Granada

From June 24 to 29 this month will  held in Granada Spain Championship of rhythmic gymnastics at senior level, where there will be eight different categories (benjamin, juvenile, infant, junior, senior, junior honor, family honor, first category)
The clubs that aspire to more titles in this competition are: L'almara burjassot, Ritmo, Gympal, beti aurrera, torrevieja, Distrito III, and mabel.
The apparatus that will  use each category are:
-benjamin- free hands and ball
-Juvenile- free hands, ball and hoop
-Infant- ribbon, maces and free hands
-Junior and junior honor - maces, ball and hoop
-senior and senior honor- hoop, ball, maces, ribbon



The gymnasts with better chance of winning a medal are:
-Benjamin- we can´t know who have more possibilities , since they are little gymnasts, and is their first competition of Spain, but it is probably that the title is  for gymnasts of  the ritmo club , marbella, mabel, or  hadar
-Juvenile- most probably the medal gold be for paula serrano from ritmo club , because she won the gold medal in 2013 and 2012, the silver medal can be for Alba Ciurans from Mabel club, because she won the bronze medal in 2012 and 2013
-infant- most probably the medal gold be for Maria Añó from mabel , because she won the gold medal 2012 and the silver in 2013,she and paula serrano are the future of the spanish rhythmic gymnastics. The gymnsat Elisa Fernandez can win medal if she do a good competition.
-Junior- the title will  fought between Saioa Agirre, Carmen martinez and Miriam Guerra because all of them did a good competition the last year.
-Junior honor- the title can be for anyone of this category , all of the gymnasts in this category are components of spanish junior team.
-Senior- is the category with less level, but is possible that Gemma Garcia win the medal.
-Senior honor- most probably the medal be for Carolina Rodriguez because she is the principal spanish individual gymnast ans she won the gold medal the six lasts years.
-First category- is the most competitive level the title can be for Andrea Pozo, Sara Llana, Polina Berezina, Natalia Mora, Monica Alonso and Victoria Plaza

Distrito III championship

This past weekend was the club distrito III tournament, this championship there were 8 different categories, cadet base group,  infant base group, benjamin absolute, alevin absolute, absolute infant, junior absolute, absolute senior, cadet base, infant base and first category.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 The distrito III was represented by:
-cadet base group- Geovana, Maria, Vili, Iulia and Lucia
-Infant base group- Verena, antonella, Maria Paula, Clara, Claudia and Paula
- Benjamin absolute- Cristina
- Alevin absolute- Marina and Leire
-Infant absolute- Judith, Monica and Elisa
-Junior absolute- Paula, Julia and kelly
-Senior absolute- Laura
-First category- Mnica
-cadet base- Mercedes
-infant base- Laia, Andrea, Laura.

                                                                                  The Distrito III took silver in the cadet group category a silver medal , in the infant group category bronze medal ,in the benjamin category a bronze, in the absolute category alevin three golds, in the category infant two golds and two silvers brass, in junior category one bronze , in senior category one silver and two golds in first category.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Gymnasts who did a good competition were  monica alonso, the gymnasts from hadar club,  Sara Rubia , Irene Laguna, Cristina kornichuk, Elisa Fernandez, Leire Callejas , Ana Clavijo and Arisha Delgado.

Mónica Alonso in 2014-2015

Mónica alonso the gymnast of the distrito III club,has been proposed by the Royal Spanish federation of gymnastics for the adjudication of BLUME scholarship, in high performance central of madrid for the year 2014-2015,as individual gymnast .                                                                  Monica alonso, III started in the distrito III club  in 2007 and her first championship in Spain was in 2009, in the juvenile category, where she was second.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               In 2012 she was spanish  champion in the junior category and gold in the four finals , the same year she also participated in the European championship in Russia.


In 2013 she was second  in Spanish championship, in general and silver in three aparatus.                             This year she represented Spain in the World Championship corbeil and this year also she is going to go to the spanish championship, where she is going  compete in the first category, this category is for the best nacional gymnasts.
Next year she will live in  in high performance central of madrid, where she will train 40 hours  per week,and she will have vacations every month and a half

She will train, with the senior group and the alternative group, and their coaches will be anna Baranova and sara bayón

baku 2014

This year the european rhythmic gymnastics championship is in Baku ( Azerbaijan).
The 20 best senior individuals from 2013 will compete at the multiple competition, these gymnasts are:

AUSTRIA : Nicol Ruprecht and Natascha Wegscheider 

AZERBAIJAN : Marina Durunda and Gulsum Shafizada

BELARUS : Melitina Staniouta and Katsiaryna Halkina

BULGARIA : Neviana Vladinova and Silviya Miteva

SPAIN : Carolina Rodríguez Ballesteros 

FRANCE : Kseniya Moustafaeva

GEORGIA : Salome Pazhava

GREECE : Varvara Filiou

HUNGARY : Dora Vass 

ISRAEL : Neta Rivkin and Victoria Adar Veinberg

ROMANIAN  : Alexandra Piscupescu

RUSSIA : Yana Kudryavtseva and Margarita Mamun

UKRAINE : Anna Rizatdinova and Viktoriia Mazur

102 juniors (from 32 Nationals Federations ) will participate in the qualifying competition I  and team competition and the final competition (4 apparatus), 21 senior groups (consisted of 6 gymnasts) will present two different voluntary exercises, one executed with one apparatus (clubs), the other with different apparatus (3 balls/2 ribbons) on the occasion of the competition I  and the competition III . 

 

 The gymnasts representing Spain are Paula Gomez, Clara Esquerdo, Alicia Fernandez and Alba Sarrias  like junior, Carolina Rodriguez like senior and the spanish senior group.

                                                                                          Schedule of these Championships :

Wednesday, 11/06/2014

08h00 - 22h00     Official Training 

18h00      Briefing session with the Heads of delegation

Thursday, 12/06/2014

08h00 - 22h00     Official Training

Friday, 13/06/2014

09h30 - 11h15    C I - Juniors, Group A - Hoop + Ball

11h50 - 13h50     C I - Juniors, Group B - Hoop + Ball

14h45 - 16h30     C I - Juniors, Group C - Hoop + Ball

17h00 - 17h55     Opening Ceremony

17h55 - 20h45     C I - Seniors groups alternating 10 Clubs / 3 Balls - 2 Ribbons

20h45     Award Ceremony - Seniors group competition I

Saturday 14/06/2014

09h30 - 11h30     C I - Juniors, Group B - clubs + ribbon

11h50 - 13h50     C I - Juniors, Group C - clubs + ribbon

14h30 - 16 h 30     C I - Juniors, Groupe A - clubs + ribbon

16h30 - 17h00     Award Ceremony - Junior competition I

17h00 - 19h00     C II - Seniors, Group B - 4 appartus (place 11 to 20 from ECh 2013)

19h15 - 21h15     C II - Seniors, Group A - 4 appartus (place 01 to 10 from ECh 2013)

21h15     Award Ceremony - Senior competition II

Sunday 15/06/2014

12h00 - 13h00     Competition III - Juniors - Hoop and Ball

13h00 - 14h00     Competition III - Juniors - Clubs and Ribbon

14h30 - 16h20     Competition III - Senior groups - 10 Clubs, 3 Balls and 2 Ribbons

16h30     Gala and Closing Ceremony