Penza, 18 June 2016. PenzaNews. The Penza region gymnast Anastasiya Bliznyuk has won a gold medal as a member of the Russian national team at the European gymnastics championship in Israel.

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She was joined by Anastasia Maximova, Maria Tolkacheva, Anastasia Tatareva and Kseniya Polyakova.

On Friday, June 17, Russian gymnasts came first in an exercise with six batons and two hoops (18.825), and in another exercise with five ribbons (18.583 points).

They earned the first place with a total result of 37.408 points.

The second place was taken by athletes from Belarus with 36.849 points, followed by Israeli gymnasts with 36.549 points, says the sports news agency “Ves Sport.”