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National team coaches, Russian Federation 2013

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Yuri Korolev (right), has joined the Russian national coaching team.  He is seen here congratulating his gymnast, 2012 Olympian Dmitri Barkalov.






The RGF has now updated its list of national team coaches.  The senior management team includes Andrei Rodionenko and his wife Valentina Rodionenko as Head Coach and Senior Coach of the men's and women's teams respectively, with Evgeny Grebenkin installed as Senior Coach of the women's team.  (Grebenkin has stepped down from his personal coaching responsibilities for national reserve team member Ekaterina Baturina.) Nikolai Yepishin has taken up a position as Senior Coach of boys and girls.   Valery Alfosov, Nikolai Krukov and Olga Bulgakova remain in their existing positions as Senior Coaches of the men's, junior men's and junior women's teams respectively.

Alexander Alexandrov, personal coach to Aliya Mustafina, is confirmed in this position on the national coaching team, and Gennady Elfimov, coach to Viktoria Komova, is similarly appointed, so the coaches to the top two gymnasts on the WAG team are now, it seems, paid by the RGF/Ministry of Sport as full time employees.  This undoubtedly emphasises the importance of Mustafina and Komova to the Russians' preparation for the coming Olympic Games in 2016.

Anton Stolyar has been newly appointed as a women's senior coach, returning to Russia from Italy where he has been coaching members of the Italian team including Erika Fasana and Elise Meneghini.

Returning to the senior WAG team is beam coach Marina Bulashenko, who has many years of experience of international competition, having worked with such gymnasts as 1992 Olympic beam champion Tatiana Lyssenko and 1996 World beam champion Dina Kochetkova.  Bulashenko replaces Larissa Ushakova, who contributed to some of the best beam work of the last Olympiad, so she has a hard act to follow.

There were rumours after the Olympics of a bid to recruit a much needed vault specialist for the WAG team.  It is unclear from this simple list whether any changes have been made on this vital piece of apparatus which has become a relative weakness since Oleg Ostapenko left.

Moving from the Vladimir School of Gymnastics, 1981 and 1985 World Champion Yuri Korolev, and Sergei Andrianov (son of the legendary Nikolai Andrianov and Liubov Burda) join the national coaching team, in charge of the technical preparation of the junior gymnasts.

Elsewhere, it has been confirmed that Viktor Razumovsky is now personal coach to senior WAG Anastasia Grishina. 

Andrei Rodionenko                        Head coach, men and women
Valentina Rodionenko                    Senior coach, men and women
Valery Alfosov                               Senior coach, men
Evgeny Grebenkin                          Senior coach, women
Nikolai Krukov                              Senior coach, junior men
Olga Bulgakova                              Senior coach, junior women
Nikolai Yepishin                             Senior coach, boys and girls

Gennady Elfimov                            Coach, women
Alexander Alexandrov                    Coach, women
Anton Stolyar                                 Coach, women

Vasily Ivanov                                  Coach-acrobat, women

Marina Bulashenko                         Choreographer, women
Olga Burova                                   Choreographer, women

Vitaly Olgychev                              Coach-masseur, women
Vladimir Timonkin                          Coach-doctor, women

Nikolai Suchilin                              Coach, technical preparation, men and women
Sergei Ryubakov                            Coach-engineer, men and women
Dmitri Skakodub                            Administrator of the training process, men, women
Andrei Belikov                               Coach-operator, men, women
Alexei Yushin                                  Coach, men, women


Andrei Dukhno                               Coach-acrobat, men
Vladimir Gaverdovsky                    Coach, men
Alexei Blyushka                              Coach-masseur, men
Konstantin Lyskov                          Coach-doctor, men

Ludmila Mamontova                       Choreographer, men, juniors

Sergei Andrianov                           Coach, technical preparation, juniors
Yuri Korolev                                 Coach, technical preparation, juniors

Yuri Barinov                                  Coach-acrobat, juniors
Artem Voinov                                Coach, technical preparation, juniors
Dmitri Gusev                                  Coach-acrobat, juniors

Larissa Efremova                            Choreographer, juniors

Dmitri Kurov                                  Administrator of the training process, junior teams
Yuri Golubev                                  Coach-masseur, juniors
Alexandra Popova                          Coach-masseur, juniors
Sergei Gulevsky                              Coach-doctor, juniors

Grigory Marsov                               Coach-doctor, juniors

Igor Kozenkov                                Coach, technical preparation, boys and girls










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  1. missy22 January 2013 at 14:52

    I am glad it looks like they have more coaches/trainers now on the team. Hopefully that will be very helpful for the gymnasts

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  2. Christian30 January 2013 at 15:44

    Sigh, Oleg Ostapenko ... I swear that man has some kind of magic touch; whoever he works with suddenly seems to become a billion times more successful!

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