Yevgenia Olegovna Kanayeva

Yevgenia Kanaeva
Yevgenia Kanaeva 2012
Personal information
Surname:	Yevgenia Olegovna Kanayeva
Nationality:	Russia
discipline	Rhythmic sports gymnastics
Trainer:	Irina Winer
Birthday:	2nd April 1990 (age 30)
Place of birth:	Omsk , Soviet Union
Size:	171 cm
Weight:	49 kg
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 0 × 0 × World championships 17 × 1 × 0 × European championships 13 × 1 × 0 × World Games 4 × 0 × 0 × Summer Universiade 9 × 1 × 0 ×
Medals
Olympic games gold 2008 Beijing Individual all-around gold 2012 London Individual all-around  World championships gold 2007 Patras Team all-around gold 2009 Mie Single ball gold 2009 Mie Single band gold 2009 Mie Single tire gold 2009 Mie Single rope gold 2009 Mie Individual all-around gold 2009 Mie Team all-around gold 2010 Moscow Single ball gold 2010 Moscow Single tire gold 2010 Moscow Individual all-around gold 2010 Moscow Team all-around silver 2010 Moscow Single rope gold 2011 Montpellier Single ball gold 2011 Montpellier Single band gold 2011 Montpellier Single tire gold 2011 Montpellier Single clubs gold 2011 Montpellier Individual all-around gold 2011 Montpellier Team all-around  European championships gold 2007 Baku Single band gold 2007 Baku Team all-around gold 2008 Turin Individual all-around gold 2009 Baku Team all-around gold 2009 Baku ball gold 2009 Baku tires gold 2009 Baku tape gold 2009 Baku rope gold 2010 Bremen Individual all-around gold 2011 Minsk Team all-around gold 2011 Minsk tires gold 2011 Minsk tape silver 2011 Minsk ball gold 2012 Nizhny Novgorod Individual all-around  World Games gold 2009 Kaohsiung Single rope gold 2009 Kaohsiung Single ball gold 2009 Kaohsiung Single tire gold 2009 Kaohsiung Single band  Universiade gold 2009 Belgrade Individual all-around gold 2009 Belgrade Single ball gold 2009 Belgrade Single tire gold 2009 Belgrade Single band gold 2009 Belgrade Single rope gold 2011 Shenzhen Individual all-around gold 2011 Shenzhen Single ball gold 2011 Shenzhen Single clubs gold 2011 Shenzhen Single tire silver 2011 Shenzhen Single band

Yevgenia Olegovna Kanajewa ( Russian Евгения Олеговна Канаева ; born April 2, 1990 in Omsk ) is a former Russian rhythmic gymnast and Olympic champion. She was 2009 Sportswoman of the Year in Russia.

biography

childhood

Kanajewa grew up in the city of Omsk as the daughter of a former gymnast and a wrestling trainer. Her brother who lives there is a wrestler. As a child, she began to be interested in gymnastics and figure skating. She has been doing rhythmic gymnastics since she was 6 years old. Her talent was quickly recognized and at the age of 12 she switched to training in the nationwide gymnastics center in Moscow.

Athletic advancement

Already in 2006 she won the 17th edition of the Gymnastik International in Fellbach, Baden-Württemberg, with a lead of almost seven and a half points and also won all four individual disciplines (rope, ribbon, clubs and ball) in the master class. At this time, however, Kanajewa was still in the shadow of the then leading Russian gymnasts Vera Sessina and Olga Kapranova .

Career highlight in gymnastics

At the 2007 World Championships she won a gold medal with the Russian team and at the 2007 European Championships she won gold both with the team and individually with the ribbon. A year later she decided the individual all-around competition with almost two points during the next European championships.

Mark a career high point, the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing , where she could build on their previous successes and the individual all-around with a total of 75,500 points (rope: 18.850, Tires: 18.850, clubs: 18.950 and band: 18.850) in front of Inna Zhukova and Anna Bessonova won .

The year 2009 also began with sustained victories for Kanajewa. She secured five gold medals at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade , making herself one of the most successful athletes at the event. In addition to defending the team title and winning all individual titles at the European Championships in Baku, she won the Miss Valentine Cup in Estonia in February and the World Cup in Italy in May . She won the four individual disciplines at the World Games 2009 in Kaohsiung and at five of seven events at the Grand Prix Circuit 2009 , as well as at the World Cup in Minsk in August. At the world championships of the same year in Mie , Japan , she won gold in all four individual disciplines, as well as the individual all-around. She also won gold with the Russian team in the team all-around competition. Kanajewa was the first rhythmic gymnast who ever succeeded in winning six gold medals at world championships in one year. In 2011 she repeated this feat.

In 2009 Kanajewa was also voted Sportswoman of the Year in Russia. In the following two years she dominated the international gymnastics world and almost consistently won gold medals at the European and World Championships in 2010 and 2011. In the 2012 Summer Olympics, she started as the favorite for the overall victory in the individual and won gold again.

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  World Cup Final 2008

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  All Stars Seoul 2011

End of sporting career

After she did not start training again after the Olympic Games in London, Yevgenia Kanajewa declared the end of her sporting career in December 2012. In the same month she was appointed vice-president of the Russian Gymnastics Federation.

Web links

Commons : Yevgeniya Olegovna Kanayeva  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Yevgenia Olegovna Kanajewa in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.ueg.org (PDF; 487 kB)
2. ↑ www.ueg.org (PDF; 2.6 MB)
3. ↑ www.ueg.org ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 149 kB) 
4. ↑ Kanaeva sets new record. September 12, 2009, archived from the original on September 14, 2009 ; accessed on May 4, 2018 . 
5. ↑ /rt.com