Angelina Simakova had quite a stressful month leading up to the European Championships. She was named to the team after winning the all-around at the Russian Championships, then, after her unfortunate performance at the Stuttgart...
Angelina Melnikova has Olympic, World and European medals but none of them in the all-around despite being one of the strongest all-arounders in the world. Perhaps, this will change today as she finished the qualification...
Maria Paseka competed at the European Championships since the surgery. She is currently only competing vault (even though she is training bars and hoping to come back on floor later, as well). Her first vault, a Cheng...
Igor Radivilov once said that he has alternately good and bad years. 2015 was good, 2016 – not so much. 2017 – good again, 2018 – not great. This year is looking to be very good for Radivilov as he had success...
Leading up to the European Championships, it was clear that the main battle in the all-around would be between Artur Dalaloyan and Nikita Nagornyy. Nagornyy made a few more mistakes yesterday and finished second in qualifications...
Oleg Verniaiev has competed in the qualification today with hit routines on parallel bars and pommel horse and will likely make at least the parallel bars final. This competition comes less than two months since his surgeries on...
Andrei Medvedev has competed on vault in the first subdivision of the MAG qualifications at the European Championships. His example showed that the judging of men’s vault might be changing – he went for a Blanik as...
Nikita Nagornyy is the World bronze AA medalist and is coming to the European Championships with the highest combined difficulty (he leads over Artur Dalaloyan by almost a point). He also won almost everything at the Russian...
Vladislav Poliashov has been on the national team for quite a while and won many medals at the national championships but often fell short of making big international teams. He was an alternate at the 2016 Rio Olympics and then...
Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation has published a new issue of Gymnastika magazine which features a reflection on the Russian Championships that took place a month ago. Angelina Simakova won the all-around at the...
