By Richa Naidu
PARIS (Reuters) -Germany’s Darja Varfolomeev won the gold medal in the Olympic rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around final on Friday, becoming the first athlete from her country to win the title.
It was also the first time Germany has medalled in rhythmic gymnastics at all since Regina Weber took the bronze before reunification at the Los Angeles 1984 Games. Varfolomeev scored 142.850 points overall, 2.250 ahead of Bulgaria’s Boryana Kaleyn who took the silver.
Varfolomeev did not celebrate her victory immediately even as the German supporters cheered. Instead, looking sombre, she walked to her compatriot Margarita Kolosov to console her for losing out on bronze to Italy’s Sofia Raffaeli.
An Olympic medal event since Los Angeles, rhythmic gymnastics sees athletes perform manoeuvres while using hoops, balls, clubs or ribbons.
In a more than three-hour final, 10 women each performed four routines to music from Lady Gaga’s “Bad romance” to Dream on” by Aerosmith and “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from the film Mary Poppins.
(Reporting by Richa Naidu, editing by Ed Osmond)
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