Retrospective
of the Longines Prize for Elegance
The Longines Prize for Elegance has been awarded
eighteen times since its inception in 1997:
1st prize (1997) Natalia Lipkovskaya (Russia),
at the 21st World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
in Berlin
2nd prize (1998) Svetlana Khorkina (Russia),
at the 22nd European Artistic Gymnastics Championships,
in St. Petersburg (Russia)
3rd prize (1998) Spanish women’s gymnastics
team, at the 22nd World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
in Sevilla (Spain)
4th prize (1999) Viktoria Fráter (Hungary),
at the 15th European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
in Budapest (Hungary)
5th prize (1999) Elena Vitrichenko (Ukraine),
at the 23rd World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
in Osaka (Japon)
6th prize (1999) Svetlana Khorkina (Russia)
and Lu Yufu (China), at the 34th World Artistic
Gymnastics Championships in Tianjin (China)
7th prize (2000) Esther Dominguez (Spain), at
the 16th European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
in Zaragozs (Spain)
8th prize (2001) Irina Tchachina (Russia), at
the 24th World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
in Madrid (Spain)
9th prize (2002) Italian women’s gymnastics
team, at the 25th World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
in New Orleans (USA)
10th prize (2002) Cho Eun-Jung (Korea), at the
14th Asian Games in Busan (Korea)
11th prize (2002) Qin Xiao (China) and Elena
Zamolodchikova (Russia), at the 36th World Artistic
Gymnastics Championships in Debrecen (Hungary)
12th prize (2003) Carly Patterson (USA) and
Wei Yang (China), at the 37th World Artistic
Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, California
(USA)
13th prize (2003) Almudena Cid (Spain), at
the 26th World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
in Budapest (Hungary)
14th prize (2005) Irina Tchachina, at the 27th
World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Baku
(Azerbaijan)
15th prize (2005) Monette Russo (Australia)
and Luis Rivera (Puerto Rico), at the 38th World
Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Melbourne
(Australia)
16th prize (2006) Fei Cheng (China) and Ivan Ivankov (Byelorussia), at the
39th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus (Denmark)
17th prize (2007) Shawn Johnson (USA) and Hiroyuki
Tomita (Japan), at the 40th World Artistic Gymnastics
Championships in Stuttgart (Germany)
18th prize (2007) Anna Bessonova (Ukraine), at the 28th World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Patras (Greece)
