Daria Vadimovna Dubova (, born January 29, 1999, in

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, Russia) is a Russian Group

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. She is the 2014 Youth Olympic Group all-around champion and the 2013 European Junior Group all-around champion.

Gymnastics career

A former individual gymnast, Dubova has competed at the 2013 Russian Junior Championships finishing 13th in the all-around, she was coached by Anna Shumilova. Dubova later began competing in group and was a member of Russian Group that competed at the 2013 European Junior Championships with Russia taking the gold medal scoring a total of (33.916) ahead of

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(32.700) and

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(32.532) in the all-around competition. They won another gold medal in 5 hoops final. In 2014, Dubova was recovering from injury at the start of the season. On August 26–27, Dubova replaced Karina Katyuhina who broke her leg a week before start of the competition. Dubova rejoined the Russian Group (with

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, Victoria Ilina,

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, Natalia Safonova) that competed at the

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where they won gold in Group All-around finals. In 2015, Dubova was added to Russia's National Reserve Team as a senior gymnast. In 2018, she switched from

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and started competing for

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n team Expressia.

References

External links

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2014 YOG Profile
* * 1999 births Living people Russian rhythmic gymnasts Gymnasts from Voronezh Gymnasts at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Youth Olympic gold medalists for Russia 21st-century Russian sportswomen {{Russia-rhythmic-gymnastics-bio-stub Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships