Image from Getty Images of Australian Janine Murray at 2010 Commonwealth Games. 

The 2012 Category B Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup series heads to Penza in Russia on the 28th and 29th of this month. Taking place at the Sports Palace "DS BURTASY", the competition will see some of the best Senior Individuals and Groups take part. Russians Evgenia Kanaeva, Daria Dmitrieva and Daria Kondakova should dominate the Individual competition, but expect them to be challenged by a strong field, namely Azerbaijan's Aliya Garayeva, Belarussians Melitina Staniouta and Liubov Charkashyna, France's Delphine Ledoux, Israeli Neta Rivkin, Kazakhstan's Anna Alyabyeva, Ukraine's Alina Maksymenko and Ganna Rizatdinova and Uzbekistan's Ulyana Trofimova.

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• BELARUS: Maryna Hancharova, Anastasiya Ivankova, Nataliya Leshchyk, Yana Lukavets, Kseniya Sankovich, Aliaksandra Narkevich
• GERMANY: Mira Bimperling, Camilla Pfeffer, Cathrin Puhl, Sara Radman, Regina Sergeeva, Nicole Mueller 
• ISRAEL: Moran Buzovski, Viktoriya Koshel, Eliora Zholkovsky, Polina Zakaluzny, Noa Palatchy, Marina Shults
• JAPAN: Yuka Endo, Airi Hatakeyama, Nina Saeedyokota, Rie Matsubara, Natsuki Fukase, Kotono Tanaka
• POLAND: Aleksandra Wojcik, Katarzyna Zuchlinska, Zuzanna Klajman, Natalia Sobolewska, Patrycja Romik
• RUSSIA: Uliana Donskova, Anastasia Nazarenko, Anastasia Bliznyuk, Ksenia Dudkina, Karolina Sevestyanova, Alina Makarenko
• UKRAINE: Olena Dmytrash, Yevgeniya Gomon, Valeriia Gudym, Viktoriya Lenyshyn, Svitlana Prokopova, Viktoriia Mazur
• UZBEKISTAN: Ekaterina Safronova, Marta Rostoburova, Olga Kiryakova, Luiza Ganieva, Zarina Kurbonova, Roza Muminova