August 19th 2004: Almudena off to the 2004 Olympic Games!!
After having qualified for the Olympic Games having beaten Colino in all the tests except for one which was tied, Almudena and the Spanish Rhythmic group fly to Athens.

January 5th - 12th 2003: The Individual Spanish team travels to Moscow for training with the Russian Team.

December 21st 2002: Almudena performs an exhibition at the Euskadi - Cataluña Trophy in Vitoria.

December 13rd 2002: Almudena receives the award from the "Sportive Press Association" in Vitoria.

December 1st 2002: World Cup Final, Stuttgart (GER). Almudena gets sixth position at the hoop final.

Results Hoop Final:

1 Anna Bessonova 26,600
2 Zarina Gizikova 26,375
3 Tamara Yerofeeva 25,975
4 Liasan Utiacheva 24,875
5 Simona Peycheva 24,850
6 Almudena Cid Tostado 24,775
7 Olga Belova 24,700
8 Elisabeth Paisieva23,375

10 de November de 2002: European Championships (Granada). Almudena achieves the best result of her international career with her 7th place at the all around competition:

1. Alina Kabayeva (RUS), 111.925
2. Tamara Yerofeyeva (UKR), 107.700
3. Anna Bessonova (UKR), 105.425
4. Simona Peicheva (BUL), 104.150
5. Zarina Gizikova (RUS), 103.325
6. Inna Jukova (BLR), 102.400
7. Almudena Cid Tostado (ESP), 100.300
8. Svetlana Rudalova (BLR), 100.150
9. Eleni Andriola (GRE), 99.650
10. Jennifer Colino (ESP), 98.125
11. Laura Zacchilli (ITA), 95.975
12. Olga Nikolaidou (GRE), 95.225
13. Katya Pizetsky (ISR), 94.575
14. Elizabeth Paisieva (BUL), 93.850
15. Delphine Cedous (FRA), 92.150

November 9th 2002: European Championships (Granada). Spain gets 5th position; Almudena's scores at the Teams' Competition were: 22.250 (Rope), 25.550 (Hoop), 25.275 (Ball) y 26.050 (Clubs).

1. Russia 214.700
2. Ukraine 207.925
3. Bulgaria 195.850
4. Belaruss 194.300
5. Spain 193.100
6. Greece 190.250

August 3rd 2002: Almudena is a special guest during the celebrations in her hometown of Vitoria.

June 2002: Spanish Nationals in Leganés (Madrid). Almudena is absolute Spanish Individual Champion for the fifth time and sweeps all the gold medals of the competition.

All around:

1.- Almudena Cid:  103,767
2.- Jennifer Colino: 102,201
3.- Carolina Rodríguez: 100,850

Events Finals:

- April 8th 2002: Almudena is voted as one of the most popular sportspeople of Vitoria being awarded at the "Popular sportspeople of vitoria" Gala.
 

- March 24th 2002: Almudena gets bronze medal at the ball final in Thiais  Tournament (France) ! She also entered the clubs final where got the 6th place.

- March 3rd 2002: Almudena competes at the G. Prix in Moscow getting a total of 95.207 points and 13th place out of 37 competitors.

          1. Gizikova Zarina RUS 111.866
          2. Peicheva Simona BUL 107.858
          3. Bessonova Anna UKR 107.349
          4. Utiasheva Liasan RUS 106.716
          5. Sessina Vera RUS 104.057
          6. Tkachenko Elena BLR 103.941
          7. Ussupova Alia KAZ 103.715
          8. Erofeeva Tamara UKR 103.557
          9. Manoujlova Olesya RUS 101.241
         10. Ossyadovskaya Elona BLR 100.649
         11. Paisieva Elizabet BUL 96.391
         12. Kikkas Irina EST 95.633
      13. Cid Tostado Almudena ESP 95.207
         14. Mohameda Magda LAT 94.557
         15. Yunger Yael ISR 94.149
         16. Gusarchuk Olga LAT 93.624
         17. Lukianov Olra GER 93.407
         18. Zhavornitski Saina USA 93.315
         19. Mckibbin Hannah GBR 91.700
         20. Krasnikova Aida KAZ 91.690
         21. Bakuradze Ketevan GEO 89.999
         22. Karmansky Olga USA 89.933
         23. Jose Rebecca GBR 87.999
         24. Rodrigues Carolina ESP 87.524
         25. Murata Yokari JAP 85.208
 

- February 2nd 2002: Almudena is invited by Italian Club "Petrarca Arezzo" to take part in the Italian National Championships for Clubs in Fano. Almudena, along with her team mates, earned the silver medal.
She scored 25'250 with her ball exercise, the second highest mark of the championship.

- December 2001:

Spanish National Championships for groups in Vitoria: Almudena performs in the exhibiton of the last day of Nationals for groups. Almudena performed her ball and hoop 2001 routines already slightly modified for next season whereas the Spanish group performed their new rope and ball routine.
Almost at the end of the closing ceremony , there was a tribute to the Olympic gymnasts from Vitoria in which Almudena, the 96 Olympic Champions Tania Lamarca, Estíbaliz Martínez and Lorena Guréndez, and artistic gymnast Víctor Cano were given a aknowledge to their Olympic paritcipations.
 
 

- October 21st 2001: World Championships. Hoop Final, the last day of Worlds Almudena gave another display of her top class gymnastics. Almudena ended her competition demonstrating that she's one of the very best gymnasts in the world. In spite of being unfairly deprived of her medal, her hoop exercise brought much happiness and joy to both the audience and Almudena herself.
 

Hoop Final Results: 1. Irina Chaschina RUS 27.500 2. Alina Kabayeva RUS 27.450 3. Simona Peycheva BUL 26.175 4. Anna Bessonova UKR 25.900 5. Tamara Yerofeyeva UKR 25.700 6. Almudena Cid Tostado ESP 24.750 7. Yelena Tkachenko BLR 24.400 8. Inna Jukova BLR 24.225

- October 20th 2001: World Championships in Madrid. Almudena gets a total of 96.775 placing 11th all-around.
Her best performance of the day was her first exercise, she was brilliant with rope and after her performance Princess Elena de Borbón greeted and congratulated her.

1. Alina Kabayeva RUS 113.025
2. Irina Chaschina RUS 109.750
3. Tamara Yerofeyeva UKR 106.225
4. Simona Peycheva BUL 106.150
5. Anna Bessonova UKR 103.575
6. Yelena Tkachenko BLR 101.200
7. Elizabeth Paiseva BUL 96.875
8. Inna Zhukova BLR 96.850
9. Almudena Cid Tostado ESP 96.775
10. Aliya Yussupova KAZ 96.700
11. Zhong Ling CHN 96.250
12. Laura Zacchili ITA 95.225

- October 19th 2001: World Championships in Madrid, Spain gets 5th place at Teams' Competition. Although Almudena had some slight mistakes with clubs her high quality and talent allow her to be first reserve for Sunday's Clubs final too.

 Team Competition Results

		Rope	Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Total
1.	Russia	81.575	82.725	81.600	82.025	275.900
2.	Ukraine	75.750	78.300	77.650	76.425	258.875
3.	Belarus	75.800	78.400	73.650	74.275	254.500
4.	Bulgaria	76.850	75.650	73.800	75.225	253.975
5.	Spain	71.500	69.675	68.275	69.825	235.300

- October 18th 2001: World Championships in Madrid,
Almudena and her team mates, Carolina and Jenifer, performed rope and hoop rotations. After the first day of competition Almudena gets11th position and qualifies for the hoop final as a result of her PERFECT hoop performance, as for rope, final she's the first reserve.

Results after two events:
1. RUS 164.325
2. BLR 154.200
3. BUL 152.500
4. UKR 152.175
5. ESP 141.175
6. ITA 137.250
7. KAZ 135.375
 

- September 7th 2001: Almudena makes her debut as model in "Cibeles Catwalk". Almudena worked as model at the famous professional catwalk of Cibeles in Madrid. She was dressed with clothes by Spanish designer Montesinos and performed fragments of her olympic exercise with ribbon giving a display of Rhythmic Gymnastics on the catwalk. The audience loved her appearance and Montesinos was very proud of her work too, he claimed that, even among famous top models working there, Almudena had been the most natural.     - August 4th 2001: Almudena visits Alcántara in Cáceres, the place where her mother was born, and is the personality chosen to make the public announcement of the beginning of the festivities there.  Almudena pleased the audience with a performance of her choreography based on "Alberti's Dove" and as, usually, got an standing ovation from spectators.

- August 23rd 2001: World Games. Almudena places 4th in every apparatus final and her highest mark of the day is for her Ball Routine.
 

* Go to Almudena's World Games' Photo Gallery

- June 17th 2001: European Championships (second day), for this season Almudena has presented an incredible ball exercise, in spite of the high degree of difficulty, she's capable of doing a perfect performance of it even under the pressure if biggest competitions but again, was a bit unlucky and had some doubts and non precise elements during her routine. Yet, the beauty and artistry of her ball exercise brought her the highest score in her competition: 26.300, 7th place at Ball Final.
 

Last but not least Almudena's incredible Clubs exercise came! Almu entered the carpet confidently and definitely showed with herroutine all the hard work she'd done during the previous months. Her performance with clubs was perfect! she got a lower score than she'd got for ball but the audience gave her an standing ovation and many claim Almudena's clubs routine as the best performance of the whole 2001 Europeans, again the medal was denied but it's undeniable that Almu was the true European Champion with Clubs.
26.100, 8th place at Clubs Final.
 

- June 15th 2001: European Championships. Almudena started the European competition on her birthday, she performed very well her vivid rope routinebut her score was "only" 25.650 consequently 11th place on Rope Final. Unfortunately, Almudena made a big mistake with hoop, her finger got trapped on it so she did an uncontrolled throw that ended with the hoop out bounces.  Her score was 24.150 making her drop to the 15th place at the Hoop Final.     - June 15th 2001: Almudena's Birthday! and also begining of the 2001 European Championships in Geneva. Sweet 21st Birthday Almu!  Best wishes to you, may all your dreams come true! - June 9th 2001: Another tribute to Almudena! Named after the great Spanish gymnast and in her honour the first "Beti Aurrera Almudena Cid Tournament" is held in Vitoria with the best gymnasts from all over Spain competing. Due to the fact that Almudena was having her pre-European test in Madrid, she wasn't able to attend to the competition but one of her mother's beautiful poems was read dedicated to Almudena and everyone wished her good luck for the European Championship.    * On the right, the leaflet of the "Beti Aurrera Almudena Cid Tournament" with Almudena's image on the cover.

- May 20th 2001: First European Championships for Teams, At the Final Bronze of this competition, formerly called European Gymnastics Masters, the Spanish Team (RG: Almudena Cid, Esther Domínguez. AG: Victor Cano, Alex Barrenechea, Sara Moro and Laura Martínez) managed to get onto podium winning the bronze medal.

Almudena's scores:
- Bronze Final against Italy: Almudena's mark for clubs was 9.050.
- Semi final against Ukraine: Almudena was the joker so her score for the hoop routine (8.808) was doubled obtaining 17,616.
- Quarter Final against Poland: Almudena scored 8,866 with rope.

1. Russia 65,328
2. Ukraine 62,198
3. Spain 61,870

- May 11th-12th-13th 2001: Corbeil Essones Tournament (France). This competition is one of the most prestigious Rhythmic Gymnastics meeting in the world. In the all-around competition, Almudena performed four practically perfect routines. The Spanish star really impressed both judges and audience, her new program is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the very best in the international scene.
Almudena got her highest score for her incredible hoop exercise and managed to place 6th; she deserved more, but for the first time in so many years, judges seemed to be starting to appreciate Almudena's quality.

Corbeil Essones 2001, all-around results:
 

Unfortunately, Almudena was judged very harshly on Monday's Grand Prix Final. It seemed that judges got scared of Almudena's dominion and superiority so they relegated Almu to her traditional unfair 9th place.

Corbeil Essones 2001, World Cup individual Final:
 

- May 5th - 6th 2001: International tournament in Bern (Switzerland). Almudena places second at the all around competition:

1. Olena Tkachenko (BLR): 110,458
2. Almudena Cid Tostado (ESP): 109,091
3.  Irina Kikkas (EST) 104,308

- April 7th 2001: Almudena takes part in the Euskadi-Cataluña competition in Barcelona, after that she spent Easter holidays training in the C.A.R. (high training center) with her coach Iratxe Aurrekoetxea.

- April 1st 2001: Almudena has her weekly training with new coach Nina Vitrichenko. Almudena and her three coaches, Nina Vitrichenko, Dalia Kutkaite (currently working as Nina's translator) and Iratxe Aurrekoetxea, worked on the clubs and hoop routines; both are really fantastic exercises which show that the new code even makes Almudena's excellent quality more noticeable.
I must say that Almudena was so kind of inviting some friends and me to watch the training (thank you Almu!! ), and after it, we talked a bit with her and I gave Almudena the messages that you, her fans, left on this page. Almudena seemed happy of having them her hand so, I want to say thank you very much to you all for writing some words for her, I think that it's very encouraging for a person to read such beautiful words from her fans.
 

- March 31st 2001: Competition in Alicante. Despite the fact that she doesn't train the exercises from the 2000 competitive season anymore, Almudena competed with her Olympic ball and hoop routines in Alicante. She did magnificently and placed first in every event.

- March 16th 2001: Nina Vitrichenko finally arrives in Spain and starts working as new selector and coach for both individual and group gymnasts. Former individual coach Dalia Kutkaite is now her translator and former gymnast Neolia Fernández is the other group coach.

- February 25th 2001: Almudena takes part in a sportive event held in Vitoria that gathers several sports.
Almudena performed her Olympic routines at a tribute organized by "Club Ipurúa" as farewell for their senior gymnasts who are quitting rhythmic gymnastics.

- December 17th 2000: Olympic Gala Exhibition in Vitoria. This wonderful exhibition of Olympic gymnasts gathered great stars such as Almudena herself, Elena Vitrichenko, Ivan Ivankov, Gervasio Deferr... other female artistic gymnasts and gymnasts from the Euskadi's Selection.
Due to the fact Almudena is still recovering from the operation she only performed once, at the end of the gala, doing a fantastic exhibition routine without apparatus and in the middle with a ribbon. Almudena wore a black long skirt and a shawl and did a very good interpretation under flamenco music. The public loved her incredible expressiveness and showed it with a big applause.

- December 2000: As a result of the messy situation of the National Team and the lack of coaches for individual gymnasts, Almudena decides to go to Vitoria, her hometown, and spend there at least a month training with her former coaches Aurora Fernández del Valle and Iratxe Aurreoketxea.
 

- November 2000: During this month the problems concerning the situation of the Spanish Rhythmic Team and Federation caused Almudena some trouble. As the great professional she's, Almudena works hard everyday and tries to recover as soon as possible from her injury. However,  instead of appreciating her efforts, one day Almudena was denied the entry to the gym. Thanks to some worker of the Sports the situation was more or less solved. Almudena, still without having a personal coach, trained and did the physical conditioning coached by Jesús Carballo (father), coach of the female artistic gymnastics national team.
 

- November 11th 2000: A Tribute to Almudena Cid Tostado is held in Madrid. Several gymnasts performed a routine under Almudena's ribbon music devoted to her. There was also a group of disabled children who took part someway in the tribute, one of those children said "Almudena, we know that you're the best" Almudena wasn't able to restrain her tears and then she thanked everybody there for their support.
 

- November 7th 2000: Almudena undergoes surgery on her right knee because of her having the meniscus broken. The operation is successful indeed and Almudena comes back to the residence in hours' time.

- October 16th 2000: Almudena Cid visits this page. I want to say: thank you very much Almudena for visiting your page and for your lovely message. You are GREAT Almudena, Rhythmic Gymnastics need you!

- October 1st 2000: Olympic Final. Almudena Cid Tostado is the only Spanish gymnast in history competing in two olympic games and qualifying for the final, the other twice olympic rhythmic gymnast is member group Lorena  Guréndez, sadly the Spanish group didn't manage to reach the final.
Almudena performed very cleanly with rope in the first rotation, she received a mark of 9.750. Her second performance was very good too, with her super hoop routine Almudena earned a score of 9.725. Maybe Alumudena's performance with ball wasn't as precise as the previous day but anyway it remained magnificent and the audience loved it, she just had some doubts and the difficult final catch wasn't precise, she scored 9.691. Almudena finished her second olympic final with a magnificent ribbon routine, anyway judges seemed unwilling to let her score higher than 9.8, she received 9.741 and actually placed 9th, the same position she got in Atlanta.
It's incredible that such a great champion as Almudena was unfairly deprived of the olympic diploma  again. However, as Almudena says, the important thing is to enjoy rhythmic gymnastics and the audience's appreciation.
After such an unfair competition a good new had to arrive, Almudena Cid appeared on Television talking to the journalists and said that she was very happy with her competition and expressed her desire of competing in a third Olympiad.
Thank you for this wonderful new Almudena, I wish you the best for your third Olympic Games, go for the GOLD MEDAL!!!

- September 30th 2000: Olympic games. Qualifications: Almudena Cid completed her rotation with two magnificent performances. Almudena performed magnificently with ribbon, the public loved the routine and Almudena looked happy and proud of her performance after it, the mark was 9.716. Her last routine of the day was even better, the audience rewarded Alumudena's great work with a big ovation, she performed did each element so perfectly that after finishing the exercise she even kissed the ball. The mark of 9.733 was Alumudena's highest score and a total of 38.848 drove her to the 10th place qualifying for her Second Olympic Final.

- September 28th 2000: Olympic Games in Sydney, first qualifying rotations. Almudena Cid started her second olympic competition with hoop, she did a great performance and earned a big applause from the Australian audience. Sadly, the judges had a different opinion, it's unbelievable that Almudena was given an artistic mark of 4.800 for such an original and good exercise, despite her clean execution and magnificent technique the final score for hoop was 9.708.
With rope Almudena was very precise too, all the difficult elements were very well performed but she had a tiny problem just i a link, the score was slightly lower than the mark for hoop, that 9.691 supposed an 11th place for Almudena after two rotations.

- September 14th 2000: Last test of the National Team before the Olympic Games. The group and three of the individual gymnasts, Almudena Cid, Tania Campo and Esther Domínguez performed their routines. Almudena Cid started with hoop completed the exercise successfully, she also did very well with rope and ball but failed some elements with ribbon, due to this fact she continued working on her ribbon routine afterwards.
 

- September 9th 2000: Spanish National Team's exhibition in Leganés, Madrid. This exhibition was also a trubute dedicated to Laura García, great gymnast from Leganés Club, as farewell, since she's going to retire this year. The gymnasts from Leganés did also perform different choreographies as tribute to the National Team. Almudena performed her four routines and did very well, she just had a little doubt in the last catch with rope but was magnificent in her three first performances, with hoop, ball and new ribbon exercises.

- August 5th 2000: International Competition for groups in Málaga and Tribute to Emilia Boneva. The Spanish individual team performed in exhibition during this competition for groups. Almudena Cid's first performance was with rope, the routine has been modified and includes some new elements as well as a new ending position which is even better than the older one.
In her second appearance, Almudena performed her new ribbon routine choreographed in a wonderful music from the "Cirque du Soleil", both the choreography and elements are truly interesting and suit the music very well, the last catch is particularly original and innovate.
Maybe Almudena had some problems with ribbon but in her last exhibition routine, with ball, she showed again her greatness and did a demonstration of elegance and interpretation.

After the groups competition, there was tribute to former national coach Bulgarian Emilia Boneva, the Olympic Champions of the Spanish Group in Atlanta performed an exhibition routine dedicated to Emilia, after that Almudena sat down on the carpet with them and read a beautiful poem for her former coach, she wasn't able to finish reading the verses without crying of emotion and also the other gymnasts and the audience started to cry. Then all the gymnasts went to greet Emilia who later on talked about all the successes she had shared with the National Team, she finished her speech saying that all her gymnasts are so good because the work really hard. It was a lovely tribute!!
 

- July 9th 2000: Almudena makes an appearance at a television program. Almudena performed her beautiful ball routine on music with words and with several modifications to be able to do well in such an inappropriate and small place. The Rhythmic Star displayed elegance throughout her exhibition and earned a big applause from the audience. After being asked some questions about the sport and gymnasts' way of life Almudena left the film set while the audience stood up and gave her another endless ovation.

- July 2nd: Spanish National Championships, Córdoba (Spain). Almudena Cid places second all around and earned another four silver medals at the apparatus finals. Team mate Esther Domínguez conquered the gold at the all around competition whereas Alba Caride Costas placed third.
 

- June 15th 2000: Today Almudena turns 20. Almudena, have a wonderful birthday and all the happiness in the world.

- June 4th 2000: European Championships, apparatus finals. Alumudena's hoop routine was truly the best exercise out of the eight hoop finalists, but despite having a magnificent performance she was given a mark of 9.983 and placed 6th when she really deserved the gold medal.

- June 3rd: European Championships, Zaragoza (Spain). All around competition, once more Almudena shows her talent in each of her four performances displaying great control and extra finesse.
Her scores were: 9.916 for rope, 9.900 for hoop, 9.933 for ball and 9.941 for ribbon, earning a total of 39.690 and placing 8th all around.

- June 2nd 2000: European Championships, Zaragoza (Spain). During the second day of the Team's competition Almudena competes with hoop and ribbon, due to her impressive performance with hoop Almudena is given a score of 9.966, the highest mark scored by a member of the Spanish team in Zaragoza, therefore she qualified for the hoop final with the fifth best score . Yet, the Spanish Team didn't reach the medals and finally placed 4th ahead Germany, Belorussia and Russia.

- June 1st: European Championships, Zaragoza (Spain). Teams competition: Almudena performs with rope and gets a score of 9.900.
 

- April 31st 2000: Almudena Cid places 10th in Corbeil with a total of 39.528. Her scores were: 9.900 for rope and ball, 9.913 for hoop, and 9.825 for ribbon.
 

- March 2000: Almudena competed at the Coupe D'Opale and did very well. She earned three gold medals in the apparatuses finals (hoop, ball and ribbon), and won the all around bronze medal.

Here are the results:

1. Lassian Outiacheva (RUS) 78.950
2. Natalia Palchevskaya (BEL) 78.700
3. Almudena Cid Tostado (ESP) 78.600

Apparatus Finals:
 

- March 11th 2000: A Spanish National Team's exhibition is held in Madrid. Almudena did magnificently in her new and impressive hoop routine, I hope she will win a medal in the hoop final at the European Championships, her hoop exercise deserves it. Almudena has also a new ribbon exercise. Her rope and ball routines are the same she presented in Osaka and her execution was perfect in both performances.