Alicante 09 Oct 2006 Over the last weekend the gymnasts of Ukraine successfully participated on the tournament in Alicante, Spanish city that was dedicated to the 75-anniversary of the club Montemar which gave the world a plethora of best Spanish gymnasts. Among the representatives of the elite of rhythmic gymnastics Anna Bessonova and Natalia Godunko showed their mastery. Albina Deriugina shared her impressions about the tournament : Read More ...

Meeting with Jacques Rogge 03 Oct 2006 On the 3rd of October Jacques Rogge, the President of the International Olympic Committee came to Ukraine by the invitatio of the President of the National Olympic Committee Sergey Bubka for a visit. During his stay Jacques Rogge received a reknowned Doctoriat dyploma of the National institute for physical culture and sports. The official clothing was worn on his shoulders by the gymnasts Anna Bessonova and Natalia Godunko Read More ...

European Championship 2006 - Moscow 01 Oct 2006 22nd European Championship in rhythmic gymnastics has recently finished in Moscow. It’s results can’t be considered totally succesful (only 4 bronze medals can be measured as a failure for the team of Ukraine), but one should pay attention to the fact that the Championship took place at the homeland of the old rivals of Ukrainians, under their full domination which was not always objective. We decided to talk with the Vice-president of the Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation and Technical Committee member Irina Deriugina about it’s results. Read More ...

On the way to Europeans! 01 Oct 2006 Right in several days the next 27th European Championship in rhythmic gymnastics will start in the capital of our Northern neighbours. The biggest fans of this sport will remember that next year the European Championship has also taken place in Moscow. The history of gymnastics and the history of the hall sport has met only a few occassions when the same city twice hosted the most importnat competitions of the year. .. Read More ...

Portimao 01 Oct 2006 From 8th till 10th of September in Portimao the next World Cup tournament took place where the team of Ukraine had a real triumph – 5 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals. “Gold” in all-round was won by Natalia Godunko who showed perfect routines with clubs, ball and ribbon... Read More ...

Deventer Grand Prix and Asker competition 01 Oct 2006 During the weekend the gymnasts of Ukraine competed at 2 competitions at one time - senior Natalia Godunko presented her routines at the Grand Prix competition in Deventer (the Netherlands) while perspective juniors Alina Maksymenko, Kristina Cherepenina and Daria Andreyeva performed in Asker (Norway) Read More ...

Buharest (Romania) 30 Aug 2006 Results from the competition With 3 medals returned Ukrainian Gymnasts Daria Kushnerova and Marina Boyko from a competition in Buharest (Romania). They were 2nd in a team, having lost to a team from Bulgaria. Moreover, Daria Kushnerova achieved 2 individual medals : she was 1st with clubs and 2nd with hoop. Marina Boyko was 4th in rope final. Read More ...

European Championship 2006 - Moscow 03 Aug 2006 Recently a draw of lots of the European Championship that will take place on 18-24 September in Moscow took place. Everybody interested can get information about it here . The draw was successful for the Ukrainian juniors that will be the main medal contenders in team event. They begin their competition in a 2nd group of participants after their main rivals - teams from Russia and Bulgaria. Ukrainian national group had much less luck - they are 4th in their group and begin from a routine with 5 ribbons. Read More ...

FIG update 02 Aug 2006 Not a long time ago the International Gymnastics Federation published a newsletter 25 that gives insctructions for the next year. The changes mentioned in the newsletter are to improve the apparatus skills of the gymnasts. The newsletter you can download on the official website of the International Gymnastics Federation http://www.fig-gymnastics.com

World Gimnasiade 06 Jul 2006 Video from the competition From 26th of June till 3rd July one could feel again the Olympic spirit in Greece - in Athens and Tsalloniki a World Gimnasiade among pupils was taking place in 4 kinds of sport : artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, track and field and swimming. Read More ...

Ukrainian Junior Championship 06 Jul 2006 In Lvov Ukrainian Junior championship has finished. Its results turned out to be suprising : it was won by the 14-year-old Daria Kushnerova, while Marina Boyko, who has yet the highest chances to represent Ukraine at European Championship among juniors this year, was only 2nd. Alina Maksimenko, who showed a good result at the Grand Prix that has finished in Israel, this time was only 4th, having made many mistakes in rope exercise. The chance was used by Kristina Cherepenina who won the bronze. Read More ...

Prato (Italy) 19 Jun 2006 Results from the competition in Prato (Italy) Succesful was the competition in Prato (Italy) for Irina Kovalchuk where there was only all-round competition. She won 2nd place, beind only after 3-times World junior champion Eugenija Kanaeva from Russia. 3rd place was occupied by the gymnast representing now Azerbaijan and earlier Russia at Grand Prix competitions Aliya Garaeva. Read More ...

Grand Prix Holon (ISR) 10 Jun 2006 Results from the competition. At the Grand Prix competition in Holon (Israel) that has finished over the weekend, the rhythmic gymnasts of Ukraine got 3 medals : in the Grand Prix final with rope Anna Bessonova celebrated victory, while Natalia Godunko was 3rd. Anna Bessonova also got a bronze medal in the clubs final. Whether this results is positive for Ukrainian team comments Irina Deriugina. Read More ...

World Cup - Genova (Italy) 06 Jun 2006 On the World Cup event in Genova (Italy) Ukrainian group team, consisting of Inga Kozhohina, Irina Kovalchuk, Anastasia Bich, Polina Kandaurova, Viktoria Zubchenko and Vera Perederiy won 5 place in exercise with hoops and clubs and 6 place in exercise with 5 ribbons. This result allows the national team of Ukraine to hope for being present at the World Cup Final that will take place in November in Mie (Japan) Read More ...

Grand Prix - Brno (CZE) 02 Jun 2006 Over the weekend in Brno (Czech Republic) next Grand Prix competition has finished, where over 20 top gymnasts of the world competed. Ukraine returned from the competition with 4 bronze medals. Read More ...

Minsk Grand Prix 21 May 2006 The next Grand Prix competition has finished over the weekend in Minsk. And with the end of this competition the patience of Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation is about to finish as well. Performing much better than all of the rivals, our gymnasts had to please themselves only with 3 bronze and 1 silver medals : Anna Bessonova was 3rd with rope, ball and clubs, while Natalia Godunko got “silver” for her clubs routine. Read More ...

Triumph in Corbeil-Essones! 14 May 2006 On the tournament in French Corbeil-Essones Ukrainian rhythmic gymnasts won 11 medals! This competition is taking place for the 32nd time in a row, this year it gathered participants from 44 countries. We would like to note that last year on the World Championship in Baku there were 39 delegations. Therefore a small French city on the outskirts of Paris organized almost a World Championship! Read More ...

Bourgas Grand Prix 09 May 2006 From 6 till 7 May the next Grand Prix competition in rhythmic gymnastics took place in Bulgarian Burgas, a spa city situated at the seaside of the Black sea. Anna Bessonova, Natalia Godunko and Irina Kovalchuk competed from Ukraine, but the judges gave their favour only to Bessonova, who got three bronze medals at this competition. Results of the All-round competition of Bourgas Grand Prix Results of the Grand Prix Finals competition Videos of Ukrainian gymnasts Read More ...

Nijny Novgorod World Cup 29 Apr 2006 Ukrainian National Group was not succesful at the World Cup event in Nijny Novgorod (RUS). In the all-round competition after the first exercise with 5 ribbons Ukrainian girls were in fifth position, but 5 drops in hoops/clubs exercise dropped them already to 8th place. On the finals day they achieved 5th place in hoops/clubs routine and 7th in the exercise with ribbons Read More ...

Happy Easter! 22 Apr 2006 Dear friends, Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation from the bottom of our hearts congratulates all the Orthodox on this wonderful holiday. Let peace, happyness and fairness enter your homes as was said by the Christ. Christ has arisen!

Both the Cup and the Championship! 22 Apr 2006 Videos from the competition! The National Cup and Championship took place from 16 to 20 April in Ukrainian city of Dneprodzerjinsk. This time a new system of it’s conducting was adopted : Ukrainian National Championship in group exercise was organized separately from an individual one. The number of participating teams is worth a record – 30 groups from all over Ukraine. To make the tournament have more variety, it was decided to add Ukrainian Cup among 25 strongest gymnasts by the results of Ukrainian Club Championship that took place in Bila Tserkva in February. Read More ...

Kalamata - again on top! 16 Apr 2006 Ukraine sweeps away all the medals in the apparatus finals at the traditional tournament in Kalamata, having confirmed the status of the strongest nation at this tournament! Represented by it's leaders Anna Bessonova and Natalia Godunko Ukrainian flag was all the time twice hanging over the podium! Read More ...

Kalamata - full of medals! 16 Apr 2006 On Saturday, the 15th of April international tournament "Kalamata Cup" that is traditionally taking place at these dates has started. Ukrainian gymnasts gathered a full pack of medals after the first day : in all-round of individual gymnasts the 1st 2 places were conquered by Anna Bessonova and Natalia Godunko, while in group exercise our girls managed to become 3rd! Read More ...

Greece and Riga 16 Apr 2006 This weekend Ukrainian graces took part in 2 competitions : the leaders of the national team went to the Greek Tselloniki to the tournament in commemoration of the reknowned Greek choreographer Nikoletta Kavourova, while a perspective Galina Shirkina went to the capital of Latvia - Riga, to the annual tournament "Baltic Hoop". Read More ...

FIG - decisions 16 Apr 2006 In February the next FIG TC meeting took place. Some decisions were made at this meeting. You can get information concerning the innovations in the current Code of Points here As well as this pay attention to the new forms and the way to fill them - - here Read More ...

Information 15 Apr 2006 You can get information concerning the annual tournament Deriugina Cup 2006 and other competitions that took place in the beginning of 2006 on the official web-site of the federation and Deriugina Cup competition - www.ukraine-rg.com

FIG TC meetings - decisions 15 Apr 2006 In the beginning of December in Madrid the meeting of the FIG Technical Committee took place. Irina Deriugina, Vice president of the Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation is a member of it. Several important decisions were made at the meeting. You can get acquanted with them at the FIG website www.fig-gymnastics.com Read More ...

World Club Championship 15 Apr 2006 The last big tournament of the season was a traditional Club World Championship in Japan which was held for the first time under the patronage of FIG. Each club was represented by 3 gymnasts: 2 adults and 1 junior. The honor of Ukraine was defended by the Deriugins School, in which Anna Bessonova, Natalia Godunko and young Marina Boyko were participating. The competition was difficult and everybody was making mistakes. Ukrainians, it seemed, had the least amount of them out of all participants, but the results could be guessed beforehand. “Deriugins School” became 2nd right after the Russian team, while Anna Bessonova and Marina Boyko won individual bronze medals. Read More ...

World Championship 15 Apr 2006 For the first time the world championship in an Olympic kind of sport took place in 2005 on the territory of Azerbaijan – Baku . The Championship was organized really well – more than 800 guests, daily banquets, huge competition hall. The only disappointing factor was empty tribunes and full absence of spectators which can’t positively influence the development of rhythmic gymnastics. Let’s come back to the competition. In team event the National team of Ukraine objectively earned 2 place. Certainly, the leaders of our team Bessonova and Godunko are no worse than their Russian opponents, but the third gymnasts, young and perspective Irina Kovalchuk lacked some experience. Read More ...

Universiade 15 Sep 2005 Universiade, Student Games have finished in the Turkish city of Izmir. All in all our gymnasts won 13 medals (5 gold, 4 silver and bronze), having made rhythmic gymnastics the most "medalled" kind of sport of Ukrainian national team. Read More ...

Draw of Lots for World Championship 2005 06 Aug 2005 The procedure for drawing of lots of the World Championship 2005 took place in Baku, the venue of the competition. Ukrainian individual gymnasts are in group C among with their strongest rivals - teams from Bulgaria and Belarus. Ukrainian senior gymnasts are in group B, they will compete one of the last. Full draw of lots for World Championship

Exam of Pool FIG Judges 03 Aug 2005 The judges exam has finished in Moutier (Switzerland) that had to define the Judges Pool FIG judges for 11th cycle... Read More ...

World Games - Duisburg 03 Aug 2005 A competition in rhythmic gymnastics which is a part of World Games tournament has just finished in Duisburg (Germany). World Games is a competition among non-olympic kind of sports. In rhythmic gymnastics they are apparatus finals... Read More ...

Europeans 23 Jul 2005 Ukrainian gymnasts returned from the European Championship in Moscow with a bunch of medals. Who could expected such a triumph of Ukrainian gymnasts in the ribbon routine? Most likely, nobody. But it did happen! Read More ...

Press-Conference 15 May 2005 Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation does not organize press conferences very often but if they do, then there is a very good reason to do it.... Read More ...

Corbeil World Cup 15 May 2005 From 6th to 8th May in the small French town of Corbeil-Essones a World Cup tournament in rhythmic gymnastics took place. This competition is one of the oldest in the world. Irina Deriugina, Aleksandra Timoshenko, Elena Vitrichenko, Ekaterina Serebrianskaya took once part and won this competition... Read More ...

Bourgas Grand Prix 15 May 2005 The next Grand Prix of the year took place in Bourgas - Bulgaria. This little Bulgarian spa-city which is situated on the Black Sea hosted more than 30 top gymnasts of the World. Ukrainian gymnasts did a very good competition... Read More ...

Minsk Grand Prix 15 May 2005 The 3rd Grand Prix of the year took place in Minsk - capital of Belarus. This school of gymnastics is considered to be very strong nowadays. Ukrainian team was represented by Anna Bessonova and Natalia Godunko... Read More ...