Kanaeva’s star power lights up rhythmic gymnastics World Cup

It may have been bitterly cold outside, but the gym inside the Pierre Charbonneau Centre in Montreal radiated warmth every time Evgeniya Kanaeva stepped on the floor over two days of competition at the first rhythmic gymnastics World Cup ever held in North America.
The Russian Olympic champion wasn’t perfect in all her routines, but there [...]

Maria Kitkarska makes a splash at rhythmic gymnastics Junior Cup

Maria Kitkarska capped a sparkling performance at the rhythmic gymnastic Junior Cup in Montreal on Sunday, with two fourth-place finishes against a top international field includling strong teams from Russia and Belarus.
Maria came very close to winning a bronze medal in the ball competition, her favourite apparatus, but was edged out by Nataliya Leshchyk of [...]

Rhythmic gymnast Nerissa Mo sees first World Cup as a great learning experience

Nerissa Mo’s first competition as a senior didn’t go quite the way she had hoped it would at the World Cup in Montreal on Saturday, but the 15-year-old from Vancouver says she learned a lot about what it will take to compete against the world’s best rhythmic gymnasts.
Mo placed 19th all around in a field [...]

Alexandra Martincek puts on a show

Alexandra Martincek loves competing in the ribbon competition and it showed with her gold-medal winning performance at the Canadian championships on Monday in Hamilton.
Alexandra also won an individual gold in the ball competiton and silver medals in the hoop and rope finals to go along with the all around title she won the day [...]

Nerissa Mo wins second straight Canadian junior title

Nerissa Mo was on cloud nine at the 2009 Canadian gymnastics championships after winning her second straight national junior all around rhythmic title on Saturday, May 30th, at McMaster University in Hamilton.

Mo, who came into the championships on a high after placing eighth all around at a junior World Cup in Pesaro, Italy, topped the [...]