Ayshan Bayramova (born 24 December 1998) is a former

Azeri Azerbaijanis (; az, Azərbaycanlılar, ), Azeris ( az, Azərilər, ), or Azerbaijani Turks ( az, Azərbaycan Türkləri, ) are a Turkic peoples, Turkic people living mainly in Azerbaijan (Iran), northwestern Iran and the Azerbaijan, Republi ...

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, specialised in the group category.

Personal life

Bayramova started her sport career encouraged by her mom, that aimed to become a rhythmic gymnast herself in her youth, along with her twin when she was seven. In addition to the aforementioned twin, Turkan, she has a younger brother, Sarkhan that practises judo. Her childhood idol was

Alina Kabaeva Alina Maratovna Kabaeva or Kabayeva (russian: Алина Маратовна Кабаева, ; tt-Cyrl, Әлинә Марат кызы Кабаева; born 12 May 1983) is a Russian politician, media manager and retired individual rhythmic gym ...

, before switching to

Yana Kudryavtseva Yana Alexeyevna Kudryavtseva (russian: Я́на Алексе́евна Кудря́вцева; born 30 September 1997) is a retired Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympic All-around silver medalist, three-time World Champi ...

that she called "the ideal gymnast". Her hobbies include watching TV series, taking walks, spending time with friends. Bayramova is studying at the Azerbaijan State Academy of Physical Education and Sport in

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. In 2016 she was chosen as the ambassador of SmartScoring.

Career

Bayramova first competitions in 2015 were the

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and

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as an individual but she didn't make it to finals. She then competed the European Championship in

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where the individual team finished in 5th. She was selected for the

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in 2015, as both individual and group to substitute Gulsum Shafizadeh that was injured. In September she competed at the

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in Stuttgart as an individual, her best placement was 5th with the team. She made the switch to group in 2016, competing at the European Championship in

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where the group made it to the 5 ribbons final, ending in 8th. Thanks to their result in the championship they were able to attend the

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' qualification but they did not get a spot. In 2017 she first competed in the

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, finishing 8th in the ribbon final. In the summer Bayramova represented Azerbaijan at the

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, not making any final. At the

in Pesaro she once again competed in both individual and group making the 5 hoops and 3 balls + 2 ribbons finals' finishing 6th and 7th. In 2018 she was selected for the European Championship in

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, where the Azeri group won a bronze medal in the 3 balls + 2 ropes final, and the

, the group was 7th in the All-Around, 5th in the 5 hoops final and 7th in the 3 balls + 2 ropes final. In 2019 she was part of the group for the

, they ended 8th in the All-Around taking the last qualifying spot for the

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, 5th in the 5 balls final and 7th in the 3 hoops + 2 clubs final. In December 2019 the Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federation announced that she had retired from the sport.

References

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