Hanna Bessonova

Hanna Bessonova
Bessonova 2011
Personal information
Surname:	Hanna Volodymyrivna Bessonova
Nationality:	Ukraine
discipline	Rhythmic sports gymnastics
Birthday:	29th July 1984 (age 36)
Place of birth:	Kiev , Soviet Union
Size:	174 cm
Weight:	49 kg
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 2 × World championships 5 × 15 × 7 × European championships 3 × 12 × 9 ×
Medals
Olympic games bronze Athens 2004 Individual all-around bronze Beijing 2008 Individual all-around  World championships gold Madrid 2001 Team all-around gold New Orleans 2002 Group 5 bands gold Budapest 2003 tires gold Budapest 2003 Clubs gold Patras 2007 Individual all-around silver Madrid 2001 tires silver Madrid 2001 ball silver Budapest 2003 Individual all-around silver Budapest 2003 ball silver Budapest 2003 tape silver Budapest 2003 Team all-around silver Baku 2005 Team all-around silver Baku 2005 Individual all-around silver Baku 2005 rope silver Baku 2005 ball silver Baku 2005 Clubs silver Baku 2005 tape silver Patras 2007 Clubs silver Patras 2007 tape silver Mie 2009 tape bronze Osaka 1999 Team all-around bronze Madrid 2001 Individual all-around bronze Madrid 2001 rope bronze Patras 2007 tires bronze Mie 2009 Individual all-around bronze Mie 2009 rope bronze Mie 2009 ball  European championships gold Riesa 2003 tape gold Riesa 2003 tires gold Riesa 2003 Clubs silver Granada 2002 Team all-around silver Riesa 2003 ball silver Kiev 2004 Individual all-around silver Kiev 2004 Team all-around silver Moscow 2005 ball silver Moscow 2005 tape silver Moscow 2005 Team all-around silver Baku 2007 tires silver Baku 2007 tape silver Baku 2007 Team all-around silver Turin 2008 Individual all-around silver Baku 2009 ball bronze Granada 2002 Individual all-around bronze Moscow 2005 rope bronze Moscow 2005 Clubs bronze Moscow 2006 Individual all-around bronze Baku 2007 Clubs bronze Baku 2009 rope bronze Baku 2009 tires bronze Baku 2009 tape bronze Baku 2009 Team all-around

Hanna Wolodymyriwna Bessonova ( Ukrainian Ганна Володимирівна Безсонова ; Russian Анна Владимировна Бессонова Anna Bessonova Vladimirovna * 29. July 1984 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian Einzelgymnastin .

Career

Her father Volodymyr Bessonow is a former football player from Dynamo Kiev , he was 79 times national player of the Soviet Union and works as a football coach; her mother, Viktoria (née Serikh) was two-time world champion of rhythmic gymnastics with the group. Anna started rhythmic gymnastics when she was 5 years old. Her mother wanted Anna to be a ballet dancer, but Anna really wanted to be a gymnast.

She trains with Irina and Albina Deriugina at the Deriugina School in Kiev. At a young age she had great success, first with the group and then in the individual area. Her first individual placement at an international championship was fourth place with the ribbon at the European Championships in 2000. At the 2001 World Championships in Madrid, she won the bronze medal in the individual all-around event, plus silver with the hoop and the ball, and bronze with the rope. At the European Championships in 2002 she also received the bronze medal in the all-around competition, plus silver with the rope and bronze with the clubs. At the end of 2002 Bessonowa won three machines at the World Cup in Stuttgart and took second place with the ball.

In 2003 she won three gold medals with ribbon, clubs and hoops at the European Championships in Riesa, at the 2003 World Championships in Budapest she won with hoops and clubs and received silver in the all-around competition, with the team and with ball and ribbon. In 2004 she was second in the all-around at the European Championships in her hometown of Kiev. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens she was third with a total of 106,700 points (tape 26,725, club 26,950, ball 26,525, tire 26,500) behind the two Russians Alina Kabajewa and Irina Tschaschtschina .

In the next few years, Hanna Bessonova received medals in all-around and individual disciplines at European and World Championships, but it wasn't until 2007 that she won another title: at the 2007 World Championships in Patras she won the all-around. A year later at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 she received the bronze medal again with a total of 71.875 points; while the Russian winner Yevgenia Kanajewa was over three and a half points ahead, Bessonova was only 0.05 points behind the Belarusian Ina Schukawa . A year later, she also took third place in the all-around at the World Championships in Mie.

Medals

World championships

• All around: bronze 2001, silver 2003, silver 2005, gold 2007, bronze 2009
• Team: Silver 2003
• Ball: silver 2001, silver 2003, bronze 2009
• Band: silver 2005, silver 2007, silver 2009
• Clubs: Gold 2003, Silver 2005, Silver 2007
• Tires: silver 2001, gold 2003, bronze 2007
• Rope: bronze 2001, silver 2003, bronze 2009

European championships

• All around: bronze 2002, silver 2004, silver 2008
• Ball: Silver 2003, Silver 2005, Silver 2009
• Volume: Gold 2003, Silver 2005, Silver 2007, Bronze 2009
• Clubs: bronze 2002, gold 2003, bronze 2005, bronze 2007
• Tires: gold 2003, silver 2007, bronze 2009
• Rope: silver 2002, bronze 2005, bronze 2009

Web links

Commons : Anna Bessonova  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Hanna Bezsonova in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Hanna Bessonowa in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)