Royal Spanish Gymnastics Federation

[3][4] The most practiced competitive gymnastics discipline in Spain is rhythmic gymnastics, being the 4th most practiced sports discipline among girls and adolescents, only surpassed by swimming, basketball and football, according to the Sports Habits Survey of the School Population (2011), prepared by the CSD.

[2] A positive response resulted in a meeting in Madrid on 7 June 1898 and Federación Espyearla de Gimnasia (Spanish Gymnastic Federation) was born and the first Executive Committee was appointed.

[2] On 26 September 1899, the Spanish Gymnastic Federation was officially founded within the framework of its first General Assembly, held in Madrid.

On 20 March 1902, the Federation was declared a "True Public Utility Society" by the Government of Spain.

In 1906, Narciso Masferrer, among other people, lamented the disappearance of the Spanish Gymnastic Federation in the pages of El Mundo Deportivo.

La RFEG está integrada por 19 federaciones de ámbito autonómico:

The first national rhythmic gymnastics team in Spain (1975).
RFEG headquarters (in the background), in front of the Temple of Debod .
José Canalejas , the first president of the federation.
Jesús Carballo , the current president of the Federation.