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WAG Tri-Meet - RUS-SUI-GBR

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On Friday we will have a chance to see how the Russian women's team is progressing, when they compete in Switzerland (Sporthalle Lindenhof in Wil) against the British and Swiss.

Relatively little is confirmed yet; all the information on the website other than the time and place of the competition is subject to change.  But the Russian women's team is planned to include :

Aliya Mustafina
Viktoria Komova
Anastasia Grishina
Anna Dementyeva
Maria Paseka
Anastasia Sidorova

Details of the other teams can be found here.   The competition begins at 5.00 pm local time and finishes with the awards ceremony at 9.15.

Good luck to all the girls competing!

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  1. Anonymous16 April 2012 at 17:08

    No Afanassieva?

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  2. Queen Elizabeth16 April 2012 at 17:19

    No - Afanasyeva has extensive competition experience and I don't think they will send her to this competition which is a warm up.
    I'm not even sure we will see her in Brussels ...

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