Deriugins School

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The Deriugina School, also known as the Deriugins' School is a rhythmic gymnastics club in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was run for many years by the mother and daughter team of Albina Deriugina, who was the head coach for many years and died in 2023 at the age of 91, [1] and Irina Deriugina, who acted as the assistant coach and later became the head coach. [2] Irina's daughter, Ireesha Blokhina, works in the school as a senior choreographer.

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Every year since 1992 the club plays host to the biggest rhythmic gymnastics competition in Ukraine, The Deriugina Cup (Кубок Дерюгіної).

The main training centre of the club is the October Palace in Kyiv. [3]

History

In the 1970s Deriugina gymnasts comprised the majority of the Soviet team with the Deriugina gymnasts becoming Soviet, European and World champions. During this era the most notable individual gymnast was, Irina Deriugina — the 1977 and 1979 World champion. The school was very strong in the groups discipline during this period with European and World titles for the group, consisting of Viktoria Serykh, Olga Plokhova, Ludmila Yevtushenko, Olga Shchegoleva, Zhanna Vasyura and Irina Deriugina.

Ten years after the school's initial success, it had a few more champions to give. Aleksandra Timoshenko become the Bronze medal winner at the 1988 Olympics and the Champion at 1992 Olympics. She became the role model for the über-waif rhythmic gymnast look. Along with Timoshenko, the school produced Oksana Skaldina who went on to claim the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics, with Timoshenko taking the gold.

Throughout the 1990s the Deriugina School produced numerous champions and gymnasts of interest. Gymnasts such as Ekaterina Serebrianskaya and Elena Vitrichenko dominated the mid-1990s. The school had a big emergence of talent in the late 1990s and early 2000s led by Tamara Yerofeeva and the daughter of Viktoria Serykh, Anna Bessonova.

During the late 2013/early 2014 Euromaidan-protest in Kyiv, the school changed training halls several times and their main training centre October Palace became occupied by protesters. [3] According to Deriugins School pupil Ganna Rizatdinova after Euromaidan they discovered that school equipment "like a TV set and a kettle, balls and clubs" had disappeared; "it was a strange kind of robbery. We don’t know who did it.” [3]

In the early 2020s, former gymnasts Natalia Godunko and Valeriya Yuzvyak alleged that the Deriuginas were psychologically and physically abusive. Godunko alleged that she had undergone mental abuse and witnessed physical abuse against other gymnasts, that extreme weight control caused a gymnast to be hospitalized, and that the coaches did not believe gymnasts when they were in pain or injured. Yuzvyak said that gymnasts were often subject to obscenities and physical violence during training. [4] [5]

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References

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  2. ↑ "World gymnastics body targets 2nd top official weeks before Olympics". New York Times . 18 June 2008.
  3. 1 2 3 Anna RIZATDINOVA on the annexation of Crimea, challenges for the country and role of sport Archived 2014-12-28 at the Wayback Machine , Den (24 June 2014)
  4. ↑ "Насилля в спорті. Гімнастка Наталія Годунко зняла мініфільм про деспотизм Дерюгіних (відео)" [Violence in sports: Gymnast Natalia Godunko shot a mini-film about the despotism of the Deryguins]. glavcom.ua (in Ukrainian). 2020-08-03. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  5. ↑ Makarevskaya, Kateryna (24 December 2021). ""Вчепилася в дівчинку й почала словами її "вбивати". Гімнастка Юзьвяк – про насильство в збірній" ["She grabbed the girl and began to 'kill' her with words." Gymnast Yuzvyak - on violence in the national team]. Suspilne (in Ukrainian).
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