These days, city of Budapest (Hungary), hosts the European Championship in Rhythmic Gymnastics. Europe's strongest Senior and Junior gymnasts, as well as Group gymnasts, will reveal the identity of the European Champion and prize-winners. Two days ago junior gymnasts started to compete. The members of the Georgian youth national team of the qualifying stage are: Barbara Kajaia (Ribbon), Elene Tsulukidze (Hoop), Lisa Kordzadze (Clubs) and Nino Datunashvili (Ball). Barbare Kajaia won the right to compete in the finals. She scored 28.600 points and placed 5th in the Qualifiers. Yesterday, took place Junior apparatus finals. Lica Amalia from Romania took the first place in exercise with a Ribbon with 30.950 points, the Bulgarian athlete Dara Malinova took the second place with 29.600 points, and our Barbare Kajaia took the third place. Barbare competed perfectly and won the bronze medal with 29.000 points. Since 2012, this is the first time we won the Junior medal at the European Championships. Competition of Seniors and Groups' will take plade today and tomorrow. Congratulations to Barbare for this great achievement, as well as to her coach - the head coach of the Georgian national team Mrs. Eliso Bedoshvili, to the entire rhythmic gymnastics team and to Georgia!

Last week city of Baku (Azerbaijan) hosted the 1st Eropean Cup in Rhythmic gymnastics. Among the guests were the President of the United Georgian Gymnastics Federation Mr. Konstantin Lashkhi and the President of the Indian Gymnastics Federation Mr.Mital Sudhir. On Monday they both left Baku and arrived to Tbilisi (Georgia). Today, both presidents visited the Gymnastics Arena where they met with the National teams of all gymnastics disciplines of Georgia. They have discussed future plans of developing friendly relationship between two federations. At the end the Presidents have signed a memorandum of understanding on promotion and development of gymnastics.

On May 3-6, Baku will host the first European Cup in Rhythmic Gymnastics. It will be a new type and format of the tournament in Europe. Members of our individual and group team teams will compete in this tournament. We wish success to our girls!

On April 26-29 of this year, Tbilisi hosted the 4th International gymnastics tournament in Gymnastics for All, "Tbilisi Gymnaestrada". About 1000 participants from 66 teams of Georgia and Azerbaijan took part in the tournament. The age of the participants ranged from 3 years to 50 years. This tournament was held for the first time in 2021 and 105 athletes took part in it. This year the tournament was held with a ten time increased number of participants. In addition, the geography of participating teams from Georgia has also increased. The teams of Bolnisi and Akhaltsikhe participated in the tournament for the first time.

As we told you yesterday, the Italian city of Rimini is hosting the MAG European Championship in Artistic Gymnastics. The format of the championship includes the competition of both seniors and juniors. Yesterday, Levan Skhiladze excelled in Seniors and made it to the finals on Pommel Horse. Today, the qualifying stage of the junior competition was held, and our youth national team member Dachi Dolidze took the fourth place on the Pommel Horse with 14.100 points and reached the finals. We congratulate Dachi and wish him a successful competition in the finals!

The Italian city of Rimini hosts the European Championship in MEN Artistic Gymnastics. The format of the championship includes the competition of both seniors and juniors. A few minutes ago, we received information that our national team member (senior) Levan Skhiladze entered the final with 14.266 points on Pommel Horse exercise. We congratulate Levan and wish him a successful competition in the final!

On April 26-29 of this year, Tbilisi will host the 4th international tournament in Gymnastics for All- "Tbilisi Gymnaestrada". Gymnastics for All is a mass sport discipline for everyone. The development of this discipline in Georgia started in 2018 with the funding and support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Georgia. Gymnastics for All is both professional and amateur gymnasts, athletes, dancers and in general anyone who can move to music by performing a few gymnastic elenents. The first "TBILISI GYMNAESTRADA" was held in 2021 and Georgian and Azerbaijani teams took part in it, with 105 participants, and last year there were already 350 participants from Azerbaijan, Israel and Georgia. Gymnaestrada will be held for the fourth time this year and 900 participants will take part in it. The event will be held in the "Olympic Palace" located on University Street (Tbilisi, Georgia). On April 27 there will be podium exercises all day, On April 28 at 11:00 there will an Opening deremony and the event will take place the whole day. Free entry.

Today, the European Trampoline Gymnastics Championship ended in Portugal. On the last day, individual semi-final and final competitions were held in both senior and junior categories. In the morning, the boys and girls of our Junior team started competing in the semi-finals. They did a good job but unfortunately they didn't get enough points for the final. As for the Seniors, here we had three semi-finalists: Golovina, Ragimovi and Apakidze. Golovina and Apakidze passed this stage very well and reached the final where they joined the best 6 Europeans in the fight for medals. It is already a great success when 2 athletes from Georgia reached the finals of the European Championship. In the final, Anano Apakidze took the 5th place, and Luba Golovina took the 8th place. Let us remind you that this championship was very successful for our Trampoline gymnasts and we won 11 medals of all types. On the first day, the Junior team took the first team place: Nino Khoridze, Maia Bochoridze and Ana Lapiashvili.  On the second day, Senior wmen team became vice-champions in the competition: Luba Golovina, Mariam Ragimov, Anano Apakidze and Teona Janjgava. On the third day, the gold medals of the synchronized Junior pair: Maia Bochoridze and Ana Lapiashvili. Senior Girls Synchronized Pair Bronze Medals on Day Four: Anano Apakidze and Mariam Ragimovi. We congratulate the Georgian Trampoline Gymnastics super team on this brilliant result and wish them future victories!

Today, at the current European Trampoline Championship in Portugal, it was the day of the junior (youth) synchronized pairs competition. Georgia was represented by: Ana Lapiashvili and Maia Bochoridze, while in boys: Luka Lomtatidze and Tsotne Chkhaidze. In the qualifying stage, the boys competed well and secured a place in the finals with 3rd place, while our girls beat everyone and reached the finals with the first place. In the final, our boys fought to the end and narrowly missed out on the third place and finished fourth. As for Anna and Maiko, they defended the synchronized medals they won at the previous European Championship and became European Champions again, the Azerbaijani couple came second, and the Polish couple came third. Let us remind you that our trampoline gymnasts won medals at the European Championship for the third day in a row: the first day - junior team gold, the second day - senior team silver, and today the junior synchronized jumping silver! We congratulate Anna and Maylia, their personal coaches, Mr. Zakaria Sulashvili-the head coach of Georgia in trampoline jumping, Mrs. Rusudan Khoperia and all of Georgia on this great victory!

დღეს, პორტუგალიაში მიმდინარე ევროპის ჩემპიონატზე ბატუტზე ხტომებში, იყო იუნიორი (ახალგაზრდული) ბატუტისტების სინქრონული წყვილების შეჯიბრის დღე. საქართველოს გოგონებში წარმოადგენდნენ: ანა ლაპიაშვილი და მაია ბოჭორიძე, ხოლო ვაჟებში : ლუკა ლომთათიძე და ცოტნე ჩხაიძე. საკვალიფიკაციო ეტაპზე ვაჟებმა კარგად იასპარეზეს და მე-3 ადგილით გაინაღდეს ადგილი ფინალში, ხოლო ჩვენმა გოგონებმა ყველას აჯობეს და პირველი ადილით მოხვდნენ ფინალში. ფინალში ჩვენ ვაჟებმა ბოლომდე იბრძოლეს და სულ ცოტა დააკლდათ მესამე ადგილის მოსაპოვებლად და მეოთხე ადგილს დასჯერდნენ. რაც შეეხება ანას და მაიკოს მათ წინა ევროპის ჩემპიონატზე მოგებული სინქრონული მედლები დაიცვეს და ისევ გახდნენ ევროპის ჩემპიონები, მეორეზე გავიდა აზერბაიჯანული წყვილი, ხოლო მესამეზე პოლონური. შეგახსენებთ რომ ჩვენი ბატუტისტები უკვე მესამე დღეა ზედიზედ იგებენ მედლებს ევროპის ჩემპიონატზე: პირველი დღე-იუნიორთა გუნდური ოქრო, მეორე დღე-სინიორების გუნდური ვერცხლი და დღეს იუნიორთა სინქრონული ვერცხლი! ვულოცავთ ანას და მაიას, მათ პერსონალურ მწვრთნელებს, საქართველოს ბატუტზე ხტომებში მთავარ მწვრთნელს ბატონ ზაქარია სულაშვილს, ქალბატონ რუსუდან ხოფერიას და სრულიად საქართველოს ამ კიდევ ერთ დიდ გამარჯვებას!

Just a few minures ago, the team competition of the European Championships in Trampoline Gymnastics between Seniors has ended in Portugal. Our girls who represented Georgia in this competition are: Luba Golovina, Mariam Ragimovi, Anano Apakidze and Teona Janjgava. The girls did well in the qualifying stage and got to the final with the first place. The final turned out to be very tense. The battle took place between us and the French national team. We were very close to winning and in the end we got silver medals! We congratulate our girls, their personal coaches, the head coach of the national team Mr. Zakaria Sulashvili, Mrs. Rusudan Kholeria and all of Georgia for this success!

Today, the European Trampoline Championship started in Portugal. Georgia won gold medals on the first day! Everything started with the WOMEN JUNIOR, team qualifying stage where competed our girs: Nino Koridze, Ana Lapiashvili and Maia Bochoridze. Our girls beat everyone in the qualification and won first place with 276.00 points. A few hours later, the final competition took place and here too our girls did not give up the place they won in the qualifying stage and won the gold medals! We congratulate the girls on this victory, we also congratulate their personal coaches, the head coach of the National team, Mr. Zakaria Sulashvili, Mrs. Rusudan Khoperia, and all of Georgia! We wish you future victories!