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Bondareva dominates junior Russian National EF with three golds

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Gold is standard for a gymnast whose name is appearing regularly now in the headlines of this blog.  Over the last two days, tiny Maria Bondareva took three golds in the Candidate Master of Sport event finals at this year's Russian Nationals.  Whether Bondareva is old enough to compete at the forthcoming Junior European Championships - I don't know.  But I hope she is!!  The full results in Russian are here.

Vault

Evgeniya Korolkova 13.76
Yulia Starchenko      13.59
Maria Bondareva      13.59

Uneven Bars

Maria Bondareva      13.92
Viktoria Kuzmina      13.9
Evgeniya Korolkova  13.42

Beam

Maria Bondareva       14.92
Kristina Levshina       14.04
Viktoria Kuzmina       13.96

Floor

Maria Bondareva      13.9
Viktoria Kuzmina      13.46
Kristina Levshina      13.34

In the Master of Sport category, all around champion Fyodorova took two golds, in beam and floor.  Full results are available here.

Vault

Irina Voropaeva         13.45
Irina Yashina              13.13
Maria Borisova          13.05

Uneven bars

Irina Yashina              14.26
Yulia Chemaryeva      13.8
Yuna Nefedova          12.66

Beam

Polina Fyodorova        13.98
Yulia Obcharova         13.22
Ekaterina Shtronda      11.7

Floor

Polina Fydorova          13.18
Irina Voropaeva          13.0
Galina Gannochenko    12.86
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