Information about Pan American Championships 2014
2014 Senior Pan American Championships (and UPAG qualification for the 2015 Pan American Games) for RG, TR and MAG & WAG will be held at Hershey Centre in the city of Mississauga, Ontario (Canada).
Dates for the events are August 20 – September 1, starting with RG, followed by TR and ending with MAG & WAG.
Rhythmic gymnastics events start today until 22nd of August.
Schedule
- 20th of August: Qualifications
- 21st of August: All-Around Finals
- 22nd of August: Apparatus Finals
Tickets
Live scores
http://www.score2u.com/default.aspx
Team U.S.A from left to right: Aliya Protto, Jasmine Kerber, Rebecca Sereda and Cindy Lu
Happy Birthday Maria Titova!
Maria Titova was born in Penza Oblast’, Russia seventeen years ago. Since 2011, “Masha”, won several international tournaments as a junior gymnast such as Deriugina Cup 2012 where she won gold medal with the team.
Irina Viner included Maria in Senior National team with Yana Kudryavtseva, Margarita Mamun and Darya Svatkovskaya. Dinara Gimatova, former Olympic gymnasts who represented both Russia and Azerbaijan, was her first coach in Novogorsk. In 2013 Maria got 5th position in Russian Championships.
“My favorite gymnast ever is Irina Chaschina
European Team Champion, Daria Svatkovskaya got injured so that Maria became number 3 of team Russia. Irina Chaschina (Masha’s favorite gymnast) and Evgeniya Kanaeva coach, Vera Shtelbaums, is right now working with Titova.
Maria attended to almost every top competitions of the year: Grand Prix Moscow, Grand Prix Thiais, World Cup Stuttgart or Grand Prix Holon.
Her next competition will be in Kazan (World Cup) just before World Championships in Izmir.
Maria Titova Grand Prix Thiais 2014
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Interview to Alina Maksymenko
Photo Copyright Anne-Laure T.
Ukrainian former rhythmic gymnastics double Olympic participant, Alina Maksymenko is one of the most admired gymnasts nowadays. Why? Her artistry, charisma and strenght made Alina one of the most popular gymnasts in the last years. She feels the emotions from the first second to the last one of her exercise.
“I think that sometimes I made silly mistakes because of my feelings, for example, throwing the apparatus as high as possible”
Alina became an Olympian in 2008 performing with the group. After Olympics, Anna Bessonova retired and Alina got a difficult challenge: being the leader of Ukrainian National team. At London Olympic Games, Maksymenko ranked 6th. Kiev World Championships in 2013 was the most important competition for Alina before she retired, where she won bronze medal with her “Fever” composition with clubs.
Alina Maksymenko: London 2012 Olympic Games
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Last performance for Alina
Right now Alina is helping Irina Deriugina as a coach.
– “At the beginning of the yearI had to face a very difficult task as a coach: Junior gymnasts (Valeriya Khanina or Margarita Vasylieva) needed to get into the top eight to participate in Youth Olympic Games. This was my debut as a coach. For me this was a new experience not even easier than compete”
“My debut as a coach was not easier than competing”
– “The most difficult is that, when you are on the carpet and make a mistake, you can correct the performance, you’re in control of the situation. Now, as a coach, I can only squeeze my hand with the hope that the gymnast will find a way out to continue the exercise. Unfortunately, at this moment I can not help standing behind the carpet”
– “When you’re a gymnast, everytime you go onto the carpet you get confidence. As a coach, the feeling standing outside the carpet is very different”
Alina and Valeriya Khanina
Source: sport.ua
Information about Grand Prix Berlin 2014
For the 14th time, Berlin hosts the top international gymnasts from all around the world to the Grand Prix competition in the German capital. Olympian Jana Berezko, Darya Sajfutdinova and twice the “Miss tournament” Laura Jung are expected to attend to this tournament.
This year, Grand Prix tournaments were held in Moscow, Russia (28.02.-02.03.14), Thiais, France (08.-03.09.14) and Holon, Israel (28-29.03.14). Berlin will be the fourth stop of this year’s Grand Prix series . The final will be held in Innsbruck, Austria from 11/14/2014
to 11/16/2014.
Berlin will be the fourth stop of this year’s Grand Prix Series
The participants of the Berlin Masters youth clubs and the Berlin Masters RSG camps will provide mood and rhythm in the Max-Schmeling-Halle, getting a new look this year. List of participants – coming soon.
Schedule
Saturday 18th of October:
– 13:00 Grand Prix Qualifications and “Miss Tournament” Prize
Sunday 19th of October:
– 13:00 Grand Prix Final
Tickets are already available from 8 Euro on Saturday and 10 Euro on Sunday at:
https://www.mus-ticket.de/new/app/Shopping?ref=shp76955916&n=Masters%20Ticketshop
Laura Jung (GER) “Miss Tournament” of GP Berlin 2014
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Youth Olympic Games 2014: Drawing of Lots / Startlists
International Meeting Vitoria (Brazil) Results
Russian gymnastics star, Alexandra Soldatova won last weekend in Brazil “IV International Meeting” where European and Southamerican teams took part. Alexandra is number four gymnast in Russian national team ranking, behind current World Champion Yana Kudryavtseva, Margarita Mamun and Maria Titova.
Alexandra Soldatova is coached by Anna Shumilova and used to train in Dynamo Dmitrov School of Gymnastics. Succesful Russian gymnasts such as Daria Kondakova, Adel Galina, Ekaterina Malygina and Olympic Champion Alina Makarenko trained here too.
Spanish group (Lourdes Mohedano, Alejandra Quereda, Artemi Gavezou, Sandra Aguilar and Elena López) beat the favorite, Russian group with 10 clubs.
Local gymnasts, Angelica Kvieczynski and Natalia Gaudio ranked second and third.
All-Around Results
1. Alexandra Soldatova (RUS), 2. Natalia Garcia (ESP), 3. Angelica Kvieczysnki (BRA), Apparatus Finals
Gymnast of the week: Valeriya Khanina
Valeriya Khanina is a gymnast who was born in Donetsk, Ukraine. Last year, “Lera” (short Ukrainian nickname) moved to Kiev for training with national team as a junior gymnast . Since that, Valeriya is one of the top junior individual gymnast of the world, Champion of Ukraine and silver medallist with ribbon European Championships Baku 2014. Her team mates are Yana Yarosh, Mariya Mulik and Valeriya Yuzvyak.
“Donetsk has never had a very popular gymnast, we have football, but maybe if I work hard, I could become a good gymnast. This is my dream”
Former Ukrainian champion, Alina Maksymenko, helped Irina Deriugina with Valeriya’s choreographies and traveled with her to several competitions, like Moscow Grand Prix. Junior GP competition was the event to qualify for Youth Olympic Games, where Valeriya competed against Margarita Vasilieva. Alina is really admired by Valeriya Khanina.
“My favorite apparatus are ribbon and clubs”
Irina Deriugina chose her to represent Ukraine in Youth Olympic Games 2014 as an individual gymnast, being one of the favorites for a medal.
” Our team is very strong. We are fed properly with a good morning breakfast: eggs, cereals and tea. For dinner we eat boiled fish, buckwheat, vegetables and salad. I have never felt hungry and even sometimes we can eat chocolate and ice creams”
Valeriya is one of the favorites for Youth Olympic Games in Rhythmic Gymnastics
Natalia Godunko is selling her gold medal
Ukrainian former gymnast, Natalia Godunko, is selling her World Championships gold medal (Team Competition) in order to support Ukrainian army.
She is also selling a pair of clubs and her yellow and black ribbon that she used back in 2003.
The auction is still working. Some many others Ukrainian athletes are also
Source: Pravda.ru
Commonwealth Games 2014 – Rhythmic Gymnastics
The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. This event is taking place every four years. The games are the fourth largest multi-sport event in the world, after the Olympic Games, the Asian Games, and the Maccabiah Games.
The games are overseen by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), which also controls the sporting programme and selects the host cities. This time Glasgow was selected as a host city.
About Rhythmic gymnastics, Patricia Bezzoubenko from Canada is the favorite for gold medal. Another two gymnasts from the UK are also fighting for the medals: Laura Halford and Francesca Jones. By now, Patricia ranks first.
In groups, Canada is for the moment winning, followed by Wales and Malaysia.
Schedule
Participants
Official Website
Carolina Rodríguez continúa su carrera deportiva hasta Rio 2016
Photo Copyright Olivier Aubrais
La gimnasta leonesa Carolina Rodríguez Ballesteros ha anunciado en una rueda de prensa posterior al Campeonato de Europa que tiene la intención de llegar a competir en los Juegos Olímpicos de Río 2016. Éstos serían sus terceros Juegos Olímpicos junto con Atenas 2004 y Londres 2012.
Carolina se encuentra ahora en una de sus mejores etapas deportivas, siendo una de las veinte mejores gimnastas internacionales, campeona de España por novena vez y décima clasificada en el pasado Campeonato de Europa celebrado en Baku, Azerbayán (clasificación individual).
A sus espaldas lleva diversas lesiones, entre la que destaca su lesión de tobillo de la que fue operada tras los Juegos Olímpicos de Londres y de la que se encuentra recuperada. Lleva siendo gimnasta internacional desde el año 2001, donde junto con Jennifer Colino y Almudena Cid, representó a España en el campeonato del Mundo, celebrado en Madrid. Tras trece años, en los que Carolina reflexionó en varias ocasiones su retirada, la gimnasta vuelve con más fuerza que nunca.
Campeona de los Juegos Mediterráneos Mersin 2013
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“Championships are won at practice”
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