Anastasia Gennadyevna Simakova (; born 9 September 2004 in

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) is a Russian-born individual

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who competes for Germany, where she holds citizenship. She is the 2025 European silver medalist with ball and the 2019 World Junior rope and team champion. On the national level, she is the 2024 German national all-around bronze medalist and a multiple medalist at the Russian junior nationals (among Candidates for Master of Sport in 2017, 2018 and 2019).

Personal life

She studies finance at Moscow Finance Academy.

Gymnastics career

She began training in rhythmic gymnastics at age 4.

Junior

In 2019, Simakova was part of a junior national team. She competed at International tournament Sofia cup, where she won gold medal in team and clubs. She competed in the 2019 Junior World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, where she became the World junior champion in the rope and team events.

Senior

Simakova competed at the 2020 Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, placing 7th in the individual senior all-around final. She won bronze in the ribbon final. Simakova was registered to compete in the 2021 World Cup Sofia, along with

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, which took place on March 26–28; however, both were withdrawn, and there was no individual Russian representation. Simakova competed in the Grand Prix in

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, where she placed third behind Viktoriia Onopriienko in the all-around. She also won silver in the ball final, and she came in 4th place in the ribbon final and 5th in the clubs final. In 2022 she moved to Germany, following her parents, who enrolled in the program of repatriation for Russian Germans. She started to train in Fellbach with Yulia Raskina in November 2023. Her change of nationality from Russian to German was approved in March 2023, which meant she could begin representing Germany at competitions starting in March 2024. In 2024, she represented Germany for the first time at the Marbella Grand Prix, where she ended in 12th place in the all-around competition and 8th in the ball final. She next competed in the World Cup Palaio Faliro, where she finished in 25th place in the all-around, and in the World Cup

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, where she finished in 9th place in the all-around and 8th in the hoop final. On May 10–12, she competed at World Cup Portimao and again finished in 9th place in the all-around. She also qualified to two apparatus finals and placed 4th in ribbon and 8th in ball. She represented

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at the 2024 European Championships in

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, Hungary, where she and her teammates placed 4th in the team competition. Simakova competed with two apparatuses, hoop and ribbon, and finished 12th in qualifications with both. At the 2024 German National Championships, she won the bronze medal in the all-around behind teammates Margarita Kolosov and Darja Varfolomeev. In March 2025, Simakova won the Gymnastik International ahead of

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. In early April, she was selected to compete at the 2025 Summer World University Games along with her teammate Margarita Kolosov. This was the first time that Germany had sent a team of rhythmic gymnasts to the event. On April 25-27, she competed at the World Cup Tashkent, where she took 18th place in the all-around. She qualified to the ribbon final and won her first

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medal (bronze). She then competed at the World Challenge Cup Portimão, finishing 4th in the all-around. She was also 5th in the hoop and ball finals. She represented Germany at the 2025 European Championships in

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, Estonia, where she and her teammates placed 4th in the team competition. She was 9th in the all-around final, despite performing to the wrong music in her clubs routine, and won the silver medal behind Stiliana Nikolova in the ball final.

Routine music information

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