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AA Champion Liudmilla Roschina targets Olympic gold

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Liudmilla is the first gymnast of the new generation to win AA in the most important international competition in Russia.  The Krasnodar born gymnast was at one time said to be the favourite of head coach of the junior team, Aliya Mustafina.  

Source: gymnastics group on VK.com.  Google translate


Lyudmila Roshchina shone at the "Strongest Athletes Cup" in artistic gymnastics in Moscow. 


🔝 The 17-year-old gymnast became the absolute champion in the all-around and in individual disciplines, winning the vault, parallel bars and floor exercises! 


"I am very pleased. There were small mistakes, but they did not prevent me from showing a decent result. I liked the atmosphere of the competition, the full stands helped when I went out on the apparatus. I love all the apparatus, but especially the parallel bars. And, of course, it was interesting to test myself against foreign rivals. In September, the Russian Championship will be held, I want to perform there at a high level again. Well, the main goal is to win the Olympic Games!" Roshchina admitted in a conversation with the Press Service of the ROC. 


The athlete's coach Elena Ayloyan especially noted the importance of winning the all-around. 


"Lyudmila deserved the highest rating. She has a complex program, which she has been performing for quite a long time, but before, something did not work out. Emotions got in the way, because of them there were falls and mistakes. At the "Strongest Athletes Cup" I saw a real fighter, and it brought results. It was important for Lyudmila to win the all-around, now she understands that with her program she can fight for the highest places. There are three apparatuses on which she works with pleasure. Among them, I can single out the uneven bars - this has been her love since childhood. So far, it is a little more difficult to perform on the balance beam. There is not enough internal awareness that this is as worthy an apparatus as all the others, part of the all-around. She is working on this now."

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