Oleg Verniaiev is only recovering from his surgeries, so the World Championships were not the greatest experience for him in the all-around competition. However, he managed to grab a silver medal on p-bars which was the only...
Tag - Worlds 2018
Artur Dalaloyan is experiencing the kind of fame that Russian gymnasts normally do not get, especially male gymnasts since artistic gymnastics is not a very popular sport in Russia. He is giving numerous interviews and was even...
Artur Dalaloyan is enjoying his newfound fame in Russia after not only winning the first MAG AA gold for Russia since 1999 but also adding a whole stack of medals to that gold. He gave this interview to R-Sport the next day after...
Angelina Melinikova keeps herself busy. Right after coming back from Qatar, she visited her native city of Voronezh where she gave an interview to the local newspaper. She then came back to Round Lake and will soon fly to...
Andrei Rodionenko talked to the media about the results of the World Championships for the Russian team. He praised Aliya Mustafina and said the team really needs her: “Aliya wanted to be here, she earned that right. She...
Overall, both Russian MAG and WAG had a quite successful competition in Doha. Both won silver medals in the team finals and gymnasts made multiple individual finals. However, while MAG also picked up five individual medals (four...
Aliya Mustafina gave an interview to R-Sport. She talked about coming back, dealing with the knee injury, and the joy that gymnastics still brings her. Q: Six years have passed since your first Olympic gold. How did you change...
Artur Dalaloyan finished this competition as the most decorated MAG gymnast – in addition to his silver in the team final and gold in the all-around, he also won gold on floor, silver on vault and bronze on parallel bars...
For Artur Dalaloyan, this has been a pretty busy competition. He competed on all six events in the qualification and the team final where Russia placed second. Then he won the all-around final. He also won the Longines Prize for...
Oksana Chusovitina has won nine World medals on vault, with her first in 1991 when she still represented USSR and her last one exactly 20 years later in 2011 when she represented Germany. Now she hopes to win another one in 2019...