Irina Viner continues to trust, and at the same time to test young people at important starts, thereby creating competition in the team. So, at the next stage of the World Cup, which was held in Minsk, Russia was represented by very young Daria Svatkovskaya and Yana Kudryavtseva and brought 8 medals for two to the team’s piggy bank. The result is more than good, especially since Kudryavtseva won the all-around and became the first in the final exercise with the ball (Yana also won two silver medals in the finals with clubs and a ribbon). Svatkovskaya finished second in the all-around, won the final with the hoop and came second and third…

From March 21 to March 22, the traditional international tournament in rhythmic gymnastics “Grand Prix Tier-2015” was held in the French Thiers. The victory in the all-around and in three of the four finals was won by Ukrainian Anna Rizatdinova. Ksenia Mustafayeva, a gymnast from France, won the second place in the all-around and three bronze medals in the finals. Neta Rivkin, representing Israel, became the third in the all-around, the champion in the final with a hoop and the silver medalist in the final performance with the ball. Also, three medals (two silver and one bronze) are being brought home by Marina Durunda from Azerbaijan. Hoop (final)Neta Rivkin ISR 18.150 Ganna Rizatdinova UKR 17.733 Marina…

On October 17-19, the unofficial world championship in rhythmic gymnastics among clubs Aeon Cup-2014 was held in Japan. In the team competition, the first place was taken by the Gazprom team (Russia), the second – by Dynamo (Belarus), the third – by the School of Deriugins. In the individual championship among seniors, the best was Russian Margarita Mamun (Gazprom), second – her compatriot Yana Kudryavtseva (Gazprom), third – Melitina Stanyuta (Dynamo, Belarus). The distribution of forces in the personal junior standings is as follows: 1.  Veronika Polyakova  (Gazprom); 2. Maria Trubach (Dynamo, Belarus); 3.  Zhala Pirieva  (Osaq Sport Club, Azerbaijan). Complete results

The last stage of the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup this year has come to an end in Kazan. Its winner was the absolute world and European champion Russian Yana Kudryavtseva. She won the all-around and three of the four finals. Although after the first day Margarita Mamun was in the lead, however, an error in the exercise with clubs prevented her from fighting for the highest step of the podium in the all-around. She is the second. The third place was taken by the always stable Belarusian Melitina Stanyuta. The fourth in the all-around was Ekaterina Galkina (Belarus), who has been rapidly progressing lately. In the final part of the competition, Kudryavtseva once again proved who…

The stage of the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup ended last weekend in the capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent. Margarita Mamun won victories in the exercises with clubs and ribbon, and also took second place in the exercise with the ball. World champion Yana Kudryavtseva excelled in exercises with a ball and a hoop, became sixth with clubs and seventh with a ribbon. Russian gymnasts also won in the group all-around, sharing the first place with the Israelis in the exercise with three balls and two ribbons, and with them the second place in the exercise with ten clubs. Azerbaijani women won in this sport.   Ball.  1. Yana Kudryavtseva (Russia) – 18,500. 2.Margarita Mamun…

Muscovite Yana Kudryavtseva won the all-around at the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Penza. Based on the results of the exercises with a hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon, the athlete scored 77.483 points in total. Silver medal was awarded to Margarita Mamun from St. Petersburg, who earned 77,250 points. Alexandra Soldatova from the Moscow region rose to the third step of the podium – 75.383 points. According to the champion, despite a successful performance, there is still work to do. “Everything went well. I did what was planned, but there is no limit to perfection. Therefore, we are still finalizing it. There is no program that would be perfect or very well executed at…

The Russian flywheel of rhythmic gymnastics is starting to spin . The second major tournament of this season, which was the Grand Prix in French Thiers, confirms this. Gymnasts traditionally changed all their programs, but the Russians invariably won almost everywhere – both in individual and group championships. The rivals were able to take medals only where the strongest gymnasts of the world made mistakes (I’m not afraid of this word – today it is so). Now the advantage of the Russian team in the complexity of the performances, especially the work with the subject, is already visible, and if everything is done cleanly, it is very difficult to compete with them. Difficult, but possible. The…

On March 28-29, a rhythmic gymnastics tournament of the Grand Prix series was held in Holon, Israel. Not all countries sent their leaders to these competitions. So from Ukraine, Anna Rizatdinova missed the Grand Prix, from Balerusi Melitina Stanyuta, the Korean woman Son Yong Ji , as well as some other strong gymnasts , was not on the lists  . The Russian national team, at the tournament, appeared to be the strongest composition at the moment: Kudryavtseva, Mamun, Titova. Based on the results of previous starts and paying attention to who is in what shape now, these three could safely be written into the number of favorites. So, in fact, it happened. The Russians confidently took the entire podium…

On November 22, the Moscow Rhythmic Gymnastics Cup took place at the Dynamo Sports Palace. The tournament, which takes place annually at the Sports Palace on the street. Lavochkin, traditionally gathered on the carpet the best of the Moscow “artists” who competed in certain types of exercises. In the bitter struggle of the most flexible and graceful athletes of the capital, the charming twins Arina and Dina Averina became the best. Arina won the podium, Dina became the second, and Elena Banina won the bronze  . The sisters train with  Vera Shatalina , the senior coach of the country’s youth national team, according to an individual program. Vera Nikolaevna is an honored coach of Russia. Coach of the Olympic champion,…

n August 12-14, an international junior rhythmic gymnastics tournament was held in St. Petersburg on the eve of the World Cup stage. Among the participants are young gymnasts from Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia. The undisputed favorite of the competition was the Russian woman  Yulia Bravikova . She won by more than a solid margin over the runner-up  Nicoleta Dulgeru  from Moldova. Laima Lipkina  from Latvia became the bronze medalist of the all-around.