The Official Russian National Team 2016 feat. The Japanese Visitors

The official national team for 2016 was announced and it didn't make much sense as usual. Actually, it did make much more sense than last year, which doesn't say much.

But we have another news. The Japanese women's team is training at Round Lake. The Russians often have training "vacations" with other teams, but rarely get visitors (the Bulgarian team visited last year). I'm pretty sure Valentina Rodionenko once said that they don't want to give away their super secret training tactics. I'm really hard trying not to be mean and say it, but I'm going to say it anyway: Maybe they could give their conditioning program to the Americans?

But I like this Japanese and Russians combo. If we go into math, two times positive makes positive: prettyxpretty=more pretty. And two times negative makes also positive: inconsistentxinconsistent=consistent. So according to my calculations, we will get good results from this training camp.

The complete list of gymnasts on the national team this year is after the jump.


Senior National Team:

Ksenia Afanasyeva (1991, Khimki)
Anastasia Dmitrieva (1999, Tolyatti)
Natalia Kapitonova (2000, Penza)
Viktoria Komova (1995, Voronezh)
Angelina Melnikova (2000, Voronezh)
Aliya Mustafina (1994, Moscow)
Maria Paseka (1995, Moscow)
Darya Skrypnik (2000, Krasnodar)
Ekaterina Sokova (2000, Vladimir)
Alla Sosnitskaya (1997, Moscow)
Darya Spiridonova (1998, Moscow)
Seda Tutkhalyan (1999, Moscow)
Maria Kharenkova (1998, Rostov-on-Don)
Evgeniya Shelgunova (1997, Khimki)

Senior Reserve:

Lilia Akhaimova (1997, Saint-Petersburg)
Maria Bondareva (1999, Fryazino)
Darya Elizarova (1991, Tula)
Anastasia Ilyankova (2001, Leninsk-Kuznetskiy)
Alla Sidorenko (1995, Saint-Petersburg)
Polina Fedorova (1996, Cheboksary)
Anastasia Cheong (1997, Saint-Petersburg)

Junior National Team:

Anastasia Agafonova (2003, Kovrov)
Taisia Borozdyko (2002, Bryansk)
Viktoria Gorbatova (2002, Khimki)
Elena Eremina (2001, Saint-Petersburg)
Varvara Zubova (2002, Moscow)
Ksenia Klimenko (2003, Surgut)
Elizaveta Kochetkova (2001, Moscow)
Viktoria Panchuk (2002, Dzerzhinsk)
Ksenia Pekelman (2002, Novosibirsk)
Ulyana Perebinosova (2001, Khimki)
Valeria Saifulina (2002, Saint-Petersburg)
Angelina Simakova (2002, Khimki)
Anna Subbotina (2002, Vladimir)
Aleksandra Shekoldina (2002, Surgut)

Junior Reserve:

Alena Arkusha (2001, Zheleznogorsk)
Varvara Batalova (2000, Saint-Petersburg)
Anastasia Budylkina (2002, Voronezh)
Viktoria Bykova (2000, Rostov-on-Don)
Anastasia Gainetdinova (2002, Sterlitamak)
Elena Likhodolskaya (2000, Khimki)
Khristina Osokina (2002, Gatchina)

Youth:

Olga Astafyeva (2004, Malakhovka)
Alina Afonycheva (2003, Smolensk)
Alena Belomoeva (2003, Saint-Petersburg)
Darya Belousova (2003, Cheboksary)
Yana Vorona (2004, Voronezh)
Elena Gerasimova (2004, Cheboksary)
Zarina Daukeva (2003, Naberezhnye Chelny)
Irina Komnova (2004, Novomoskovsk)
Polina Novikova (2003, Zelenodolsk)
Elizaveta Serova (2003, Moscow)
Elizaveta Sokolova (2004, Moscow)
Alina Stepanova (2003, Velikiy Novgorod)
Arina Strukova (2004, Kogalym)
Vladislava Urazova (2004, Rostov-on-Don)

You can find a complete list (published by the ministry of sport) of the team and staff here.