In 2005 the freshman at the Brooklyn College (New York) Olga Karmansky (USA) won the all-around titel of the US Visa national championships in Indianapolis.
She just missed going to the Olympics and was first alternate to Mary Sanders, who represented the United States in the rhythmic gymnastic competition in Athens 2004.
After winning also the 2005 Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship all-around title in Vitória, Brazil she is currently the top-ranked rhythmic gymnast in the United States.
Tomorrow the SEA Games 2005 which take place in Manila/ Philippines will end after 15 days of competitions. 5336 athletes participated in 50 kinds of sports, among them artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and sports aerobics.
The participating nations are: Brunei, Kambodcha, East- Timur, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
As expected the gymnasts from Malaysia dominated the RG- events. The same was the case in men’s artistic gymnastics. In women’s artistic gymnastics...
Athletes from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Turkey and Romania will participate starting today in rhythmic gymnastics for the Balkan Championships in Bucharest.
The opening festivities will take place on Friday a 4 pm. On Saturday, the competition will start at 4:30 pm while the finals and the awards ceremony will take place on Sunday after 2 pm.
The most famous gymnasts come from Bulgaria, which is one of the leading nations of Rhyhtmic Gymnastics.
From November 4 to 6, the All Japan Rhythmic Gymnastcs Championships2005 were held at Hyogo.
Yukari Murata is the best national gymnast again in Japan, winning this all-around title to the fifth time incessantly from 2001 on!
She also won three of the four apparatus finals - ribbon were won by the all-around vice-champion Ai Yokochi
Previously at the Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney Olympic Games, Yukari Murata participated as a member of the Japanese...
This month British Gymnastics signed a seven-year sponsorship deal with the Korean electronics brand LG. The sponsorship has been designed to promote its new range of Direct Drive washing machines that have been designed with the core values of balance and agility – values they share with the Gymnastics’ teams.
The sponsorship, designed to support the team in the run up to the UK Olympics in 2012, positions LG as the ‘British Gymnastics National Sponsor’ and specifically ‘Sponsor...