Gymmin' Miel!

The 2013 Berlin Masters Rhythmic Gymnastics Grand Prix will take place from the 19th to the 20th of October at the Max-Schmeling-Halle. The competition will see both Senior Individuals and Groups take to the competition mat, with the 19th featuring the All Around Competitions starting at 1.00pm (Berlin Local Time) and the 20th featuring the Finals also commencing at 1.00pm (Berlin Local Time). 

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Mielieta's sister Talitha here with another review of the latest World of Gymnastics installment. This month's program features the Berlin Masters Rhythmic Gymnastics tournament, an exclusive with up and coming Australian Rhythmic Gymnast Zoe Ormrod and also a review of the competition at The Swiss Cup (which was broadcast on Australian Pay TV service Foxtel at 7.30am WST TOMORROW MORNING ON FOX SPORTS 2 and again at 9.00pm WST on the same channel on Wednesday night). 

The Swiss Cup:

Zoe Ormrod (AUS):

• "Of course I want to be the best that I can. I am a bit of a perfectionist so I really want to get to that top level and hopefully represent the country for many more years"
• Born and raised in Australia
• Rhythmic Gymnastics wasn't an obvious choice but Zoe found her way to the sport.
• Started Rhythmic Gymnastics when she was 8.
• Started in Artistic Gymnastics but "then I saw the Rhythmic girls training and I thought it looked fun so I gave it a go and I liked it."
• "It's very classically trained. So we do Ballet and things like that to enhance our technique. But a lot of it is just repetition and going through the routines"
• Her friends are very understanding about her demanding schedule and they try to make the most of the free time Zoe has.
• 16 years old

Berlin Masters:

• Introduced 12 years ago
• Highlighted this year by the participation of Russian Daria Dmitrieva and local hope Laura Jung
• Got to see the majority of Hoop routines by Anna Czarniecka (POL) 3rd place; Laura Jung 2nd place and Dmitrieva 1st place
• Also saw the start and finish of the Ball routines by Dmitrieva, Victoria Filanovsky (ISR) and Jung and the majority of the top three routines with Clubs and Ribbon
• Dmitrieva: "Wonderful, I can't say anything negative about it because it's a wonderful competition. It's one of my favorites".

The 2010 Berlin Masters event will be held in the illustrious city from the 30th to the 31st of October. This is the final event in the Rhythmic Gymnastics Grand Prix calendar, with previous legs being held in Moscow, Kiev, Thiais, Marbella, Innsbruck, Holon and Brno. This is considered one of the best meets and at the conclusion the best gymnast of the series is awarded the "Winner's Prize". Some big, big names are set to line up and I personally do not believe that the Russians cannot be pipped for the top honours. Would love to know who you picks are!

INDIVIDUALS:

• Anna Gurbanova (AZE)
• Aliya Garaeva (AZE)
• Liubov Charkashyna (BLR)
• Melitina Staniouta (BLR)
• Aliaksandra Narkevic (BLR)
• Julia Romanjuk (FIN)
• Laura Jung (GER)
• Jana Berezko-Margrander (GER)
• Irina Risenson (ISR)
• Neta Rivkin (ISR)
• Anna Alyabyeva (KAZ)
• Rut Castillo (MEX)
• Cynthia Valdez (MEX)
• Joanna Mitrosz (POL)
• Alexandra Piscupescu (ROU)
• Evgenia Kanaeva (RUS)
• Daria Dmitrieva (RUS)
• Daria Kondakova (RUS)
• Jana Duchnovska (SVK)
• Nevin Sevic Deveci (TUR)
• Ganna Rizatdinova (UKR)
• Ulyana Trofimova (UZB)

GROUP:
GERMANY: Camilla Pfeffer, Mira Bimperling, Cathrin Puhl, Sara Radman, Karolina Raskina, Regina Sergeeva