Olympians Aliya Mustafina and David Belyavsky won the all-around titles Sunday as the Russian championships began in Penza.
Olympians Aliya Mustafina and David Belyavsky won the all-around titles Sunday as the Russian championships began in Penza.
Mustafina, the 2010 world champion and 2012 Olympic champion on uneven bars, delivered the highest score on three of the four events to defend her title. London teammate Anastasia Grishina won the silver over first-year senior Yevgenia Shelgunova.
World and Olympic medalist Viktoria Komova skipped the competition to rest a sore back.
Mustafina, looking fit and determined, appears tough to beat for the all-around title at the European championships next month in Moscow. She notched 15.300 for her double-twisting Yurchenko vault and then 15.500 for a watered down set on uneven bars (toe-on full to Maloney-half; inside Stalder-blind to piked Jaeger; Stalder-full to Pak to Stalder half; toe-shoot to high; full-twisting double). She earned 15.450 on balance beam, beginning with a nailed standing Arabian followed by an ambitious series attempt of switch half (pause), Onodi to immediate double turn, and attempted another series of front aerial (stop), wolf jump, side aerial. She also tossed a flip flop to back tuck and a switch ring, and dismounted with a double tuck with a step.

Mustafina, who suffered a torn ACL on vault nearly two years ago, took her lowest score, 13.600, on floor exercise with an Arabian double front to stag jump; triple turn; 2 1/2 to layout front full (nearly sat down); double tuck; and triple twist (messy legs).
Now training under legendary coaches Viktor Razumovsky and Irina Razumovskaya, Grishina landed her double-double mount on floor exercise but fell on her double pike dismount. She had the second-best score on uneven bars with 15.000 (inside-Stalder, inside Stalder-full to piked Tkatchev, Pak; Maloney half; piked Jaeger; full-twisting double).
Two-time Olympian Ksenia Afanasyeva, fourth, had the top mark on floor exercise (14.350). Reigning European champion Anna Dementyeva was sixth ahead of Olympians Anna Pavlova and Yekaterina Kramarenko. 2012 Olympic vault bronze medalist Maria Paseka competed two events only, as did Tatiana Nabiyeva.
Only three of the top 10 were first-year seniors: Shelgunova, Alla Sosnitskaya (ninth) and Polina Fyodorova (10th).
"We don't have replacements for those who competed in London, not yet," Russian team coach Valentina Rodionenko said. "Not enough time has passed. The guys are in a better position than the girls. There are still enough gymnasts to make up almost two teams. The competition is stronger."
Fourth in 2012, Belyavsky grabbed his first Russian championships all-around title. With the top scores on floor exercise (15.000) and parallel bars (15.500), Belyavsky edged defending champion Nikita Ignatyev, 87.950-87.800. Dmitry Stolyarov was third with 86.250.
European high bar champion Emin Garibov had the top scores on pommel horse (15.450) and high bar (15.250), while Penza's own Olympic medalist Denis Ablyazin had the top mark on vault (15.150). Ukrainian Olympian Nikolai Kuksenkov, who has been training in Vladimir with the hopes of representing Russia internationally, competed four events.
Olympic finalist Alexander Balandin crushed the field on still rings with 15.700. Rival rings specialist Konstantin Pluzhnikov — rumored to be seeking citizenship to compete for Azerbaijan — was absent.
Competition continues Monday in Penza with the women's team final.
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2013 Russian Championships
March 3, Penza
Women's All-Around | VT | UB | BB | FX | Total |
1. | Aliya Mustafina | Moscow | 15.300 | 15.500 | 15.450 | 13.600 | 59.850 |
2. | Anastasia Grishina | Moscow | 14.900 | 15.000 | 14.900 | 12.600 | 57.400 |
3. | Yevgenia Shelgunova | Central/Volga | 14.750 | 13.950 | 14.950 | 13.600 | 57.250 |
4. | Ksenia Afanasyeva | Central | 15.200 | 13.450 | 13.850 | 14.350 | 56.850 |
5. | Kristina Goryunova | Northwest | 14.150 | 13.750 | 14.600 | 13.450 | 55.950 |
6. | Anna Dementyeva | Central/Volga | 14.050 | 14.800 | 13.700 | 12.850 | 55.400 |
7. | Anna Pavlova | Central | 14.900 | 12.650 | 13.850 | 13.050 | 54.450 |
8. | Yekaterina Kramarenko | St. Petersburg | 14.450 | 13.150 | 13.900 | 12.750 | 54.250 |
9. | Alla Sosnitskaya | Moscow | 14.700 | 14.000 | 12.650 | 12.650 | 54.000 |
10. | Polina Fyodorova | Volga | 13.950 | 12.700 | 13.900 | 13.050 | 53.600 |
11. | Olga Bikmurzina | Volga | 14.350 | 12.900 | 13.150 | 12.400 | 52.800 |
12. | Alyona Polyan | Volga | 14.150 | 11.050 | 13.500 | 13.850 | 52.550 |
13. | Yekaterina Baturina | Southern | 13.500 | 12.400 | 12.850 | 12.600 | 51.350 |
14. | Lilia Akhaimova | St. Petersburg | 13.850 | 11.950 | 12.550 | 12.550 | 50.900 |
15. | Maria Smirnova | Volga | 14.350 | 10.850 | 12.250 | 13.000 | 50.450 |
16. | Marina Nekrasova | Central | 13.900 | 11.100 | 12.600 | 12.250 | 49.850 |
17. | Anna Myzdrikova | Moscow | 14.100 | 11.200 | 12.300 | 12.100 | 49.700 |
18. | Anastasia Cheong | St. Petersburg | 13.800 | 10.550 | 12.800 | 12.300 | 49.450 |
19. | Maria Nechayeva | Siberia | 13.100 | 11.650 | 12.500 | 11.950 | 49.200 |
20. | Kristina Kruglikova | Central | 14.350 | 11.600 | 11.900 | 11.250 | 49.100 |
21. | Maria Dunayeva | St. Petersburg/Northwest | 13.450 | 10.950 | 12.400 | 12.250 | 49.050 |
22. | Yuna Nefedova | Central | 13.450 | 11.950 | 11.900 | 11.250 | 48.550 |
23. | Anastasia Osetrova | Southern | 13.900 | 11.850 | 11.950 | 10.850 | 48.550 |
24. | Daria Anishina | Northwest | 14.050 | 11.550 | 10.400 | 12.400 | 48.400 |
25. | Tatiana Kirilova | Northwest | 12.800 | 12.050 | 12.200 | 11.000 | 48.050 |
26. | Eleonora Goryunova | Northwest | 14.100 | 9.950 | 11.400 | 12.450 | 47.900 |
27. | Alla Sidorenko | St. Petersburg | 12.950 | 10.550 | 11.900 | 12.200 | 47.600 |
28. | Yulia Chemaryova | Central | 13.000 | 10.200 | 11.800 | 12.550 | 47.550 |
29. | Irina Yashina | Volga | 12.700 | 13.000 | 10.250 | 11.550 | 47.500 |
30. | Maria Silyukova | Volga | 12.950 | 10.800 | 11.200 | 12.300 | 47.250 |
31. | Anna Vanyushkina | Northwest | 13.500 | 10.350 | 10.950 | 12.200 | 47.000 |
32. | Viktoria Shmidt | Volga | 12.550 | 9.250 | 12.250 | 12.450 | 46.500 |
33. | Natalia Medvedeva | Southern | 13.450 | 9.550 | 10.900 | 12.500 | 46.400 |
34. | Irina Voropayeva | Central | 13.700 | 8.600 | 11.550 | 12.450 | 46.300 |
35. | Yekaterina Shtronda | Siberia | 11.900 | 10.800 | 12.450 | 10.550 | 45.700 |
36. | Nailya Mustafina | Moscow | 12.900 | 7.900 | 12.300 | 12.000 | 45.100 |
37. | Irina Andreyeva | Southern | 13.450 | 8.100 | 11.150 | 11.950 | 44.650 |
38. | Diana Ravdina | St. Petersburg | 14.150 | 8.050 | 10.550 | 11.850 | 44.600 |
39. | Olga Tyo | Siberia | 12.250 | 9.150 | 12.200 | 10.600 | 44.200 |
40. | Anna Solomeina | South | 12.950 | 8.950 | 11.400 | 10.250 | 43.550 |
41. | Yekaterina Tsvetkova | Central | 14.050 | 8.100 | 10.350 | 10.850 | 43.350 |
42. | Francheska Yanayeva | South | 13.650 | 7.650 | 9.700 | 12.050 | 43.050 |
43. | Maria Popova | South | 12.800 | 7.700 | 10.650 | 9.850 | 41.000 |
44. | Yelena Klyuchkova | Southern | 11.900 | 9.450 | 9.200 | 10.300 | 40.850 |
45. | Valeria Golenischeva | Southern | 10.100 | 9.450 | 9.900 | 11.150 | 40.600 |
46. | Yelena Tyapkova | South | 12.700 | 8.350 | 8.350 | 10.050 | 39.450 |
47. | Anastasia Marchuk | Moscow | | 13.350 | 12.450 | 12.550 | 38.350 |
48. | Anastasia Kuznetsova | South | 12.400 | 7.400 | 7.400 | 10.600 | 37.800 |
49. | Maria Paseka | Moscow | 15.250 | 14.100 | | | 29.350 |
50. | Tatiana Nabiyeva | St. Petersburg | 14.250 | 13.900 | | | 28.150 |
51. | Kristina Sidorova | Volga | | 7.900 | | 11.850 | 19.750 |
Men's All-Around | FX | PH | SR | VT | PB | HB | Total |
1. | David Belyavsky | Urals | 15.000 | 15.400 | 13.750 | 13.700 | 15.500 | 14.600 | 87.950 |
2. | Nikita Ignatyev | Siberia | 14.700 | 13.950 | 14.550 | 14.800 | 15.250 | 14.550 | 87.800 |
3. | Dmitry Stolyarov | Moscow | 14.100 | 14.700 | 14.000 | 14.900 | 14.800 | 13.750 | 86.250 |
4. | Andrei Cherkasov | Siberia | 14.350 | 13.600 | 14.000 | 14.750 | 15.000 | 14.000 | 85.700 |
5. | Pavel Russinyak | Volga | 13.650 | 14.550 | 14.200 | 13.450 | 14.400 | 14.400 | 84.650 |
6. | Dmitry Gogotov | St. Petersburg | 13.350 | 14.750 | 13.950 | 14.450 | 14.550 | 13.550 | 84.600 |
7. | Igor Pakhomenko | Siberia | 14.050 | 13.000 | 13.800 | 15.050 | 14.050 | 14.400 | 84.350 |
8. | Daniil Kazachkov | Siberia | 14.200 | 12.850 | 14.400 | 13.700 | 13.850 | 14.350 | 83.350 |
9. | Roman Suetin | Urals | 13.950 | 13.600 | 13.000 | 14.600 | 14.350 | 13.800 | 83.300 |
10. | Pavel Pavlov | Volga | 13.100 | 12.950 | 14.500 | 14.850 | 14.250 | 13.150 | 82.800 |
11. | Alexander Fafashkin | Moscow | 13.950 | 13.550 | 13.500 | 14.100 | 13.900 | 13.700 | 82.700 |
12. | Grigory Zyryanov | Siberia | 13.200 | 14.450 | 13.400 | 14.450 | 14.200 | 12.700 | 82.400 |
13. | Kirill Prokopyev | Central | 14.000 | 13.600 | 13.800 | 13.800 | 13.400 | 13.600 | 82.200 |
14. | Kirill Ignatenkov | Central/Northwest | 13.950 | 13.300 | 13.350 | 13.450 | 14.650 | 13.450 | 82.150 |
15. | Anton Neudakin | Central | 14.500 | 12.500 | 13.400 | 14.200 | 13.850 | 13.700 | 82.150 |
16. | Sergei Danilenko | Urals | 13.450 | 13.250 | 13.550 | 13.250 | 14.050 | 13.500 | 81.050 |
17. | Andrei Perevoznikov | Central | 13.250 | 15.250 | 12.300 | 13.050 | 13.700 | 12.950 | 80.500 |
18. | Mikhail Kudashov | Urals | 12.900 | 13.250 | 13.550 | 13.550 | 13.450 | 13.500 | 80.200 |
19. | Vyacheslav Veselov | Moscow | 13.750 | 13.200 | 12.600 | 13.950 | 13.600 | 13.000 | 80.100 |
20. | Vladislav Kozin | St. Petersburg | 13.150 | 11.400 | 13.650 | 14.250 | 13.550 | 13.900 | 79.900 |
21. | Sergei Stepanov | Volga | 12.500 | 13.700 | 12.350 | 14.550 | 13.000 | 13.300 | 79.400 |
22. | Vilyam Katyn | Volga | 12.800 | 14.100 | 12.800 | 13.300 | 12.600 | 13.100 | 78.700 |
23. | Dmitry Turaev | Volga | 13.100 | 12.800 | 12.350 | 13.800 | 13.350 | 13.100 | 78.500 |
24. | Filipp Chuglazov | Northwest | 14.050 | 12.150 | 13.350 | 13.200 | 13.350 | 12.200 | 78.300 |
25. | Alexei Rostov | Moscow | 12.400 | 13.850 | 12.400 | 13.950 | 13.100 | 12.550 | 78.250 |
26. | Yaroslav Maksyukov | Siberia | 12.300 | 13.000 | 12.800 | 14.150 | 13.450 | 12.150 | 77.850 |
27. | Alexei Bykov | Southern | 13.800 | 13.200 | 11.250 | 13.700 | 13.450 | 12.400 | 77.800 |
28. | Dmitry Kharkov | Volga | 13.050 | 10.950 | 13.250 | 13.050 | 13.550 | 13.300 | 77.150 |
29. | Vladimir Grigorkin | Urals | 13.500 | 13.650 | 11.300 | 13.050 | 12.850 | 11.900 | 76.250 |
30. | Gleb Garmash | St. Petersburg | 13.600 | 13.100 | 11.750 | 12.250 | 12.750 | 12.150 | 75.600 |
31. | Timofei Danyuk | St. Petersburg | 13.450 | 11.700 | 12.850 | 13.450 | 11.400 | 11.900 | 74.750 |
32. | Alexander Silenko | Volga | 11.450 | 12.550 | 12.300 | 13.050 | 13.000 | 11.850 | 74.200 |
33. | Mikhail Zakharov | Volga | 11.800 | 12.150 | 12.650 | 13.550 | 12.650 | 11.400 | 74.200 |
34. | Mark Antushev | Volga | 12.850 | 12.550 | 9.500 | 13.750 | 13.000 | 11.650 | 73.300 |
35. | Mikhail Tarlo | Far East | 12.450 | 12.450 | 10.000 | 12.750 | 13.050 | 11.300 | 72.000 |
36. | Artyom Levitsky | Central | 13.050 | 11.250 | 11.400 | 12.900 | 11.800 | 10.250 | 70.650 |
37. | Artyom Rymashevsky | Urals | 10.750 | 8.150 | 11.150 | 12.400 | 12.650 | 11.300 | 66.400 |
38. | Eldar Yunusov | St. Petersburg | | 14.450 | 13.650 | 13.700 | 13.250 | 11.300 | 66.350 |
39. | Emin Garibov | Moscow | | 15.450 | 14.100 | | 14.350 | 15.250 | 59.150 |
40. | Nikolai Kuksenkov | Central | | 14.150 | 14.850 | | 14.750 | 14.500 | 58.250 |
41. | Denis Ablyazin | Volga/Moscow | 14.700 | | 15.500 | 15.150 | | 12.400 | 57.750 |
42. | Pavel Belousov | Far East | 10.400 | 9.200 | | 13.050 | 11.850 | 10.650 | 55.150 |
43. | Maxim Khodykin | Northwest | | 11.150 | 13.550 | | 13.750 | 12.000 | 50.450 |
44. | Alexander Balandin | Central/Northwest | | 13.750 | 15.700 | | 14.950 | | 44.400 |
45. | Dmitry Yakubovsky | Moscow | | 12.750 | | 13.700 | 13.900 | | 40.350 |
46. | Nikita Lezhankin | Urals | | 13.800 | 14.250 | | | | 28.050 |
47. | Alexei Matveyev | Central | | 11.700 | | | 13.400 | | 25.100 |
48. | Alexander Ilyin | St. Petersburg | 12.550 | 11.450 | | | | | 24.000 |
49. | Matvei Petrov | Northwest | | 15.100 | | | | | 15.100 |
50. | Vladimir Olennikov | Moscow | | 14.100 | | | | | 14.100 |
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May 2012 - "Up for the Challenge" (Komova interview)
January/February 2012 - "Poised for Perfection (Afanasyeva cover photo and interview)
December 2011 - World Championships special issue
June 2011 - "Russian Intensity" (Nabiyeva interview)
May 2011 - Dementyeva and Mustafina on cover (May 2011)
January/February 2011 - "The Mustafina Mystique" (Mustafina profile)
March 2011 - "Serious Contender" (Kuksenkov profile)
December 2010 - Mustafina on cover, World Championships special issue
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July/August 2010 - Komova on cover photo collage
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