♦ 24th Deriugina Cup 2019
Like almost every year, this spring is packed with international top events in rhythmic gymnastics:
It started in January with the Grand Prix competitions in Moscow and Marbella. The 3rd Grand Prix follows now in mid-March in Kiev during the 24th International Deriugina Cup and a week later follows the Grand Prix No. 4 in the French Thiais. In the following month of April, then the world association FIG has set...
More than 350 gymnasts from 60 different nations took part at the 2018 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships this month in Sofia (BUL), where competition begun on Monday, Sep 10 and finished with the last finals on Sunday, Sep 16.
The World Championships also served as the first 2020 Olympic qualification, as the three medallists from the Group All-around competition, qualified to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo (JPN). These Worlds took place for the first time in the...
* fig - n e w s---: International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) President Morinari Watanabe led a roundtable discussion at the 2018 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Sofia (BUL) to address key issues for the sport's future and the technical direction of the discipline. President Watanabe was joined by members of the FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics Technical Committee and the FIG Competition Commission to speak with 85 delegation members representing dozens of federations.
The FIG roundtable discussion with...
After the fourth and last FIG World Cup Event in Baku, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) started its first of four so-called "Challenge Cups" of Rhythmic Gymnastics.
This year's first event took place in the Spanish city of Guadalajara, followed by the second in Portimao (POR), Mai 11 - 13, but the third in Berlin at the end of May was cancelled in 2018 January already by the German organizers.
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fig-report--: Alexandra Soldatova (RUS) and the Italian Group captured the All-around titles via tiebreaks Saturday at the 2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup in Kazan (RUS), where Dina Averina and the Russian group swept the apparatus finals on Sunday.
The event at the Kazan Gymnastics Centre, the fourth and final stop of the 2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup Series, attracted more than 125 gymnasts from three dozen nations and served as a final warm-up for many gymnasts prior...