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Anastasia Sidorova and Maria Bondareva come out on top at Eva Kanyo Memorial

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2012 Olympic prospect Anastasia Sidorova made a successful return to competition this weekend at Hungary's Eva Kanyo Memorial event. Anastasia will turn 16 next 28th September and is coached in Rostov on Don by Olga Sagina, at the same club as former Russian Olympian Elena Produnova.

You can find a summary of a 2008 interview with Anastasia here.

This was Anastasia's return to international competition following a wrist injury incurred whilst riding her bike in the spring.  It is fairly clear that she is returning to full strength, with a high beam score of 15.166 and an overall total of 56.748, not bad for a gymnast who still struggles relatively on uneven bars (13.366). 

The competition was broken down into senior, junior and adolescent (to me, baby), with World Championships reserve team member Alyona Polyan taking the senior competition and youngster (born 28th November 1999) Maria Bondareva winning the youngest division.  Bondareva is a member of the national team and hails from Fryazino in Moscow Oblast, where she is trained by U Pursheva. 

The men's competition was similarly dominated by the Russians, led by senior Dmitri Stolyarov (born 1991, trains in Moscow under V Stolyarov), junior Aleksei Rostov (born 1993, trains in Moscow with coach D Aliyautdinov) and adolescent Igor Lemoshenko (born 1997, trains in Obninsk under D Berezner).

With thanks to Nora at the All Around Forum who provided the following links:


Full results, women's competitions
Full results, men's competitions
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