Ganna Rizatdinova

Ganna Rizatdinova
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Rizatdinova at the 2013 Valentine World Cup
Personal information
Alternative name(s)	Hanna Rizatdinova
Country represented	Ukraine
Born	(1993-07-16) July 16, 1993 Simferopol, Ukraine
Height	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Discipline	Rhythmic gymnastics
Level	Senior
Club	Deriugina school
Head coach(es)	Albina Deriugina
Assistant coach(es)	Irina Deriugina
Choreographer	Irina Grischenko
World ranking	4 (2014 Season)[1] 2 (2013 Season)[2] 6 (2012 Season)[3] 21 (2011 Season)[4]
Medal record Competitor for  Ukraine Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships Gold 2013 Kiev Hoop Silver 2013 Kiev All-Around Silver 2013 Kiev Ribbon Bronze 2014 Izmir All-around Bronze 2014 Izmir Ribbon Bronze 2014 Izmir Clubs Bronze 2014 Izmir Team Bronze 2011 Montpellier Team European Championships Silver 2013 Vienna Team Silver 2013 Vienna Ribbon Bronze 2014 Baku All-around Bronze 2011 Minsk Team Bronze 2008 Torino Team (junior) World Games Gold 2013 Cali Hoop Silver 2013 Cali Clubs Silver 2013 Cali Ball Summer Universiade Silver 2013 Kazan Clubs Bronze 2013 Kazan All-around Bronze 2013 Kazan Hoop Bronze 2013 Kazan Ball Junior World Cup Silver 2008 Kiev All-around

Ganna Rizatdinova (Ukrainian: Ганна Сергіївна Різатдінова; Russian: Анна Сергеевна Ризатдинова, born 16 July 1993 in Simferopol, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast.^[5] She is the 2013 World All-around silver medalist, the 2014 World All-around bronze medalist and the 2014 European All-around bronze medalist.

Career

Rizatdinova started to train gymnastics in Simferopol and was coached by her mother Oksana Rizatdinova. In 2008, she won the silver all-around medal at the 2008 Kiev Junior World Cup behind Russian gymnast Daria Dmitrieva. She was part of the Ukraine team that won bronze at the 2008 European Junior Championships in Torino.

As a senior, Rizatdinova won bronze with Team Ukraine at the 2011 World Championships and 2011 European Championships.

Rizatdinova had a successful World Cup series at the 2012 Deriugina Cup in Kiev. She won the bronze in the all-around and in the hoop final, and silver for the ball and clubs final. She then competed at the 2012 European Championships and finished 8th in the all-around.

Rizatdinova represented Ukraine with teammate Alina Maksymenko in the individual all-around event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she placed 10th in the finals.^[6]

Rizatdinova returned to competition in the 2013 Season under the new Code of Points system. She won the 2013 LA Lights and won the gold in all-around at the first World Cup series held in Tartu, Estonia. At the second World Cup in Lisbon, Portugal, Rizatdinova won the bronze medal in All-around behind Russians Margarita Mamun and Alexandra Merkulova. She won another pair of silver medal in clubs, ball final and bronze medal in hoop final. Rizatdinova competed at the 2013 Pesaro World Cup where she won bronze medal in ribbon and clubs. She finished 5th in all-around at the 2013 Sofia World Cup, she shared the bronze medal in clubs with Son Yeon-Jae and won silver in clubs and ribbon (tied with Margarita Mamun). Ganna won her second World Cup All-around gold in 2013 Corbeil-Essonnes beating gymnasts Melitina Staniouta of Belarus and Margarita Mamun of Russia. She won gold in clubs, silver in hoop and ribbon, bronze in ball final. Rizatdinova then competed at the 2013 European Championships in Vienna, Austria and together with her teammates Alina Maksymenko and Viktoria Mazur) won the Team silver medal. She won silver in ribbon final.^[7] At the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, she won the bronze medal in all-around. In the event finals, she shared the silver medal with teammate Alina Maksymenko and won bronze in ball and clubs (also tied with Alina Maksymenko). Rizatdinova together with Maksymenko and Mazur appeared in an editorial on the 2013 August edition of Ukraine Vogue. Rizatdinova competed at the 2013 World Games in Cali where she won gold in hoop and silver medals in ball, clubs. She then competed at the 2013 World Championships in Kiev, Ukraine where she qualified to 4 event finals. She won gold in hoop beating newly turned Russian senior Yana Kudryavtseva and her teammate Margarita Mamun, it was Ukraine's first gold medal since Anna Bessonova became the World Champion in 2007, Rizatdinova also won silver in ribbon, placed 6th in ball and 4th in clubs final. Rizatdinova won the All-around silver at the 2013 World Championships with an overall score of 73.041 ahead of Belarusian Melitina Staniouta. She was awarded the Longines Prize for Elegance in rhythmic gymnastics event.^[8] In October 25–27, Rizatdinova competed at the World Club Championship, the 2013 Aeon Cup in Tokyo, Japan representing team Deriugina school (together with teammates Viktoria Mazur and junior Eleonora Romanova) won the team silver. She finished 4th in the All-around finals behind Melitina Staniouta of Belarus.^[9]

In 2014 Season, Rizatdinova began competing at the 2014 LA Lights and won the all-around silver medal behind Melitina Staniouta. She finished 5th in all-around at the 2014 Thiais Grand Prix, won silver in ball, bronze in clubs, hoop and gold in ribbon (tied with Melitina Staniouta of Belarus). Rizatdinova won the All-around silver medal behind Russian debutante Alexandra Soldatova at the 2014 Debrecen World Cup after missing a ball routine element and dropping the apparatus. Qualifying to all 4 event finals, she won the gold medal in ball, silver in clubs, placed 4th in ribbon and 6th in hoop.^[10] She finished 5th in All-around at the 2014 Stuttgart World Cup, qualifying to 4 event finals: she won bronze in ball (tied with Mamun), placed 4th in hoop, 7th in clubs and 8th in ribbon. Rizatdinova's next event was at the 2014 Pesaro World Cup where she won the all-bronze behind Kudryavtseva and Mamun, in the event finals: she won bronze in hoop and ribbon. In May 9–11, Rizatdinova won the all-around bronze at the 2014 Corbeil-Essonnes World Cup, she qualified to 4 event finals and won gold in hoop, ball and bronze in ribbon. In June 10–15, Rizatdinova competed at the 2014 European Championships and won the all-around bronze medal.^[11] In September 22–28, Rizatdinova (along with teammates Viktoria Mazur and Eleonora Romanova) represented Ukraine at the 2014 World Championships where they took the Team bronze with a total of 135.515 points. She qualified to all event finals and won 2 bronze medals (clubs, ribbon) and placed 4th (in hoop, clubs). In the All-around, Rizatdinova won the all-around bronze medal with a total of 72.449 points putting her ahead of Korean Son Yeon-Jae. In October 17–19, Rizatdinova traveled in Tokyo for the 2014 Aeon Cup, representing team Deriugina school club (together with teammates Eleonora Romanova and junior Mariia Mulyk) won the team bronze. She finished 4th in the All-around finals behind Melitina Staniouta of Belarus.

In 2015 Season, Rizatdinova's first competition was at the 2015 L.A. Lights were she won the all-around gold ahead of Belarusians Melitina Staniouta and Katsiaryna Halkina. She then swept the gold medals at the 2015 Valentine Cup in the all-around and all event finals. In March 13-15, Rizatdinova then took the silver medal at the Trophy de Barcelona in the all-around. In March 21-22, Rizatdinova won the all-around gold at the 2015 Thiais Grand Prix, in event finals, she took gold (in hoop, ribbon, clubs) and silver in ball.

Personal life

Rizatdinova was born in Simferopol, Crimea. Since 2011 Rizatdinova lives in Kiev. Her mother heads a Simferopol rhythmic gymnastics school. Both her parents grew up in Russia before they moved to Crimea. Her father is of Kazan Tatar descent, her mother is ethnic Russian. After Rizatdinova moved to Kiev she "had to put efforts and learn the language to be able to understand" Ukrainian.

During the late 2013/early 2014 Euromaidan-protest in Kiev, Rizatdinova and her team mates changed training halls several times "because the coaches did not know where it would be safer" and their main training centre October Palace became occupied by protesters.

Routine music information

Detailed Olympic results

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References

External links

• Ganna Rizatdinova at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
• Rhythmic Gymnastics Results