Maria Anatolyevna Bondareva (russian: Мария Анатольевна Бондарева; born 28 November 1999) is a Russian former
artistic gymnast
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. She was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the
2014 Junior European Championships. She is the
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champion on the
balance beam
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and with the team.
Career
Junior
2012
Bondareva competed at the International Gymnix in
Montreal
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and helped her team win the gold medal. She also won the gold medal in the all-around and on the
uneven bars
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, balance beam, and
floor exercise
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. She won the all-around gold medal at the
Russian Championships in the Candidate Master of Sport category with a total
score of 56.867. At the
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. , she helped the junior Russian team win the bronze medal, and she placed eighth in the all-around.
2013
Bondareva competed at the International Gymnix and helped the Russian team win the gold medal. She also tied for gold in the all-around with her teammate,
Anastasia Dmitrieva, and she won the silver medal on the balance beam. Then at the Lugano Trophy, she won the silver medal in the all-around behind Romanian gymnast
Andreea Munteanu.
At the
European Youth Olympic Festival
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, Bondareva won the team gold medal alongside
Maria Kharenkova
Maria Aleksandrovna Kharenkova (russian: Мария Александровна Харенкова; born 29 October 1998) is a retired Russian-Georgian artistic gymnast. She is the 2014 European champion on the balance beam.
Junior career
...
and
Viktoria Kuzmina
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. She won the gold medal on the balance beam. She placed fifth in the all-around final with a score of 54.200. Then at the Japan Junior International, she placed sixth in the all-around and won the bronze medal on the uneven bars behind American
Bailie Key
Bailie Jaye Key (born 16 March 1999) is a retired American artistic gymnast. She was a member of the gold-medal-winning team at the 2014 Pacific Rim Championships and was the 2013 U.S. Junior National Champion.
Gymnastics career
2011-14: ...
and Romanian
Andreea Iridon
Andreea Maria Iridon (born 23 November 1999 in Tilișca) is a former Romanian artistic gymnast. She won a silver on balance beam and a bronze on uneven bars at the 2015 European Games. At the 2014 Junior European Championships Iridon won silve ...
.
2014
Bondareva competed at the
Junior Russian Championships, and she won the gold medal with her team. However, she pulled out of the all-around and event finals. At the
European Championships
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she competed alongside
Angelina Melnikova
Angelina Romanovna Melnikova ( rus, Ангели́на Рома́новна Ме́льникова, , ɐnɡʲɪˈlʲinə ˈmʲelʲnʲɪkəvə; born 18 July 2000) is a Russian artistic gymnast. With eleven Olympic and World medals, she is the jo ...
,
Seda Tutkhalyan
Seda Gurgenovna Tutkhalyan (russian: Седа Гургеновна Тутхалян, hy, Սեդա Գուրգենի Թութխալյան; born 15 July 1999) is a Russian artistic gymnast. She is the 2014 Youth Olympic Games Individual All-aroun ...
, Anastasia Dmitrieva, and
Daria Skrypnik
Daria Sergeyevna Skrypnik (russian: Дарья Сергеевна Скрыпник, born 4 October 2000) is a Russian artistic gymnast. She resides in Krasnodar
Krasnodar (; rus, Краснода́р, p=krəsnɐˈdar; ady, Краснодар ...
, and they won the team gold medal. In November, she competed at the KSI-Matsz Cup in
Budapest
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and won the bronze medal in the all-around behind
Ekaterina Sokova
Ekaterina Olegovna Sokova (russian: Екатерина Олеговна Сокова, born 12 December 2000) is a former Russian artistic gymnast
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and
Zsofia Kovacs.
Senior
2015
Bondareva became
age-eligible for senior competition in 2015. In March, she competed at the
Russian Championships in
Penza
Penza ( rus, Пе́нза, p=ˈpʲɛnzə) is the largest city and administrative center of Penza Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Sura River, southeast of Moscow. As of the 2010 Census, Penza had a population of 517,311, making it the 38th-l ...
. She won the gold medal with her team, and she placed eighth in the all-around, uneven bars, and floor exercise. She then competed at a friendly meet against Italy, Romania, and Colombia, and the Russian team won the gold medal. In October, she retired from gymnastics due to a back injury.
Competitive history
References
External links
Maria Bondarevaon
VK
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Russian female artistic gymnasts
1999 births
Living people
People from Fryazino
European champions in gymnastics
Sportspeople from Moscow Oblast
21st-century Russian women