Sofya Skomorokh

Sofya Skomorokh
— Gymnast —
Country represented  Russia
Born August 18, 1999
Omsk, Omsk Oblast, Russia
Hometown Omsk
Discipline Rhythmic gymnastics
Club Gazprom
Gym Novogorsk
Head coach(es) Irina Viner
Assistant coach(es) Inna Bystrova
Choreographer Olga Markatanova

Sofya Skomorokh (Russian: Софья Скоморох, born August 18, 1999 in Omsk, Russia) is a Russian Group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2014 Youth Olympic Group all-around champion and the 2013 European Junior Group all-around champion.

Junior

Skomorokh started gymnastics at an early age in city of Omsk, the hometown of former gymnast greats (Evgenia Kanaeva, Irina Tchachina, Galima Shugurova, Tatiana Druchinina and Ksenia Dudkina). Skomorokh was 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 Belarus (32.700) and Bulgaria (32.532) in the all-around competition. They won another gold medal in 5 hoops final.[1]

In 2014, Skomorokh competed with the Russian Group at the 2014 Moscow Grand Prix taking gold in Group all-around, following their placement, the Russian Group earned a qualification to compete for the Youth Olympic Games. In August 26–27, Skomorokh was member the Russian Group competing (with Daria Anenkova, Daria Dubova, Victoria Ilina, Natalia Safonova) at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China where they won gold in Group All-around finals.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ "Russia won all Juniors Titles with its Group". gymmedia. 2 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "Russian Rhythmic gymnasts repeat golden sweep at Youth Olympic Games". International Federation of Gymnastics. 27 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Russians take more gold in rhythmic gymnastics". JSChina. 28 August 2014.

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