Rita Kanaeva Rhythmic Gymnast

Rita Kanaeva Rhythmic Gymnast. There's no stopping dina averina at the rhythmic gymnastics world championships. Russia's evgeniya kanaeva became the first rhythmic gymnastics athlete to defend an olympic.

Her mother, svetlana kanaeva, is a master of sports in rhythmic gymnastics. Kanaeva was in a class of her own as she scored 116.900 ahead of fellow russian daria dmitrieva (114.500) in silver with liubou charkashyna of belarus (111.700) taking bronze.