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Who will compete at the Russian Championships?

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Local press agency reports (google translate in italics) :

Penza from 4 to 8 March will carry Russian Championship in gymnastics, which will bring together about 120 athletes from Central, North-West, Siberian, Southern, Ural, Far Eastern federal districts, as well as from Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The strongest will identify both the individual and team competition. The tournament will be one of the stages of the formation of the national team at the European Championship, which will be held in Montpellier (France) from 13 to 19 April.
Will perform at the national championships and Penza athletes Denis Ablyazin, Pavel Pavlov, Daniil Kazatchkov, Sergey Stepanov, Dmitri Kharkov, Dmitry Turaev, Vitaly Vanifatov, Nikolai Covino, Ivan Tikhon, Nikita Simonov and Anastasia Kadysheva.
"We also take part in competitions athletes: Nikita Ignatiev, David Belyavski, Nikolai Kuksenkov, the winners of the Youth Olympic Games in 2014 in Nanjing  Nikita Nagornyi and Seda Tuthalyan, winners of the Olympic Games in London Victoria Komova, Anastasia Grishina, Ksenia Afanasyeva, Maria Paseka, bronze medalists World Cup championship team Alla Sosnitskaia Polina Fedorova, Maria Kharenkova,  Ekaterina Kramarenko "- told the news agency" Penza-Press "the press service of the Penza school gymnastics.
The official opening ceremony will be held on Tuesday, March 3, at 13.30.

Source: http://www.penza-press.ru/lenta-novostey/73465/v-penze-v-nachale-marta-startuet-chempionat-rf-po-sportivnoj-gimnastike

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  1. Anonymous28 February 2015 at 00:48

    I'm very excited to see Afanseyva once again as well as the rest of the olympic veterans and world team bronze medalist (for the women). Is Daria not competing? or did her name just slip my sight from the list?

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    1. Queen Elizabeth28 February 2015 at 07:34

      I think it is most likely a typo as Daria is in recent photos of those training at Round Lake.

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  2. Unknown28 February 2015 at 17:19

    I really want to see Sokova @ Melnikova these two juniors would be Olympic hopefuls

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    1. Queen Elizabeth28 February 2015 at 19:12

      Both Sokova and Melnikova will be eligible for the senior team next year, but are 2000 born - so you shouldn't expect to see them compete in Penza this week.

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