BEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- It's a day of "sudden death" as six athletes failed to finish their routines in the men's preliminaries at the star-studded trampoline Olympic test event here on Friday.

China's Dong Dong and Lu Chunlong, Japan's Tetsuya Sotomura, Russia's Sergey Chumak, France's Gregoire Pennes and Ukraine's Yuriy Nikitin all fell to victim of the Olympic test.

Flavio Cannone of Italy nailed the first place with 69.90 points. He placed 13th at the 2004 Athens Games, seventh at the 2005 world championships, and sixth at the 2007 world championships.

China' Que Zhicheng, the Doha Asian Games champion, was second in a slight lower 69.80, but he will not compete in finals as a reserved performer here.

Veteran trampoline gymnast Henrik Stehlik from Germany took the third place in 69.20. Stehlik, the 2004 Olympic bronze medallist, was the top non-Asian finisher at the 2007 world championships, where he placed fifth. He was also fifth at the 2005 world championships.

Ye Shuai of China, the newly-crowned world champion, finished off in ninth place with 67.00.

The test event attracted a pack of top gymnasts. Among the entrants are seven of the top eight finishers in both the women's and men's finals at the world championships that took place less than a month ago in Quebec.

Following a 10th-place finish at the recent world championships, defending Olympic champion Yuri Nikitin is poised to regain his position on the top as the Beijing Games fast approach, but he fell out of the net in his second action of volunteer routine.

The world silver medallist Dong Dong's second routine was also tarnished with two actions unfulfilled.