This weekend the rhythmic family made a stopover in Minsk for the "World Cup BelSwissBank".
50 individual senior and 19 junior gymnasts as well as 11 groups from all over the world, even as far as from North Korea and Venezuela, competed in these three days.
Once again the Russian super star Evgenia KANAEVA was unbeatable, not in all-around and not in the Sunday's final.
Togethe with Daria Dmitrieva (rope) and two times...
1st Youth Olympic Games Singapore (SIN),
- August 14 – 26, 2010 -
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* f i g --: While the countdown is on for the 1st Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, the qualification phase for the FIG’s Olympic disciplines is now closed.
The official drawing of lots for Artistic, Rhythmic and Trampoline Gymnastics competitions took place parallel to the FIG Council meeting in Chiba (JPN) on May 13, 2010.
As expected, no other gymnast could beat Daria Kondakova from Russia in the finals, she was the best with rope, hoop, ball and ribbon.
Nevertheless, on second and third places we saw more variety than usual winning one silver medal ??? from ???, and another ??? from ???
>> Final Rope
>> Final Hoop
>> Final Ball
>> Final Ribbon
From 7th to 9th May the world's best gymnasts compete at the World Cup in Corbeil-Essones, a smaller city not far from Paris.
At this 36th edition 66 gymnasts from 30 countries will fight to stand on the top of the podium. After finishing the first two routines the competition Russia´s Daria Kondakova is in the lead followed by Alina Maksymenko from the Ukraine, which is a quite big surprise because at the beginning of the...
At the last weekend of April the Japanese Gymnastics Association organized a first national competition to select the candidates for the this years World Championships of Rhythmic Gymnastics, which will held in September in the Russian capital Moscow.
After the qualification event in Tokoy are nominated now:
<< Yuria ONUKI (< photo, left) and Hiromi NAKAZAWA from Tokyo Women's College of Physical Education as well as Riko ANAKUBO and Runa YAMAGUCHI from the RC club...