There is a fabulous picture gallery of Day 1 EF at the Russian Champs on the RGF website. Scroll down to enjoy a few highlights.
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Happy gymnasts all together. Maria Paseka, also from Moscow, took silver on the vault.
Aliya Mustafina was there to support her team mates. Here she is with coach Sergei Starkin, happy after his gymnast Denis Ablyazin won two golds, on floor (shared with Nikita Nagorny) and rings. Find the results here - http://sportgymrus.ru/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/finaly-v-otdel-ny-h-vidah-1-den-muzh.pdf
Viktoria Komova had a little bit of disappointment when she fell from bars and missed a medal there. Here she is consoled by head coach Andrei Rodionenko.
Daria Spiridinova celebrates a third top scoring routine on the uneven bars. Here she is with returning Olympian Ksenia Afanasyeva (back on floor tomorrow!), Moscow's Artur Dalolyan and, to the left,Youth Olympics Champion and first year senior, Seda Tutkhalyan.
Nikita Ignatyev signs a calendar for a fan.
'Hello ...' Gold medallist on floor (shared with Denis Ablyazin), Nikita Nagorny has apparently mistaken his first senior trophy for a phone :-)
Vera Kolesnikova, 1986 Goodwill Games Champion, was here this week as a judge
Who is it? First year senior, Maria Bondareva. Maria fell on uneven bars and was very disappointed about it ... But there will be more opportunities, Masha!
First year senior Seda Tutkhalyan took bronze in vault and performed her best on uneven bars to take fourth place. Tune in tomorrow for more updates on this promising gymnast, the only woman to qualify to all four event finals.
Three of Moscow's finest ... Gold medallist on vault, Alla Sosnitskaya, with vault bronze medallist Seda Tutkhalyan and ... Aliya!
