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Alexandra back to her best at overseas World Cups

By AJN STAFF April 29, 2022, 1:15 pm Edit
Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva, pictured on the right, at the recently held Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup round in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva, pictured on the right, at the recently held Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup round in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Such is her incredible level of dedication and commitment to becoming one of the world’s best rhythmic gymnasts, 20-year-old Melburnian and dual Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva  has been training and competing away from home – mostly based in Baku, Azerbaijan – for the past 40 weeks.

All the while, balancing studies in law, online, at Monash University.

Her last fortnight has been particularly eventful.

First, she represented Australia at a World Cup round in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and backed up by doing the same at the next round last weekend in Baku.

She performed well in both, finishing in the top 20 in several apparatus’, performing new routines that she only created in January.

Her results also qualified her to represent Australia at the 2022 World Games to be held in July in Alabama, a month before the Commonwealth Games in England.

“I would like to thank the Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federation for preparing me [for the World Cups], and allowing me to maintain the highest ranked spot among the Commonwealth countries,” she said.

And on April 27, Kiroi-Bogatyreva was named one of only three finalists for the 2022 Victoria Sport Awards, along with John Hart and Emily Whitehead. The awards night will be held on June 15.

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