MOSCOW, October 30. /TASS/. Russian female gymnasts have accomplished the main task at the ongoing World Championship in Qatar by having qualified for the next Summer Olympics, but their lag behind the US team is unacceptably enormous, Russian team’s Head Coach Valentina Rodionenko told TASS on Tuesday.

"Our gymnasts managed to fulfill the main task, which was to finish in the top three and qualify for the Olympics," Rodionenko said. "However, we have no right losing to the Americans with such gap. Not even with the current line-up."

Russian athletes won silver on Tuesday in women’s team event of the 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, held Qatar’s Doha between October 25 and November 3.

The silver with an aggregate result of 162.863 points after four disciplines (vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise) was brought for the national team by Russian gymnasts Aliya Mustafina, Liliya Akhaimova, Irina Alekseyeva, Angelina Melnikova and Angelina Simakova.

The team from the United States chalked up a total result of 171.629 points winning the gold and becoming the world champions for the fourth time in a row. The Chinese team took the silver finishing on the heels of the Russian gymnasts with 162.396 points.

Finishing in the top three, means the women teams from the United States, Russia and China received straight passes for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Japan’s Tokyo.

Vasily Titov, the president of the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation (RAGF), praised the performance of the national female athletes, but said they need to work now on the correction of mistakes.

"The girls did well and the most important is that despite the pressure and a complicated tournament situation they calmed down and held on their position," Titov said in an interview with TASS. "The lag behind the United States? If we add up everything we lost in the balance beam, exercise floor and the vault, the results will be very close and it means that we are capable competing with them [the US team]."

"The main rule in gymnastics is to avoid mistakes," Titov said. "A possible biased judging is out of the question if there were no mistakes. They should continue working, correcting mistakes and everything will be normal."

This was the second silver for Russia at the current championship in Doha, as the day earlier the silver was brought in men’s team event by David Belyavsky, Artur Dalaloyan, Nikita Nogorny, Dmitry Lankin and Nikolai Kuksenkov. The Russian men’s team also qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.