For the 30th time the International Tournament of Rhythmic Gymnastics was held in the Paris suburb Thiais. In the rank of a Grand Prix it was the second tournament in the Olympic year to Moscow (February).
And again dominated Russia's gymnasts who won by Margarita Mamun (all-around, hoop, clubs) and by Alexandra Soldatova (ball and ribbon) all the individual disciplines.
All remaining medals were won Melitina Staniouta from Belarus (1 silver; 3x Bronze) and ...
At the traditional "29th MTM-Tournament 2016" in the Gymnastics Center of the Slovenian capital Ljubljana Russia's world champion Margarita MAMUN scored 75,950 points and won the all-around competition. With a difference of -2.6 the Belarus champion Melitina STANIOUTA came on second place with 73,350, followed by Linoy ASHRAM from Israel with a score of 71,350 points.
Behind the Spaniard Carolina Rodriguez (70,750) Austria's Nicol Ruprecht came on fifth place (70,300), together with Katsiaryna Halkina from Byelorussia.
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The 2006 serie of rhythmic world cups of the International Gymnastics Federation F.I.G. started at the last weekend of February in the second largest city of Finland, in Espoo, which was also host of Olympic fencing competitions in the Summer of 1952 (Helsinki) ...
Now some of the world's best rhythmic gymnasts came to Finland in the year of the upcoming Olympic Games: Best of them was Russia's Aleksandra SOLDATOVA, winning the all-around competition (27,750) in front of...
* fig-news --: The drawing of lots for April's Aquece Rio Test Event, the final opportunity for gymnasts to qualify to compete at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games, was held Wednesday at FIG Headquarters in Lausanne (SUI).
The draw determines the rotation order for each country in the competition, which can play a big role in the strategy of gymnasts.