Francesca Jones (GBR) won the Senior All-around competition of the 1st LG Rhythmic Gymnastics International at Fenton Manor Sport Complex, in Stoke on Trent on Saturday, 7th April (60.317), followed by the Bulgarian Monika Vedrichkova (Silver, 60.133) and Demetra Mancheva, Canada (Bronze, 57.783).
The Junior section was dominated by the Russians, Diana Botsieva (Gold) and Yana Loukonina (Silver) with the Canadian Clara Bernier winning the Bronze.
The best British Junior, Francesca Fox, was also very close to the...

Three European Capitals as Candidates
After the realization of the 1997 worlds, the German capital  Berlin - together with the German Gymnastics Federation DTB - applied to host the 2011 World Championships of Rhythmic Gymnastics for the second time.
The Russian metropolis  Moscow and Paris have the same intention..... the deadline for this is the end of April this year.
At the meeting of the F.I.G. council in Orlando, May 18-19 the FIG will assign these very important  Pre-Olympic worlds, one year before...