Pacific Rim Championships 2014 Results

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From left to right: Aliya Protto (USA), Patricia Bezzoubenko (CAN), Cindy Lu (USA)

Ten countries competed last week in Richmond, Canada, at Pacific Rim Championships. It consists of : junior competition, junior groups competition and senior individual competition.

Patricia Bezzoubenko, Canada, was the favorite for getting most of medals, besides Cindy Lu and Aliya Protto from USA.

Team Competition

Pacific rim rhythmic

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Team Canada
Photo Copyright Grace Chiu

Senior Individual Finals

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Patricia Bezzoubenko (CAN)
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Gymnast of the Week: Patricia Bezzoubenko

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Patricia Bezzoubenko (CAN) at World Cup Corbeil 2013
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This week (21st of February) is Canadian gymnast, Patricia Bezzoubenko’s birthday. Patricia splits her time between Russia and Canada. Her coach is Svetlana Joukova who is also international judge.

Patricia holds dual citizenship with Canada and Russia and spends long periods of time training with Russian National team in Moscow. Since she joined Canadian National team as a junior, she won a lot of medals: junior champion of Canada,  first at 2011 Koop Cup and podium poditions at international competitions such as Montreal World Cup.

In 2012 Patricia won several medals at PanAmerican junior championships. A year after, she became senior gymnasts.

Patricia training at Grand Prix Thiais 2013:

“I think I became a little bit better than when I was junior that I was like a kid. I just want to work. Of course I would like to go to Olympic Games, but I don’t want to think about it”

Last week, Patricia won Canada Rhythmic Championships as a senior for the second time.