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For
many years, Marta Selmeczi was a teacher and coach for the Lincoln
Board of Education where she established the Public School Gymnastics
Championships which are still in existence today. Many of her
gymnasts were regional and provincial champions. In
1969, Mrs. Selmeczi was a founding member of Rhythmic Sportive
Gymnastics (RSG) in Canada. The
first amateur club for girls in the Niagara Peninsula, The
Lincoln Gymnastics Club, was formed by her and her husbanc
in 1972, for both artistic and rhythmic gymnastics.
In
1991, Mrs. Selmeczi formed the first women's all rhythmic
sportive gymnastics club in the Niagara peninsula: The
Rhythmic Waves Gymnastics Club. In 1996, she travelled
with other Ontario coaches and judges to Finland to observe
the first International Women's Group Gymnastics Competition
- a new sport, later called Aesthetic Group Gymnastics - and
the following year, Rhythmic Waves were the provincial
champions in the young teens category. They have continued
to win many medals at "Red Ribbon" and other AGG
competitions and they participated in the first AGG World
Championships in Finland in 2000, where they placed 5th of
26 groups from 11 countries, making the finals!
The
Rhythmic Waves Senior AGG team also participated in the AGG
Worlds in Prague, Czech Republic in 2002, in Graz, Austria
in 2003 and in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2005:
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