Némour Tops Qualifying as China Edges the U.S. in Rotterdam

Kaylia Némour of Algeria finished women's qualifying at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam on Monday as the top all-around qualifier with 55.999, while China edged the United States for the best team total and Great Britain and Germany missed the eight-team final.

Némour, the Olympic champion on uneven bars in Paris, also led bars qualifying at 14.933, ahead of Germany's Helen Kevric at 14.766. Skye Blakely of the United States qualified second in the all-around with 55.465, followed by Liudmila Roshchina of Russia at 55.098 and Elena Colas of France at 55.032. China's Qinqin Ke (54.699) and Qingying Zhang (54.565) were fifth and sixth, and Claire Pease of the United States was seventh at 54.432. Charleigh Bullock posted the 14th-best total, 53.499, but was left out of Friday's final by the two-per-country rule, which opened the last place to Hungary's Greta Mayer at 51.999.