Anna Aleksandrovna Rodionova (russian: Анна Александровна Родионова born 21 November 1996) is a Russian former
artistic gymnast
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. She competed at the
2013 World Championships and won a bronze medal at the
2014 European Championships.
Junior career
2010
At the 2010 Russian National Championships, Rodionova won all-around bronze in the Candidate for Master of Sport division behind
Anastasia Grishina
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and
Anastasia Sidorova
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with a two-day total of 111.750. She also won bronze on vault and silver on uneven bars. Rodionova made her international debut at the
2010 Pacific Rim Championships. She won a bronze medal in the all-around with a 53.450 behind Americans
Jordyn Wieber
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Wieber was a member of the gold medal-winning ...
and
Kyla Ross
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Ross w ...
, and she finished sixth on vault and beam. She competed at the 2010 Eurasian Youth Games and won team gold with
Anastasia Sidorova
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Evgenia Shelgunova
Evgeniya Andreyevna Shelgunova (russian: Евге́ния Андре́евна Шелгуно́ва; born 3 August 1997) is a Russian artistic gymnast, Master of Sports of Russia.
Career
She has been a member of the main Russian artistic gym ...
, and
Maria Dunayeva. Rodionova won silver in the all-around, uneven bars, and balance beam.
2011
Rodionova won three bronze medals in the Junior Master of Sport division of the
2011 Russian National Championships. She finished behind
Anastasia Grishina
Anastasia Nikolayevna Grishina (russian: Анастасия Николаевна Гришина) (born 16 January 1996) is a former Russian artistic gymnast. She was a member of the silver medal winning Russian team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, a ...
and Anastasia Sidorova in the all-around with a two-day total of 106.025. Her other bronze medals were won on vault and beam. She competed at the 2011
City of Jesolo Trophy The City of Jesolo Trophy is an annual women's gymnastics competition held in Jesolo, Italy. There are competitions for the senior division and junior division. The United States won the senior team competition every year from 2010 to 2017. and won silver in the junior team competition with Grishina, Anastasia Sidorova, Kristina Sidorova, Shelgunova, and
Yulia Chemaryova. Rodionova had a poor performance, scoring only 49.900 in the all-around. Rodionova competed at the
2011 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival
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Sports
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where the Russian team finished in fourth. She finished 5th in the all-around final with a 53.850. She finished 7th in the balance beam final and 5th in the floor final.
Senior career
2012
In January, Rodionova was selected for the Olympic training squad which was for the gymnasts that could have contended for a spot on the Russian Olympic team. She was the youngest gymnast selected. At the
2012 Russian National Championships, Rodionova placed eighth in the all-around with a 54.434. She finished fourth on the uneven bars and seventh on balance beam. Rodionova's first senior international meet was the 2012
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Anastasia Grishina
Anastasia Nikolayevna Grishina (russian: Анастасия Николаевна Гришина) (born 16 January 1996) is a former Russian artistic gymnast. She was a member of the silver medal winning Russian team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, a ...
,
Yulia Inshina
Yulia Andreyevna Inshina (russian: Юлия Андреевна Иньшина, born 15 April 1995) is a Russian-born Azerbaijani artistic gymnast. She has been known for her consistent and reliable work, especially on balance beam. A competitor fo ...
, and
Yulia Belokobylskaya
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, she won a bronze medal in the team event. She finished 14th in the all-around with a 54.300, but Grishina was the only Russian to score higher than her. Rodionova competed at the
2012 Russian Cup The 2012 Russian Cup was held in Penza, Russia from 12–17 June 2012.
Medal winners
The Russian Cup — featuring team, all-around and individual events — is the last competitive chance for on-the-bubble gymnasts to prove themselves worthy of ...
where the Volga team won bronze. She finished tenth in the all-around with a 51.100. She was not selected to compete at the
2012 Summer Olympics
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. She competed at the Stuttgart World Cup and won team gold with
Aliya Mustafina
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,
Kristina Goryunova, and Inshina.
2013
Rodionova's first meet of the season was the Anadia World Cup where she place eighth on the uneven bars. She competed at the
2013 Russian Cup where the
Volga Federal District
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team won silver behind
Saint Petersburg
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. She finished fourth in the all-around with a 55.093. In the event finals, Rodionova finished sixth on uneven bars and balance beam.
2013 World Championships
After
Ksenia Afanasyeva
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had ankle surgery, Mustafina,
Tatiana Nabieva
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, and
Maria Paseka
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were named to the
2013 World Championship team. The fourth spot was between
Viktoria Komova
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and Rodionova. Komova, who had viral meningitis, was told not to compete by doctors. Originally, Rodionova was scheduled to do balance beam only. However, Paseka withdrew due to back injury, and Nabieva suffered a fall that caused a large bruise on her forehead, and she only competed uneven bars. Rodionova competed all-around in the
qualification round. She qualified for the all-around final in fifteenth with a 54.599. She qualified for the balance beam final in fourth behind
Larisa Iordache
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,
Shang Chunsong
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, and
Kyla Ross
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Ross w ...
with a 14.466. She finished sixteenth in the all-around final with a 53.298. She finished in last place in the balance beam final after falling on her Arabian salto.
After the World Championships, Rodionova competed at the 2013 Elite Gym Massilia with
Alla Sosnitskaya
Alla Arkadievna Sosnitskaya (russian: Алла Аркадьевна Сосницкая, born 10 April 1997) is a Russian artistic gymnast. She won team bronze medals at the 2014 World and European Championships.
Career
Sosnitskaya is coached b ...
,
Ekaterina Kramarenko
Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Kramarenko (russian: Екатерина Александровна Крамаренко, born April 22, 1991 in St Petersburg) is a Russian artistic gymnast. She is the 2007 European bronze medalist on the uneven bars and ...
, and
Evgenia Shelgunova
Evgeniya Andreyevna Shelgunova (russian: Евге́ния Андре́евна Шелгуно́ва; born 3 August 1997) is a Russian artistic gymnast, Master of Sports of Russia.
Career
She has been a member of the main Russian artistic gym ...
. The team won silver behind Romania, and Rodionova finished tenth in the all-around with a 53.550. She finished sixth in the uneven bars final with a 12.233. She and her teammates – Kramarenko, Mustafina, and Nabieva – won silver behind China at the Stuttgart World Cup.
2014
In March 2014, Rodionova competed at the Cottbus World Cup event with
Maria Kharenkova
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Junior career
...
,
Polina Fedorova
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Senior career
2012 and 2013
At the end of 2012, Polina Fedoro ...
and
Daria Spiridonova
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. She qualified to the uneven bars final in second place and in the final won the silver medal behind
Sophie Scheder
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Senior career 2013
Scheder competed at the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, where she finished 5t ...
of Germany. In May 2014, she competed at the
European Championships
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in
Sofia
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, Bulgaria. In qualifications she contributed scores of 13.933 on vault and 14.866 on uneven bars. In the team finals she contributed a score of 13.433 on uneven bars towards the Russian team's bronze medal finish. In August she competed at the
Russian Cup and finished fourth with her team and sixth on the uneven bars.
Rodionova announced her retirement in 2015. After the 2014 European Championships, she sustained an ankle injury that she never recovered from.
Competitive history
References
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1996 births
Living people
Russian female artistic gymnasts
2014 in gymnastics
21st-century Russian women