 15, of Salt Lake City. She won the uneven bars and was third on the beam.

The women’s vaulting champion was Rhonda Faehn of Houston.