Denis Abliazin said in an interview during the Russian Championships broadcast that he will miss this year’s Worlds in order to try to qualify to the Olympics as an individual through World Cups. According to the current...
Tag - Russian Championships 2018
Angelina Melnikova had a blast at Russian championships winning gold in the all-around and on three events (she also won silver on vault). The nationals concluded two very busy months for Melnikova in which she competed at two...
Aliya Mustafina gave an interview to Sport-Express talking about her competitive comeback at the Russian Championships. Mustafina’s team (Moscow) won the team competition and she came in fourth in the all-around and...
Aliya Mustafina might be human after all – yes, she got the second result in the all-around at the Russian Championships’ qualification just 10 months after giving birth, but she admitted to the media that getting...
Evgeni Grebyonkin, the head coach of the Russian women’s national team, said to R-Sport that Aliya Mustfina will definitely withdraw from the floor final tomorrow and will likely miss beam final as well. It was...
WOGA’s Irina Alexeeva had a quite successful first national championships in Russia placing 7th in the all-around and then winning silver on bars. In an interview to R-Sport, she said that she is going back to the States...
Komova had collected a second bronze medal today in addition to her AA bronze from yesterday, placing third on bars. While she scored almost a point lower than in the qualification she was able to stay on which was quite a feat...
Evgeni Grebyonkin, the head coach of the Russian women’s team, said that both Aliya Mustafina and Viktoria Komova have achieved the goals that the coaches set for them: “We set individual goals for Komova and...
Angelina Melnikova won the 2018 Russian Championships, placing first on both days of competition and leading by more than three points ahead of Angelina Simakova. Melnikova did not have a single fall at this competition and...
Angelina Melnikova won the all-around today by a landslide but she of course was asked about her thoughts on the comebacks of Aliya Mustafina and Viktoria Komova who were already getting into the medal fight without even reaching...