Last week Sergei Starkin, Aliya Mustafina’s personal coach, announced that she had a meniscus injury which forced her to withdraw from the Osijek World Cup. While Starkin said that the injury is very minor and Mustafina...
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Aliya Mustafina will miss the Osijek Challenge Cup next week because of a knee injury. She originally missed the national team training camp in Spain because she was preparing for the competition. However, today Sergei Starkin...
Elena Vaytshekhovskaya has published a great new interview with Aliya Mustafina on R-Sport. Here’s the English translation. Tracksuit, hair undone, a complete absence of makeup on her face and immense fatigue in the eyes. Only...
Aliya Mustafina spent the last week training in Penza – the city where her main coach, Sergei Starkin, works. Local news filmed a feature about her training and talked to the gymnast herself and to one of her coaches, Pavel...
Pravda-News talked to Sergei Starkin, the personal coach of Aliya Mustafina and Denis Abliazin, about coaching. Starkin talked about not having a lot of choices when it came to being involved in gymnastics – a son of two...
Aliya Mustafina has come to train in Penza for the first time since her comeback. She’s officially representing the Penza region and that’s where her personal coach is based, but even before Rio, she was mostly...