Greece hosted a Level 1 Academy for Rhythmic Gymnastics in the capital city of Athens on August 4 – 11, 2013. It was the first time that Greece had hosted an FIG Academy and makes it the 51st federation to do so. This Academy began on the same day that a Foundations Course for Gymnastics for All finished in Barbados.
Twenty-two coaches attended this Academy from five different federations – Bulgaria, Croatia, Spain, Greece and Philippines.
The course leader for this Rhythmic Academy was Dr. Nota Klentrou of Canada who is a professor of physiology and was a member of the working group that developed the three-level Rhythmic Gymnastics Academy curriculum. The technical experts were Nadya Aleksandrova of Great Britain who is also a member of the Academy Working Group and former Bulgarian and British National Coach and the most frequent rhythmic Academy expert; and Helena Diaz of Portugal who earned the FIG coaching brevet last year. They were joined by music and Rhythmic Gymnastics expert Lasse Nettum of Norway. He also led a meeting with the experts before the academy began to develop new lectures related to music and artistry for this and future Academies.
The candidates performed well and all achieved good examination results on the three-part technical and theoretical examination. The highest result of 91% overall was achieved by Charikleia Pantazi of Greece who was one of the two former Olympians that attended the course. She was followed closely by Evangelia Gountroumpi also of Greece and Monica Fornier Garcia of Spain.
We thank the Greek Gymnastics Federation for its willingness to host this Academy in an excellent facility and with wonderful and highly skilled demonstrators.
This was the 146th FIG Academy and the 22nd for Rhythmic Gymnastics and brings the total number of different Rhythmic Gymnastics coaches to have attended an Academy to 270 and from 50 different federations.
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