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Five female gymnasts selected as flagbearers for Rio Opening Ceremony

Xinhua, August 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

Five female gymnasts were selected as flagbearers for the Opening Ceremony of the Rio Olympic Games, revealed the International Federation of Gymnastics on its official website on Friday.

The opening ceremony will be held in Maracana Stadium this evening and five female gymnasts were honored with the special task of leading in their countries' delegations.

The five flagbearers are Canadian trampoline Olympic champion Rosannagh MacLennan, Guatemala's artistic gymnast Ana Sofia Gomez Porras, Israel's top rhythmic gymnast Neta Rivkin, Romania's multi-Olympic medalist Catalina Ponor and Giulia Steingruber from Switzerland, who became the first Swiss woman to win the European All-around title in 2015. Endit