Stiliyana Nikolova gained the gold medal on the European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships

Stiliyana Nikolova gained the gold medal within the all-around on the fortieth European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Thus, Bulgaria retained its title after Boryana Kalein grew to become the champion final yr in Baku. This time she positioned fourth.

The 18-year-old Nikolova carried out extraordinarily strongly in all 4 of her compositions and picked up 143,750 factors (35,700 on hoop, 37,200 on ball, 36,050 on golf equipment, 34,800 on tape), studies BTA.

The graduate of Valentina Ivanova began with an excellent efficiency on bars and obtained 36.050 factors, then on bars she was additionally good and was rated with 34.800 factors. These are the best scores of each units.

On the ring, Nikolova was additionally distinctive and recorded 35.700 factors, and in her final outing on the carpet with a ball she was unreachable and was rated with an unbelievable 37.200 factors. Last yr at Baku 2023, she got here third behind Kalein and Sofia Raffaelli, however this time she confirmed her distinctive class and took the gold undisputedly by an enormous margin over the opposite gymnasts.

In second place was the all-around world champion from Sofia 2022 Sofia Raffaelli (Italy) with 139,750 factors (36,300, 35,500, 34,000, 33,950), who nonetheless doesn’t have an absolute European title thus far in her profession. The bronze medal went to the world champion from Valencia 2023 Daria Varfolomeev (Germany) with 138.450 (35.500, 36.600, 35.100, 31.250). She made severe errors within the lane, had the machine exit of bounds on the ring and usually performed with a variety of inaccuracies.

Boryana Kalein completed in fourth place. The Bulgarian, who’s defending her title from Baku 2023, collected 135.550 factors after having 34.150 on hoop, 33.300 on ball, 34.300 on golf equipment and 33.800 factors.

The graduate of Marijana Pamukova began off very robust with a ribbon efficiency and obtained a rating of 33.800 factors. In her second time on the mat, Kaleyn had inaccuracies in her hoop composition and the judges gave her a 34.150, together with a 17.7 for issue. Headquarters filed a problem for physique issue, which was rejected. On the ball, Boryana Kalein was rated 33.300 factors after having one drop, and in her final mixture with golf equipment she performed very strongly and has 34.300 factors.