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List Of Gymnasts
Gymnasts are people who participate in the sport of gymnastics. This sport contains disciplines that include, but are not limited to: This list is of those who are considered to be notable in their chosen discipline. See gymnasium (ancient Greece) for the origin of the word ''gymnast'' from gymnastikos. Artistic gymnasts * List of women's artistic gymnasts * List of men's artistic gymnasts Rhythmic gymnasts Female (rhythmic) Trampoline gymnasts Female (trampoline) Male (trampoline) See also *International Gymnastics Hall of Fame *List of Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men) *List of Olympic medalists in gymnastics (women) *List of current female artistic gymnasts This is a list of female artistic gymnasts currently competing internationally for their federation. To appear on this list, a gymnast must be active and a member of her country's national team or have a International Gymnastics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, and abdominal muscle groups. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills. The most common form of competitive gymnastics is artistic gymnastics (AG), which consists of, for women (WAG), the events floor, vault, uneven bars, and beam; and for men (MAG), the events floor, vault, rings, pommel horse, parallel bars, and horizontal bar. The governing body for gymnastics throughout the world is the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). Eight sports are governed by the FIG, which include gymnastics for all, men's and women's artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampolining (including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janine Murray
Janine Murray (born 10 March 1990) is a Zimbabwean born Australian rhythmic gymnast. She won a gold medal in the team event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Personal Nicknamed Jeannie, Murray was born on 10 March 1990 in Harare, Zimbabwe and attended primary school while living there. As a child, she dealt with food and petrol shortages, with the latter making it difficult for her to get to her school, Chisipite Junior School in Harare. She moved to Perth, Western Australia in 2002, and continues to reside there. She attended Presbyterian Ladies' College in Western Australia. , she is working on a degree in sports science at the University of Western Australia in a programme she started in 2008. Murray is tall and weighs . She has ballet skills. One of her hobbies is cooking. Rhythmic gymnastics Murray competes in rhythmic gymnastics and is a ribbon specialist. She started in the sport while in primary school as a six- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lala Yusifova
Lala Yusifova ( az, Lalə Yusifova, born 16 October 1996) is a retired Azerbaijani rhythmic gymnast. Career Yusifova began competing in junior internationals in 2009. She won the silver medal in ball at the 2010 European Junior Championships and briefly competed as a member of the Azerbaijani Group gymnasts who won the bronze medal 2011 European Junior Championships in Minsk. Yusifova debuted as a full senior in 2012. In the absence of most veteran rhythmic gymnasts competing in Grand Prix after the 2012 Summer Olympics she was able to compete at the 2012 Grand Prix Final in Brno where she won silver medals in ribbon and clubs behind the reigning Olympic silver medalist Daria Dmitrieva. In 2013, at the 2013 Miss Valentine Cup in Tartu, Estonia, Yusifova won the bronze medal in hoop and at the 2013 Irina Deleanu Cup she won another bronze medal in hoop. She competed at the 2013 European Championships in Vienna, Austria where she and teammate Marina Durunda represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhala Piriyeva
Zhala Piriyeva ( az, Jalə Azad qızı Piriyeva; born 10 May 2000) is an Azerbaijani individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2016 Azeri National champion and three-time (2013-2015) junior Azerbaijani national champion. Career Junior Piriyeva began gymnastics at 4 years old. She began appearing in international competitions in the 2012 season winning gold in all-around at an International tournament in Hungary. In 2013, Piriyeva won 3 gold medals in Valentine Cup in Estonia in hoop, ball and clubs. She competed in the junior division at the 2013 Moscow Grand Prix where she won the all-around bronze medal behind Ukraine's Eleonora Romanova, she has also competed in the 2013 World Cup series. In 2014, Piriyeva started her season competing at the 2014 Miss Valentine in Tartu, Estonia where she won gold in hoop. She competed in events in the 2014 World Cup series in Debrecen with Team Azerbaijan taking bronze, in Lisbon where she won 2 gold medals in hoop and ribbon, In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeynab Javadli
Zeynab Javadli ( az, Zeynəb Cavadlı; born 19 July 1991), is an Azerbaijani former rhythmic gymnast, World and European Championship medalist. She is the ex-wife of Emirati Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, with whom she is involved in a controversial custody battle. Career Javadli was born in Baku. She has won the national championship of Azerbaijan several times. She was a participant in the 2006 European Championships in the junior section (8th place for the performance with the clubs); she won the 4th place in the World Club Championships held in Japan in 2006. In 2006 Javadli won four gold medals at the international tournament in Slovenia, and became the overall winner of the tournament. Javadli won silver and bronze medals in separate performances at the international tournament in Portugal and a gold medal at the international tournament in Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aliya Garayeva
Aliya Nurgayanovna (Nikolayevna) Garaeva (Garayeva) ( tt-Cyrl, Алия Нургаян кызы Гәрәева; russian: Алия Нургаяновна Гараева), 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. She was one of very few gymnasts not representing Russia to ever been trained by Irina Viner, famous head coach of Russia's national team. Career 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 all-around competition at the European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Gurbanova
Anna Gurbanova ( az, Anna Qurbanova; born September 24, 1986) is an Azerbaijani rhythmic gymnast. Career She is the champion of Azerbaijan in ball performance, a participant of the Olympic Games held in Athens in 2004, World and European Championships and the world cup final. At the World Championships - 2005 in Baku and the European Championships -2005 in Moscow she won the 5th place in team performances. At the international tournament in Italy, Anna won the first place for her performance with the clubs and received a silver medal in all round competition. She is a bronze medalist of the World Cup-2005 held in Tashkent Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of 2 ... in the performance with a rope and a silver medalist of an Italian club competition. External links Prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinara Gimatova
Dinara Nailevna Gimatova ( tt-Cyrl, Динара Наил кызы Гиматова, russian: Динара Наильевна Гиматова; born 18 November 1986 in Astrakhan, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is an Azerbaijani gymnast of Volga Tatar ethnicity. Career Dinara entered to the Olympic Reserve School led by Ludmila Tikhmirova, merited coach of USSR and began training with Nadezhda Kholodkova. In 1996, she became a member of the Russian national junior team. In 1999, Dinara won the Russian Hoops tournament, she was invited by Irina Viner and started training with her coach in Moscow. She is a 4 time Azerbaijani champion, and a participant of World and European championships and many international tournaments. Dinara took 5th place in team performances at the 2005 Baku World championship and at the Moscow European Championships of the same year. In 2003, she won one silver and two bronze medals at the world cup stage tournament in Baku, a bronze medal on Grand Prix tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Durunda
Marina Sergeyevna Durunda (born 12 June 1997) ( az, Marina Sergey qızı Durunda;russian: Марина Сергеевна Дурунда) is a retired Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani individual rhythmic gymnast. Durunda started her senior career in 2013, and soon became the leader of the Azerbaijani gymnastics and a three-time (2013-2015) national champion. She won a bronze medal at the 2015 European Championship in Minsk, and a silver medal at the inaugural 2015 European Games in Baku. Marina represented Azerbaijan at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, and finished 9th in the all-around final. Career Junior Durunda began practicing rhythmic gymnastics in 2001 at age four in Sevastopol. At age six, she and her family moved to Cyprus, where for seven years until 2012 she was the national champion and won all competitions of Cyprus. Unable to receive a Cypriot passport, she accepted an invitation to compete for Azerbaijan from the Azeri National Gymnastics Team Federation. As a ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zohra Aghamirova
Zohra Aghamirova ( az, Zöhrə Ağamirova; born 8 August 2001) is an Azerbaijani rhythmic gymnast. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Career Junior Aghamirova started the season at Miss Valentine in Tartu, where she won bronze medal in All-around and qualified to three finals. She won silver medal with Clubs and brone medals with Rope and Ball. She won gold medal in All-around at the 2016 Azerbaijani Junior National Championships. She also won gold with Rope, silver with Ball and bronze with Clubs. She competed at the 2016 European Championships in Holon, Israel, where she and her teammates Ilaha Mammadova and Veronika Hudis won 8th place in Team competition. She placed 15th in Clubs and 37th in Ball Qualifications. Senior Aghamirova won the gold medal in the team competition with Marina Durunda and Zhala Piriyeva at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games which were hosted in her home country Azerbaijan. She placed twenty-seventh in all-around qualifications at the 2017 W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Weber (gymnast)
Caroline Weber (born 31 May 1986 in Dornbirn) is a retired Austrian rhythmic gymnast. Career Weber competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, she placed 17th in qualifications and did not advance to the finals. In 2009, she earned the bronze medal on hoop at the 2009 Bourgas Grand Prix. She had her highest placement at the 2011 World Championships finishing 15th in the All-around. She competed in the individual all-around event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she placed 18th in qualifications. She competed in her 11th European in a home crowd in Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ..., Austria at the 2013 European Championships. performing a gala after the competition where she also completed her competitive career. References Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicol Ruprecht
Nicol Ruprecht (born 2 October 1992) is an Austrian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is Austria's most successful rhythmic gymnast. Personal life Ruprecht was born in Innsbruck. Her younger sister, Anna Ruprecht is also a rhythmic gymnast. Career Ruprecht began rhythmic gymnastics in 2001 and has competed in numerous World Cup and Grand Prix series. She competed in her first Worlds as member of the Austrian Team at the 2010 World Championships in Moscow and the following year at the 2011 World Championships in Montpellier. She competed in the London test event finishing 24th in all-around, she did not qualify to the 2012 London Olympics. She competed at the 2012 Grand Prix Final in Brno where she won bronze in ball and clubs; becoming the first Austrian rhythmic gymnast to win a medal at the Grand Prix Final. In 2013, following the retirement of Caroline Weber, Ruprecht became the No.1 Austrian rhythmic gymnast. She finished 41st in All-around qualifications at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
