Copa del Mundo Budapest 2009

Rhythmic Gymnastics

LAUSANNE (SUI), FIG Office, February 24, 2009: Hungary and its capital city will be organising the premier Category A World Cup 2009 tournament, set for March 6 to 8. A big time event, the tournament takes us back to the early days when Budapest had the honour of hosting the discipline’s premier World Championships. At that time the discipline was brand spanking new, back in 1963!

Today in 2009, Rhythmic has gone Olympic and enjoys spectacular development that reaches far beyond European borders. With time, the discipline has won acclaim through the talent wielded by its gymnasts and the artistic content that permeates their routines.



The 2009 season will open in Budapest at the Papp Laszlo Budapest Sportarena. Of a spatial design, this fantastic hall hosted the Rhythmic Words in 2003 with seating for 12,500 spectators. Competitions are open to Individuals and Groups, and will be staged on a working surface provided by Spieth Gymnastic, the official supplier for the event. Of the eleven federations having confirmed their participation, a few stand out as potential medal contenders in Groups: Russia, China and Bulgaria.

A bit of history

Budapest, December 7, 1963: Soviet gymnast Ludmila Savinkova (URS) became the first World Champion of modern Gymnastics, today Rhythmic. The competition went down in the Sports Palace, which was destroyed by fire in December of 1999. Today, a mere few hundred metres from that site rises the phenomenal Papp Laszlo Budapest Sportarena.
The 1963 competition was not recognised until 1964 when it was designated as the discipline’s first World Championships ever. It never once occurred to Ludmila Savinkova that just one year after her victory in Budapest her name would go down in history.

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