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Aliya Mustafina and Elena Shevchenko - Olympic Champions from CSKA Moscow

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2012 Olympic Champion Aliya Mustafina took part in an event yesterday to celebrate the successes of various athletes from her home club in Moscow, the Central Army Club.  You can see her here with 1988 Olympic Champion Elena Shevchenko, and amongst the others are Svetlana Ishmouratova, who won two gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and Dmitri Sautin, gold medallist in diving at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics.  (Does anyone know who the man on the left is?)

Not all of CSKA's gymnastics heroes were present; most notably Dmitri Bilozerchev who now lives and works in the USA.  Other gymnasts who trained at CSKA but never made it to the Olympics (for reasons of depth, timing and world politics) include Elena Mukhina, Olga Bicherova, Olga Chudina, and Valentin Mogilny.  Their coaches and choreographers include Alexander Alexandrov, Viktor and Irina Razumovsky, Boris Orlov, Raisa Ganina and Mikhail Klimenko.  

It is nice to see the athletes enjoy a lovely day, even if the weather was a bit wet and overcast.  Aliya looks very happy and healthy.


With many thanks to Petr Bakulin at the Gymnastics group of VK.com for the photographs.

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  1. Anonymous6 September 2015 at 10:28

    Look at Mustafina group in VK and you find more photos of Aliya and Elena at CSKA official site ;-) and probably the man is someone from cska officials

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    1. Queen Elizabeth6 September 2015 at 11:57

      Thank you for the tip. Readers, the link is - http://www.cska.ru/news_info2_05092015_rl.html. The event was held to open a public exhibition, 'Window into Courage', to commemorate the heroic acts of the Russian Army during the Great Patriotic War (WW2) as well as the sporting heroism of the champions we know so well.

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  2. Anonymous8 September 2015 at 15:05

    Look at Mustafina group in VK and you find new interview from V.Rod about Mustafina not participating in Russian Cup and some words about Worlds. its fron new articles fron TASS about Garibov, Balandin.

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  3. Queen Elizabeth11 September 2015 at 09:30

    Thanks to Alar for the suggestion - the man to the far left of the picture is Vladimir Markelov. Vladimir won a gold medal with the Soviet team at the 1980 Olympics, and silver in 1976.

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