At the 33rd WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS of RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS 2014 (21 - 28 09) in Izmir, Turkey, where 300 gymnasts took part, proved again RUSSIA as the dominant lead nation in this discipline, fetched by team gold and also the maximum of all individual titles and medals and won alone so 7 gold medals. Only misadventures in the group qualification is needed the Russians with "only" a gold medal in the last of the group finals (3 balls /...
f i g --: The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has suspended vice-president Michel Léglise in the latest development in the ongoing rhythmic gymnastics judges' course row. The Frenchman has been stripped of his duties as both vice-president and a member of the FIG Presidential Commission until August 31, 2016, after a Disciplinary Commission ruled he had committed "supervisory negligence" at an Intercontinental Judges' Course he ran in Bucharest, Romania, in December 2012.
Altogether 4x gold there was for the Austrian gymnasts during the 2014 Asker Cup in Rhythmic Gymnastics, which was held last weekend in Norway.
The "Asker's Cup 2014" in Norway from 6 / 7th September was plnned by Austria Rhythmic gymnasts as a last test before the upcoming World Championships (Izmir / TUR, from Sep 21 on ...):
Nicol Ruprecht (65,700) won both the individual all-around in front of her teammate Natasha Wegscheider (60.750), but then...
As expected, there were the total Russian triumph on the final day of the II. Youth Olympic Games 2014 in Nanjing, China in the third gymnastics discipline, the rhythmic gymnastics:
The Olympic individual all-around discipline was won by the 15-years-old Irina ANNENKOVA from Russia with a score of 58.575, which had already been placed in qualifying at the first rank. The two-times Junior European Champion (with ball & ribbon) referred the Byelorussian Maria TRUBACH with 56.950 on...