The most famous and beautiful gymnasts in Russia. Olympic champions in rhythmic gymnastics: list, history

Rhythmic gymnastics is considered a subject national pride for the former Soviet Union, although sports with capital letter she became in the turning point of 1980. The Olympic Games in Moscow were held without the participation of gymnasts, but at the congress at the end of the Games they decided to include in the program the new kind sports - rhythmic gymnastics.

Already at the 1984 games, the gold medal went to Lori Fang, a gymnast from Canada. She forever went down in history as the first Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics. Doiana Stoiculescu of Romania took silver and bronze went to Germany's Regina Weber.

Our gymnasts did not take part in the Olympic competitions, due to the response to the boycott announced by 50 countries in 1980 in Moscow, although the Bulgarian girls were worthy rivals of the Olympic medalists.

Golden Age of Bulgarian gymnasts

At the alternative but unofficial games of 1984 in Sofia, held for the socialist camp, gold was shared by two Bulgarian gymnasts, with Dilyana Georgieva losing one gold medal to her teammate Anela Ralenkova in the clubs exercise. The Soviet national team represented by Galina Beloglazova and Dalia Kukaite won the second prize at the Socialist Olympics.

The 1988 Olympics predicted gold for Bulgarian gymnasts Adriana Dunavskaya and Biyanka Panova, as well as girls from the Soviet Union team, which included Marina Lobach and Alexandra Timoshenko. The final for all four participants was brilliant, but at the qualifying competitions Marina Lobach performed unmistakably, unlike her rivals, so she got the gold.

After the collapse of the USSR, a team from the CIS member countries was formed to participate in the 1992 games. The representatives of the team were Ukrainian athletes Alexandra Timoshenko and Oksana Skaldina. Alexandra exceeded all expectations, and won the title of absolute champion. Oksana lost silver to Spaniard Carolina Pascual

The 1996 Games brought success to Ukrainians Ekaterina Serebryanskaya and Elena Vitrichenko and students of Irina Viner Amina Zaripova and Yana Batyrshina, who showed new trends in gymnastics.

Games in Sydney (2000) brought gold to the Russian team, second place was won by Belarusian gymnasts, and the Spanish graces took away the bronze. Yulia Barsukova received the title of Olympic champion, and all the media called Alina Kabaeva the favorite of the games, although she took only third place.

At the 2004 games, Alina Kabaeva was lucky enough to win the title of Olympic champion, despite the fact that mistakes were made in all exercises. Irina Chashchina performed wonderfully, but one mistake moved her to second place. Ukrainian gymnast Anna Bessonova won bronze.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing, the gold medal rightfully went to Evgenia Kanaeva, the Belarusian Inna Zhukova took the silver. Anna Bessonova got a bronze medal. The next six places went to the pupils of Irina Viner. The incomparable Evgenia Kanaeva also became the main star of rhythmic gymnastics in London.

Let's hope that our girls will continue to win prizes at subsequent Olympiads and demonstrate their unsurpassed abilities to the whole world.

The 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta did not work out for our team. The Russian team managed to take silver in the individual all-around (Yana Batyrshina) and bronze in the group all-around for the first time (Evgenia Bochkareva, Olga Shtyrenko, Irina Dziuba, Angelina Yushkova, Yulia Ivanova, Elena Krivoshey), but in general, this Olympiad was a benefit of the Ukrainian team, which after the collapse of the Soviet Union, together with the Belarusian one, it had the strongest training school after the Russian one. Gold was taken by Ekaterina Serebryanskaya, bronze by Elena Vitrichenko. In group competitions, the Spaniards and Bulgarians were the strongest.

We approached the 2000 Olympic Games in a very high spirits. Then the star of the new leader of our team, Alina Kabaeva, rose. Now Alina is a bit of a contradictory personality (we have all the deputies, politicians become contradictory personalities), but then she was not just the nation's main hope for Olympic gold (thank God, we always have such ... though they don't always win), she was something new in the world of rhythmic gymnastics. Incredibly flexible, capable of doing incredible elements at that time, she created new performance standards in this sport. In general, Alina was our main hope for the 2000 games in Sydney. In the final performance, when it seemed that the medal was in her pocket, Alina relaxes (as she herself admitted in an interview) and loses concentration. A gold medal in brilliant style flies away from her like a hoop she couldn't catch in a performance. The time has come for our other gymnast (glory to the competition) Yulia Barsukova, who was perceived in no other way than as the second number after Kabaeva. However, Alina's other performances were so excellent that the points were enough to climb to the third step of the podium.

At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Alina Kabaeva did not make such mistakes again and won a well-deserved gold medal (thanks that it didn’t work out like with Nemov at the same Olympics). Silver in the individual all-around was then taken by Irina Chashchina.
In group competitions from Sydney 2000 to 2016 in Rio, only the Russian team won, for which special thanks to them: 2000 (Irina Belova, Elena Shalamova, Maria Netesova, Natalya Lavrova, Vera Shimanskaya, Irina Zilber), 2004 (Olesya Belugina, Olga Glatskikh, Tatyana Kurbakova, Natalya Lavrova, Elena Posevina, Elena Murzina.
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Yulia Vladimirovna Barsukova
Born December 31, 1978, Moscow, USSR
Titles:
1-gold OI 2000;
1-gold, 0-silver, 2-bronze World Cup 1999;
3-gold, 1-silver, 4-bronze European Championship 1999, 2000
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Alina Maratovna Kabaeva
Born May 12, 1983, Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR
Titles:
1-gold, 1-bronze OI 2000, 2004;
9-gold, 3-silver, 2-bronze World Cup 1999, 2003, 2007;
15-gold, 3-silver, 2-bronze European Championship 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006

Irina Chashchina Photo: East News, Russian Look

Today, Laysan is better known as a media person: TV presenter and wife of a Comedy-club resident. But from an early age, Utyasheva was engaged in gymnastics and received the title of master of sports at the age of 14. Since 2002, she has been training under the guidance of Irina Viner, with whom she won more than one resounding victory. However, in 2002, Utyasheva was injured, which at first no one attached importance to. A comprehensive examination showed that the athlete had numerous fractures of the navicular bone. Despite the fact that the operation was successful, and Laysan was able to return to classes, in 2006 the girl decided to leave sports career. Now Utyasheva hosts television and radio programs, and also brings up her son Robert, born to Pavel Volya in 2013.

Laysan Utyasheva Photo: Russian look

Alina started doing rhythmic gymnastics at the age of three and a half years. Then the girl still lived with her family in her native Tashkent. AT youth Alina, together with her mother, moved to Moscow, where Irina Viner became her leader. At the age of 15, Kabaeva had already won the European Championship and subsequently defended this title four more times. Until recently, the girl was involved in politics, but just a couple of months ago she headed the National Media Group.

A photo:Russian look

The first ever two-time Olympic champion in individual all-around was born in Omsk and began to build her sports career there. Thanks to her talent and innate perseverance, the girl was noticed and invited to Moscow (up to the age of twelve she lived with her family in Omsk). Since then, her sporting success has gone uphill. At the 29th Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Mie, Japan, Evgenia Kanaeva set a record by winning 6 gold medals out of 6 possible. Thus, she became the first gymnast in the history of rhythmic gymnastics to achieve such a result at one single World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. On October 16, 2011, Evgenia Kanaeva scored 30 points in the ribbon exercise at the Rhythmic Gymnastics Grand Prix final in Brno, Czech Republic. She became the first gymnast in the history of rhythmic gymnastics to achieve the highest score under the 30-point judging system.

A photo:Russian look

Julia Barsukova

Irina Viner did not immediately spot this athlete: according to her, the girl did not stand out much from the crowd of other gymnasts. However, the choreographer of the national team, Veronika Shatkova, insisted that Yulia should be left, because she is a "ballerina from God." After some time, the girl revealed all her talents, having received the title of Honored Master of Sports in rhythmic gymnastics. Julia also received the unofficial title of Miss Bolshoi Theater. This happened at the celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the Ballet magazine, where Yulia performed with the stars of the Bolshoi Theater. Her "Dying Swan" delighted the famous dancers, who gave Yulia a standing ovation.

On the last Saturday of October, the All-Russian Day of Gymnastics is celebrated. This year it fell on October 25th. In honor of the holiday, we decided to recall the most beautiful Russian gymnasts.

Yana Batyrshina

Honored Master of Sports of Russia, represents rhythmic gymnastics in individual exercises. The girl began to do gymnastics at the age of 5, and already at 12 she passed the most difficult selection for the national team of the Uzbek SSR. After the collapse of the USSR, the family moved to Russia, and Yana competed for our country at competitions.

Batyrshina left big sport at the age of 19, and a year later she became the head coach of the Brazilian rhythmic gymnastics team. In general, during her sports career, the girl won 180 medals and more than 40 cups. In addition, Yana worked on television, where she hosted sports programs. In her personal life, the gymnast is also doing well - Yana is married to the famous producer Timur Weinstein, from whom she gave birth to two daughters.

Alina Kabaeva

Alina, now 31, remains one of the sexiest and most desirable female athletes. Just like Yana Batyrshina, Alina was born in Tashkent. She began taking her first sports steps at the age of 3.5, and at the age of 12, Kabaeva and her mother moved to Moscow to train with Irina Viner.

At the age of 12, Kabaeva moved to Moscow with her mother to train with Irina Viner.

She has been playing for the Russian national team since 1996 and has won many awards. She retired from sports in 2007. Having completed her sports career, Alina did not quit social life, at one time she often flashed on the television screen, starred for magazines. In 2007, she became a State Duma deputy, and left this post seven years later. The media actively discussed Kabaeva's personal life, in particular, there were rumors about her affair with President Putin. True, there was no confirmation of this information.

Three songs are dedicated to Alina: "Wordplay" - "Alina Kabaeva", Murata Nasyrova - "Don't cry, my Alina!" and Maxim Buznikin - "Alina - half of my fate."

Evgenia Kanaeva

The mother of this native of Omsk was a master of sports in rhythmic gymnastics, but her grandmother brought the girl to the sport. At the age of 12, Evgenia was invited to a training camp in Moscow as part of a group of young gymnasts. After the first serious performance, Kanaeva was noticed and invited to train at the Olympic reserve school. She, like many successful Russian gymnasts, was taken under her wing by Irina Viner. In the course of her sports career, Zhenya almost always won gold, and Laysan Utyasheva once said about her: "Kanaeva is Chashchina and Kabaeva combined."

In 2012, the young gymnast completed her sports career, a year later she married hockey player Igor Musatov, and a year later she became a mother. What Evgenia is doing now is not known for certain. Most likely, he fulfills his dreams: he learns to draw, play the piano, masters foreign languages and a computer, and also brings up a son.

Laysan Utyasheva

At first, the parents wanted to give Laysan to the ballet, but by chance, in the queue at the store, the gymnastics coach Nadezhda Kasyanova noticed the girl, noting the extraordinary flexibility of the joints. Since then, the girl has been doing gymnastics. At the age of 12, Laysan moved to Moscow, and two years later she received the title of master of sports. The gymnast won many awards, but in April 2006 she was forced to end her sports career.

After the end of her career, Laysan became sports commentator and TV presenter, and also starred in several TV series. Now Utyasheva is happily married to Comedy Club resident Pavel Volya, raising her son Robert and hosting a TV show on the TNT channel "Dancing".

Irina Chashchina

The girl began to do gymnastics at the age of 6, and at 12 she joined the Russian team. While still a junior, Irina took first place at the CIS Spartakiad and won the Russian championship among girls twice in a row. At the age of 17, Irina was noticed by Irina Viner, who began to raise an Olympic champion from a gymnast. Together with Alina Kabaeva, Chashchina became a star in rhythmic gymnastics, her name thundered all over the world. But in 2001 there was a doping scandal, the gymnast lost her awards and was disqualified for two years from the sport.

Together with Alina Kabaeva, Chashchina became a star in rhythmic gymnastics, her name thundered all over the world.

Having completed her sports career, Chashchina began to develop other projects. The gymnast took part in several creative projects(“Circus with the Stars” and “Dancing on Ice”), wrote a book, opened her own rhythmic gymnastics school and starred for Russian version Maxim magazine.

It is worth noting that Chashchina is not free - in 2011 she married a friend of Dmitry Medvedev, businessman Evgeny Arkhipov. The couple has no children yet.

Margarita Mamun

Margarita is only 18 years old, but she has already shaken the world of sports with her achievements in gymnastics. At the age of seven, together with her sister, Rita began attending the gymnastics section, and at the age of eleven she began to consciously prepare for a career as a gymnast. Mamun achieved her first big successes in 2011, when she became the champion of Russia in clubs, ball and hoop exercises, and in 2013 she consolidated her results. Interestingly, because of her origin, Irina Viner calls Rita " Bengal tiger". (She is half Russian, half Bengali. Her father is from Bangladesh). Many compare the girl with Evgenia Kanaeva, only Mamun herself does not see any resemblance, except for the love of gymnastics.

Karolina Sevastyanova

At the age of 5, her mother brought Carolina to a rhythmic gymnastics school. In the first month of classes, children were evaluated, promising ones were selected. The girl did not pass the selection, she was not taken to school. Only now Carolina did not forget about gymnastics and decided to become a gymnast by all means. Later, the girl ended up in a sports center, where they took everyone in a row, and after a while she ran into Irina Viner. Since then, Carolina has been playing in the Russian national team. But after the 2012 Olympic Games, she decided to end her sports career (at the age of 17).

By the way, Sevastyanov was recognized as the most beautiful athlete of the CIS countries at the Games in London. At one time, there were rumors on the Internet about Carolina's romance with the famous hockey player Alexander Ovechkin. The only confirmation of these gossip is the joint photographs of Carolina and Alexander on vacation in St. Tropez.

Uliana Donskova

The victory gave the gymnast strength, and she began to train even harder.

Like Karolina, Ulyana started doing gymnastics at the age of 5. The first few years of training practically did not bring results, but Ulyana did not retreat. The efforts were not in vain, and in 2000 the girl won the regional championship in the first category. The victory gave the gymnast strength, and she began to train even harder.

For the first time, the gymnast became the world champion on September 12, 2009 at the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Japan. Ulyana will never forget this date! After winning in Olympic Games In 2012, in London, the girl, along with her friend Karolina Sevastyanova, completed her sports career. What Donskaya is doing now is not known for certain.

Yana Lukonina

Little is known about this Russian gymnast. We only know that Yana was born in Ryazan and has been playing for the Russian national team since 2006. Compared to her colleagues, Lukonina does not have many awards. The injury is to blame for everything, because of which Yana had to quit the sport and take up coaching.

However, Yana gets great pleasure from coaching: “I like to work as a coach, working with children is a pleasure. Responsibility, of course, is felt. In addition to gymnastics, they can ask some everyday questions, ask for advice. Of course, I try to help them.".

Daria Dmitrieva

Another gymnast who has already completed her sports career. Daria began gymnastics at the age of 8 under the guidance of the honored coach of the USSR Olga Buyanova. At the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship, held in 2009, Dmitrieva received as many as three medals. That was incredible!

Daria ended her sports career in September 2013 due to an ankle injury.

Daria ended her sports career in September 2013 due to an ankle injury. It was very difficult for both Dmitrieva herself and her coach to make such a decision. But health matters most. Currently, the girl works as a coach in a rhythmic gymnastics club, passing on her experience to the younger generation.

Gymnastics is one of the most fascinating sports. At first, gymnastics appeared. It included various exercises and apparatus competitions.

Much later appeared and Competitions in this sport are held to the music with any object. In fact, it is an acrobatic and graceful dance. The items that the athletes perform with include: ribbon, club, ball, rope and hoop.

If we compare sports and then the latter is safer and beautiful view sports. Russian gymnasts take first place in gold medals at various international competitions. In 1999, athletes were approved professional holiday which takes place annually on the last Saturday in October.

Russia gave the world the performances of the most beautiful and titled athletes in the entire era of gymnastics. Many of them have completed their careers, but are engaged in social activities and are active public life. The performance of the gymnasts of Russia is still eye-catching today numerous fans this sport around the world.

pioneers

Lyudmila Savinkova was the first champion in rhythmic gymnastics. She was born in 1936. The girl's coach was Tamara Lisitsian, later her Native sister Maria. Lyudmila won her award in Budapest, she was the first among 28 athletes.

Svetlana Khorkina is a native of the city of Belgorod. Was born in 1979. She entered the sport in 1983. In 1992, thanks to hard work and extraordinary talent, she entered the national team gymnastics. The coach was Boris Pilkin. Gold at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics in uneven bars. Three-time world champion and three-time absolute European champion. Honored (1995). At that time, all the young gymnasts of Russia were equal to her.

In 2004, Svetlana announced her retirement. In 2005, Khorkina's son Svyatoslav was born. The birth was in Los Angeles, so the child automatically received US citizenship. In 2011, Svetlana's life changes dramatically, and she marries security general Oleg Kochnev. In 2007, a monument was erected in Belgorod to Svetlana Khorkina. Today, she holds the position of vice president in the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation. And also Svetlana is a beloved woman and a caring mother.

Artistic gymnasts of Russia

Born in Omsk in 1982. She came to sports at the age of 6, by the age of 12 she was already a member of the Russian rhythmic gymnastics team. At a young age, she won the CIS Spartakiad. 2004 brought Olympic silver in Athens. Her coach was famous Irina Wiener. In 2001, there was a nasty suspension from the sport for two years due to a doping scandal.

After the end of her career, Irina began to participate in television shows, opened a rhythmic gymnastics school in Barnaul. Personal life is also good. She met Evgeny Arkhipov and got married in 2011. Russian gymnasts today educate the younger generation, and they do it no worse than performing at international competitions.

Talents from Tashkent

Alina Kabaeva is from Tashkent. Born in 1983. From the age of 3, Alina began to play sports. Alina's mother, observing the development of the girl's sports talent, decided to move to Moscow. Irina Viner was Alina's coach. Since 1996, she has also been a full member of the Russian national team.

Kabaeva is one of the most titled gymnasts. She has 25 gold medals, 6 silver and 5 bronze. In 2007, she completed her sports career and entered politics the same year. Alina became a State Duma deputy. Gymnasts of the Russian national team do an excellent job with public affairs.

Yana Batyrshina. This athlete, like Alina Kabaeva, is a native of the city of Tashkent. Born in 1979. I started gymnastics at the age of 5. At first she played for the national team of Uzbekistan. After the collapse of the USSR, she moved to Russia and began to play for the national team. Her achievements are impressive. Yana has 180 medals of various denominations. In 1997, Yana was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree. She retired from big sport at the age of 19. She left for Brazil and worked as a head coach in rhythmic gymnastics. She is happily married to Timur Weinstein and has two daughters.

Bashkir beauty

Laysan Utyasheva. Bashkiria gave us this beautiful athlete. She was born in 1985. The parents wanted to send the girl to the ballet, but Nadezhda Kasyanova, a gymnastics coach, noticed her quite by accident in the store. Since 1994, Laysan has been training with Tatyana Sorokina, and then with Alla Yanina and Oksana Valentinovna Skaldina.

In the 90s, Laysan deservedly received the title of master of sports. In 2001, she became the absolute winner at the World Cup stage and received a gold medal at the championship in Madrid. In 2002, she was injured, undergoing treatment, but it is still contraindicated for her to play sports. In 2006, she retired from the sport.

Having completed her career, she did not go into the shadows. Laysan starred in TV shows, works as a sports commentator, and hosts a TV show. The gymnast successfully married TV presenter Pavel Volya and gave birth to a son, Robert, and a daughter, Sofia.

Pupil of Irina Viner

A native of the city of Omsk. Born in 1990. Her mother was a master of sports in gymnastics, so the girl's future was determined with early childhood. From the age of 12 she was a member of the Moscow youth team. After Zhenya trained at the school of the Olympic reserve. Her coach was also Irina Viner.

Kanaeva has many achievements and awards, including 57 gold and 3 silver medals. In 2012, she ended her career. Her personal life is successful, she is married, and already in 2014 her first-born son Vladimir was born.

All of these greatest Russian gymnasts are Honored Masters of Sports, and some of them are Masters of Sports of international class.

Rio de Janeiro

At the last Olympic tournament, the gymnasts were the main hope of the fans. Russia, for which the Olympics was associated with unpleasant doping scandals, hoped for athletes more than ever.

And if the gold in the team championship in rhythmic gymnastics was predictable, then the bronze medals in sports were a pleasant surprise.