Riina Ruismäki (born 11 March 2001) is a

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aesthetic group gymnast. She is a three-time (2018-2020) Finnish National champion in

Aesthetic group gymnastics Aesthetic Group Gymnastics (AGG) is a discipline of gymnastics developed from Finnish "Women's Gymnastics" (naisvoimistelu). The discipline is reminiscent of Rhythmic Gymnastics, but there are some significant differences: in AGG, the emphasis is ...

competing with Team Minetit. She is the 2017 AGG Junior World champion.

Career

She started competing in

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in club Tapanilan Erä with team Alexa. They won gold medals at the 2013 and 2014

National Championship in category 12-14 years. In 2015, she joined junior team Elite in cooperation of club Tapanilan Erä and Sport Club

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. She attended her fist Challenge Cup, where they finished 4th in Junior category, only 0,45 points away from podium. They won bronze medal at

National Championship in junior category the same year. Later, they competed at the 2015 Junior World Championships in

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. Team ended on 7th place in Preliminaries and did not advance into the finals due to 2 teams per country rule. In 2016, they competed at three Challenge Cup events: in

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and

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. They won bronze medal again at

National Championship in junior category and qualified to the 2016 Junior World Championships in

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. The team fall apart in autumn that year. In 2017, Riina and some members of Elite Junior team formed a co-operation team with the Minetit Juniors of Tampereen Voimistelijat called Minetit Elite. They won gold medals at Challenge Cups in Tartu and Padua. On national level, they became the 2017

Junior National champions. They also won gold medal at the 2017 Junior World Championships in

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. In summer she stepped into the senior category and joined senior team Minetit. They won silver medals at World Cup

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and at the 2017 European Championships in

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. They kept the autumn program for spring season in 2018. Next year, they won gold medal at

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and silver at

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. They also won silver medal at the 2018 World Championships in

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References

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