Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva has been appointed as the new head coach of the Russian rhythmic gymnastics team, reports MK Sport, quoted by BTA.
Kabaeva will take the place of Irina Viner, who resigned a few days ago.
There were three candidates for the post of head coach - Alina Kabaeva, Olga Kapranova and Anastasia Tatareva.
41-year-old Alina Kabaeva is the Olympic champion in the all-around from Athens 2004 and the bronze medalist from Sydney 2000. She is a two-time absolute world champion (1999, 2003), a five-time absolute European champion (1998-2000, 2002, 2004) and six-time absolute champion of Russia (1999-2001, 2004, 2006-2007).