The Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation (russian: Всероссийская федерация художественной гимнастики, lit=All-Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics) is the governing body of

rhythmic gymnastics Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which gymnasts perform on a floor with an apparatus: hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon. The sport combines elements of gymnastics, dance and calisthenics; gymnasts must be strong, flexible, agile, dexterous and coord ...

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. After the

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, the

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(FIG) barred Russian athletes and officials, including judges. It also announced that "all FIG World Cup and World Challenge Cup events planned to take place in Russia ... are cancelled, and no other FIG events will be allocated to Russia ... until further notice." FIG also banned the Russian flag at its events.

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announced in March 2022 that no athletes, officials, and judges from the Russian Gymnastics Federation and the Belarus Gymnastics Association can participate in any European Gymnastics events, that no European Gymnastics authorities from Russia and Belarus can pursue their functions, and that European Gymnastics had removed from its calendar all events allocated to Russia and Belarus and would not allocate any future events to Russia or Belarus.

History

The All-Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation was founded in 1963. It was a department of the Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation of the

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. It was responsible for growing and cultivating the sport of rhythmic gymnastics in the

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

. The current Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation was founded in 1991. The founding conference was held in

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on 12 September 1991. Later, the federation was restructured at a report and election conference in 2001. Sergei Yastrzhembsky, an Adviser to the

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, was elected president of the organization and remained in this position for two consecutive terms. In December 2008, head coach of the national team

Irina Viner Irina Alexandrovna Viner-Usmanova (russian: Ирина Александровна Винер-Усманова; born July 30, 1948) is an Uzbek-born Russian rhythmic gymnastics coach who is head coach of the Russian national team, president of the ...

was elected president, and she now combines the post with that of the head coach. The Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation is accredited by the Russian

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and has been officially given the status of the country's governing body for the sport of rhythmic gymnastics. After the

, the

Events

The Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation organizes a number of rhythmic gymnastics competitions in Russia. Those include:

Administration

— President * Andrey Guryev — First Vice President * Mikhail Kusnirovich — Vice President * Natalia Kuzmina — Vice President *

Irina Tchachina Irina Viktorovna Tchachina (also Chashchina or Tchashchina, russian: Ирина Викторовна Чащина; born 24 April 1982) is a retired Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2004 Olympic silver medalist in all-around, a ...

— Vice President *

Evgenia Kanaeva Evgeniya Olegovna Kanaeva Order For Merit to the Fatherland, OMF (russian: Евгения Олеговна Канаева; born 2 April 1990) is a Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the only individual rhythmic gymnast in history to wi ...

— Vice President * Tatyana Kolesnikova — Vice President * Aleksandr Bryksin — Vice President * Irina Tsaryova — Executive Director * Tatiana Gorbunova — Executive Secretary

References

* {{Sports governing bodies of Russia

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History

Events

Administration

See also

References