Rhythmic gymnastics
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Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which gymnasts perform individually or in groups on a floor with an apparatus: hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon and rope. The sport combines elements of gymnastics, dance an
A group (Brazil) competes with two hoops and three pairs of clubs
Pehr Henrik Ling's "aesthetic gymnastics" at the Gymnastic Central Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, c. 1910
Women gymnasts training with clubs in Russia in 1912
The "Idla Girls", a Swedish rhythmic gymnastics group, performing in 1958
Alina Kabaeva
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Alina Maratovna Kabaeva is a Russian politician, media manager, and retired individual rhythmic gymnast, who has been designated Honoured Master of Sports by the Russian government.
Rhythmic gymnastics
…has been the dominant country in rhythmic gymnastics. The start of the late 1990s saw the rise of stars like Amina Zaripova, Yanina Batyrchina and Alina Kabaeva. Oksana Kostina became Russia's first World champion as an independent country. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Yulia Barsukova became the first…
Kabaeva in 2021
(L–R) Alina Kabaeva (bronze), Yulia Barsukova (gold) and Yulia Raskina (silver) at 2000 Olympic Games podium
President Vladimir Putin presented Kabaeva with the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", IV degree, in 2005
President Vladimir Putin and Kabaeva at the 2001 Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships