GYMNASTICS : U.S. CHAMPIONSHIPS : UCLA’s Keswick Wins Three Events

Scott Keswick, a UCLA junior, won on the still rings, vault and parallel bars Sunday to become the only triple winner in the finals of the U.S. Gymnastics Championships.

Keswick, from Las Vegas, missed a fourth title when he lost his grip on a blind move on the horizontal bar and fell to the mat.

Sunday’s event finals weren’t part of the official competition, which concluded Saturday. The top six scorers in the 10 events of the championship qualified to compete Sunday.

Kim Zmeskal, the women’s champion in the four-day tournament at the University of Cincinnati’s Shoemaker Center, competed in the balance beam and floor exercise. She withdrew from two other events for which she qualified, the vault and the uneven bars, because of tendinitis in her left wrist.

She scored a 9.812 on the balance beam, second behind Shannon Miller of Edmond, Okla., who scored 9.887.

In the floor exercise, Zmeskal and Dominique Dawes tied for first with scores of 9.912.

Mike Racanelli of Ohio State won the men’s floor exercise with a score of 9.8, one-tenth of a point better than runner-up Tom Schlesinger of Nebraska.

Keswick became the first to win three consecutive titles in the rings, all three over UCLA teammate Chainey Umphrey.