Pigniczki Fanni achieved the biggest score of her career to date and was awarded the bronze medal in the ring final of the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Valencia. This is the second Hungarian World Cup medal in RG’s history and is tied for the best Hungarian result ever.
Fanny Begniczky It started very early. Rhythmic gymnastics, to put it mildly, a sport that requires warm-up. The Hungarians were drawn into the first group, which started at 9:30 in the morning, which means that you have to be in the training area before “breakfast”. The recently changed organization of the World Championships dictates Evening Finals, so someone could already be in the room at 7:30 AM and still be competing at 10 PM.
This is a very amazing result, and even from the excellent results of the MTK gymnast in 2023 – World Cup medals, an all-around victory at the Universiade, 5th place at the European Championships – it did not follow that this would lead to a World Championship medal. But Benicki, who opened the final, stepped onto the carpet unencumbered, showing a high level alongside the fanatical Spanish crowd’s frenzy, and since that wasn’t true of everyone – the two Bulgarian classics, Stelyana Nikolova And Borgana Callen For example, he flew away – and his perfect score of 34,050 took him to third place. The first two places were in paper form, at most in non-paper form: German Daria Varvolomev He could celebrate the second world championship title in his career, the Italian defending champion Sophia Rafaeli He could be a little annoyed.
Pigniczki’s bronze medal is the first Hungarian world championship podium in this sport since 1973 – then Maria Patushka He finished third in the triple tie with hoops as well. Knowing the balance of power in this sport is quite an achievement from a Hungarian gymnast, and is the crowning achievement of Pigniczki’s career so far. Who knows what other chapters he will write in his career after that… For example, directly on Thursday, when he stepped on the carpet to secure Hungary’s share in the Paris Olympics after Tokyo.
You won’t have much time to rest in this crazy drive, that’s for sure. But also staying in the hall for a long time because of the world championship trophy ceremony is an “enviable problem.” Even if it was brutally tiring.
On Thursday, Pigniczki Fanni is poised to advance from the middle of the field Wisner to Hanna We can compete in the World Championships in the qualifiers for mace and ribbon, and in the finals (if ranked among the top eight).
