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Ball (rhythmic Gymnastics)
The ball is an apparatus used in the sport of rhythmic gymnastics. It is one of the five apparatuses utilized in this discipline, alongside the clubs, hoop, ribbon, and rope. History The rhythmic ball has evolved significantly since the inception of rhythmic gymnastics. The early forms of the sport, known as "group gymnastics" or "modern gymnastics," incorporated apparatus like balls, hoops, and ropes, which were used more for their utility in exercises rather than for performance artistry. For gymnastics, the ball originally began as a small ball around the size of a tennis ball and grew in size to make it easier for the audience to see and for the gymnast to roll along the body. * Early 1920s: The use of balls in various gymnastics schools in Europe emerged, focusing on simple throws and catches to enhance physical fitness and develop movement. *1950s: Rhythmic gymnastics began to formalize as a distinct sport. Balls became more prominent, and their use evolved to include more c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Yana Kudryavtseva
Yana Alexeyevna Kudryavtseva (; born 30 September 1997) is a retired Russian individual Rhythmic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnast. She is the Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's rhythmic individual all-around, 2016 Olympic All-around silver medalist, three-time World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, World Champion in the All-around (2013–2015), the Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games, 2015 European Games All-around champion, two-time (2014, 2016) Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships, European Championships All-around champion, the 2012 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships, 2012 European Junior ball champion. In national level, she is a two-time Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics National Championships, (2015, 2014) Russian National All-around champion and three time Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics National Championships, Russian Junior National all-around champion. She holds the record as the youngest rhythmic gymnast to win the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Aibota Yertaikyzy
Aibota Yertaikyzy (born 28 March 2004) is a Kazakh rhythmic gymnast. She represents her country in international competitions. Career Aibota debuted in the senior category at the 2021 World Cup in Minsk, ending 15th in the All-Around, 12th with hoop, 11th with ball, 12th with clubs and 20th with ribbon. In 2022, she competed at the World Cup in Athens, taking 14th in the All-Around, 17th with hoop, 9th with ball, 11th with clubs and 11th with ribbon. A week later she was in Sofia, being 15th in the All-Around, 16th with hoop, 17th with ball, 12th with clubs and 13th with ribbon. From June 23 to 26, she participated at the 2022 Asian Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Pattaya, winning silver in the team category. In August, Yertaikyzy competed at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya, where she won bronze in teams. In September, Aibota took part in the World Championships in Sofia along with Elzhana Taniyeva and the senior group, taking 24th place in the All-Around, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tia Sobhy
Tia Sobhy (born February 7, 2003, in the United States) is an Egyptian rhythmic gymnast, and 3 time gold medal winner in the 2016, 2018 and 2020 African Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. Career Sobhy joined Gezira Sporting Club at the age of 3 to practice rhythmic gymnastics and represented the club at national and international competitions. In 2016, She competed in the junior group events at the 2016 African Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Walvis Bay Walvis Bay (; ; ) is a city in Namibia and the name of the bay on which it lies. It is the List of cities in Namibia, second largest city in Namibia and the largest coastal city in the country. The city covers an area of of land. The bay is a ..., winning three gold medals in the 5-hoop events, the 5-ball events and in the 5-hoop + 5-ball event. In 2018, Sobhy competed in the junior events at the 2018 African Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Cairo, winning 4 gold medals in the team competition, all-around, ball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Anastasiya Sarantseva
Anastasiya Sarantseva (born 7 December 2008) is an Uzbekistani rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2023 junior Asian champion with hoop. Career Junior Sarantseva competed as a junior at the 2022 Asian Championships. She competed with ball only and won a bronze in the final. The Uzbekistan team won silver in the team competition. In 2023, Sarantseva was again selected for the junior Asian Championships in Manila, where she won gold with hoop. In July she won bronze with the same apparatus at the Junior World Championships in Cluj-Napoca. Along with Mishel Nesterova's bronze medal in ribbon, it was the first time a gymnast representing Uzbekistan had won a World Championships medal at either the junior or senior level. Senior In 2024 she had her senior international debut at the Gymnastik International in Germany, where she won silver in the all-around behind Daniela Munits from Israel and silver in the ribbon final. She also competed in the World Cup in Sofia, where she placed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Aino Yamada
Aino Yamada (born 10 March 2003) is a retired Japanese rhythmic gymnast. She represented her country at the 2018 Youth Olympics and is the 2021 national Japanese champion. Personal life She took up rhythmic gymnastics because she enjoyed how it allowed her to express herself with her body and how each apparatus had a different character. Outside of the gym she enjoys hot springs and saunas. Her dream was to compete at the Olympic Games, like her idol Melitina Staniouta did, in 2024. She is studying at the Kokushikan University in Tokyo. Career Junior Yamada debuted at the 2016 Asian Championships in Tashkent, where she won a bronze medal in teams along Sumire Kita, Chisaki Oiwa and Karin Koike. In 2017 she was again selected for the Asian Championships. She ended 3rd in the all-around and won bronze in the hoop final behind Adilya Tlekenova and Takhmina Ikromova. She again represented Japan at the Asian Championships in 2018 where, by qualifying in 2nd place in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Viktoria Mazur
Viktoria Oleksiivna Mazur (; born 15 October 1994) is a retired Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast who competed in individual and group rhythmic gymnastics. Career Mazur began competing on the international junior level in 2007. At the 2008 European Junior Championships she was a member of the bronze medal-winning Team Ukraine. Mazur debuted as a senior in 2010. She competed at her first World Championships in 2011 in Montpellier, France, where Team Ukraine won the bronze medal. She was a member of the Ukrainian group that competed at the 2012 London Olympics and finished fifth in all-around. In 2013, Mazur was eighth at the Moscow Grand Prix behind Azeri gymnast Marina Durunda. At the Holon Grand Prix senior international division, she won the bronze medal in all-around. She competed at the 2013 European Championships and together with Ganna Rizatdinova and Alina Maksymenko won Ukraine the Team silver medal. She also qualified for the hoop final and finished seventh. Mazur ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ilona Zeynalova
İlona Zeynalova (born 09 January 2005) is an Azeri rhythmic gymnast. She represents her country at international competitions. Career Zeynalova made her international debut when she was selected to participate in the 2020 European Championships in Kyiv along with Narmin Bayramova, Leyli Aghazada, Alina Gozalova and the senior group. The Azerbaijani gymnasts won the bronze medal in the team category. In 2022, Zeynalova started the season by participating at the World Cup in Tashkent. She ended 13th in the all-around, 8th with hoop, 13th with ball, 21st with clubs and 10th with ribbon. In May, she won the all-around gold and hoop final silver at the Irina Cup in Warsaw. In August, Zeynalova competed at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya. The Azerbaijani group won the gold medal in the team competition. Later that month, she entered the World Challenge Cup in Cluj-Napoca, where she was 25th in the all-around, 32nd with hoop, 17th with ball, 21st with clubs and 29th w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Daria Atamanov
Daria Atamanov (, ; born December 6, 2005) is a retired Israeli individual Rhythmic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2022 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships, 2022 European all-around Champion, and the 2023 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, 2023 World Championship all-around bronze medalist. She is also the 2022 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships, 2022 European Championship silver medalist in hoop, clubs, ribbon, and the team bronze medalist. On a national level, she is the 2022 & 2024 Israeli National all-around champion and a two-time (2019, 2020) Israeli Junior National all-around champion. Atamanov represented Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Women's rhythmic individual all-around and came in fifth in her first Olympics. Early life Before Atamanov was born, her parents aliyah, emigrated from Uzbekistan to Israel. She was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is Jews, Jew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ekaterina Fetisova
Ekaterina Andreevna Fetisova (born 3 January 2003) is an Uzbekistani rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2021 Asian Championships ball champion and all-around bronze medalist. She also won team gold and hoop bronze at the 2019 Asian Championships. She represented Uzbekistan at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She is the 2018 Asian junior all-around champion. Career Fetisova began rhythmic gymnastics in 2008. Junior Fetisova competed at the 2018 Asian Championships in Kuala Lumpur and won the all-around gold medal in the junior division. She then represented Uzbekistan at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina and finished in twentieth place during the qualification round for the all-around. She also finished tenth in the mixed multi-discipline team event. Senior Fetisova became age-eligible for senior competition in 2019. She made her senior debut at the 2019 Pesaro World Cup where she finished forty-fifth in the all-aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gymnastics At The 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's Team Portable Apparatus
The women's team portable apparatus competition was one of the events of the artistic gymnastics discipline contested in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. The portable apparatus would eventually be removed from the Women's Artistic Gymnastics competition. From the official Report of the 1956 Summer Olympics: ''Probably the most popular and spectacular item was the women's gymnastics team exercises with portable apparatus and music. It was a spectacle of controlled rhythm and concerted movement that has never been seen in Australia before. Hungary was the noteworthy winner, but public acclaim calls for mention of Sweden (second) and Rumania, with their exciting and unforgettable music and costumes.'' The event would be the foundation for rhythmic gymnastics, which would debut at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which gymnasts perform individually or in groups on a floor with an apparatus: hoop (rhythmic gymnastics), hoop, ball (rhythmic gymnastics), ball, Clubs (rhythmic gymnastics), clubs, ribbon (rhythmic gymnastics), ribbon and rope (rhythmic gymnastics), rope. The sport combines elements of gymnastics, dance and calisthenics; gymnasts must be strong, flexible, agile, dexterous and coordinated. Rhythmic gymnastics is governed by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), which first recognized it as a sport in 1963. At the international level, rhythmic gymnastics is a women-only sport. Rhythmic gymnastics became an Olympic sport in 1984, when the individual all-around event was first competed, and the group competition was also added to the Olympics in 1996. The most prestigious competitions, besides the Olympic Games, are the World Championships, World Games, European Championships, European Games, the World Cup Series and the Grand Prix Series. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gymnastics At The 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's Team Portable Apparatus
The women's team portable apparatus competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held at Messuhalli, Exhibition Hall II on 24 July. It was the first appearance of the event, which would only be held again in 1956. Competition format The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of eight gymnasts. The team apparatus event was one of the components of the team all-around event. No separate finals were contested. For the team portable apparatus, eight judges gave scores between 0 and 10, the top two and bottom two scores were discarded, and the remaining four scores were summed and multiplied by 2. Thus, team apparatus scores ranged from 0 to 80.Official Report, p. 442. Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics - Women's team portable apparatus Women's team portable apparatus 1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
