25. April 2010
Tokyo, Japan
Rhythmic Gymnastics

At the last weekend of April the Japanese Gymnastics Association organized a first national competition to select the candidates for the this years World Championships of Rhythmic Gymnastics, which will held in September in the Russian capital Moscow.

After the qualification event in Tokoy are nominated now:
<< Yuria ONUKI (< photo, left) and Hiromi NAKAZAWA from Tokyo Women's College of Physical Education as well as Riko ANAKUBO and Runa YAMAGUCHI  from the RC club...

23. April 2010
Penza, Russia
Rhythmic Gymnastics

The former Russian rhythmic gymnastics Olympic champion Natalia Lavrova died on Friday in a car crash, as local Russian media reported.
Reports said that a car, which Lavrova's sister was driving, smashed into another vehicle on a rural road in the Penza region (700 km southeast of Moscow). Lavrova and her sister died immediately, police said. The circumstances of the car crash are being investigated.
Lavrova, who won Olympic gold medals in rhythmic gymnastics in Sydney (2000)...

18. April 2010
Bremen, Germany
Rhythmic Gymnastics

Rhythmic Europeans finished in Bremen
With the support of SPIETH Gymnastic -"Official supplier" of these Europeans - the European Gymnastic Service "GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL" realized its daily coverages from the 26th European Championships of Rhythmic Gymnastics which took place from April 16 - 18 in Bremen, Germany.
Our correspondents reported from all the events of the elite and the junior competitions.

*Final Day: Russia completed these Europeans with the maximum of 9
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8. April 2010
Lausanne, Switzerland
Rhythmic Gymnastics

The FIG office in Lausanne informed today, that the 31st Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships 2011, initially slated for Lille (FRA), have been rescheduled for the brand new sports complex at Montpelier, capital city of the Languedoc – Roussillon region.

5. April 2010
St. Petersburg, Russia
Rhythmic Gymnastics

A relatively unusual placing in the Group-World Cup of Rhythmic Gymnastics in St.Petersburg, Russia.
Not the hosts were up to their usual role of being the favorites at this last international highlight before the coming European Championships, but instead after mistakes with the exercises ropes / ribbons Belarus won the all-around with 52,350 points ahead of a very convincing German formation, which could keep, with 51,600 points the Japanese with (49,200) at a distance. Among the 8 national groups...

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