Ganna Rizatdinova

Ganna Rizatdinova
— Gymnast —
Rizatdinova at the 2013 Valentine World Cup
Personal information
Full name	Ganna Sergiivna Rizatdinova
Alternative name(s)	Anna Rizatdinova
Country represented	Ukraine
Born	(1993-07-16) July 16, 1993 Simferopol, Ukraine
Height	173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	47 kg (104 lb)
Discipline	Rhythmic gymnastics
Level	Senior
Club	Deriugina school
Head coach(es)	Albina Deriugina
Assistant coach(es)	Irina Deriugina Ireesha Blokhina
Choreographer	Ireesha Blokhina
World ranking	8 (2015 Season) [1] 4 (2014 Season)[2] 2 (2013 Season)[3] 6 (2012 Season)[4] 21 (2011 Season)[5]
Medal record Competitor for  Ukraine Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships 2015 Stuttgart Ribbon 2015 Stuttgart Clubs 2015 Stuttgart Hoop 2015 Stuttgart Team 2014 Izmir All-Around 2014 Izmir Clubs 2014 Izmir Ribbon 2014 Izmir Team 2013 Kiev Hoop 2013 Kiev All-Around 2013 Kiev Ribbon 2011 Montpellier Team European Games 2015 Baku Ball 2015 Baku Clubs European Championships 2015 Minsk Clubs 2015 Minsk Team 2014 Baku All-around 2013 Vienna Team 2013 Vienna Ribbon 2011 Minsk Team World Games 2013 Cali Hoop 2013 Cali Ball 2013 Cali Clubs Summer Universiade 2015 Gwangju Clubs 2015 Gwangju All-Around 2015 Gwangju Ball 2015 Gwangju Ribbon 2013 Kazan Clubs 2013 Kazan All-Around 2013 Kazan Hoop 2013 Kazan Ball

Ganna Sergiivna Rizatdinova (Ukrainian: Ганна Сергіївна Різатдінова; Russian: Анна Сергеевна Ризатдинова, born 16 July 1993 in Simferopol, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast.^[6] 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. 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.^[7]

Rizatdinova and Viktoria Mazur at the 2011 LG Whisen All-star Gala

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.^[8] 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.^[9] 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.^[10]

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.^[11] 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.^[12] 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 where 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 (tied with Marina Durunda and silver in ball. In April 10–12, Rizatdinova placed 4th in all-around at the 2015 Pesaro World Cup, she qualified to 4 event finals taking silver in ribbon, bronze in clubs and finishing 4th in hoop, ball. Rizatdinova with teammates (Viktoria Mazur, Eleonora Romanova) competed at the 2015 European Championships where Team Ukraine won bronze, Rizatdinova qualified to all 4 event finals: silver in clubs, 5th in hoop, 4th in ball, and 7th in ribbon. Rizatdinova competed at the 2015 Holon Grand Prix finishing 4th in all-around behind Russian Aleksandra Soldatova. She qualified to all apparatus finals: winning gold in ribbon, silver in clubs, placed 4th in hoop, and 7th in ball. In June 15–21, Rizatdinova competed at the inaugural 2015 European Games where she finished 4th in the all-around behind Belarusian Melitina Staniouta, she qualified to all 4 apparatus finals: taking silver medals (in ball, clubs), she finished 6th in hoop and 5th in ribbon. Her next competition was at the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, Korea were Rizatdinova won the all-around silver medal behind Korean Son Yeon-Jae. She qualified to all event apparatus winning gold in clubs, silver in ball, bronze in ribbon and 4th in hoop. In August, Rizatdinova competed at the 2015 Budapest World Cup finishing 5th in all-around behind Aleksandra Soldatova, Rizatdinova qualified to 4 apparatus finals finishing 4th in hoop, ball, a silver in clubs and in her last event, she won gold in ribbon ahead of Russian Margarita Mamun. In her next competition at the 2015 Sofia World Cup, Rizatdinova won the all-around bronze medal ahead of Melitina Staniouta. She qualified to all apparatus finals taking bronze in hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon. In September 9–13, Rizatdinova (together with teammates Viktoria Mazur, and Eleonora Romanova) competed at the 2015 World Championships in Stuttgart, with Team Ukraine winning the bronze medal. Rizatdinova also qualified to all apparatus finals taking bronze medals in hoop, clubs, ribbon and finished 4th in ball.^[13] In the all-around finals; Rizatdinova dropped her clubs out of the carpet in her last throw ending her hopes for a medal finish, she eventually finished 5th behind Georgia's Salome Pazhava.^[14] In October 2–4, Rizatdinova together with teammates Viktoria Mazur and junior Olena Diachenko represented Team Deriugins School at the 2015 Aeon Cup in Tokyo Japan, Rizatdinova won silver in the individual all-around finals with a total of 73.616 and with team Ukraine taking silver in the overall standings.

In 2016, Rizatdinova started her season with an all-around gold medal win at the 2016 L.A. Lights. In February, Rizatdinova followed it with another gold medal win in all-around at the 2016 Valentine Cup in Tartu, Estonia.

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.^[15] 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.^[15] Rizatdinova admitted that during Euromaidan "We were very terrified".^[15]

Roughly three month after the March 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia^{[nb 1]} Rizatdinova stated (on 24 June 2014) she was "outraged" and found the annexation to be "unpleasant and terrifying" because she did believed "How can the Crimea be Russia?". She also vowed never to compete for Russia.^[15] Rizatdinova's mother stayed in Crimea, and now trains gymnasts who compete for Russia.^[17]

Routine music information

Detailed Olympic results

Notes

References

External links

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