Special credit and thanks to the Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia, we've updated the gallery with lots of photos from the competition! More photos will be added over time without future announcement so check back often! So far, the gallery has photos from qualifications, and the team final.

The Senior Russian Team finished in second place (175.536) behind Romania (176.288) today in the European Championship. The score was very close, with Russia trailing by .752 of a point.

During the fourth rotation, Aliya scored a meet-high 15.833 on the Bars.

The competition will conclude tomorrow with the apparatus finals!

A full report of the competition can be found here.

The Gymnastics Examiner has a great overview of the Podium Training for the Senior Gymnasts at the competition. Her report also includes a nice gallery of photos from the event as well!

Senior Podium Training, Senior Podium Training Part II

The Youtube User AMC81 posted videos from Podium Training on his channel. The videos can be seen here.

Prosports.ru posted a nice gallery of photos of the Senior Gymnasts on their website! You can click on a thumbnail below to see the image on the athlete's respective website.



I'm sorry for the late report! Two websites were down due to technical issues so I couldn't report the news earlier.

UEG has published the nominative list of gymnasts competing at the European Championship! However, we know that Ksenia Afanasyeva will not be competing so the senior team will be adjusted, probably to include either Anna Dementyeva or Maria Paseka. We will find out shortly.

Nonetheless, the official roster is:

Seniors:

Aliya Mustafina
Viktoria Komova
Anastasia Grishina
Ksenia Afanasyeva
Anastasia Sidorova

Juniors:

Evgeniya Shelgunova
Maria Kharenkova
Yulia Tipaeva
Ekaterina Baturina
Viktoria Kuzmina

The Russian Team won the Russia-Great Britain-Switzerland Tri Meet competition! The total score was 177.30, which is two points higher than their score from the Worlds.

Aliya Mustafina, despite not competing in her full form, won the All Around (58.95) just ahead of Anastasia Grishina (57.7), with Anna Dementieva following at 56.55.

Vika only competed on the Uneven Bars (15.85), and the Balance Beam (15.2).

Maddie has uploaded videos from the competition on Youtube which you can find here.

The websites will be updated with more results at they come in. You can read a full report of the competition at the Rewriting Russian Gymnastics Website.

Team Final Results:
Russia - 177.30
Switzerland - 161.55
Great Britain - 160.0

The next competition for Anastasia is at the SUI-GBR-RUS tri-meet (Switzerland-Great Britain-Russia) in Switzerland! The competition will take place on April 20 in the Sporthalle Lindenhof, in Zurich.

The Russians will be sending their best gymnasts to this event! The team includes Aliya Mustafina, Viktoria Komova, Anastasia Grishina, Anna Dementyeva, Maria Paseka, and Anastasia Sidorova. Ksenia Afanasyeva will not participate due to a small leg injury from the Russian Chapmionship she is recovering from, however, she plans to be ready in time for the Euros.

In an interview with R-Sport, Russian Women's Gymnastics Team Head Coach Aleksandr Aleksandrov talked about the girls competing for a spot on the Russian team and about vault, which would help beat the Americans and about how a bicycle kept one girl from going to London.

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Russia has announced their teams for the Jesolo Cup!

Aliya Mustafina, Anastasia Grishina, Anastasia Sidorova, Tatiana Nabieva, Yulia Inshina and Anna Dementyeva are registered to compete. However, the registered team is only tentative and is subject to change. The results of the Russian Championship, which will take place a week before the Jesolo competition, will likely have an impact on the final team selection for Jesolo.