Anastasia Konstantinovna Nazarenko (russian: Анастасия Константиновна Назаренко; born 17 January 1993) is a Russian group
rhythmic gymnast
Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which gymnasts perform on a floor with an apparatus: hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon. The sport combines elements of gymnastics, dance and calisthenics; gymnasts must be strong, flexible, agile, dexterous and co ...
. She is the
2012 Olympics Group All-around champion, the
2011 World Group All-around silver medalist and the
2010 European Group All-around gold medalist.
Career
She competed at the
2011 World Championships in
Montpellier,
France
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, where she together with the other Russian group received a gold medal in 5 Balls final and silver medals in Group All-around and 3 Ribbons + 2 Hoops Final.
Nazarenko won a gold medal at the
2012 Summer Olympics in the
group all-around event together with other group members (
Uliana Donskova
Uliana Vyacheslavovna Donskova (russian: Ульяна Вячеславовна Донскова; born 24 August 1992) is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2012 Olympics Group All-around champion, the 2011 World Group All-around silver ...
,
Anastasia Bliznyuk
Anastasia Ilyinichna Bliznyuk ( rus, Анастасия Ильинична Близнюк, , ɐnəstɐˈsʲiɪ̯ə blʲɪˈzʲnʲuk; born 28 June 1994) is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast. She is a two-time 2012 and 2016 Olympics Group All-aroun ...
,
Alina Makarenko
Alina Andreevna Makarenko (russian: Алина Андреевна Макаренко; born 14 January 1995) is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2012 Olympics Group All-around champion, the 2011 World Group All-around silver medalist, ...
,
Ksenia Dudkina
Ksenia Pavlovna Dudkina (russian: Ксения Павловна Дудкина; born 25 February 1995) is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast from Omsk, Russia. She is the 2012 Olympics Group All-around champion, the 2011 World Group All-around ...
,
Karolina Sevastyanova
Karolina Andreyevna Sevastyanova (russian: Каролина Андреевна Севастьянова; born 25 April 1995) is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2012 Olympics Group All-around champion, 2012 European Group All-around c ...
). For six months leading up to the Olympic Games, the Russian gymnasts only ate
buckwheat
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in their diet.
She returned to competition in the Russian Group at the
2013 Sofia World Cup where they won the silver medal in Group All-around and gold in 2 ribbons/3 balls final. At the
Minsk World Cup they won another gold in Group All-around, silver in 2 ribbons/3 balls and bronze in 10 clubs. She and the rest Russian Group won all the gold medals at the
2013 Summer Universiade in All-around, 10 clubs and 2 ribbons/3 balls. The Russian Group won the gold medals in Group All-around, 10 clubs and 2 ribbons/3 balls at the
2013 World Cup Final in
St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
, Russia. They also won the Group All-around bronze medal at the
2013 World Championships, they won gold in 2 Ribbon + 3 Balls final. Nastya along with rest of the remaining Russian Group Olympians terminated their careers after the World Championships.
Irina Viner
Irina Alexandrovna Viner-Usmanova (russian: Ирина Александровна Винер-Усманова; born July 30, 1948) is an Uzbek-born Russian rhythmic gymnastics coach who is head coach of the Russian national team, president of the ...
has stated about their dismissal and retirements: "We have made drastic changes in the composition of the group. All the girls, who a year ago at the Olympic Games were the first after the World Cup series had to say goodbye to the sport. They did not show in Kiev what could and should have been shown. The "star disease" should not be left on the carpet. And I always say that as long as you're standing on a pedestal - you're a winner, but as soon as you had gone down from it- you're no one to call you in any way".
Detailed Olympic results
References
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Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Living people
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Russia
Olympic gymnasts of Russia
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Russian rhythmic gymnasts
Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships
Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships
1993 births
Universiade gold medalists for Russia
Universiade medalists in gymnastics
Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
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