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Irina Annenkova
Irina Yurievna Annenkova (russian: Ирина Юрьевна Анненкова; born February 22, 1999 in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia) is a Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2014 Youth Olympic champion and the 2014 European Junior ball and ribbon champion. Personal life Annenkova has been practicing gymnastics since the age of 5 but it wasn't until she was 7 years old she had her proper training after begging her grandmother to take her to rhythmic gymnastics class, considered a late start for the sport. Career Her international breakthrough event was competing in junior division at the 2012 Moscow Grand Prix. In 2013, Annenkova finished 15th in all-around at the 2013 Russian Junior Championships, she finished 2nd place as out of competition at 2013 Moscow Grand Prix behind Yulia Bravikova. She has also competed at the 2013 Russian-Chinese Youth Games where she won the all-around gold and medaled in all 4 of the event finals. Annenkova briefly competed as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sochi
Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in the urban area. The city covers an area of , while the Greater Sochi Area covers over . Sochi stretches across , and is the longest city in Europe, the fifth-largest city in the Southern Federal District, the second-largest city in Krasnodar Krai, and the sixth-largest city on the Black Sea. Being a part of the Caucasian Riviera, it is one of the very few places in Russia with a subtropical climate, with warm to hot summers and mild to cool winters. Sochi hosted the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games in 2014. It hosted the alpine and Nordic Olympic events at the nearby ski resort of Rosa Khutor in Krasnaya Polyana. It also hosted the Formula 1 Russian Grand Prix from 2014 until 2021. It was also one of the host c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronika Polyakova
Veronika Dmitrievna Polyakova (russian: Вероника Дмитриевна Полякова, born March 3, 1999 in Irkutsk, Russia) is a Russian group and former individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2014 Russian Junior National all-around silver medalist. Career Junior Polyakova has competed both as an individual and in group gymnastics. She was born in Irkutsk, hometown of former World Champion Oxana Kostina and 2012 Olympic all-around silver medalist Daria Dmitrieva. Polyakova appeared in international competition at the 2012 Irina Deleanu Cup with teammate Aleksandra Soldatova. She competed in her first Junior nationals at the 2012 Russian Junior Championships finishing 29th in all-around In 2013 Season, Polyakova finished 10th in all-around at the 2013 Russian Junior Championships. She competed in the junior division at the Grand Prix in Moscow and World Cup Series. She won the all-around gold and event finals at the 2013 Singapore Gymnastics Open. She won the al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Waltz
I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''i'' (pronounced ), plural ''ies''. History In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative () in Egyptian, but was reassigned to (as in English "yes") by Semites, because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent , the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words. The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician ''yodh'' as their letter '' iota'' () to represent , the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent and this use persists in the languages that descended from Latin. The modern letter ' j' originated as a variation of 'i', and both were used interchange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aram Khachaturian
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (; rus, Арам Ильич Хачатурян, , ɐˈram ɨˈlʲjitɕ xətɕɪtʊˈrʲan, Ru-Aram Ilyich Khachaturian.ogg; hy, Արամ Խաչատրյան, ''Aram Xačʿatryan''; 1 May 1978) was a Soviet and Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers. Born and raised in Tbilisi, the multicultural capital of Georgia, Khachaturian moved to Moscow in 1921 following the Sovietization of the Caucasus. Without prior music training, he enrolled in the Gnessin Musical Institute, subsequently studying at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Nikolai Myaskovsky, among others. His first major work, the Piano Concerto (1936), popularized his name within and outside the Soviet Union. It was followed by the Violin Concerto (1940) and the Cello Concerto (1946). His other significant compositions include the '' Masquerade Suite'' (1941), the Anthem of the Armenian SSR (1944), three symphonies (1935, 1943, 1947), and ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasiia Salos
Anastasiia Maksimovna Salos ( be, Настасся Максімаўна Салас; russian: Анастасия Максимовна Салос; born 18 February 2002) is an individual rhythmic gymnast representing Belarus. She is the 2020 European Championships All-around bronze medalist, as well as the 2019 World Championships Team bronze medalist and 2019 European Championships Team silver medalist. Career Junior Salos began rhythmic gymnastics at the age of 4 in her hometown of Barnaul, Russia. Her parents wanted to find an activity in which she could burn off her excess energy, so her mother took her to a gymnastics class. In 2014 she moved to Belarus to join the national team there. She started appearing in international competitions in 2016, competing at the Tart Cup where she won gold in the team event and placed second in the junior all-around. In 2017 Salos competed at the Alina Cup (held with Grand Prix Moscow) where she won bronze in the junior all-around. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population of 1,752,286 over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a city and county, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,303,786; it is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celtic settlement transformed into the Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Lower Pannonia. The Hungarians arrived in the territory in the late 9th century, but the area was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–42. Re-established Buda became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century. The Battle of Mohács, in 1526, was followed by nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule. After the reconquest of Buda in 1686, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Deleanu
Irina Deleanu (born November 12, 1975) is a former individual rhythmic gymnast from Romania. Biography In the 1992 World Championships she won the bronze medal in rope. She retired from the sport in 1993. An annual Rhythmic Gymnastics competition held in Bucharest is named after her, ''The Irina Deleanu Cup''. She is currently the president of the Romanian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation. Suspension The FIG initiated disciplinary proceedings against Irina Deleanu on March 12, 2012 at the request of the Cyprus Gymnastics Federation damaging the reputation of Cypriot gymnast Chrystalleni Trikomiti Chrystalleni Trikomiti (born 30 November 1993) is a Rhythmic Gymnast from Cyprus. Career Trikomiti At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, she burst on to the scene when she won two gold medals, one silver medal, and two bronze medals ..., following comments that she made during a television interview with regard to the judging at the Rhythmic Gymnastics qualifying event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melitina Staniouta
Melitina Dmitryevna Staniouta ( be, Меліціна Дзмітрыеўна Станюта, russian: Мелитина Дмитриевна Станюта; born 15 November 1993) is a Belarusian retired individual rhythmic gymnast. Staniouta in The-sports.org She is a three-time ( 2015 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, 2015, , |
Laura Zeng
Laura Yihan Zeng (; ''Zeng Yi-Han''; born October 14, 1999) is an Americans, American former individual Rhythmic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnast. She represented the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics, United States at the 2016 and United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Summer Olympics. She swept all of the events at the Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games, 2015 Pan American Games and at the 2018 Pan American Gymnastics Championships, 2018 Pan American Championships. She is the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, 2014 Youth Olympic and 2019 Summer Universiade all-around bronze medalist and the List of medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics Grand Prix Final#2019 Brno Grand Prix, 2019 Grand Prix Final hoop bronze medalist. She is an eight-time national all-around champion, six times at the senior level (2015-19, 2021) and twice at the junior level (2013-14). Personal life Zeng was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and raised in Libertyville, Illinois, where she attended Liber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariya Trubach
Mariya Yuryevna Trubach ( be, Марыя Юр'еўна Трубач; russian: Мария Юрьевна Трубач, born November 11, 1999 in Vitebsk, Belarus) is a Belarusian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2014 Youth Olympic all-around silver medalist and two-time (2013, 2014) Junior National champion. Personal life Trubach was inspired to take up rhythmic gymnastics after watching Inna Zhukova in television, which she then asked her mother to take her to a gymnastics class. Career Junior Trubach began appearing in international competitions in 2011. In 2013 season, Trubach competed in the junior division of the World Cup and Grand Prix series. She won the all-around bronze at the 2014 Moscow Grand Prix, following her placement she earned a qualification for Belarus to compete for the Youth Olympic Games. Trubach competed in the World Cup series in Lisbon winning gold in clubs, 2 silver (hoop, ribbon). On June 10–16, 2014, Trubach competed at the 2014 E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanjing
Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. The city has 11 districts, an administrative area of , and a total recorded population of 9,314,685 . Situated in the Yangtze River Delta region, Nanjing has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having served as the capital of various Chinese dynasties, kingdoms and republican governments dating from the 3rd century to 1949, and has thus long been a major center of culture, education, research, politics, economy, transport networks and tourism, being the home to one of the world's largest inland ports. The city is also one of the fifteen sub-provincial cities in the People's Republic of China's administrative structure, enjoying jurisdictional and economic autonomy only slightly less than that of a province. Nanjing has be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
