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ZHALA PIRIYEVA’S JAPANESE “BRONZE” FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR

05 October 2015

ZHALA PIRIYEVA’S JAPANESE “BRONZE” FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR

The traditional AEON Cup Worldwide Rhythmic Gymnastics Club Championships has come to the end in Japanese Tokyo.

At the Championships, our country was represented by “Ocaq” Sport Club, consisting of senior gymnasts - Marina Durunda and Ayshan Bayramova, and, a junior Zhala Piriyeva.

A young gymnast Zhala Piriyeva repeated her last year’s result in individual all-around and became two-time bronze medalist of the Worldwide Club Championships. Having received 61.716 points from the judges, Zhala lost only to a Russian gymnast Alina Ermolova (1st place) and Sabina Tashkenbaeva (2nd place) from Uzbekistan.

In a team competition, the gymnast, together with Marinda Durunda, who recently qualified for the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games for the first time in her sports career, and, the competitor of the recent World Championships, Ayshan Bayramova, became the fifth.