GYMNASTICS : Zmeskal, Hanks Lead U.S. Sweep

Kim Zmeskal and Jarrod Hanks led a United States sweep in the all-around competition at the McDonald’s Cup gymnastics competition Saturday.

Zmeskal, the current world champion, scored no lower than a 9.912 in four different exercises to outpoint Henrietta Onodi of Hungary, 39.786-39.299.

The McDonald’s Cup is one of the final international all-around meets leading up to the Summer Olympics at Barcelona, Spain.

Hanks scored a 9.8 on his final apparatus, the horizontal bars, and Dmitri Karbonenko of the Commonwealth of Independent States missed a flip and fell off the bar to drop from the all-around lead to a second-place tie with American Scott Keswick.

Hanks, of Lafayette, La., was ranked seventh in the United States last June. He moved onto the U.S. team after Tom Schlesinger and Lance Ringnald were injured. In the past nine months, Hanks has gone from being an alternate to the No. 1 men’s gymnast in the country.

Keswick moved into a tie for second place with a meet-best 9.85 on the horizontal bars and a perfect 10 on the rings. Those two scores helped offset the 9.25 he received after falling on the vault.

The United States lost a chance for a 1-2 women’s finish during the final exercise when Shannon Miller fell during her floor exercise.