Rewriting Russian Gymnastics

2012 Olympians Viktoria Komova, Anastasia Grishina, Ksenia Afanasyeva, and Nikolai Kuksenkov will compete in the Voronin Cup, Moscow, 15-17 December.   Aliya Mustafina, Emin Garibov, Denis Ablyazin and Alexander Balandin are out with injury or in recovery - expect them back next spring. http://itar-tass.com/sport/1629215

European high bar champion Emin Garibov wears the T shirt of his team, Dynamo Moscow, at a recent training session at the national training centre. Dynamo has recently been able to confirm that its annual Voronin Cup will take place this y ear at the Olympiski Stadium after the RGF/VTB released funds to help the club stage this popular competition.  The club's long term future still remains under threat, however, as it searches for new training facilities.  Read more here .

Galina at the Russian Federation's message board has now posted results of yesterday's event finals, kindly in English.  Aliya Mustafina gained two golds in the finals she competed, vault and floor.  Nabieva took bars, and Anna Pavlova took beam. In the junior competition Anastasia Sidorova won first in vault, beam and floor, leaving bars to Ukrainian Alina Vasilievna.  Sidorova did not qualify to bars final following a major break during a transition from high to low bar, but this was an otherwise dominant performance by this emerging young gymnast. Top three finishers are provided below.  All gymnasts were competing for Russia, unless otherwise stated. Senior competition Vault 1 Nabieva T         14.8 2 Chusovitina O    14.375 3 Pavlova A           14.25 A Bars 1         Mustafina A         ...

Einselka at the all around forum provides this link to details of the all around and team results at the Voronin Cup. In the meantime, the Russian Federation has found time to revamp its website which is now far more colourful than before.  I am particularly excited to see a page of pictures of a recent conference at which the Federation President, Andrei Kostin was re-elected.  Everyone looks very worried in these pictures, and I am tempted to invite a caption competition for pictures number 4 and 8. Have they cut Rodienenko's head off?  There are second and third pages of these pictures, including some which are temptingly labelled with officials' names.  However, for some reason the site refuses to play with my computer tonight and I have been unable to refer to them a second time to enable any form of comment.  I blame the weather, but then surely Russian websites should be able to cope with a little snow? It is clear that Russian sports are very male-...

The Russian Gymnastics Federation reports that the 18th Voronin Cup competition, run by Dynamo Moscow, will take place on the 17th and 18th December, including gymnasts from around 20 countries.  This is a competition for men and women.  It is expected that Viktoria Komova will compete.  Watch this space for updates as they become available.