European all-around champion Guilia Steingruber of Switzerland secured her second title of the weekend ©Getty Images

European all-around champion Giulia Steingruber of Switzerland secured her second title of the weekend at the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) World Cup by winning the floor event at the Aspire Dome in Doha.

The 22-year-old, double gold medallist at the inaugural European Games in Baku last June, came into day two having already topped the podium in the vault discipline and produced another fluent performance, rewarded with a total of 14.700 points by the judges.

Romanian Diana Bulimar, Olympic team bronze medallist at London 2012, won the silver medal after she received 14.125 points and Zsófia Kovács of Hungary was third on 13.925.

Three-time Olympic gold medallist Catalina Ponor of Romania rolled back the years with victory on the women’s beam apparatus by virtue of a score of 14.650.

Ponor, winner of three titles at Athens 2004 and silver medallist on the floor at London 2012, marked her first major competition in four years after coming out of retirement by scoring comfortably higher than Thauany Lee de Araujo of Brazil's 14.150.

Portugal’s Filipa Martins was third thanks to a total of 13.900.

Oleg Stepko of Azerbaijan clinched the gold medal in the parallel bars in Doha ©Getty Images
Oleg Stepko of Azerbaijan clinched the gold medal in the parallel bars in Doha ©Getty Images

Azerbaijan’s Oleg Stepko, who used to compete for the Ukraine, edged Cuban star Manrique Larduet to seal gold in the men’s parallel bars with a superb score of 15.825 points.

Larduet, winner of his country’s first-ever World Championships all-around medal in Glasgow last year, claiming silver as well as horizontal bars bronze in the Scottish city, had to settle for second place as he was given 15.775.

The bronze medal went the way of Vietnam’s Phuoc Hang Pham, who defeated  Britain’s Ashley Watson for the final available medal.

Stepko, third in the parallel bars event at last year’s Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, was unable to clinch another podium finish as he was fifth in the men’s vault, comfortably behind eventual winner Huang Minqi of China.

The Chinese gymnast amassed a score of 15.200 points, with Australia’s Christopher Remkes bagging the silver medal on 14.950 and Diego Hypolito, the Brazilian who took the men’s floor honours yesterday, sealing bronze.

Japan’s Fuya Maeno’s 15.175 was enough to win gold in the men’s horizontal bar discipline ahead of Britain’s Watson, 0.125 adrift points in silver medal position.

Croatian Marijo Moznik claimed the bronze medal on 14.850 points.