Saša Golob (born 17 August 1991) is a Slovenian former
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 represented
Slovenia at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She won four medals in the
FIG World Cup series.
Early life
Saša Golob was born on 17 August 1991 in
Ljubljana
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to Vlado and Bernarda Golob. She has one older sister.
She grew up in
Domžale
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and began gymnastics when she was six years old.
Gymnastics career
Golob made her
World Championships debut in 2007 and only competed on the uneven bars. She competed on the balance beam and the floor exercise at the
2009 World Championships and did not advance to either final.
Golob received a scholarship for
Towson University's gymnastics team and enrolled for the 2011 season,
but she returned to Slovenia after one year to train for the Olympic Games.
She competed at the
2011 World Championships and finished 86th in the all-around during the qualification round. She competed at the
2012 Olympic Test Event and finished 51st in the all-around, earning Slovenia an Olympic berth. The Slovenian Gymnastics Federation selected Golob because she placed higher than teammate
Adela Šajn
Adela Šajn (born 14 April 1990) is a Slovenian former artistic gymnast. She participated in the Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. She won multiple medals on the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup, FIG Worl ...
.
Golob tied with
Lisa Top
Lisa Evelien Top (born 13 August 1996) is a Dutch artistic gymnast. A Senior National Team member since 2012, she participated in both the 2014 and 2015 World Championships as well as the 2015 European Games.
Early life
Top was born on 13 Aug ...
for a silver medal on the floor exercise at the
2012 Ghent World Challenge Cup. She then represented
Slovenia at the 2012 Summer Olympics and did not advance beyond the
qualification round
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.
Golob represented
Slovenia at the 2013 Mediterranean Games and finished fourth in the floor exercise final. She also finished fourth on the floor exercise at the
2014 Cottbus World Cup. She then tied with Argentina's
Ayelén Tarabini for the floor exercise title at the
Ljubjana World Challenge Cup. She then won a silver medal on the floor exercise at the Medellin World Challenge Cup.
At the
2015 Anadia World Challenge Cup, Golob won a bronze medal on the floor exercise.
She had knee surgery at the end of 2015 and stopped competing to concentrate on her studies.
References
External links
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1991 births
Living people
Slovenian female artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Slovenia
Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games
European Games competitors for Slovenia
Gymnasts from Ljubljana
21st-century Slovenian sportswomen