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08. Februar 2009
Kienbaum,near Berlin/GER
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Russian top talents at German training camp
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Visual instruction for the world's top talents
Joint training camps have a long tradition and are an expression of the good relations between German Rhythmic Gymnastics and the top nation, Russia.
Over the past ten years the graceful Russian gymnasts have won nearly all the Junior European championship titles, except for one painful defeat, when they came 'only' second behind Belarus - and that at home in Moscow (2005) of all places.
<< Right now the past decade's serial winner, the Russian national junior group (< photo, left) is at the National Training Centre in Kienbaum (near Berlin) and is training there along with the German juniors of SKC TABEA Halle ...
Joint training camps have a long tradition and are an expression of the good relations between German Rhythmic Gymnastics and the top nation, Russia.
Over the past ten years the graceful Russian gymnasts have won nearly all the Junior European championship titles, except for one painful defeat, when they came 'only' second behind Belarus - and that at home in Moscow (2005) of all places.
<< Right now the past decade's serial winner, the Russian national junior group (< photo, left) is at the National Training Centre in Kienbaum (near Berlin) and is training there along with the German juniors of SKC TABEA Halle ...
The Russian national junior group 2009, Rhythmic Gymnastics
* from left to right: Ekaterina MAKHNATKINA, Elisaveta ALEXANDROVA, Daria ISOTOVA,
Olga ILYINA, Valeria KARTAZOVA, Daria TIKHOMIROVA
** - behind, from left: Olympic champion Irina BELOVA (Sydney 2000); Head Coach Tatiana SERGAEVA; Physician Sergei NAUMOV, Coach Albina RYBKINA.
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As a specialist in group training, Halle coach Claudia MARX - the mother of ex-captain of the German national group Laure MARX, who has just announced her resignation from the German centre at Fellbach-Schmiden - has for many years been cultivating close relations with the world's top "group strategist" from Nizhni Novgorod, Tatjana SERGAEVA, who has been largely responsible for the Russian dominance in this discipline over the past decade and more.
It is a highly fruitful exchange of experience.
There is a very concentrated working atmosphere in the gym, which is divided into three by means of curtains:
On the right, Claudia Marx is rehearsing the routines with her junior group ...
It is a highly fruitful exchange of experience.
There is a very concentrated working atmosphere in the gym, which is divided into three by means of curtains:
On the right, Claudia Marx is rehearsing the routines with her junior group ...
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*SKC TaBeA Halle, with Vivien NIKLAS, Helen ROLOFF, Victoria NITHACK, Lana HERRMANN and Lina FLEUCH |
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... and in the middle Halle's choreographer and ballet master Alexander Semenchukov is working with the younger D and C squads of SKC TABEA Halle - with his protégés Alexandra Kober, Nicole Bergmann, Frieda Roloff and Ana Lena Wiesner .
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Semenchukov is a former dancer from St. Petersburg who danced at the Stadttheater Magdeburg from the mid-1990s onwards and who has been providing invaluable choreographical services to the top RG club in Saxony-Anhalt since 2006.
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Semenchukov is a former dancer from St. Petersburg who danced at the Stadttheater Magdeburg from the mid-1990s onwards and who has been providing invaluable choreographical services to the top RG club in Saxony-Anhalt since 2006.
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Russia's junior national group |
... and in the left-hand third of the hall a concentrated warm-up programme lasting more than an hour is being conducted by Olympic champion Irina BELOVA* with support from long-standing coach Albina Rybkina, observed by Head Coach Tatjana SERGAEVA.
)* - When Belova won gold with Russia over eight years ago in Sydney, it was the last time that Germany was represented by a team at the Olympics. Under the guidance of their then-coach Carmen Weber they achieved a sensational fourth place!
* > GYMmedia flashback:
Sydney 2000
)* - When Belova won gold with Russia over eight years ago in Sydney, it was the last time that Germany was represented by a team at the Olympics. Under the guidance of their then-coach Carmen Weber they achieved a sensational fourth place!
* > GYMmedia flashback:
Sydney 2000
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In the foreground: the Russian quintet on the mat. |
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Head Coach Tatiana Sergaeva, in the background Albina Rybkina |
Seven Russian girls are competing for the five regular places in the team for the Junior Europeans, which will be held in the summer in Baku. Two each come from Moscow and Nizhni Novgorod, respectively, and the others come from Volgograd, Krasnodar and Ekaterinenburg.
For well over a decade, Tatiana SERGAEVA from Nizhni Novgorod - the head coach of the Junior Group of the Russian Federation - has clearly been determining the top world level in this age group and thus laying the basis for Russian success in the later elite senior teams.
She speaks sparingly but energetically, while the girls attentively and ambitiously hang on her every word. They do several 'takes' of sections of the ribbon routine, working tirelessly and repeatedly, meticulously perfecting every detail.
For well over a decade, Tatiana SERGAEVA from Nizhni Novgorod - the head coach of the Junior Group of the Russian Federation - has clearly been determining the top world level in this age group and thus laying the basis for Russian success in the later elite senior teams.
She speaks sparingly but energetically, while the girls attentively and ambitiously hang on her every word. They do several 'takes' of sections of the ribbon routine, working tirelessly and repeatedly, meticulously perfecting every detail.
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Group harmony: ... meticulous details, again and again, until perfection is achieved! |
Perspiration flows ... it certainly isn't a cushy job, yet the observer has the impression that despite the consistently high demands the gymnasts are certainly not just 'conditioned' to perform - the training is hard, but at the same time it is a creative process in which e v e r y - b o d y is involved!
The first five girls are working on the mat - the two 'reserves' are performing behind them, creating a mirror image and eager not to miss any corrective hints, because they also want to use their chance of being in the team for the Junior Europeans this summer.
The short breaks and relaxed conversations with them in English showed that these slim girls with figures that models would envy can also simply be happy teenagers.
The first five girls are working on the mat - the two 'reserves' are performing behind them, creating a mirror image and eager not to miss any corrective hints, because they also want to use their chance of being in the team for the Junior Europeans this summer.
The short breaks and relaxed conversations with them in English showed that these slim girls with figures that models would envy can also simply be happy teenagers.
And a visit to the German capital, Berlin, just 40 km away, is also on the schedule for the week!
Thus Kienbaum is hosting top-class athletes as well as ambitious young German gymnasts who are seeking to regain the top international level.
Thus Kienbaum is hosting top-class athletes as well as ambitious young German gymnasts who are seeking to regain the top international level.
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Supreme synchronicity! |
German qualification competition for the Junior Europeans...:
On Sunday (8th February), two German junior groups, from Bremen and Schmiden, will be performing here at Kienbaum in order to qualify for the aforesaid Junior European championships in Baku. The best group will then represent Germany as the "National Junior Group" in Azerbaijan.
Unfortunately, the top Russian gymnasts will only be watching. A request for a non-competition 'demonstration performance' was rejected.
Why, I wonder ...?!
(C) GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL
Eckhard Herholz
On Sunday (8th February), two German junior groups, from Bremen and Schmiden, will be performing here at Kienbaum in order to qualify for the aforesaid Junior European championships in Baku. The best group will then represent Germany as the "National Junior Group" in Azerbaijan.
Unfortunately, the top Russian gymnasts will only be watching. A request for a non-competition 'demonstration performance' was rejected.
Why, I wonder ...?!
(C) GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL
Eckhard Herholz
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