(7) World Cup in Minsk: Kanaeva also dominates the world cup
Evgenia Kanaeva: Perfect with hoop
This weekend the rhythmic family made a stopover in Minsk for the"World Cup BelSwissBank".
50 individual senior and 19 junior gymnasts as well as 11 groups from all over the world, even as far as from North Korea and Venezuela, competed in these three days.
Once again the Russian super star Evgenia KANAEVA was unbeatable, not in all-around and not in the Sunday's final.
Togethe with Daria Dmitrieva (rope) and two times with Daria Kondakova Russia landed double successes. Onli one time Byelorussian Lyubov Charkashina came on second with the hoop.
At final day BELARUS won both group finals in front of Japan (5 hoops) and of Russia (ropes/ribbons) ...
Minsk's sport's palace where the competition tookplace * GYMmedia editor Esther Teijeira reporting directly fom Belarus
The event is staged at the city’s Sport Palace, which boasts a seating capacity of 3,000, and will be supplied with apparatus by Spieth Gymnastic.
The city of Minsk (BLR) will play host this coming weekend to the Rhythmic elite on their way to the 30th World Championships in Moscow (RUS) as the 2010 FIG World Cup circuit slowly draws to a close.
The BelSwissBank 2010, which marks the seventh tournament in a series of eight FIG World Cup events, will be organised jointly by the Belarus Gymnastics Association and the Ministry of Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Belarus.
Fans who can’t make it to the arena will be able to follow the event on television with images provided by host broadcaster BelTeleRadio Company.
* GYMmedia correspondent Esther Teijeira will report more after the Friday's events ...!
Friday's groups all-around finished with the Russian group winning in front of the girls from Belarus and Israel. Unfortunately, the local girls had two drops in each exercise and had to let the Russian gymnasts pass. Israel also had some little mistakes in every exercise but could beat Japan and Azerbaidjan.
The best junior of the competition was Nataliya Leshyk from Belarus followed by Alexandra Merkulova from Russia and Viktoria Filanovsky from Israel.
The Russian girl was leading after two exercises, but did a very unlucky clubs exercise with a lot of drops and missed risks what made her loose the gold.
The medals were presented to the winners by Inna Zhukova (BLR), silver medallist in rhythmic gymnastics in Beijing 2008.
>>>Results Crystal Rose Cup
Nataliya Leshyk (BLR), winner Crystal Rose Cup for Juniors
SATURDAY, 22nd May
... Russian Evgenia Kanaeva winning with 116,050 points ahead of her teammate Daria Dimitrieva - getting even a 10 in artistic value for her hoop exercise.
This is the first time with the new code that the judges gave full points for one of the three partial scores that compose the final result. Until today, nobody got 30,000 points for an exercise, what means scoring 10 in all partial marks, but if a gymnast can achieve this right now, it can be only Kanaeva.
On third place came local Belorussian Melitina Staniouta who seemed to be quiet nervous in her last exercise with hoop and made some little mistakes.
Fourth place went to Liubov Charkashyna from Belarus, too, and fifth to Aliya Garaeva from Azerbaidjan.
... and this was not a fortunate day for the Russian group, they had mistakes in both exercises, with five hoops and also in the mixed routine, and lost the gold medal to the girls from Belarus. In the final with five hoops, they even had to let pass the Japanese group who came on second place. In the mixed routine, th first place went to Belarus, second to Russia and third to Israel. > Results five hoops groups
> Results mixed routine groups
* Sunday, May 23 - Final Day
Another golden day for Kanaeva!
She won all four finals and was accompanied on the podium by her own teammates Daria Dimitrieva second with rope, Daria Kondakova, silver with ball and ribbon and by the girls from Belarus, Liubov Charkashyna and Melitina Staniuota getting silver and bronze with hoop and Charkashyna bronze with ball.
Daria Diimitrieva’s hoop went out of the carpet during her routine and she placed only sixth. In the ribbon final, the only medal at this competition for Azerbaidjan went to Aliya Garaeva.
