Edmonton's Brandon O'Neill won the silver medal in the floor routine Saturday at a World Cup gymnastics competition in Stuttgart, Germany.
Germany's Fabian Hambuchen took the gold with a 15.600 score while O'Neill followed at 15.450 for his fifth medal this season on the World Cup circuit.
Wajdi Bouallegue of Tunisia was third at 15.250.
"For the most part it was pretty good, except when I stepped out of bounds on one of my passes," said O'Neill, first after Friday's qualifying. "I did an easier routine than at [the] worlds because it's been a long trip and I hadn't done too much training since then."
O'Neill, a member of Canada's sixth place team at the worlds in Denmark earlier this month, goes for a second medal on Sunday in the vault final. He was fifth in qualifying.
"There [is] a pretty good vault field here," O'Neill said. "My vaults are pretty consistent so I hope to put some pressure on the other competitors."
Marci Bernholtz of Unionville, Ont., was the other Canadian entry at the competition.
She placed 11th on uneven bars and 12th on the beam in qualifying and didn't advance.
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