Kristie Phillips, 13, of the United States...

Kristie Phillips, 13, of the United States had an outstanding effort on the final day to win the women’s title in the McDonald American Cup gymnastics championships at Fairfax, Va..

The Soviet Union’s Alexsei Tikhonkin won the men’s title, overcoming American Brian Ginsberg with a 9.9 in the final event, the horizontal bar. Ginsberg, 19, led through five of the six events, but scored only 9.55 on the horizontal bar.