At the this last weekend of September took place the traditional "AEON CUP 2012" in the Japanese capital of Tokyo. 20 club teams representing 18 different nations came to participate at this international top highlight of rhythmic gymnastics five weeks after the Olympic events in London.
Among their club teams started also two of the the three Olympic medalists:
Olympic champion Evgeniya Kanaeva (RUS) missed, but Daria Dmitrieva (RUS) was member of the GAZPROM team and Liubou Charkashyna in the Byelorussian DINAMO team.
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<< Iliana Raeva (49) - one of the former Bulgarian top-trio of the earlier Eighties Raleva, Ignatova, Ralenkova - will run now for the presidential post of the Bulgarian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics at the upcoming General Assembly on 14 November, bTV reported.
The former national team coach announced her decision after the meeting of the Managing Board of the Federation.
The current Federation President Maria Gigova most probably will not run for reelection. Iliana Raeva...
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34 years after Madrid 1978 now the 28th European Championships of Rhythmic Gymnastics takes place eight weeks before the Olympic competitions in London. Host city is Nizhny Novgorod, near Gorky in Russia, where one of the leading Russian centers of these graceful, feminine of all gymnastic disciplines is home. So the leading top nation of rhythmic gymnastics organizes to the third time such a big continental highlight, afzter the Europeans 2005 and 2006, which took place in Moscow. From...
The second day of the 28th European Championships of rhythmic gymnastics 2012 ended with the expected and overwhelming success of the Russian school of Rhythmic gymnastics:
Olympic gold medallist and world champion Evgeniya KANAEVA won the European crown in an impressive Olympic form and with 4 maximum ratings with all apparatus all-around gold and with the super score of 118,150!
Also the Vice Champion title, remained in the country of the hosts and went to Alexandra MERKULOWA (116,425),...