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Daria Kondakova Profile, Pictures And Wallpapers

Daria Kondakova Profile

Birth Date: 30 Jul 1991, Tue
Birth Place: Sochi, Russia
Height: 169 cm
Status: Active
Country: Russia
Sports: RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS

Daria Kondakova

Daniele Hypolito Profile, Biography, Pictures And Wallpapers

Daniele Hypolito Profile

Full Name: Daniele Matias Hypólito
Nickname: Dani
Country represented: Brazil
Born: September 8, 1984, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil
Discipline: Women's artistic gymnastics
Level: Senior international
Club: Flamengo
Head coach(es): Georgette Vidor
Ricardo Pereira
Oleg Ostapenko
Biography:
Daniele Matias Hypólito (born September 8, 1984) is a Brazilian gymnast who competed in the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. Hypólito was the first athlete from Brazil ever to win a medal at the World Championships, a silver on floor exercise in 2001. She is also the nine-time senior all-around Brazilian National Champion in artistic gymnastics, 2002 South American Games all-around champion and 2003 Pan American Games all-around bronze medalist. To date Hypólito has represented Brazil at the World Championships seven times, competing in every Worlds meet from 1999 to 2007, as well as the 1999, 2003 and 2007 Pan American Games.

Daniele Hypolito

Christine Arron Profile, Pictures And Wallpapers

Christine Arron Profile

Full Name: Christine Arron
Birth Date: September 13, 1973
Weight: 141 lbs (64 kg)
Height: 5’9” (1.77 m)
Gender: Female
Affiliations: Individuelle Ile-de-France/Neuilly Plaisance Sports
Country: France
Sports: Athletics

Christine Arron

Anna Rogowska Profile, Pictures And Wallpapers

Anna Rogowska Profile

Birth Date: May 21, 1981
Weight: 121 lbs (55 kg)
Height: 5’7” (1.71 m)
Gender: Female
Biography:
Born in Gdynia, she won the bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics, narrowly beating Monika Pyrek, another Polish pole vaulter born in Gdynia. Early 2005 brought success as she won the silver medal in the European Indoor Championships. On July 22, 2005 in London, she achieved a personal best with 4.80 m, which was also the Polish record. Minutes later she saw Yelena Isinbayeva become the first woman to clear 5.00 m. Rogowska was among the contenders for a medal in the 2005 World Championships. She finished sixth, however, jumping only 4.35 m under challenging weather conditions. On August 26, 2005 she achieved another personal best with 4.83 m (new Polish record). This was on the Memorial van Damme. She also has the Polish indoor record of 4.80 m, set on 5 March 2006.

Anna Rogowska

Angela Morosanu Biography, Pictures And Wallpapers

Country: Romania
Born: 26.07.1986
Angela Morosanu (born 26 July 1986 in Iasi) is a female track and field sprinter from Romania.
Morosanu was discovered by Albu Stefan who became her first trainer whilst she was at school in Belcesti, a village 40 km from Iasi. She started out competing for sports clubs in Iasi and Bacau. Currently, she represents Dinamo Bucharest.At the 2004 Summer Olympics Morosanu was part of the Romanian 4 x 400m relay team. She finished 8th in the 200m final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, where she also took part in the 400m hurdles.In 2007 Morosanu became the European Under 23 Champion in the 400m hurdles with a Championship Record time. At the 2008 Summer Olympics Morosanu made it into the semi finals of the 400m hurdles, finishing in 16th place overall.At the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin Morosanu came last in the finals of the 400m hurdles, with a time of 55.04s

Angela Morosanu

Almudena Cid Tostado Biography, Pictures And Wallpapers

Almudena Cid Tostado (born June 15, 1980 in Vitoria, Spain) is an Individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She is the oldest currently competing elite rhythmic gymnast. Almudena lives in Barcelona. Almudena holds a modelling contract with Nike and she has modelled for an underwear store, Love Store. She speaks Spanish, Basque and English. Almudena is one of the only Western European gymnasts able to seriously compete against gymnasts from Eastern Europe.
Almudena started rhythmic gymnastics at age 6, her mother originally wanted her daughter to do ballet but, after her family commented on her flexibility she enrolled the young Almudena in rhythmic gymnastics. She has been a member of the Spanish National Team since November 1994. She became the first Spanish gymnast in history competing in two olympic finals, Atlanta and Sydney, and she is also the only rhythmic gymnast to make the finals at four consecutive Olympic Games - Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 & Beijing 2008.
In June 2001 the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique announced that Almudena's "body-apparatus relationship" with ball was approved by the Rhythmic Gymnastics Technical Committee. As the code describes the cid tostado element:
Starting position: on one knee, leg forward, ball held with the foot. large roll of the ball on both legs. Originality 0.10 (§ 2.6.5.)
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics her final position was 9th, a total score of 38.515 (Rope 9.700, Clubs 9.683, Ball 9.566, Ribbon 9.566) and again at the 2000 Sydney Olympics she finished in 9th, her total score 38.907 (Rope 9.750, Hoop 9.725, Ball 9.691, Ribbon 9.741). In Athens she qualified for the finals in 9th, In the finals she was placed 8th, her best ever placing at an olympics, with a total of 98.450 (Ribbon 23.425, Clubs 24.900, Ball 25.000, Hoop 25.125). She competed in the individual all-around in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She was 10th in the qualifying round and eighth in the final round with a total score of 68.100 (Rope: 17.000, Hoop: 17.000, Clubs: 17.150, Ribbon: 16.950).

Almudena Cid Tostado

Alicia Sacramone Profile, Biography, Pictures And Wallpapers

Alicia Sacramone Profile

Birth Name: Alicia Marie Sacramone
Birth Date: December 03, 1987
Weight: 117 lbs (53 kg)
Height: 5’1” (1.55 m)
Gender: Female
Biography:
Alicia has won many medals on vault, including a national and world title. I would say without a doubt, vault is Alicia's strong suit, but she is pretty strong all around and contributed to a team silver at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. I want to say Alicia is best known for being so outspoken in her interviews. She also definitely comes across to me as the Amanda Borden type teammate who is a little bit older than some of the other girls and super supportive of everyone. She is sort of like the voice of the team. Alicia is also recognized as an inspiration to anyone who started gymnastics a little later than most competitive girls; she began gymnastics at age 8 and began competing elite after only 7 years of training.
After a brief retirement post-2008 Olympics, Alicia came back from a shoulder surgery and has had quite a bit of success competing elite again. She recently won three medals at the 2011 CoverGirl Classic in Chicago and continues to train elite. Interesting Fact: Alicia attended Brown University and has considered transferring to Harvard to finish school. She plans to continue her education when she has the time.

Alicia Sacramone