Russians best in team and junior all-around at #RGECh2019

Russia lived up to the expectations today by producing the leaders in each qualification event today, and so ensuring a dominant performance in their quest for the team title which combines both junior group and senior individual scores. With an advantage of 10 points, the Russian ladies were crowned team champions. And the juniors picked up a second gold medal for their achievements in the all-around. With 13.0, they posted the highest difficulty of all routines with 5 ribbons, easily taking the lead ahead of Belarus and Italy for the all-around silverware and ahead of Israel and Belarus to advance into the apparatus final.

The senior gymnasts competed with clubs and ribbon. Dina Averina posted the highest score of the competition so far for an extremely difficulty clubs routine (d-score 14.7), taking the lead ahead of her twin Arina and Bulgaria’s Katrin Taseva with more than a point and a half. With ribbon, reigning World Champion Aleksandra Soldatova ruled, overtaking Dina’s score, with Taseva again in third place.

Israel’s Nicol Zelikman continued her strong competition as she qualified for all 4 apparatus finals. Taseva, her teammate Boryana Kaleyn and Belarussians Anastasia Salos & Katsiaryna Halkina qualified to three finals each.

 

Medallists

Team

1.       Russia 216.225

2.       Belarus 206.000

3.       Bulgaria 202.075

 

Junior group all-around

1.       Russia 44.925

2.       Belarus 42.050

3.       Italy 41.350

 

Qualified to apparatus finals:

Clubs

1.           Dina Averina (RUS) 23.875

2.           Arina Averina (RUS) 22.300

3.           Katrin Taseva (BUL) 22.125

4.           Anastasia Salos (BLR) 21.600

5.           Vlada Nikolchenko (UKR) 21.500

6.           Zohra Aghamirova (AZE) 20.800

7.           Ekaterina Vedeneeva (SLO) 20.525

8.           Nicol Zelikman (ISR) 20.350

 

Ribbon

1.           Aleksandra Soldatova (RUS) 20.325

2.           Dina Averina (RUS) 20.200

3.           Katrin Taseva (BUL) 19.950

4.           Anastasiia Salos (BLR) 19.600

5.           Milena Baldassarri (ITA) 18.800

6.           Boryana Kaleyn (BUL) 18.750

7.           Nicol Zelikman (ISR) 18.450

8.           Katsiaryna Halkina (BLR) 18.450

 

5 ribbons

1.           Russia 21.225

2.           Israel 20.350

3.           Belarus 18.950

4.           Ukraine 18.450

5.           Italy 18.300

6.           Switzerland 17.400

7.           Lithuania 17.325

8.           Spain 17.300

 

The top 24 gymnasts in the all-around (three best scores counting) qualified to next year’s Europeans in Kiev (UKR).

Find the full results on our website: http://www.ueg.org/event/2019-european-championships-rhythmic-gymnastics/results

These Europeans continue tomorrow with the apparatus finals!