Rewriting Russian Gymnastics

Daria Spiridinova - impossible to forget.  Picture courtesy of RGF As Russia's young gymnasts prove their mettle at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Tbilisi this week - see RRG's Facebook page and Twitter account for results and updates - Valentina Rodionenko reports on an upcoming international competition that will be a testing ground for the Russian team in preparation for the World Championships. I would suggest we might expect more news over the coming days - the usual pattern of Valentina's press activity is for news to be released piecemeal to several different sources, often providing conflicting information - so don't expect anything conclusive here. So now, read on as Valentina has her say : All the leaders of the Russian national team in gymnastics will perform at a tournament in Georgia MOSCOW, July 31 - R-Sport, Maria Vorobyov.  All the leaders of the Russian national team in gymnastics will take part in the Rusudan Sikharulidze...

Capt. Sergei Shachin | Posted in room №1380, November 1984 Retain In My World Share Add to blog Print version Permalink Report an error First Natasha noticed Turishcheva. She went once to Rastorotsky and said, "Vladislav Stepanovich, over there on the mat, warming up girl. I've been to look after her, has it something ... "Speech captain Natalia Yurchenko USSR at last year's world championships in Budapest confirmed that the right was Turishcheva, recognizing eight years ago, a young gymnast his future successor. In a bitter struggle Yurchenko did not flinch once. First, together with her friends on the team celebrated overall victory, and then became an absolute champion. - I was born and grew up to ten years in Norilsk. Parents now live there. The Pope - Head of the Department on the smelter, mother - Senior Accountant on the railway. She enrolled me in this section of the coach Galina Hasanova. After the long polar night, we went to rest with the coach of the Black...

An hour early maturity Sergei Shachin | Posted in room №1370, June 1984 Retain In My World Share Add to blog Print version Permalink Report an error At sixteen, many of us have set themselves super-task. However, not many manage at this age to convince others of the feasibility of their desires. Moscow schoolchildren Dmitry Bilozerchevu succeeded! Last autumn in Budapest became the youngest undisputed world champion in the history of gymnastics. Winning Dmitry sparked a lively response from readers of "change." Peers champion interested in a variety of details of his still short career. Such interest is understandable: after all, the fate of the winner analyzing, comparing it with their own destiny, we learn from his example. When and how Dmitry became an athlete? This question Muscovite S. Agaltsova and many other readers responsible father gymnast Vladimir Bilozerchev: - The fact that Dima will be famous, we never dreamed of. Our family ordinary, working, I - welder's w...

Photo edit courtesy of the gymnastics group on VK.com Anastasia Grishina, "Now the main thing for me - completely recover" Tags Russian gymnastics team women injured Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Anastasia Grishina Russian gymnast Anastasia Grishina told about his recovery from injury. "I still go to the center of regenerative medicine and rehabilitation, develop leg doing physiotherapy. But soon after his return from the hospital began to go to the gym - pumped muscles. Doctors say that rehabilitation is going to plan. Today, July 13, I was already possible to jump and slowly start to work on the equipment. I can give a leg strain, but without fanaticism - it is necessary to make it completely healed. This season, I made only championship in Moscow in early February. Makes all the shells, all-round ranked second. I will try to recover from the September Cup of Russia. The choice of shells and base exercises will depend on the state of the knee. Now the main thing for me - com...

The gymnastics group at VK.com has published an interview with 2000 Olympian, Elena Produnova.  Thanks for their permission to provide an edit of it here. People will remember Elena in particular for two reasons: her original vault that no one else has been able to emulate; and her own special brand of powerful  acrobatics, energetic temperament and musical flow, a heady mixture that today's gymnasts find impossible to match. Recently there have been some photographs of Elena working in a gym.  Although she has always said that she wouldn't have a coaching career, it seems that now she is a coach at a gym in Nalchik,  a town in the very south of the Russian Federation, in the foothills of the Caucasian mountains, in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.   The first question, tell us how you ended up in Nalchik? - Nalchik came up at the right time, in terms of my life circumstances.  Through my previous work I had a very good friend - head of the sports depart...

They praised our area for sports arenas June 5, 2014 4:32 Star team of legends As you know, the athletes of the Soviet Union made its debut at the Olympics in 1952. And after eight years Voronezh gained his first triumph of the Games. They became the 21-year-old pupil of the famous coach Yuri Shtukman, a student at the Faculty of Chemistry VSU Lyuhina Tamara, who won the "gold" in the team competition in gymnastics. Her partner on a brilliant team of the USSR were the legendary Larisa Latynina, Lydia Ivanova, Pauline Astakhov, Margarita Nikolaeva, Sophia Muratov. In Rome in 1960, our compatriot has twice raised on a pedestal. She managed to win the bronze medal in the floor exercise and uneven bars. In both types of programs ahead of Voronezh athlete managed only compatriot - already mentioned Latynina and Astakhov. Gone for another four years, and she went to his second Olympics - in Tokyo. Composition of female national team updated half, but Soviet girls...

Гимнаст Игнатьев сказал, что на ЧМ отдает предпочтение выступлению за команду МОСКВА, 2 сен - Р-Спорт, Мария Воробьева.  Чемпион Европы по спортивной гимнастике  Никита Игнатьев  заявил агентству "Р-Спорт", что на  чемпионате мира  этого года для него важнее выиграть медаль в командном многоборье, чем одержать личную победу. На отборочном к чемпионату мира Кубке России Игнатьев одержал  уверенную победу в многоборье , впервые в карьере набрав больше 90 баллов - 90,650. Спортсмен был включен в состав сборной России для участия в чемпионате мира, который пройдет в китайском Наньнине 3-12 октября. "Все-таки предпочтение я отдаю выступлению за команду, - сказал Игнатьев по телефону. - Личная медаль важна, но там уже как звезды сойдутся. А вот за команду хотелось бы отдать все силы, поэтому нужно морально подготовиться к тяжелой борьбе. Не скрою, победа на чемпионате Европы придала в этом плане уверенности". Гимнаст добавил, что не пристально следил за выс...

Contemplating her future - Tatiana Nabiyeva Extracts from an interview with Natalia Plekhanov of All Sport -  http://www.allsportinfo.ru/index.php?id=94780 'If the Russia Cup does not work out I will finish my career and move on to coaching' - I have not been training, until July 25, I have a little break.  Then I'll start to train in St. Petersburg. I haven't been invited to centralized training with the Russian national team at the training base,  "Round Lake".  My health is all right. Sometimes, I have back pain, but I'm used to it (laughs). I have had back problems for ten years, I put up with it. - I did terribly at the Russian Championships in March!  After last year's World Championships in China, where we won the bronze medal in the team competition, I, unfortunately, relaxed a great deal, put on some weight. I was supposed to compete at a tournament in France, but couldn't. I stopped training, and until mid-February hardly went to the gym ...

The Russian women won the gold medal today in the team competition at the Universiade in Gwangju, ahead of the Japanese and Korean teams.   The picture is Alla Sotnikova's gold medal ... from her Instagram account - thank you, Alla!  Congratulations! It was a fantastic team effort, highlighted by Polina Fyodorova's stable performances on bars, beam and floor, Maria Paseka's powerful vaulting (strong Amanar) and bars work, and Kramarenko's bars.  I loved the way that Fyodorova's technique on bars looked so effortless (wonderful 1.5 turn on the top of the high bar), the expressiveness of Sidorenko's floor work, and the power and emphatic charm of Elizarova.  This is not to ignore the great efforts of Kramarenko and Paseka, but we see these two often on the international scene and their gymnastics is familiar, and on a different level.   Alla Sidorenko, for example, has not featured on a national team before, and the native of St Petersburg showed her class her...

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The Russian artistic gymnastics teams are now safely at home in the athletes village at Gwangju, and the competition begins tomorrow.  The really good news for us is that we'll be able to watch all the action live for free online.  Check the schedule and register at  http://www.livefisu.tv/live?ICID_HOM_TOP_1 There are team, all around and event finals.  Russia's top gymnast present will be Olympic medallist and European Champion, Maria Paseka, who is captaining the women's team in Gwangju.  The men's competition will be favoured by the presence of Ukrainian Oleg Verniaiev who is fresh from his victories at the European Games in Baku.  I hope he can maintain his health through the many competitive starts he is working on this year.  The funding of the Ukrainian programme is very poor and Oleg does not benefit from the financial rewards or medical support provided to his Russian and Azerbaijani colleagues. Good luck to all the teams!   Men's team, ...

This September's Russia Cup, one of the qualifying events for the World Championships, will take place at the Burtasy School of Gymnastics in Penza.  This is a late change from the planned location of Ekaterinburg. Valentina Rodionenko reports that, following a visit by inspectors, the facilities at Ekaterinburg just aren't good enough for such a major competition - there is no warm up gym, and the equipment is not state of the art. In Penza, the gym has benefitted from a gift of brand new equipment from the Ministry of Sport in recognition of the achievements of World and Olympic Champion Denis Ablyazin, who trains with coach Sergei Starkin in Penza. The School has become almost a permanent fixture for national championships recently and has developed as a power base for Russian gymnastics in general.  Head coach Valeri Starkin, father of the better known Sergei Starkin, was recently elevated to a position as national coach.  This change took place almost simultaneously ...

Moscow's Alla Sosnitskaya gives us the latest information on her preparations for Worlds this autumn.   Doctors have now cleared Alla to train at full capacity after her mid-April foot injury, but she is still training in pain. Alla withdrew from the European Championships, which was held April 14-19 in Montpellier, right before the competition because of leg pain. She was diagnosed with a ligament tear and put in plaster. "I have just got back to tumbling.  Up to this point I have been taking treatment, doing special exercises. Doctors have now said that I can begin to tumble and train at full force. I'd like to work, but my foot aches a little" "Sometimes I have to be cautious, but I still try to do everything, even through pain ..." Alla added that she expects to be ready to compete at the Russia Cup  in September,  and to have restored all of her difficulty by then. Get well soon, Alla!!