Maria Anatolyevna Bondareva (russian: Мария Анатольевна Бондарева; born 28 November 1999) is a Russian former

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

. 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

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and with the team.

Career

Junior

2012

Bondareva competed at the International Gymnix in

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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 The uneven bars or asymmetric bars is an artistic gymnastics apparatus. It is made of a steel frame. The bars are made of fiberglass with wood coating, or less commonly wood. The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is UB or ...

, balance beam, and

floor exercise In gymnastics, the floor is a specially prepared exercise surface, which is considered an apparatus. It is used by both male and female gymnasts. The gymnastics event performed on the floor is called floor exercise. The English abbreviation for t ...

. 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

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, 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on ...

and Zsofia Kovacs.

Senior

2015

Bondareva became age-eligible for senior competition in 2015. In March, she competed at the Russian Championships in

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. 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 Bondareva
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