Viktoria Komova has finished in the all-around at the Russian Championships in third place after two Angelinas – Melnikova and Simakova. She told TASS that she knew she couldn’t fight for the first place as her...
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Aliya Mustafina finished third on the first day of competition in Kazan but had a slightly worse day in the all-around final – she did a 1.5 Yurchenko instead of a DTY and fell and then didn’t get her acro series...
Artur Dalaloyan who won the Russian championships after hitting all of his routines for two days in a row said to TASS that this victory means even more to him than last year’s national title because he showed he can be...
Valeri Alfosov, the head coach of the men’s national team, told TASS that Nikita Ignatyev had to withdraw from Russian Championships because of shoulder pain: “His shoulder started hurting and we decided to withdraw...
Irina Alexeeva who competed today in her first senior competition in Russia said that being on the same team with Komova and Mustafina is her dream. Alexeeva’s dream might come true very soon as Valentina Rodionenko stated...
Looks like Artur Dalaloyan is back to her last year’s shape as he won the all-around by three points over David Beliavskiy. The all-around medals at Russian Championships are decided by the results of two days...
Aliya Mustafina doesn’t make boring comebacks where she would just try a couple of simple routines. In her first competition since Rio (after a long break and giving birth) she not only competed in the all-around but got...
While Andrei Rodionenko said that gymnastics doesn’t have heroes anymore, Valentina Rodionenko disagrees: she called Aliya Mustafina who got third place in today’s qualification a hero. Mustafina finished with 55.432...
WOGA’s Irina Alexeeva had a good competition in the qualifications at the Russian Championships today except for the fall on beam. She ended up in 7th place with 53.732 surpassing some of the girls currently on the national...
At the press conference before the Russian Championships, Russian national team head coach Andrei Rodionenko was asked why the competition doesn’t gather big crowds. Rodionenko believes that gymnastics doesn’t have...