Irina Vladimirovna Karavaeva

Irina Karavaeva
Irina Karavaeva 2008
Personal information
Nationality:	Russia
discipline	Trampoline exercise
Trainer:	Vitaly Dubko
Birthday:	May 18, 1975
Place of birth:	Krasnodar
Size:	165 cm
Weight:	52 kg
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 12 × 5 × 2 × World Games 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Medals
Olympic games gold Sydney 2000 singles World championships gold Postage 1994 singles gold Postage 1994 team silver Vancouver 1996 singles gold Vancouver 1996 team gold Sydney 1998 singles gold Sydney 1998 team gold Sun City 1999 singles gold Sun City 1999 team bronze Sun City 1999 Synchronous silver Odense 2001 singles gold Hanover 2003 team gold Eindhoven 2005 singles silver Eindhoven 2005 team gold Eindhoven 2005 Synchronous gold Québec 2007 singles bronze Québec 2007 team silver Québec 2007 Synchronous silver Saint Petersburg 2009 team gold Metz 2010 team  World Games bronze Akita 2001 Synchronous silver Duisburg 2005 Synchronous

Irina Wladimirowna Karawajewa ( Russian Ирина Владимировна Караваева ; born May 18, 1975 in Krasnodar , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian trampoline gymnast and Olympic champion .

Karawajewa won twelve world titles in her career . In addition, she was five times vice world champion and took third place twice at world championships. In 1994 she won her first two titles in Porto in both individual and team competitions. Further individual titles followed in 1998 , 1999 , 2005 and 2007 , with the team she became world champion in 1996 , 1998, 1999 and 2003 . In synchronized gymnastics, she won the title in 2005 and 2010 . This makes her the most successful trampoline gymnast in the history of the sport. Only Alexander Moskalenko was more successful in the men. At the World Games , Karavaeva won the bronze medal in synchronized gymnastics in 2001 and the silver medal in 2005 .

As reigning world champion, she was the favorite at the Olympic debut of the discipline in Sydney 2000 and prevailed in the final with a clear 1.2 point lead as Olympic champion. In her second Olympic participation in 2004 in Athens , she reached after a mistake in the second run in qualifying, only the second last, 15th place. In 2008 in Beijing she survived the qualification this time as second, but only reached fifth place in the final.

Web links

• Irina Vladimirovna Karawajewa in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Irina Karawajewa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )