Yulia Yurievna Belokobylskaya (russian: Ю́лия Ю́рьевна Белокобы́льская; born 14 December 1995) is a Russian former

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. She is the 2011 Russian champion and European bronze medalist on the

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. She also won a silver medal with the Russian team at the 2011 World Championships.

Career

Junior

At the International Gymnix in

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in March 2009, Belokobylskaya won a bronze medal with the Russian team. She also won a bronze medal on the floor exercise, and she finished seventh on the

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and eighth in the all-around.

Senior

2011

In February, Belokobylskaya competed at the Russian Championships. She won gold on the floor exercise and bronze on the

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, and she finished fifth in the all-around. She then competed at the Cottbus Challenger Cup, where she finished seventh on the uneven bars. At the

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later in March, she won bronze with the Russian team and finished seventh in the all-around with a

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of 54.650. Belokobylskaya competed at the

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where she won a bronze medal on the floor exercise with a score of 14.450 (just 0.050 behind the gold medal winner,

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). At the Russian Cup, she won the bronze medal in the all-around behind

Anna Dementyeva Anna Yurievna Dementyeva (russian: Анна Юрьевна Дементьева; born 28 December 1994) is a retired Russian artistic gymnast. She is the 2011 European all-around and beam champion, and a world gold medalist with the team. Per ...

and Viktoria Komova. In the event finals, she won the bronze medals on the uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise. Belokobylskaya competed at the

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alongside

Ksenia Afanasyeva Ksenia Dmitrievna Afanasyeva (russian: Ксения Дмитриевна Афанасьева; born 13 September 1991) is a retired Russian artistic gymnast who competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. She is the 2011 world champion on flo ...

, Viktoria Komova, Anna Dementyeva,

Tatiana Nabieva Tatiana Olegovna Nabieva (russian: Татьяна Олеговна Набиева; born November 21, 1994, in Pushkin) is a Russian artistic gymnast who has won four World Championship medals. She is known for the F-rated uneven bars skill named ...

, and Yulia Inshina. In the team finals, she competed on the floor exercise and scored a 14.633 to help the team win the silver medal behind the United States.

2012–2013

At the 2012 Russian Championships, she finished ninth in the all-around. In the event finals, she finished fifth on the uneven bars and fourth on the balance beam, and she won the bronze medal on the floor exercise behind

Anastasia Grishina Anastasia Nikolayevna Grishina (russian: Анастасия Николаевна Гришина) (born 16 January 1996) is a former Russian artistic gymnast. She was a member of the silver medal winning Russian team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, a ...

and Ksenia Afanasyeva. Then at the

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, she placed seventh in the all-around. She was not selected for the Olympic team. In November 2012, she competed at the Swiss Cup with

Igor Pakhomenko Igor Alekseyevich Pakhomenko (russian: Игорь Алексеевич Пахоменко; born 10 June 1992) is a Russian gymnast. He competed for the national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's artistic team all-around. See also *Li ...

, and they finished seventh in the team competition. Belokobylskaya retired from gymnastics in 2013.

Competitive history

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Belokobylskaya, Yulia Russian female artistic gymnasts 1995 births Living people Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Sportspeople from Rostov-on-Don