Rhythmic Gymnastics Facts
- Russian gymnasts Nataliya Bulycheva and Sofiya Tesmenitskaya are working as a model. Nataliya is living in Paris and Sofiya in Singapore
- Anna Rizatdinova met Almudena Cid during Corbeil-Essonnes World Cup this year. She really admires Almudena and her personality
- Ukrainian gymnasts love a rock band from Ukraine called “Okean Elzy” (Elsa’s Ocean)
- Group from Belarus was claimed to change 3+2 music few weeks before European Championships
- Carolina Rodríguez doesn’t want to retire before Rio 2016
- Team Ukraine will be in a training camp the first week of July
- Lala Yusifova’s favorite gymnast is Alina Maksymenko
- Anna Bessonova started doing rhythmic gymnastics when she was 5 years old
- Salome Pazhava trains between 6 and 7 hours a day
- Some gymnasts (also former) from Spanish team are medicine students such as Alejandra Quereda and Loreto Achaerandio
European Championships 2014 Results
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Senior Individual Results
Junior Individual Results
Senior Groups Results
European Championships Baku 2014 Information
European Championships of Rhythmic Gymnastics 2014 will be held in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan from june 13th to 15th.
“MGA” Arena was built to host Rhythmic and Artistic Gymnastics events. It consists of more than 9000 seats and it was designed to be able to adapt the main arena to host a variety of events if required. It also has a lot of facilities such as cafe, offices and training rooms.
European Championships Baku 2014 – Schedule
Livestream Links:
http://eurovision.digotel.com/ueg/index.html
Sportbox- Russia
http://news.sportbox.ru/Vidy_sporta/hud_gimnastika/spbvideo_NI459722_CHempionat-Evropi-Deni-1
European Championships Baku 2014 Participants
Junior Individual Gymnasts
Yulia Bravikova (RUS)
Photo Copyright Bernd Thierolf
Senior Individual Gymnasts
Margarita Mamun (RUS)
Carolina Rodríguez (ESP)
Senior Groups and Delegations
Happy Birthday Anastasiya Serdyukova!
Anastasiya Serdyukova, Miss Valentine 2014
Photo Copyright Bernd Thierolf
Anastasiya Serdyukova is a gymnast from Uzbekistan, living in Tashkent. She is a succesful gymnast both as a junior and senior. Team Uzbekistan is compounded by Djamila Rakhmatova, Anastasiya Serdyukova and Elizaveta Nazarenkova, who recently got Uzbek citizenship.
Anastasiya won “Marina Cup” Tournament this year
Her best competitions this season were Miss Valentine International tournament and Marina Cup, where she got gold medal in All-Around. Anastasiya is competing in senior category since 2013, when Uliyana Trofimova, R.G. Star decided to stop doing gymnastics due to an injury.
Anastasiya and her coach, Sevar
Photo Copyright Bernd Thierolf
Anastasiya at World Championships Kiev 2013
Photo Copyright Olivier Aubrais
Anastasiya has this picture as a screensaver in her mobile phone
Photo Copyright Bernd Thierolf
Information about World Cup Minsk 2014
BelSwissbank World Cup rhythmic gymnastics will be held in Minsk on 31st of May and 1st of June. Twenty-seven countries will compete at this stage.
According to head coach of Belarus Irina Leparskaya, this is a brilliant, amazing event.
Livestream will be restricted due to FIG regulations.
This event is the last one just before European championships that will be in Baku the second week of June.
Schedule
Startlist
Team Ukraine will compete for free in European Championships
Minister of Sports of Ukraine, Dmitriy Bulatov confirmed that Team Ukraine will compete in European Championships with almost free fees, due to the current financial situation in this country.
Ukraine has not confirmed yet its participation in World Championships, that will be held in Izmir, Turkey.
Viktoriya Mazur (UKR)
“We are all devasted. It is so sad to live what is happening in our country right now” – said Ireesha Blohina, Ukrainian National team coach.
“What is clear is that I won’t change my citizenship. I am Ukrainian and I will compete for Ukraine” – said current World Hoop Champion, Anna Rizatdinova.
Anna Rizatdinova (UKR)
Anastasiya Mulmina
Group UKR with their coach, Irina Deriugina
Valeriya Khanina, junior (UKR) and former RG star Alina Maksymenko (UKR)
World Cup Corbeil 2014 Results.
Corbeil-Essonnes World Cup is one of the biggest events in the RG calendar. This year, this competition celebrates its 40th edition. Former RG stars, such as Anna Bessonova, Natalia Godunko, Almudena Cid, Simona Peycheva and Elizabeth Paysieva attended as guests.
Margarita Mamun from Russia racked up 73.382 points during the All-Around final. Yana Kudryavtseva ranked second (faltered with ball) and Anna Rizatdinova from Ukraine won bronze.
Arina Charopa (BLR)
Lala Yusifova(AZE) and Deng Senyue returned to competition after a period of absence due to an injury.
Next World Cup will be held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Finals
Veronique Kristoffy’s Trophy
Viktoriya Mazur UKR
Photo Copyright Manfred Engele
All-Around
All-Around Podium
Amsterdam Masters 2014 Results
AmsterdaMMasters 2014 is an international rhythmic gymnastics tournament that was held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
This tournament consist of:
– Junior individual competition
– Senior individual competition
– Senior groups competition
The event AmsterdaMMasters has shown that our beautiful sport can reach a large audience and is also responsible for Dutch rhythmic gymnastics being back on the international calendar.
Carolina Rodríguez from Spain got the best score in Senior All-Around, performing a new ribbon routine with piano music just a few weeks before European Championships. Second place went for Nicol Ruprecht from Austria and third for Dora Vass from Hungary.
Senior individual AA Winner, Carolina Rodríguez ESP
Russian group (B) was the winner of Senior Groups All-Around. Here you can see detailes scores and results:
Senior Individual All Around Podium
Videos
Images
Galleries
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Quotes
“Championships are won at practice”
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