10. September 2015  
Stuttgart, Germany  
RG WCh 2015

WCh 2015 - Apparatus Finals

Yana KUDRYAVTSEVA - realy the best!

Four of six medals of the first apparatus finals of the 34th World Championships 2015 went to the leading gymnastics nation Russia:
In the Porsche Arena of Stuttgart (Germany) Margarita MAMUN (18,950) won the gold medal with the hoop and superstar Yana KUDRYAVTSEVA (19,025) was the absolutely best gymnast with the ball with the highest score of the first final day. Also both silver medals went to Russia, to Alexandra Soldatova (hoop: 18,650) and to Margerita Mamun (ball: 19,000). Ukraine's Ganna Rizatdinova get bronze with the hoop (18,583) and Byelorussian Melitina Staniouta (18,350) was third with the ball.
* On Thursday Russia's super star Yana KUDRYAVTSEVA was not only the best gymnast in all-around qualification - followed by her teammate Margarita Mamun - she won also her second gold medal with the clubs in front of Alexandra Soldatova.
Really nobody was surprised that RUSSIA (149,990) won also the team final as absolutely top nation, followed by Belarus (141,314) and Ukraine (141,196), followed by Israel, Azerbaijan and Japan. And in the golden Russian team Yana KUDRYAVTSEVA was also unbeatable with the ribbon - her fourth gold, and the absolutely "Gymnastics Queen of Stuttgart" ...

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34th Worlds Rhythmic Gymnastics
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♦♦ APPARATUS FINALS - Part I
Russia struck quickly as finals at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships began Tuesday night in Stuttgart (GER).
Superstar Yana Kudryavtseva won the World title with the Ball for the second consecutive year, while teammate Margarita Mamun took gold with the Hoop. Seventeen-year-old Kudryavtseva, the undisputed queen of Rhythmic Gymnastics for the past two years, continued the domination she showed at the 2013 and 2014 Worlds. In spite of a slight mishap on a catch with the Ball, the judges awarded the "Angel with Iron Wings" the highest note of the evening on either apparatus (19.025 points). That score put her a hair over Mamun, 20, who had to settle for silver by a margin of only 0.025 (19.000).
Veteran Melitina Staniouta (BLR) won bronze for the second year in a row (18.350). Kudryavtseva, who has won the World All-around title at the past two World Championships, chose to sit out the Hoop competition this year to keep from aggravating a leg injury. That left the field open for her Russian teammates, Mamun and rising star Alexandra Soldatova, 17. With the highest scores in both difficulty and execution (18.950 points total), Mamun was the big winner in the Hoop final, pocketing her sixth World title and first with the Hoop. In her first-ever individual World final, Soldatova won the silver (18.650), a few tenths ahead of Ganna Rizatdinova (UKR), who won the World title with the Hoop in 2013 (18.583).

F.I.G. SUMMARY (30 min.) - Finals Hoop & Ball



   FINAL Results : H O O P  /  Reifen

  1. MAMUN, Margarita          (RUS)  - 18,950
  2. SOLDATOVA, Alexandra (RUS)   - 18,650
  3. RIZATDINOVA, Ganna      (UKR)  - 18,583 
        ►► Detailed results

* from left: Hoop medals: Soldatova (silver), Mamun (Gold), Rizatdinova (bronze)

  FINAL - B A L L

  1. KUDRYAVTSEVA, Yana (RUS)  - 19,025
  2. MAMUN, Margarita      (RUS)  - 19,000

  3. STANIOUTA, Melitina  (BLR)  - 18,350
      ►► Detailed results

* Ball final: from left: Mamun (silver), Kudryavtseva (GOLD), Staniouta (bronze)

♦♦ APPARATUS FINALS - Day 2: Total Russian Triumph!

2013 and 2014 World champion Yana Kudryavtseva (RUS) pocketed another three gold medals during the second night of individual apparatus finals at the 2015 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart (GER). 17-year-old Kudryavtseva, who successfully defended her World title with the Ball Tuesday night, added World titles with the Clubs & Ribbon Thursday, as well as an additional gold in the team competition, in the company of her countrywomen Margarita Mamun and Aleksandra Soldatova.

Despite a slight leg injury that kept her out of the Hoop competition here in Stuttgart, the 17-year-old Muscovite has been nothing less than dominant since the Championships began. With the Clubs, she was flawless, scoring 19.066 points to take her third consecutive World title with the apparatus.
Alexandra Soldatova, who outscored Margarita Mamun to qualify for the Clubs final, took a distant silver (18.583), her second of these Championships.
The last competitor to perform with the Ribbon, Kudryavtseva appeared to improvise slightly at the end of her routine after failing to catch the Ribbon's wand following a throw. Her score, 18.866, was still enough to edge Mamun (18.850), the 2014 World champion with the Ribbon, due to a superior execution score.
Ukraine's Ganna Rizatdinova won bronze with both Clubs (18.566) and Ribbon (18.383), just as she did Tuesday with the Hoop, giving the 22-year-old three individual bronze medals so far in Stuttgart.
* source: f i g report
 

  C L U B S  / Keulen

  1. KUDRYAVTSEVA, Yana     (RUS)  - 19,066
  2. SOLDATOVA, Alexandra  (RUS)  - 18,583

  3. RIZATDINOVA, Ganna       (UKR)  - 18,566
      ►► Detailed results

* Victory ceremony Ribbon: (from left) Soldatova (silver) - Kudryavtseva (GOLD) - Rizatdinova (bronze)

  R I B B O N / Band
  
  1. KUDRYAVTSEVA, Yana (RUS)  - 18,866
  2. MAMUN, Margarita       (RUS)  - 18,850

  3. RIZATDINOVA, Ganna   (UKR)  - 18,383
      ►► Detailed results

* Victory ceremony Ribbon: (from left) Mamun (silver) - Kudryavtseva (GOLD) - Rizatdinova (bronze)

* TEAM FINAL
The Russian trio of Kudryavtseva, Mamun &Soldatova also finished 1-2-3 in qualifications, giving the Russians the World team title, the total of the eight best scores obtained by a country's gymnasts. With 149.990 points, Russia finished more than eight points ahead of Belarus and Ukraine (photo, below):
►► TEAM results

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The 2015 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships continues with the individual All-around final September 11, Friday night.
Kudryavtseva, the top qualifier, is a favorite to win her third consecutive World All-around title.
* Qualification:     >> All-around
* GYMmedia coverages: >>  Qualification