Rhythmic gymnastics is a popular sportamong women. It consists of performing combinations consisting of dance and sports exercises with an object under musical accompaniment. Next, consider how the gymnastics (the history of its origin) appeared in Russia.
The scientific basis for the feasibility of activethe French educators Francois Delsart and Georges Demeni were engaged in physical education of the beautiful half of mankind. Modern artistic gymnastics is very reminiscent of the improvised dances of Isadora Duncan, based on the principles developed by Delsarte.
So, today we are interested in artistic gymnastics, the history of the origin of this sport. It is commonly believed that it appeared as a result of the merger of several sports areas:
At the beginning of the XIX century, a huge contribution to gymnasticsintroduced the vocal teacher Delsart. He developed the principles of expressiveness of the body, indicated the connection between the movements and the emotional state of a person. It was this Frenchman who first stated that the body has its own unique language. With his light hand, the winged expression "body poetry" arose. So there was aesthetic gymnastics.
Emil Jacques-Delcroze, teacher of singing and music,offered to use rhythm as an improvement not only mental, but also physical condition, as well as for the harmonious development of personality. Thanks to this teacher, a kind of sport such as rhythmic gymnastics appeared.
Dance gymnastics was invented by the teacher GeorgesDemini. He substantiated the need to use dance exercises to develop flexibility, smoothness and correct posture. Such intensive steps developed gymnastics, the history of which will be examined by us today.
The founder of the theory of free dance wasthe legendary dancer Isadora Duncan. She managed to shake the dogma of the traditional ballet. The girl's movements combined both sport and the real art of dance. It was in the hands of Duncan that during the dance a beautiful scarf developed, so reminiscent of a ribbon in modern rhythmic gymnastics. Her movements included smooth walking, running. The dancer was the first who was not afraid to perform in front of the public barefoot and without a corset.
According to experts, it is the merger of these fourdirections has served the emergence of modern rhythmic gymnastics. This insanely elegant and beautiful sport today still combines aesthetic, graceful dance and hard gymnastic exercises.
Female gymnastics became widespread in the USSR almost immediately. So, in 1941 the first large-scale championship was held in Leningrad.
After this event, the development of rhythmic gymnastics in the Union was suspended because of the Great Patriotic War that had begun.
But already in 1947 the First All-Union Competition was held. Three years later, Kiev held the first USSR championship.
In 1950, the Soviet gymnasts learned the whole world. They began to be sent abroad regularly with demonstration performances. In 1960, the women's rhythmic gymnastics teams from the USSR, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria first met in Sofia.
The Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics of the USSR waswas founded in the autumn of 1963. In the same year, the International Gymnastics Federation officially recognized artistic gymnastics as a full-fledged independent sport. After that, the first world championship was held in the history of this sport.
Considering the topic "History of the origingymnastics "is brief, it is impossible not to mention the first gymnasts who entered the history with their high achievements. In 1963, L. Savenkova was awarded the title of the absolute world champion in rhythmic gymnastics. In 1969 G. Shugurova became the owner of two gold medals at the World Championship in Varna. The sportswoman became the absolute champion of the USSR four times.
In 1977, the whole world learned about the legendarygymnast I. Deriugina. Athlete five times held the high status of the absolute champion in the USSR, won the USSR Cup in rhythmic gymnastics, and also became the champion of Europe and the world in certain categories of exercises.
In 1985, the absolute champion in the USSR became G. Beloglazova.
For the first time at the Olympics, artistic gymnastics,the history of origin and development of which we consider today, was presented in 1984. At the Games in Los Angeles, then won the athlete from Canada, L. Fang. It should be noted that the main rivals of the gymnast were athletes from the USSR, but because of the boycott of the Olympic Games by the Soviet leadership, they never took part in large-scale competitions.
In 1988, at the Olympics, held in Seoul,The championship was won by the Belarusian M. Lobach. In 1992, in Kiev, the title of champion was Ukrainian T. Timoshenko. In 1996, in Atlanta, the first in the artistic gymnastics was Ukrainian E. Serebryanskaya.
Rhythmic gymnastics, history of originwhich was considered above, for a short time period managed to win the world love. It is difficult to find a country in which there is currently no such beautiful sport. Meanwhile, in every corner of the planet you can find a large number of excellent gymnasts.
