Evgenia Kanaeva with four victories, Russia with 10 medals at the 1. World Cup

Also at the  World Cup-Season start of rythmic gymnastics, the leading ambition of the gymnastics nation Russia is more than pressing:
With all 4 hand appartus wins by the Olympic winner and World Champion  Evgenia Kanaeva and the win of another 4 medals by Daria Dmitrieva (second with rope and ball) as well as Daria Kondakova (second with wheel and band) Russland achieved the maximum of all medal possibilities.
Three Bronze medals were left for Belarus' Melitina Staniouta (rope, band) and Ljubow Chakashyna (ball), one went to Silvia Miteva from Bulgaria.
Austrias Caroline Weber was 7th in the band final.
Also in the group finals the Russian formation could not be beaten ...