“I remember only last year I watched World Championship online with much excitement, so this year being a competitor at the event it is certainly a proud moment and it is very exciting, but focused on the job to be done as well,” Kiroi-Bogatyreva said.
The 16-year-old only turned senior at the beginning of the year and has had little time for a break between the competitions. Preparation for World Championships started at the same time as the Commonwealth Games.
Qualification for World Championships is a two-stage process with the first step being the 2018 Australian Gymnastics Championship held in June before a month later at the AIS the current top five gymnasts were tested in a closed competition by Australian and International judges.
While Australia could send four individual gymnasts and a group to Sofia in the end, only two gymnasts, including Kiroi-Bogatyreva and Ashari Gill, and a group made the final team.
Gill and Kiroi-Bogatyreva train together at the Prahran Rhythmic Gymnastics Centre and became friends nearly nine years ago when they first started beginners classes at Prahran as…
