Maria Kharenkova currently competes for Georgia but is still eligible for Russian national competitions as a Russian citizen. She competed at the Russian Championships earlier this month as a part of her preparation for the...
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Maria Kharenkova received permission to start competing for Georgia last month. This will allow her to go to the World Championships in Stuttgart where she will try to qualify to the Olympics. She talked to Sport-Express about...
Former Russian gymnast Maria Kharenkova, whose nationality switch was approved last week, said she hopes that competing for Georgia will finally allow her to go to the Olympics: “I received this offer and thought about...
Georgia has been attracting gymnasts from Russia for several years now but they had little luck on the women’s side with gymnasts getting injured a lot. Two years ago, Alla Sosnitskaya planned to switch to Georgia but had...
Last weekend Kiev hosted the Ukraine International Cup (former known as Stella Zakharova Cup). Dzianis Sanuvonh from Belarus took gold in the men’s all-around competition with 77.700, Volodymyr Hrybuk from Ukraine became...
A few days ago the president of the Georgian gymnastics federation announced that Alla Sosnitskaya is considering changing her nationality to Georgia and her first competition for the new country might happen as early as the...
Alla Sosnitskaya recently competed for Georgia at a small competition in Batumi which sparked rumors about her officially changing the nationality. She is not currently on the Russian national team roster and she would certainly...
It looks like Georgia is winning the game of “who will get the best Russian gymnasts” among the FSU countries. Last year Polina Borzykh started to compete for the Georgian team and this year she was also joined by...