Last week, Tbilisi held an International tournament in Artistic gymnastics ‘’VTB CUP’’. Since 2012 year the “VTB Bank Georgia” is the general sponsor of the United Georgian Gymnastics Federation, and this international tournament became an annual one.

                   This year tournament had attracted teams and clubs  from Georgia, Ukraine  and Russia. Georgia had participated with two WAG and  two MAG teams.

               Georgian WAG team had taken the third place in the team competition. And  Georgian MAG team had taken the second  place.

             Georgian senior WAG gymnast Anna Subbotina was second in the All-around completion. She also got medals at the apparatus  finals: gold medals on the Balance beam and Free floor exercise, also, she was second on the Vault and third  on the Uneven bars. Our junior WAG gymnasts : Nino Kakhadze, Mariam Babunashvili, Ani Godabdze and Anano Grigorchuk had participated at the International tournament for the first time.

Portugal’s city of Loule on 3-7 October 2018 held an International tournament in trampoline gymnastics. Gymnasts from more than 25 countries had competed and among them were Georgian gymnasts.

Our gymnasts had taken the 1^St place in Team competition. Among the seniors the first place was taken by Nana Gogashvili and the third was taken by Ana Odishvili.

     Last week,  city of Batumi (Georgia) for the fifth  time hosted  the ‘’R. SIKHARULIDZE INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT  IN ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS’’. 

      Every year the tournament attracts more and more countries and teams.  This year, 15 teams from 10 countries had competed with about 100 gymnasts all together.  The tournament was held  from 5 to 9 September at the Batumi State University sports hall. The tournament was organized by the Ministry of  Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia,   Ajara and Batumi local authorities, also was managed by the United Georgian Gymnastics Federation and  Gymnastics  Federation of Ajara, and sponsored by the General sponsor of UGGF the Bank ‘’VTB BANK GEORGIA’’.

    On 25-26 August in Budapest (Hungary) took place FIG International Tournament in RG Gymnastics ‘’Gracia Fair Cup’’. Among the other gymnasts and groups were participating our gymnasts.

Last week, 14-16 August, in Batumi (Georgia) was held an International tournament in Trampoline Gymnastics ''Ajara Cup2018''. The tournament was organized with close cooperation of the "Department of Sport and Youth Affairs of Ajara'' and "Gymnastics Federation of Ajara''. The sponsor of the tournament was "Hotel Light House Tbilisi''

            From May 24 to June 10, United Georgian Gymnastics Federation held  a ‘’Certification Training ‘’ for the existing and future gymnastics coaches. Training was held in Sport University of Georgia. More than 200 active and beginner coaches from Tbilisi, as well as from different regions participated in the training.

           Gymnasitics certification system of gymnastic coaches was introduced for checking the qualification of coaches, and also, for their further development and qualification improvements.

         Every year Saint Petersburg  holds  an International tournament in Artistic Gymnastics ‘’Ditiatin Cup’’.  This year the tournament  took place in  16-20 May.
         More  than  hundred gymnasts from 12  countries had competed  and  among them were our National team gymnasts.

Last week in Guadalajara (Spain) was held European Championships in Rhythmic Gymnastics.

We would like to offer you an article  from the UEG website:

            UEG’s Global partner SmartScoring recently launched their idea to honor a gymnast at each European Championships. Their Shooting Star award goes to a gymnast that stands out because of her story, performance or exceptional composure

     Today , Zakaria Sulashvili-- the Honorable coach of Georgia, the Head coach of Georgian National team of Trampoline Gymnastics, the Honored Worker, the Honor Medal holder, has his 60^TH birthday!

Last week Holon had hosted a Grand Prix in Rhythmic Gymnastics. Among the many participant was our gymnast and National team leader Salome Pazhava. As always Salome were participating with all heart and determination.

At the beginning of the year, the President of the UGGF Mr. Lashkhi had addressed to the Presindent of the FIG Mr.Watanabe with a kind request to organize a  course for the Georgian coaches.  Mr. Watanabe redirected this request  to the Gymnastics Association of Japan, and  they sent to Georgia an expert coach  Mr. Yasunori Tochibana.

  Mr. Yasunori Tachibana currently working as a full-time coach of Japan Olympic Committee and also, Gymnastics Multi-Support Committee Chairman. He has the FIG Coach’s  brevet. He was the Japanese Artistic Gymnastics Head coach  at the 2012 Olympic games.

      Last week, in Kyiv (Ukraine) was held International tournament in Artistic Gymnastics “Ukrainian International cup 2018’’. The tournament honors a retired gymnast Mrs. Stella Zakharova, who was an Olympic and World Championship gold medalist.