Even in home advantage in their state capital Minsk the Belarusian Melitina Staniouta didn't manage to jeopardize the peak position of the Russian Jana KUDRYAVTSEVA. So she won not the all-around qualification of the 7th World Cup of this season with 74.583 points, ahead of Staniouta (72.867) and in two other Russians, Margerita Mamun and Maria Titova, but Kudryavtseva also dominated, as expected, the final apparatus decisions and won three times. Only Melitina STANIOUTA won for...
The Crimean crisis, the unrest in the Ukraine ... all this moves of course also the Ukrainian athletes, gymnasts and coaches. Thus, there are numerous opinions and appeals in the internet. Well-known names, such as the former artistic world star Lilya Podkopaeva or rhythmic gymnast Anna Bessonova or spoke out. This did recently, the two-time all-around world champion of rhythmic gymnastics in the Seventies (1977, '79), who later evolved to her famous mother's side Albina to head of the world...
German organisers of the 2015 FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships welcomed the discipline’s international elite to the GAZPROM World Cup that took place in Stuttgart’s Porsche-Arena from March 22 – 23, 2014. Part of the 2014 FIG World Cup series the tournament boasts a high-level line-up led by reigning All-around World Champion Yana Kudryavtseva and the new star Margarita Mamun of Russia.
* A special World Cup summary with all the results you will find on our German...
To the 3rd time the Hungarian Gymnastics Federation organized a World Cup (cat. B) of Rhythmic gymnastics, which took place in Debrecen, March 14 - 16.
It was the first of altogether nine world cup events of this year.
Best gymnast of the Friday's all-around qualification was the Russian Alexandra SOLDATOVA, who scored 70,750 points. On second place came Anna RIZATDINOVA from Ukraine with 70,333 points, followed by Russia's Elizaveta NAZARENKOVA (69,983).
Altogether...
Moscow is hosting the first Grand Prix Event of the year 2014 (finals on Sunday, March 02), followed by the Grand Prix in Thiais (FRA) and the Grand Prix in Holon (ISR) this March and the last of this 2014 circuit one in October, the Berlin Masters (GER).
No fewer than five Russian gymnasts - led by Margarita MAMUN (74,999) - have set at the all-around qualification to the top of the field of 40 gymnasts. Best...