Anastasiia Maksymivna Motak (, born 12 November 2004) is a Ukrainian

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the '' Code of Points'' used ...

. She is the 2020 Ukrainian National Champion and was a member of the gold medal-winning team at the 2020 European Championships.

Early life

Motak was born in

Zhytomyr Zhytomyr ( ; see #Names, below for other names) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the Capital city, administrative center of Zhytomyr Oblast (Oblast, province), as well as the administrative center of the surrounding ...

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, Ukraine on 12 November 2004. She began gymnastics in 2008 in

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Gymnastics career

2019

Motak competed at the Ukrainian National Championships where she placed third amongst junior athletes. In April she competed at the Stella Zakharova Cup where her team placed fifth. Individually she placed 10th in the all-around but won silver on vault. Later that month Motak competed at the European Games Test Event where she placed first in the all-around and on vault and fourth on balance beam and floor exercise. In June Motak competed at the inaugural Junior World Championships. She only qualified to the vault event final where she placed fourth behind American

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of Great Britain, and

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of Russia. She ended the season competing at the

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where she won silver on vault behind

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of Russia.

2020

Motak became age-eligible for senior competition in 2020. In September Motak competed at the Ukrainian National Championships as a first year senior. She won the all-around and placed first on balance beam and placed second on vault and uneven bars. The following month she competed at the Szombathely Challenge Cup where she won silver on vault behind Hungarian

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. In December Motak competed at the

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alongside

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, and

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. During qualifications she helped Ukraine qualify second to the team final behind Romania, and individually she qualified to the vault, uneven bars, and balance beam finals. During the team final Romania suffered mishaps, and Ukraine won team gold. During event finals Motak won bronze on vault (behind Zsófia Kovács and

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) and on balance beam (behind Iordache and

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) and placed fifth on uneven bars.

2021–22

In April Motak competed at the

. She qualified to the vault final and finished in fourth place. In the fall she had moved to Poland where her parents live and competed there at an internal team competition. Motak was not included on the Ukrainian national team for 2022.

Competitive history

References

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