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The 2017 FIG World Cup circuit in Rhythmic Gymnastics is a series of competitions officially organized and promoted by the International Gymnastics Federation. [1] The main difference introduced in 2017 is that the World Cup series is now split in: 1) the World Cup series; and 2) the World Challenge Cup series.
The Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships [1] [2] are the world championships for the sport of rhythmic gymnastics. The tournament is promoted and organized by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). It is one of the three tournaments in rhythmic gymnastics officially organized by FIG, as well as the Rhythmic Gymnastics World ...
Sep 3, 2017 · Watch on. A new era in Rhythmic Gymnastics opens with the 2017 World Championships, the flagship event of the season, which begin Wednesday, August 30 in Pesaro, Italy. In the wake of Rio Olympic gold medallist Margarita Mamun and three-time consecutive All-around World champion Yana Kudryavtseva (2013/14/15), the Adriatic Arena stage is set ...
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Rhythmic gymnastics grew out of the ideas of Jean-Georges Noverre (1727–1810), François Delsarte (1811–1871), and Rudolf Bode (1881–1970), who all believed in movement expression, where one used to dance to express oneself and exercise various body parts. Peter Henry Ling further developed this idea in his 19th-century Swedish system of free exerci...
Olympic rhythmic gymnastics is typically restricted to female participants, although Japan has begun developing programs in which men can compete. In France, men are allowed to participate in women's competitions. In Spain, there is a national rhythmic gymnastics championships for men. The men's program has yet to be formally recognized by the FIG,...
The FIG selects which apparatus will be used in competitions, only four out of the five possible apparatuses are sanctioned. Hoop and rope were the first apparatus used at World Championships, followed later by ball, ribbon and clubs. For 2011, rope was dropped for senior national individual and group competition. In 2011, it was to be dropped for ...
In rhythmic gymnastics, competitions exercises are evaluated by parameters which are reviewed every four years, the system defining the FiG Code of Points. After each Olympic games, the scoring process is modified.
According to the technical regulations defined by the International Gymnastics Federation (FiG), the only official competitions in which rhythmic gymnastics events are contested globally are: the World Championships; the stages of the World Cup series (including the defunct World Cup Final and World Cup qualifiers); the World Games; and the Olympic...
Rhythmic gymnastics has been dominated by Eastern European countries, especially the Soviet Union (Post-Soviet Republics of today) and Bulgaria. The two countries were in rivalry with each other before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Japanese men's rhythmic gymnastics
Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics (Men's RG, MRG) is an artistic sport which is performed to music on a 13-by-13-metre (43 ft × 43 ft) gymnastic spring floor. It is sometimes called synchronized tumbling, combining the dynamism of powerful acrobatics and perfection of synchronous moves. Athletes are judged on some of the same physical abilities and skills as their female counterparts, such as hand/body/eye co-ordination, but tumbling, strength, and power are the main focus, as well as apparatus handl...
Spanish men's rhythmic gymnastics
There are, particularly in Europe, some male rhythmic gymnasts who train and perform in the same way as their female counterparts and generally applies the same FIG rules as for women's rhythmic gymnastics. Spain is a pioneer country in the field, the Spanish federation having approved at national level a separate category for individual men since 2009 and mixed groups since 2020. Examples of rhythmic gymnasts include Rubén Orihuela(Spain), Ismael Del Valle (Spain), Jose Sanchez Diaz (Spain),...
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May 8, 2017 · The 2017 F.I.G. WORLD CUP SERIE of Rhythmic gymnastics includes this year the four stations Pesaro (ITA), Taschkent (UZB), Baku (AZE) and Sofia (BUL) ... * fig-report---: With an Olympic Games under her belt and Rhythmic World Cup success coming her way, Bulgaria’s Neviana Vladinova has established herself as one of the rising young stars of ...
Of the five rhythmic gymnastics apparatus, four are used at each Games – all four selected ones in the individual event and three in the group event. However, the rope has not been used at the Olympic Games since Beijing 2008 , with the ball, clubs, hoop, and ribbon being the selected apparatus at both London 2012 and Rio 2016 .
May 16, 2017 · The World Games Team will be named after the 2017 USA Gymnastics Championships, June 27-July 2 in Milwaukee, Wis. A mixed pair, women’s pair and women’s group will be selected for the 2017 World Games Team. A maximum of one women’s pair, one mixed pair and one women’s group may be selected as non-traveling alternates.
