Right at the beginning of the 56th BLUME FESTIVAL Gran Canaria 2016 the rhythmic gymnasts are the first kind of gymnastics disciplines to show their aesthetic signs: For the fourth time the BLUME organizers also invited to international GYM competitions and this time over 300 athletes from six nations came.
The rhythmic sports gymnasts, starting from 10 o'clock on with individual competitions and in the afternoon with the groups contests, are the BLUME Festival prelude today in the island capital of Las Palmas.
The individual competition was dominated primarily by a dominant trio, at the top of which the experienced German gymnast Laure MARX (24) just before the strong Swedish Cassandra Peterson and before Nicole Bergmann (GER / SKC Tabea Halle).
The 56th edition of the legendary festival BLUME-GRAN CANARIA "takes place from 24 November to 3 December again on the island of eternal spring.
More than 700 international guests from 11 nations mix with over 4,000 enthusiastic pupils, young people and adults from the Spanish island.
Together, they will celebrate a turbulent and colorfull festival of movement for a week. Also international competitions in remembrance of the Spanish national heroe Joaquin Blume who died in the late Fifties in the last century after an aircraft crash, belong to the program of this year's festival ....