Maria Kharenkova joined the coaching staff of the Russian national team as the beam coach for the junior team. She will work alongside her former teammates Aliya Mustafina (junior team’s head coach) and Ksenia Afanasyeva...
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The Ministry of Sports finally posted the official 2022 roster of the Russian national artistic gymnastics team. There aren’t any surprises, but some changes are interesting. Compared to the 2021, the women’s teams...
Aliya Mustafina won World all-around gold in 2010 and, until this year, neither she nor her teammates were able to repeat that success. She talked about Angelina Melnikova’s victory to the media: “I consider...
Angelina Melnikova was able to break the US streak on the top of the Worlds all-around podium and won gold. Last time a non-US gymnast won Worlds AA gold was in 2010 – Aliya Mustafina won AA gold and qualified to four event...
Anastasia Ilyankova’s road to the Olympic silver was full of bumps. She was one of the top Russian juniors in 2016 and was on the gold-winning Russian junior team at Euros. Individually, she placed 10th in the all-around...
Aliya Mustafina has been working as the head coach of the junior national team for over five months now. After her retirement from elite gymnastics was officially announced at the Russian Cup in Novosibirsk, she talked to Irina...
Aliya Mustafina has officially announced her retirement at the 2021 Russian Cup in Novosibirsk. The federation honored Mustafina during the competition’s opening ceremony. Mustafina stopped training in the summer of...
This week, the junior WAG Russian National Championships were held in Penza. The format of the competition included three divisions – Master of Sport, Candidate for Master of Sport, and 1st level. The division is...
Aliya Mustafina commented on the announcement that she has been appointed the acting head coach of the Russian junior national WAG team. In the past, she said multiple times that she did not want to coach but, as many Russian...
The month of January brought us news that Aliya Mustafina started working as a coach with the Russian junior national team, joining her teammates Ksenia Afanasyeva and Nikolai Kuksenkov. At the time, Mustafina was listed on the...