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Sep 3, 2017 · 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 for the ...
The 2017 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, the 35th edition, was held in Pesaro, Italy, from 30 August to 3 September 2017.
- 3 September 2017
- Pesaro, Italy
- 30 August 2017
- Adriatic Arena
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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. 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.
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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 circuit of Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup started in Pesaro, Italy: * f i g --: A raft of retirements from top international competitors and uncertainty about the return of the Olympic champion has left the door open for new stars to rise in Rhythmic Gymnastics.
Oct 12, 2018 · Over the Limit: Directed by Marta Prus. With Yana Kudryavtseva, Margarita Mamun, Irina Viner, Amina Zaripova. An intimate portrait of the world's most outstanding rhythmic gymnast Margarita Mamun who needs to overcome mental fragility to take part in the Olympic Games.
