Ekaterina Andreevna Fetisova (born 3 January 2003) is an

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. She is the 2021 Asian Championships

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champion and all-around bronze medalist. She also won team gold and hoop bronze at the 2019 Asian Championships. She represented Uzbekistan at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She is the 2018 Asian junior all-around champion.

Career

Fetisova began rhythmic gymnastics in 2008.

Junior

Fetisova competed at the 2018 Asian Championships in

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and won the all-around gold medal in the junior division. She then represented Uzbekistan at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in

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and finished in twentieth place during the qualification round for the all-around. She also finished tenth in the mixed multi-discipline team event.

Senior

Fetisova became age-eligible for senior competition in 2019. She made her senior debut at the 2019 Pesaro World Cup where she finished forty-fifth in the all-around. She then finished sixteenth all-around at the Tashkent World Cup and thirty-seventh at the Baku World Cup. At the

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held in

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, she won the gold medal in the team event alongside

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and

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and the bronze medal in the hoop final behind

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and

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. In September, she competed at the Kazan World Cup and made her first World Cup final- placing seventh in hoop. At the 2019 World Championships in

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she qualified for the individual all-around final, where she placed twentieth with a total score of 77.250. She also helped Uzbekistan place tenth in the team competition. Fetisova qualified for the ball final at the 2021 Sofia World Cup and finished seventh. Then at the Tashkent World Cup, she placed eighth in the hoop final. At the 2021 Asian Championships in

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, Fetisova won the all-around bronze medal behind Kazakhstan's

Alina Adilkhanova Alina Muratovna Adilkhanova ( kz, Алина Мұратқызы Әділханова; born 26 September 2001) is a Kazakhstani rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2018 Asian Games all-around and team champion. She is also the 2018 and 2021 Asian all-arou ...

and teammate

Takhmina Ikromova Takhmina Ikromova (born 6 August 2004) is an Uzbekistani rhythmic gymnast. She is an Asian Games champion individually and in the team event, and she is also a two-time all-around champion at the Asian Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, in 2022 ...

. She won the gold medal in the ball event final ahead of Adilkhanova. Fetisova was initially the reserve for the 2020 Olympic Games due to her all-around placement at the 2019 World Championships. However, when teammate

tested positive for COVID-19 a few days before the competition, Fetisova received her spot. At the

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, she finished twenty-fourth in the qualification round for the individual all-around with a total score of 75.500. Fetisova represented Uzbekistan at the 2022 World Games in

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but did not qualify for any of the event finals. As of 2023, she is competing as a group gymnast with the

i group.

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