Olympics medalist groups & preceding Worlds ones, part 2/6

2000 Sydney & The Golden Olympic Series of The Russian Groups

WChs are the second major event in RG world after the Olympics. We are looking at the Olympic winner groups through the years as well as at the lists of medalists from the preceding WChs.

2000 Sydney: Russia started their golden Olympic series, and have won five successive team gold medals since then. So just for variety, besides the two winning routines of the Russian senior group in Sydney, bellow is the list (with links) of all Russian Olympic gold winning performances through the years. So in the next 4 posts of this series, I will just mentione Russia, while highlighting some of the other medalists.

The group medalists of 2000 Sydney Olympics are as follows Gold: Russia Silver: Belarus Bronze: Greece

And which are the RG groups that had won medals at the three world championships preceding 2000 Olympics?

Year:_ 1997 '98 '99 Gold:__ N/a BY RU Silver:_ N/a SP GR Bronze: _N/a RU BY (Source: Wikipedia)

The Russian golden series 2000-2016:

2000 Sydney: Russia 10 clubs: - - - Not available online (?!) Olympic 2000 Russian 2 Hoop + 3 Ribbon, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60BOztB7p50.

2004 Athens: Russia 5 Ribbons Athens 2004, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQP9N5vYqdU; Russia 3 Hoops 2 Balls Athens 2004, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xetFEDB3mTo.

2008 Beijing: russia 5 rope 2008 final olympic games Beijing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs7fIr__KZQ; Russia 3 hoops 4 clubs 2008 final olympic games Beijing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b2hHYYPuQw.

2012 London: Russia 5 balls final Londres 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCYBIjvcvek; Russia – 3 Ribbons +2 Hoop – Group All Around Final – London 2012 – Olympic

2016 Rio: 5 ribbons (Россия 5 лент. Художественная гимнастика на Олимпийских играх в Рио 2016. Финал), https://ok.ru/video/90739247642; 2 hoops 6 clubs (Россия 2 обруча 6 булав. Художественная гимнастика на Олимпийских играх в Рио 2016. Финал), https://ok.ru/video/90758056474.

In the next 3/6 part, we will look at 2004 Olympics in Athens.