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What is Rhythmic Gymnastics

Rhythmic gymnastics is one of the most beautiful of all sports with its competitors being renowned for their grace, athleticism and flexibility. The sport is a combination of dance, gymnastic elements and apparatus handling, performed with expression, confidence and poise.

Rhythmic gymnastics combines ballet and creative movements to music, while working with ribbons, balls, hoops, ropes and clubs in a choreographed dance-and-tumble routine. It has a lot more dance than artistic gymnastics. Everything is done on the floor with far different routines and different music.

The sport is regarded as the number one sport for women in most European countries. It is rapidly growing in the United States.