{"id":76252,"date":"2023-08-30T09:08:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T14:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=76252"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T14:08:30","slug":"israel-wins-first-ever-gold-medals-at-rhythmic-gymnastics-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/israel-wins-first-ever-gold-medals-at-rhythmic-gymnastics-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel wins first-ever gold medals at rhythmic gymnastics world championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JACOB GURVIS<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 Israel won its first-ever gold medals at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Valencia, Spain, over the weekend, improving on last year\u2019s silver medal and solidifying its place as a global powerhouse in the sport.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_76253\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/8-29-23-IsraelGymnastics-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76253\" class=\"wp-image-76253 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/8-29-23-IsraelGymnastics-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/8-29-23-IsraelGymnastics-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/8-29-23-IsraelGymnastics-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/8-29-23-IsraelGymnastics-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/8-29-23-IsraelGymnastics-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/8-29-23-IsraelGymnastics-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76253\" class=\"wp-image-76253 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/8-29-23-IsraelGymnastics-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/8-29-23-IsraelGymnastics-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/8-29-23-IsraelGymnastics-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/8-29-23-IsraelGymnastics-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/8-29-23-IsraelGymnastics-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/8-29-23-IsraelGymnastics-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-76253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daria Atamanov of Israel in action during the Individual Ribbon Final during the 40th FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships Valencia 2023 Day Two at Feria Valencia, August 24, 2023, Valencia, Spain (Photo by David Aliaga\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Friday, Israel\u2019s team topped China and Spain to take gold in the all-around group category. On Sunday, Israel won gold in the combined exercise, beating out China and Ukraine. The team also finished fifth in the hoop final.<\/p>\n<p>Linoy Ashram, who became the first Israeli woman to win an Olympic gold medal with her rhythmic gymnastics victory at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, served as an assistant trainer to the team. She retired from the sport last year at age 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you can hear in my voice how excited we were and how we screamed yesterday, and what a crazy achievement we had yesterday,\u201d Ashram told Haaretz. \u201cUndoubtedly, the girls work hard, together with an amazing team of coaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gold medal-winning performance on Friday featured a three-minute ribbons and balls routine set to a dance track mixed with the chorus of \u201cDiva,\u201d by Israeli singer Dana International \u2014 which won the 1998 Eurovision song contest. It also featured a three-minute hoop routine with music from Israeli actress Gal Gadot\u2019s 2017 film \u201cWonder Woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Team Israel 3 Ribbons 2 Balls Q 40th FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships Valencia 2023\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ctJg2k26cM8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are really happy that we managed to get this medal and that we got the chance to scream out the anthem from the podium,\u201d said Romi Paritzki, the team\u2019s captain, according to Haaretz. \u201cIt\u2019s the best feeling any athlete can have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Partizki was joined in the performance by teammates Shani Bakanov, Eliza Banchuk, Adar Friedmann, Ofir Shaham and Diana Svertsov. The team had won the all-around competition in the European championship last year and added two silvers and a gold at this year\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n<p>The silver medal win at last year\u2019s world championship secured a spot for Israel in the group competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>While her team placed sixth in the overall all-around standings in Tokyo, Ashram\u2019s gold medal victory \u2014 won by .15 of a point \u2014 broke a streak of several Russian wins dating back to the 2000 Sydney Olympics.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Israel%20wins%20first-ever%20gold%20medals%20at%20rhythmic%20gymnastics%20world%20championships\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[8781,8790,8795,8788,13297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76254,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76252\/revisions\/76254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}