30. September 2012  
Tokyo, Japan  
Rhythmic Gymnastics

2012 AEON CUP Team GAZPROM won Rhythmic Gymnastics Club Championships

Winner: GAZPROM (RUS)

At the this last weekend of September took place the traditional "AEON CUP 2012" in the Japanese capital of Tokyo. 20 club teams representing 18 different nations came to participate at this international top highlight of rhythmic gymnastics five weeks after the Olympic events in London.

Among their club teams started also two of the the three Olympic medalists:
Olympic champion Evgeniya Kanaeva (RUS) missed, but Daria Dmitrieva (RUS) was member of the GAZPROM team and Liubou Charkashyna in the Byelorussian DINAMO team.

The finals after the three competition days finished at Sunday.
At the end the ranking was not a big surprise: Team GAZPROM (RUS) won in front of DINAMO (BLR) and the DERIUGINA SCHOOL (UKR) ...

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Runa Yamaguchi (AEON / JPN)

The Japanese hosts started with the both top clubs of the national "All Japan RG Club Championships", with "AEON" and with second placed "Adachi RG Club".

 From AEON team came Runa Yamaguchi , the 2011 All Japan RG champion and her teammate Riko Anakubo in the elite (senior) category.

The junior, Kaho Minagawa, second placed at the last years AEON Cup junior's category, completed the team of the host. This young gymnast is one of the Japanese hopes for next Olympic Games 2016. 

Maho Mikami from  the "Adachi RG Club" is another young Japanese Olympic hope: May be she will get All Japan tittle in the near future, so our Japanese GYMmedia correspondent, Takaki Kobayashi hopes ...!?
AEON CUP is the worldwide Rhythmic Gymnastics Club Championships - an international team event of a very high level!
The team system is:
2 elite (senior) gymnasts & 1 junior gymnast.

* GYMmedia correspondent: Takako Kobayashi (Tokyo)

AEON CUP 2011:
GAZPROM & Kanaeva

2012 P a r t i c i p a n t s :
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* ARM (country) : YEREVAN-KENTRON (club)
- Asya SIMONYAN (Senior) / Inesa SIMONYAN (Senior) / Maria SHAPOVALOVA (Jr.)
* AUT : ASVO
- Carolina WEBER (S) / Nicol RUPRECHT (S) / Anastasia DETKOVA (J)
* AZE : NEFTCHI
- Aysha MUSTAFAYEVA (S) / Lala YUSIFOVA (S) / Marina DURUNDA (J)
* BLR : DINAMO
- Liubou CHERKASHYNA (S) / Melittina STANIOUTA(S) / Katsiaryna HALKINA (J)
* CZE : SK TART ME BRNO
- Monika MICHKOVA (S) / Nataly HARMIKOVA (S) / Suzanne BOROVCOVA (J)
* ESP : ARG CATALUNYA
- Julia USON (S) / Nataly GARCIA (S) / Adelina FOMINYKH (J)
* EST : GC PIRUETT-JANIKA
- Viktoria BOGDANOVA (S) : Erika TERRAS (S) / Silva SILDMAA (J)
*  INA :  JKA RHYTHMIC CLUB
- Dinda DEFRIANA(S) / Nabila EVANDESTIERA (S) / Chairunisa Ajeng RACHMAWATI (J)
* ISR : MACCABI
- Victoria FLANOVSKY (S) / Efrat SLUTCKOVCKY (S) / Naomi MALAMUD (J)
* ITA : ARMONIA D'ABRUZZO
- Alessa RUSSO (S) / Chiara DI BATTISTA (S) / Carmen CRESCENZI(J)
* KOR : KOREAN RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS
- Daee LEE (S) / Yeon Jae SON (S) / Song-E CHUN (J)
* LTU : GRACIJA
- Karolina SKLENYTE (S) / Marija GARDIUK (S) / Ieva NICKUTE (J)
* NOR : ASKER
- Thea Elise HOLTE (S) / Emille NOLTE (S) / Malken Wang ELLINGSEN (J)
* RUS : GAZPROM
- Daria DMITRIEVA (S) / Evgeniya KANAEVA (S) / Yulia BRAVIKOVA (J)
* SVK : YSC SLOVAKIA
- Ivana DERMEKOVA (S) / Natalia OKALIOVA (S) / Xenia KILIANOVA (J)
* THA : JINTANA CLUB
- Tharatip SRIDEE (S) / Panjarat PRAWATYOTIN (S) / Benjaporn LIMPANICH (J)
* UKR : DERIUGINA SCHOOL
- Ganna RIZATDINOVA (S) / Alina MAKSYMENKO (S) / Anastasiia MULMINA (J)
* JPN : AEON
- Riko ANAKUBO (S) / Runa YAMAGUCHI (S) / Kaho MINAGAWA (J)
* JPN : MACHIDA RG
- Midori KHT (S) / Misato KUWAMURA (S) / Suzuna TAKAURA (J)
* JPN : ADACHI R.G. CLUB
- Maho MIKAMI (S) / Yuki KATO (S) / Kiko YOKOTA (J)

Kanaeva missed, but Charkashyna spoke for the Byelorussian DINAMO Team, sponsored by ' Chacott'!.

Thursday, Sep 27 -
Press conference in Tokyo
- observed by GYMmedia correspondent
  Takako Kobayashi
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Unfortunately London Olympic Gold medalist, Evgeniya Kanaeva (RUS) cancelled her participation in Tokyo, because of a fatigue fracture...!  She' also got more and more tired after the Olympic Games.

This news made Japanese rhythmic gymnastics fans very unhappy, but Evgeniya did announce that she will come back again to the AEON-Cup next year! But she promised to come to AEON CUP, just to say thank you to the Japanese fans.

At the today's press conference in Tokyo:
from left: Bronze medalist Libou Charkashyna (BLR) and Olympic silver medalist Daria Dimitrieva (RUS) and and three members of Japanese AEON team: Runa Yamaguchi, Riko Anakubo, Kaho Minagawa.

Daria Dimitieva (BLR) with greetings from Kanaeva!


At press conference in Tokyo, Olympic silver medalist Daria Dmitrieva (RUS) and bronze medalist Libou Charkashyna (BLR) and three menbers AEON team, Runa Yamaguchi, Riko Anakubo, Kaho Minagawa express their wishes:

Daria Dimitrieva : "For myself and spectator, I try to do my best and high quality performances. Afer Olympic Games I took rest enough , so my condition is really good!"

Libouv Charkashyna : "Me,too ! I do my best for Japanese fan. I hope spectator love my performances." (photo, right >)

Riko Anakubo (JPN)

Runa Yamaguchi : "I want to let me free from pressure and try to enjoy competition."

Riko Anakubo : "I'm really exciting. And I want to know how my performances will be accepted this International competition AEON CUP."
Kaho Minagawa : "Last year all my performances were same image . But this year Hoop, Ball, Clubs, Ribbon..., different images each program. So I appeal this point."

* Reporting from Tokyo (info & photos):
  Takako Kobayashi
* Friday, Sep 2012 -  Interims Results (1st round)

* T E A M S :
1. DINAMO     (BLR) - 329.100
2. GAZPROM (RUS) - 326.625
3. NEFTCHI    (AZE) - 316.375

4. DERIUGINA SCHOOL (UKR) : 311.875
5. ASVO (AUT) : 299.900
6. ARMONIA D'ABRUZZO (ITA) : 298.250
7. MACHIDA RG (JPN) : 288.825
8. AGR CATALUNYA (ESP) : 287.625

* 1st Round - Elite
1. Daria DMITRIEVA (GAZPROM / RUS)                           - 116.225
2. Libou CHARKASHYNA DINAMO /BLR)                          -  113.000
3. Ganna RIZATDINOVA (DERIUGINA SCHOOL / UKR) - 110.675
4. Melitina MAMUN (GAZPROM /RUS)                               - 110.550
5. Aliya GARAYEVA (NEFTCH /AZE)                                   - 109.775
6. Margarita MAMUN (GAZPROM /RUS)                            - 107.650
7. Caroline WEBER (ASVO /AUT)                                       - 106.825
8. Lala YUSIFOVA (NEFTCH /AZE)                                    - 104.800

* First round - Juniors:
1. Katsiaryna HALKINA                        (DINAMO /BLR) - 105.550
2. Yulia BRAVIKOVA                         (GAZPROM /RUS) - 102.950
3. Marina DURUNDA                           (NEFTCHI /AZE) - 101.800
4. Anastasiia MULMINA (DERIUGINA SCHOOL /UKR) - 97.775
5. Carmen CRESCENZI (ARMONIA D'ABRUZZO /ITA) - 97.550
6. Suzune TAKAURA                      (MACHIDA RG /JPN) - 93.675
7. Kiko YOKOTA                     (ADACHI R.G. CLUB/JPN) - 92.800
8. Song-E CHUN (KOREAN RHYTHMIC GYNASTICS) - 91.850

* 2nd Day:
* AEON (JPN) : 146.225 (Q)
- Kaho MINAGAWA (J) : 46.550
- Runa YAMAGUCHI (S) : 50.100
- Riko ANAKUBO (S) : 49.575
* MACHIDA RG (JPN) : 137.675
- Suzuna TAKAURA (J) : 44.500
- Midori KAHATA (S) : 47.975
- Misato KUWAMURA (S) : 46.100

Tounament 2
* DERIUGINA SCHOOL (UKR) : 159.450 (Q)
- Anastasiia MULMINA (J) : 51.425
- Ganna RIZATDINOVA (S) : 55.475
- Viktiria MAZUR (S) : 52.550
* NEFTCH (AZE) : 157.050
- Marina DURUNDA (J) : 50.525
- Lala YUSIFOVA (S) : 52.825
- Aliya GARAYEVA (S) : 53.700

Tounament 3
* GAZPROM (RUS) : 167.300 (Q)
- Yulia BRAVIKOVA (J) : 53.500
- Margarita MAMUN (S) : 55.500
- Daria DMITRIEVA (S) : 58.300
* ASVO (AUT) : 151.525
- Anastasiya DETKOVA (J) : 46.100
- Carolina WEBER (S) : 53.050
- Nicol RUPRECHT (S) : 51.975

Tounament 4
* DINAMO (BLR) : 160.125 (Q)
- Katsiaryna HALKINA (J) : 53.200
- Liubou CHARKASHYNA (S) : 56.050
- Melitina STANIOUTA (S) : 50.875
* ARMONIA D'ABRUZZO (ITA) : 146.300
- Carmen CRESCENZI (J) : 47.425
- Chiara DI BATTISTA (S) : 49.625
- Alessia RUSSO (S) : 49.250

AEON (JPN) & DERIUGINA SCHOOL (UKR) ,
GAZPROM (RUS) & DINAMO (BLR) are the TOP FOUR.
On Sunday will follow the semi final and the final round.

*Information: Takako Kobayashi from Tokyo

Winners Trio: GAZPROM - RUS (middle) - DINAMO - BLR (left) - DERIUGINA - UKR


* SUNDAY, Sep 30 - the AEON CUP FINAL DAY 2012
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* T E A M S (Clubs)  :
1. GAZPROM (RUS)
2. DINAMO (BLR)
3. DERIUGINA SCHOOL (UKR)

4. AEON                            (JPN)
5. NEFTCH                       (AZE)
6. ASVO                              (AUT)
7. ARMONIA D'ABRUZZO (ITA)
8. MACHIDA RG                (JPN)

* Individual - Elite
1. Daria DMITRIEVA                           (GAZPROM / RUS)
2. Ganna RIZATDINOVA (DERIUGINA SCHOOL / UKR)
3. Melitina STANIOUTA                        (DINAMO / BLR)

4. Margarta MAMUN     (GAZPROM / RUS)
5. Aliya GARAYEVA            (NEFTCH / AZE)
6. Libou CHARKASHYNA  (DINAMO / BLR)
7. Caroline WEBER                  (ASVO /AUT)
8. Lala YUSIFOVA               (NEFTCH / AZE)

* Individual - Juniors
1. Katsiaryna HALKINA (DINAMO / BLR)
2. Yulia BRAVIKOVA (GAZPROM / RUS)
3. Anastasiia MULMINA (DERIUGINA SCHOOL / UKR)

4. Marina DURUNDA                             (NEFTCHI / AZE)
5. Kaho MINAKAWA                                      (AEON / JPN)
6. Carmen CRESCENZI (ARMONIA D'ABRUZZO / ITA)
7. Suzuna TAKAURA                     (MACHIDA RG) / JPN)
8. Kiko YOKOTA                               (ADACHI R.G. / JPN)

* From Tokyo for GYMmedia: Takako Kobayashi (JPN)