Azerbaijani gymnasts gain great success in Izmir
By Amina Nazarli
The grandiose 33rd Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships
wrapped up in Izmir, Turkey on September 28.
World's best gymnasts from 60 countries won the hearts of thousands
of people with their unbelievable performances with ribbons, balls,
clubs and hoop.
With their wonderful performances, Azerbaijani gymnasts including World Cup multiple winner Marina Durunda, European Championship's silver and bronze medalist Gulsum Shafizada, Nilufer Niftaliyeva, Sabina Abbasova, Siyana Vasilyeva, Aynur Mustafayeva, Aliya Pashayeva, Diana Doman and Alexandra Platonova could draw the viewers' attentions to themselves.
The presence of the strongest and proficient gymnasts of the world reveals how hard the championship was.
Marina Durunda proved that Azerbaijan is persistent to compete with the strongest world gymnasts.
Performing with hoop, ribbon and clubs, Marina took the sixth place in the championship with a total of 69.565 points.
The first place went to Russian Yana Kudravceva who gained
75.266 points, while another Russian gymnast Margarita Mamun with
74.149 points became the second. Ukrainian Anna Rizatdinova took
the third place with 72.449 points.
Taking into consideration that last year the young grace took the
16th place in the World Championship, this year's result is a huge
success in the gymnasts history for both the talented gymnasts and
Azerbaijan.
Performing in the qualifying day, Azerbaijani group team of
Sabina Abbasova, Siyana Vasileva, Diana Doman, Aliya Pashayeva,
Aynur Mustafaeva and Aleksandra Platonova showed performances
with ten clubs and composition of the 3 balls + 2 ribbons, and
made it to the both finals, whereas the previous championships
they reached only one final.
Receiving 15,416 points from the judges for performance with clubs
and 16,608 points for the "3 balls + 2 ribbons", Azerbaijani group
team took the eighth position.
In the team competition, the national team rose to the fifth position with the results of 132,648 points, and stood slightly behind the owners of the fourth and third places - Israel and Ukraine. The Russian national team, gaining a grand total of 147,914 points has collected most of the gold.
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