* f i g ---: Today launched the World Cup competition at the Complexo Desportivo Municipal Casal Vistoso in Lisbon with Individual Junior performances (Hoop and Ball) and Groups in the Junior and Senior Categories. Russian junior gymnast Yulia Bravikova stood out in the competition with her two routines on Hoop and Ball, though she made a few mistakes with the ball. Tomorrow she will defend her supremacy and fight for the Gold in Clubs and Ribbon.
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Also in the new year of competition in rhythmic gymnastics continues what last years was the standard: Russian top girls determine the undisputed international forefront of the Rhythmic gymnastics, including at the 27th Edition of the International Tournament of Thiais near Paris:
Russia's new star Margarita Mamun dominated the finals of all four hand apparatus and also won the all-around beforewith 71.700 points ahead of his compatriots Daria Svatkovskaya (70.417) and Alexandra Merkulova (69.616).
Best of non-Russians were ...
Nothing more than the continuation of Russian dominance had been the first Grand Prix of Rhythmic Gymnastics season 2013, which took place in the "cave of the lionesses" in Moscow - expected, even if the people involved in the new Olympic cycle are different in some cases: So there was the all-around victory by Margarita MAMUN with 70.932 points and 2.7 points ahead of all the others, and three more Russians (!) came under the top six!
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The international start into the post-Olympic season of rhythmic gymnastics is the 19th anniversary of the "International Miss Valentine Cup" in the Estonian city of Tartu.
This traditional event is the first time the status of an official World Cup Event.
Beginning on Friday evening and continued at Saturday with the both last two apparatus the Ukrainian Ganna RIZATDINOVA ends her all-around competition with the highest score of 69,282 points.On second place came Melitina STANIOUTA from Belarus, scoring...
... if not in the World Cup standings, but the World bronze medalist of 2011 and fourth placed at the Olympics London 2012, Aliya Garayeva (AZE), adopted the invitation to the first World Cup of the season to Tartu (Estonia) only in the final Gala occur - but much to the delight of the organizers of the World Cup premiere in this Nordic country.
Thus equipped, the now 25-year-old exceptional athlete who has announced her retirement...