Milana Parfilova (born 30 June 2007) is a Kazakhstani

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. She is the

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individual bronze medalist and silver team medalist.

Career

At the 2022 Junior Asian Championships in

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, she won gold in teams and with ball and silver with hoop. Parfilova started her senior career at the Aphrodite Cup in March, where she won two silver medals, one with hoop and one with ball. Two weeks later, she competed at the 2023

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, where she was 21st in the all-around. She then participated at her first senior

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. She finished 7th in the all-around, and in the finals she finished 4th in clubs and 5th with ribbon. Her next competition was the World Cup in

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where she finished 17th. She was selected for the

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, where she won silver in teams along with the other Kazakhstani gymnasts. In mid-July, she was 18th in the World Cup stage in

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. In September, she competed at the delayed

. There she won silver in the team competition, along with her teammates Elzhana Taniyeva and Erika Zhailauova, and she was bronze in the individual all-around. In the 2024 season, she competed in April at the

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, where she qualified for the hoop final and finished in 5th place. While she was not sent to the 2024 Asian Championships, in May, she went to the World Challenge Cup in

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, where she came in 5th place in the all-around. In the apparatus finals, she won a silver with hoop and bronze with ribbon. In late May, she was the silver all-around medalist at the Kazhakstani national championships, behind Taniyeva and ahead of

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References

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