13. September 2015  
Stuttgart, Germany  
Rhythmic Gymnastics

34th Rhythmic Gymnastics Worlds 2015; Russia won 8 of 9 but Italy 1 Gold

The 34th World Championships of Rhythmic Gymnastics (RG) finished today in the Porsche-Arena of Stuttgart (Germany; Sep 07 - 13) and brought together the world best rhythmic gymnasts, fighting also for the tickets to the Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. Altogether 279 gymnasts represented 56 different nations - from Angola to Venezuela. At the end RUSSIA won eight of nine titles! Only the ITALIAN group won on gold with 5 ribbons in front of Russia, but nobody is surprised about this leading position of the realy top gymnastics nation Russia, again!
So Margarita Mamun and Yana Kudryavtseva won the first gold medals for Russia in the individual finals with hoop and ball on Tuesday, Sep 08. With two more title (clubs and ribbon) Kudryavtseva is the most succesfull gymnast, because she was unbeatable at the Friday's all-around final: She captured her third consecutive  world All-around title in front of  her compatriot Margarita Mamun and Melitina Staniouta from Belarus.
The Russian trio was also unbeatable in the Team event in front of Belarus and Ukraine and won all the gold and silver medals of individual disciplines in Stuttgart
Also the Russian group dominated the groups all-around event and won the 7th title of these Worlds, followed by Bulgaria and Spain, it's eight title with 6clubs/2 hoops, but loose against Italy on time (-0,05 ) with 5 ribbons only ...!
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