Information about Miss Valentine 2015

“Miss Valentine” is the second international Tournament held in Tartu (Estonia). This competition consists of: Rhythmic Competitions for Junior individual gymnasts, senior individual gymnasts and s and “AGG” Junior and Senior competition. At the same week, unfortunatly there will be Moscow Grand Prix, the first GP of the year.

More than 1200 gymnasts from all over the world (31 different countries) are already registered. The AGG World Cup event and FIG tournament will begin in exactly four weeks time and last three days from 20-22 Ferbuary. This will be the 21st Miss Valentine tournament in a row.

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Team “Madonna”

“At the moment we have about 1200 gymnasts registered for the three-day competition. With coaches and other delegation members the number of participants has already crossed 1400,” says Ms. Janika Mölder, the founder and chief organizer of the tournament. “This number is most likely not final, since we’ve always had some last minute additions.”

“At the moment we have about 1200 gymnast registered fir our three-day competition”

Some RG Stars will participate in this tournament such as Anna Rizatdinova and Viktoriya Maur from Ukraine, Jasmine Kerber from the USA or Marina Durunda from Azerbaijan. The reigning world AGG Campion, “Madonna” from Russia will be there aswell.

Countries registered for Miss Valentine 2015:

ARM, AUS, AZE, CAN, CRO, CZE, DEN, EST, ESP, FIN, FRA, FRO, GER, GRE, HUN, KAZ, LAT, LTU, LUX, NED, NOR, RUS, SWE, SUI, TUR, UKR, USA, MEX, BLR, ITA, JPN

Rhythmic Gymnastics Tricks

Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport which mixes dance, artistry, flexibility and originality. Original elementa can be executed with an apparatus, showing off handling tricks or just using the body. Some of them were included in the code of points with the name of the gymnast such as Utyasheva’s flexibility element. One of the gymnasts that included a lot of originalities in early 2000’s was Russian Alina Kabaeva, 1st place at Athens Olympic Games in 2004.

 

Backscale Pivot

This technic element was performed by Alina Kabaeva for the first time but most of the Russian Team included it in their programmes: Olga Kapranova, Yana Lukonina, Vera Sessina, Zarina Gizikova…

Nowadays this element is not as popular as it was but it is still performed by Natalia García (ESP) and Anastasiya Serdyukova (UZB)

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Anastasiya Serdyukova (UZB)

Photo Copyright Bernd Thierolf

 

Utyasheva’s element

This extremely difficult element was only performed by Russian gymnast Lyasan Utyasheva who retired almost at the beggining of her international career due to a serious foot injury

 

Cosak’s Jump

Inna Zhukova from Belarus and Silver medallist in Beijing 2008,  always included this element in her routines.

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Bessonova’s Swan

This is one of the most elegant originalities with an apparatus: moving the hoop with the foot while doing a technical element.

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Margarita Mamun’s originality

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She is executing this element for so many years.

 

Spinning ball on a finger

Maria Titova, Christalleni Trikomiti and Yana Kudryavtseva can spin a ball on a finger for more than 5 seconds. Kudryavtseva’s element was one of the most amazing in the last year.

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Ring element – unstable apparatus

This element was performed by Alina Kabaeva since 2001 and had a lot of controversy about it because of her execution.

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Catch out of field of view

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