"Rhythmic Gymnastics Junior European Championships The Rhythmic Gymnastics Junior European Championships are the European championships for junior gymnasts for the sport of rhythmic gymnastics. They were first held in 1987. Prior to 1993, they were held as a separate event. Since the 1993 edition in Bucharest, Romania, the Junior European Championships were integrated to the senior European Championships. The competition is organized by the European Union of Gymnastics. Teodora Alexandrova (Bulgaria), Todorova Dimitrinka (Bulgaria), Rosabel Espinosa (Spain), and Yelena Shalamova (Russia) hold the record of most medals earned at the Junior European Championships, with six medals each. Shalamova and Elizabeth"
"29th RG World Championships Mie, Japan 2009 31st World Championship Montpellier, France 2011 Grand Prix Final Brno, Czech 2011 Grand Prix Vorarlberg, Austria 2012 Olympic Games ""(Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)"" Yevgeniya Kanayeva Yevgenia Olegovna Kanayeva OMF (; born 2 April 1990) is a Russian retired individual rhythmic gymnast, known for her consistency, elegant routines and high level of technical difficulty. She is the only individual rhythmic gymnast in history to win two Olympic all-around gold medals, winning at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she finished with 3.75 points"
"record for most World titles with seventeen and thirteen European titles. Kanayeva shares the record for most individual world all-around titles with Maria Petrova (1995 tied with Ekaterina Serebrianskaya), Maria Gigova (1971 tied with Galima Shugurova) and fellow Russian gymnast Yana Kudryavtseva, and Kanayeva is the one of only two gymnasts to have won all three titles without being tied, impossible due to the tie breaking system even though she never was tied for a title. At the 2009 World Championship in Mie, Japan, Kanayeva became the first rhythmic gymnast to win all six titles. She repeated the feat at"
"Russia. In addition, it is considered in general that Russia has the best rhythmic gymnasts. Evgenia Kanaeva, three-time all around world champion and first and only back to back gold medallist at the olympic games, Yulia Barsukova, Irina Tchachina, Galina Beloglazova, Irina Devina, Tatiana Druchinina, Elena Karpuchina, Tatiana Kravtchenko, Galima Shugurova, Oxana Kostina, Alina Kabaeva, Natalia Lipkovskaya, Daria Dmitrieva, Amina Zaripova, Daria Kondakova, Laysan Utiasheva, Zarina Gizikova, Daria Shkurikhina, Vera Sessina, Margarita Mamun, Yelena Posevina, Anastasia Maksimova, Olga Ilina, Anna Gavrilenko, Karolina Sevastyanova, Anastasia Bliznyuk, Alina Makarenko, Ksenia Dudkina, Anastasia Nazarenko, Uliana Donskova, Margarita Aliychuk, Yanina Batyrchina, Tatiana Gorbunova, Maria"
"In 2007, Mariana Vasileva who was a former Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast and a coach in Levski club in Sofia came to Azerbaijan to coach Azerbaijani gymnasts. Since 2009, Vasileva has been appointed as head coach of the Azerbaijan Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation. Notable rhythmic gymnasts include 2011 World All-around bronze medalist Aliya Garayeva, Anna Gurbanova, Dinara Gimatova, Zeynab Javadli, Lala Yusifova, Marina Durunda, Zhala Piriyeva, Ayshan Bayramova and Zohra Aghamirova. Azerbaijan hosted big competitions like 2005 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, 2007 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships, 2009 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships, 2014 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships, 2019 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. Spain:"
"Yevgeniya Kanayeva Yevgenia Olegovna Kanayeva OMF (; born 2 April 1990) is a Russian retired individual rhythmic gymnast, known for her consistency, elegant routines and high level of technical difficulty. She is the only individual rhythmic gymnast in history to win two Olympic all-around gold medals, winning at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she finished with 3.75 points ahead of silver medalist Inna Zhukova, and at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she also became the oldest gymnast to win the Olympic gold. On 4 July 2013, Kanayeva received the International Fair Play Award for ""Sport and Life"". Kanayeva holds the"
"Theatre in Moscow. On February 15, 2015, a star-studded gala was held in Russia for the 80th founding anniversary of Rhythmic Gymnastics. The venue was held in the historical Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Among those who performed at the gala were Russian former Olympic champions, Olympic medalists and World champions including: Kanaeva, Yulia Barsukova, Irina Tchachina, Daria Dmitrieva, and Yana Batyrshina. Evgenia Kanaeva was born on 2 April 1990 in the Russian city of Omsk, Siberia (also the hometown of former World Champion and the first European Champion Galina Shugurova and 2004 Olympic Silver medalist Irina Tchachina). Her mother,"
"in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Vera Biryukova Vera Leonidovna Biryukova (; born 11 April 1998 in Omsk, Omsk Oblast, Russia) is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast. She was member of the 2016 Olympics Group all-around champion. Biryukova was born in Omsk (also home to two-time Olympic champion Evgenia Kanaeva, 2004 Olympic silver medalist Irina Tchachina, Soviet World champion Galima Shugurova, 1987 World Champion Tatiana Druchinina and 2012 London Olympics Group all-around champion Ksenia Dudkina). She began gymnastics at five years old under the encouragement of her mother, her first coach was Natalia Glemba, she studied at the Omsk schools number"
"In 2009, Panova was invited to compete in the Bulgarian edition of Dancing With The Stars and won with the highest public vote. Panova is the first rhythmic gymnast to get a clean sweep of all five (All-around, Ribbon, Clubs, Hoop, Rope) gold medals at a World Championship. (The only other gymnasts to win all of the apparatus at a single World Championship are Oxana Kostina, Ekaterina Serebrianskaya and Evgenia Kanaeva.) Panova also became the first rhythmic gymnast to get onto the Guinness Book of Records by her perfect performance of full 10 marks in all her routines (total of"
"2009 Summer Universiade The 2009 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XXV Summer Universiade, was celebrated in Belgrade, Serbia from July 1 to 12, 2009. The event has also been organised by a range of co-host cities mostly in Vojvodina (Serbian Autonomous Province), close to Belgrade. It was the largest sporting event ever to be organised by the city. At this Universiade the biggest star was the Russian rhythmic gymnast Evgeniya Kanaeva, who won 5 gold medals. Russia was the leading nation in the medal table, with the most gold medals (27) and most medals (76). The bidding process for"
"new leading rhythmic gymnasts, leaving little room for Kanaeva in the competitive sphere. Kanaeva made her senior international debut in 2006 at the International Tournament Schmiden where she won gold in all-around and event finals. She competed at the World Cup stage in Mie competing in clubs and ribbon where she finished 5th. In summer 2007, Kanayeva competed in World Cup in Corbeil-Essonnes winning the all-around gold medal, she also won gold in hoop, rope and ribbon final defeating Anna Bessonova. She then competed at the World Cup series in Ljubljana where she won bronze in all-around, rope and silver"
"has also begun to be amongst the leading Group rhythmic gymnasts in the World Cup and World Championship competitions, and has won its first gold medal in the 2016 European Championship. Other Post-Soviet Republics especially in Central Asia have had considerable success in rhythmic gymnastics, including Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Notable Kazakhstani gymnasts include Aliya Yussupova who finished as high as 4th at the Olympic Games, as well as Anna Alyabyeva, Aliya Assymova and Sabina Ashirbayeva. In Uzbekistan, notable gymnasts include: Ulyana Trofimova, Djamila Rakhmatova, Elizaveta Nazarenkova, Anastasiya Serdyukova, Valeriya Davidova, Anora Davlyatova and Sabina Tashkenbaeva. In Georgia, Soviet rhythmic gymnast"
"Vera Biryukova Vera Leonidovna Biryukova (; born 11 April 1998 in Omsk, Omsk Oblast, Russia) is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast. She was member of the 2016 Olympics Group all-around champion. Biryukova was born in Omsk (also home to two-time Olympic champion Evgenia Kanaeva, 2004 Olympic silver medalist Irina Tchachina, Soviet World champion Galima Shugurova, 1987 World Champion Tatiana Druchinina and 2012 London Olympics Group all-around champion Ksenia Dudkina). She began gymnastics at five years old under the encouragement of her mother, her first coach was Natalia Glemba, she studied at the Omsk schools number 61 and 125 where she"
"Anna Alyabyeva Anna Alyabyeva (born 13 November 1993 in Astana) is a Kazakhstani individual rhythmic gymnast. Anna Alyabyeva began to compete in the senior circuit in 2009 as the second gymnasts of her home country, her highest achievement that years was a top 24 ranking at the 2009 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships held in Mie, for the 2010 season she became the number one gymnast of Kazakhstan after the retirement of Aliya Yussupova. Alyabyeva was invited in Russia's National rhythmic gymnastics training center in Novogorsk under Irina Viner's class; there she improved a lot her difficulty and execution. Alyabyeva is"
"all medals but in a slightly different order: Alina Kabaeva became Olympic champion, Irina Tchachina was second, and Anna Bessonova - third. It was the first major rhythmic gymnastics competition which was contested in Ukraine. The World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships was held in Kyiv in 2013. Next European championships which is to be held in Ukraine is planned to take place in 2020 also in Kyiv. 2004 European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships The 20st Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships were held in Kyiv, Ukraine, from June 4 to 6, 2004. 27 national teams participated in the championships. Medals were contested in two"
"established herself as the number one senior rhythmic gymnast of the Russian national team. She defeated Bessonova and Kapranova with high scores in all her routines ( 18.875 in rope, 18.925 in hoop, 18.875 in ribbon and scored a 19.050 in clubs). At the 2008 European Championships she became the All-around champion. Viner selected Kanyaeva and Kapranova as Russia's entries for the Olympic rhythmic gymnastics competition. Kanaeva was the youngest among all the finalists in the Olympic rhythmic gymnastics competition. However, she remained calm and made only a few mistakes. In her words, the Olympic Games were ""different from all"
"at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the group all-around event together with other group members Romina Laurito, Marta Pagnini, Elisa Blanchi, Andreea Stefanescu, Elisa Santoni. Anzhelika Savrayuk Anzhelika Savrayuk (; born 23 August 1989 in Lutsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian-born Italian rhythmic gymnast. Savrayuk has competed in two Olympic Games. She and the Italian group competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and finished 4th in the group all-around. She was part of the 2010 and 2011 Italian group that competed at the World Championships that won the Group all-around gold medal. Her teammates also won"
"Aliya Garayeva Aliya Nurgayanovna (Nikolayevna) Garaeva (Garayeva) (; ), born 1 January 1988 in Yekaterinburg, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a retired Azerbaijani individual rhythmic gymnast. She represented Russia (until 2005), and Azerbaijan (2006-2012). She is the 2011 World All-around bronze medalist, a two-time (2010, 2012) European All-around bronze medalist, two time (2007, 2011) Grand Prix Final All-around bronze medalist and five-time Azerbaijanii National champion. Garayeva became a two-time Azerbaijan champion in 2006 for her individual performances. She won bronze at the 2007 Grand Prix in Moscow in the all-around competition and two individual performances. Garayeva placed 6th in the"
"and gold in 3 ribbons/2 hoops. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she won silver in the group all-around event together with group members Maryna Hancharova, Alina Tumilovich, Nataliya Leshchyk, Aliaksandra Narkevich, and Kseniya Sankovich. Anastasia Ivankova Anastasia Ivankova (, Łacinka: ""Nastassia Uładzimiraŭna Ivankova"") (born 22 November 1991) is a Belarusian rhythmic gymnast. She is a two-time Olympic medalist in the group all-around competition. Ivankova won a bronze medal in the group all-around competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. At the 2009 World Championships, she won silver medals in group all-around and 3 ribbons & 2 ropes,"
"Anastasia Ivankova Anastasia Ivankova (, Łacinka: ""Nastassia Uładzimiraŭna Ivankova"") (born 22 November 1991) is a Belarusian rhythmic gymnast. She is a two-time Olympic medalist in the group all-around competition. Ivankova won a bronze medal in the group all-around competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. At the 2009 World Championships, she won silver medals in group all-around and 3 ribbons & 2 ropes, and bronze in 5 hoops. They repeated as the group all-around silver medalists at the 2010 World Championships. At the 2012 European Championships, Ivankova was a member of the group that won the all-around silver medal"
"enjoyed success at the 2009 European Championships and the 2012 Olympics: Rhythmic gymnastics is considered one of the most popular sports ever in Ukraine. Many Ukrainian rhythmic gymnasts such as Ludmila Savinkova, Liubov Sereda, Alina Maksymenko, Anna Bessonova, Tamara Yerofeeva, Irina Deriugina, Eleonora Romanova, Oxana Skaldina, Natalia Godunko, Olena Vitrychenko, Ekaterina Serebrianskaya and Olexandra Tymoshenko are among the top rhythmic gymnasts in the world. There are many clubs all over Ukraine. The most famous and strongest rhythmic gymnast training school in Ukraine is the Deriugins School in Kiev, run by Albina Deriugina and her daughter Irina Deriugina. The national team"
"Championships where she qualified to the vault final. Tatiana Nabieva Tatiana Olegovna Nabieva (; born November 21, 1994, in Pushkin) is a Russian artistic gymnast who has won four World Championship medals. Nabieva competed at the 2008 European Junior Championships, earning gold medals in the team competition and floor exercise and silver medals on balance beam, vault and uneven bars. Although no all-around final was held, Nabieva held the highest all-around score in the qualifying competition, ahead of teammate Aliya Mustafina. Nabieva competed at the 2009 and 2010 Russian Championships. In 2009, she finished third in the all-around. In 2010,"
"in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)"" Katrin Taseva Katrin Yankova Taseva (; born November 24, 1997) is a Bulgarian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is a two-time 2016-17 Bulgarian National all-around silver medalist. Taseva was born in Samokov. A member of the Bulgarian National team since 2010, she appeared in international junior competitions in 2008. Taseva began competing at the 2015 FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup Series in Bucharest, Romania and Budapest, Hungary. In 2016, Taseva competed in several World Cup and Grand Prix Series. She had her highest placement finishing 9th in"
"also vowed never to compete for Russia. Ganna Rizatdinova Ganna Sergiivna Rizatdinova (; ; born 16 July 1993 in Simferopol, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian individual rhythmic gymnast. In the all-around event, she is the 2016 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time World medalist (silver in 2013, bronze in 2014), and a two-time (2014, 2016) European bronze medalist. Rizatdinova started to train gymnastics in Simferopol and was coached by her mother Oksana Rizatdinova. She won the silver all-around medal at the 2008 Kiev Junior World Cup behind Russian gymnast Daria Dmitrieva. She was part of the Ukraine team that won bronze at"
"and gold in 3 ribbons/2hoops. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she won silver in the group all-around event together with group members Maryna Hancharova, Alina Tumilovich, Nataliya Leshchyk, Aliaksandra Narkevich, Anastasia Ivankova. Ksenia Sankovich Ksenia Sankovich (, Łacinka: Ksienija Andrejeŭna Sankovič; born 27 July 1990) is a Belarusian rhythmic gymnast. She is a two-time Olympic medalist in the group all-around competition. Sankovich won a bronze medal in the group all-around competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. At the 2009 World Championships, she won silver medals in group all-around and 3 ribbons & 2 ropes, and bronze"
"Anzhelika Savrayuk Anzhelika Savrayuk (; born 23 August 1989 in Lutsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian-born Italian rhythmic gymnast. Savrayuk has competed in two Olympic Games. She and the Italian group competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and finished 4th in the group all-around. She was part of the 2010 and 2011 Italian group that competed at the World Championships that won the Group all-around gold medal. Her teammates also won a pair of bronze medals at the 2012 World Cup Final in 5 Balls and 3 Ribbons + 2 Hoops. Savrayuk won a bronze medal"
"in Baku of Azerbaijan. She participated in the 1st European Games in Baku of Azerbaijan where competed the top rhythmic gymnastics groups from the Europe. She participated in many World Cups and International Meetings. With the junior team she competed at 2009 in the World Cup of Budapest and in the International Meeting of Kalamata. With the senior group she has the following competitions : 2010 (Portimao, Portugal), Kalamata (Greece), Pesaro (Italia), 2011 Kalamata (Greece), Portimao (Portugal), Sofia (Bulgaria), Tel-Aviv (Israel), 2012 Pesaro(Italia), 2013 Sant Persbourg(Russia), 2014 Pesaro (Italia), Kalamata(Greece), Kazan (Russia), 2015 Holon (Israel),Kalamata (Greece),Athens (Greece), Kazan (Russia), 2016"
"gold medals in all four apparatuses at the 2009 European Championships in May. Then, in July, she collected all nine gold medals at the Universiade and the World Games. Her five gold medals in the Universiade enabled Russia to come first in the overall team ranking. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev openly complimented Kanaeva’s contribution. She was also hailed as the ""Heroine of the Games"" by the official website of Universiade Belgrade 2009. In September, Kanaeva competed at the World Championships in Mie Prefecture, Japan. Kanaeva qualified for the individual all-around final by placing first in every single apparatus, each with"
"the 2010 Asian Games All-around gold medalist. She had her highest placement at the 2010 World Championships in Moscow finishing 7th in the All-around finals. She won the bronze medal in all-around at the 2012 World Cup series in Tashkent. For the 2011 Alyabyeva presented routines with so much difficulty degree that she wasn't being able to cope and started to have irregular performance in the rhythmic gymnastics circuit, at the 2011 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships she lost the control of some pivots at her clubs routine at the All Around Final and a lost of balance while performing with"
"Djamila Rakhmatova Djamila Rakhmatova (Russian: Джамиля Рахматова; born 19 September 1990 in Tashkent) is a retired individual Uzbekistani rhythmic gymnast. A member of the Uzbek National gymnastics team since 2002, Rakhmatova has competed in 5 World Championships, she had her highest placement at the 2013 World Championships in Kiev, Ukraine finishing 18th in the All-around. She and the Uzbek Team won Team silver medal at the 2010 Asian Games. She won silver in the All-around at the 2013 Asian Championships. She finished 10th in all-around at the 2013 Grand Prix Final in Berlin and won silver medal in ribbon final."
"Ksenia Sankovich Ksenia Sankovich (, Łacinka: Ksienija Andrejeŭna Sankovič; born 27 July 1990) is a Belarusian rhythmic gymnast. She is a two-time Olympic medalist in the group all-around competition. Sankovich won a bronze medal in the group all-around competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. At the 2009 World Championships, she won silver medals in group all-around and 3 ribbons & 2 ropes, and bronze in 5 hoops. They repeated as the group all-around silver medalists at the 2010 World Championships. At the 2012 European Championships, Sankovich was a member of the group that won the all-around silver medal"
"and fell from her apartment in Sofia. Tsvetelina Naydenova Tsvetelina Naydenova (; born ) is a Bulgarian group rhythmic gymnast. She represented her nation at international competitions. She participated at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She also competed at world championships, including at the 2015 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships where she won a silver and a bronze medal. Naydenova was member of the Bulgarian group that competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Together with Lyubomira Kazanova, Mihaela Maevska, Reneta Kamberova, Hristiana Todorova), they won the Group All-around bronze medal. They dedicated their medal to their teammate"
"8) at a World Championship and received the trophy personally from the President of the IOC at that time, Juan Antonio Samaranch. She achieved this at the 1987 World Championships in Varna. Bianka Panova Bianka Panova (, born May 27, 1970 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian individual rhythmic gymnast. One of the Golden Girls of Bulgaria that dominated rhythmic gymnastics in the 1980s. She is the 1987 World All-around champion, 1989 World All-around silver medalist, 1985 World All-around bronze medallist and 1986 European All-around champion. She won a total of nine World Championship gold medals. Panova was born on May"