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Junior National Selection Squad - gymnasts born 1998 and 1999

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As a supplement to the earlier post, these are the names of the junior girls who form part of the Russian selection squad, along with their home towns.

Some of these girls competed at the Olympic Hopefuls competition in Bryansk mentioned below; Polina Spirina and Olga Valekzhanina achieved particularly good results.

Elena Alexeyenko Nizhni Tagil
Raisa Batyrova Moscow
Mariya Bondareva Moscow Oblast
Olga Valekzhanina Sterlitamak
Yana Vlasova Moscow
Anastasia Dimitreva Toliatti
Evgeniya Zhukova Novocheboksarsk
Ksenia Kopokolneva Cheboksary
Evgeniya Korolkova Moscow
Viktoria Rezakova St Petersburg
Dariya Spiridonova Novocheboksarsk
Polina Spirina Novosibirsk
Mariya Kharenkova Rostov on Don
Alexandra Yadzhyan Moscow
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