Maria Yuryevna Tolkacheva (russian: Мария Юрьевна Толкачёва; born ) is a Russian group

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. She is the

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Group all-around champion, a four-time (2015, 2017-2019)

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Group all-around champion, the 2015 European Games Group all-around champion and three-time

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(2014, 2016, 2018) Group all-around gold medalist.

Career

She started training

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at age four in

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. Tolkacheva became an official member of the Russian national group in the 2014 season, she was member of the Russian group that won group all-around gold at the 2014 European Championships in

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and at the 2014 World Championships in Izmir, where they finished 4th in group all-around and won gold in 2Ribbon + 3Balls. In 2015, Tolkacheva and the Russian group competed at the inaugural 2015 European Games, taking gold in group all-around and 5 ribbons. They ended their season by winning gold in Group all-around at the 2015 World Championships in

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, Germany, as well as gold in 6 Clubs/2 Hoops and silver in 5 Ribbons. At these Worlds, Russia finally regained the gold medal in the all-around competition, after eight years, the last time they won the group competition was at the 2007 World Championships held in

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, Greece. In 2016, Tolkacheva and the Russian group won group gold at the 2016 European Championships in

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. On August 19–21, Tolkacheva was member of the golden winning Russian group (together with

Anastasia Maksimova Anastasia Ivanovna Maksimova ( rus, Анастасия Ивановна Максимова, , ɐnəstɐˈsʲiɪ̯ə mɐˈksʲiməvə; born 27 June 1991) is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympics Group champion, the 2015 Wor ...

Anastasiia Tatareva Anastasia Alekseyevna Tatareva ( rus, Анастасия Алексеевна Татарева, , ɐnəstɐˈsʲiɪ̯ə tɐˈtarʲɪvə; born 19 July 1997) is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast. She is 2016 Olympics Group all-around champion, a th ...

Anastasia Bliznyuk Anastasia Ilyinichna Bliznyuk ( rus, Анастасия Ильинична Близнюк, , ɐnəstɐˈsʲiɪ̯ə blʲɪˈzʲnʲuk; born 28 June 1994) is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast. She is a two-time Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics ...

Vera Biryukova Vera Leonidovna Biryukova (russian: Вера Леонидовна Бирюкова; born 11 April 1998 in Omsk, Omsk Oblast, Russia) is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast who was the 2016 Olympics Group all-around champion. Career Biryukova was ...

) that won gold at the

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held in

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Detailed Olympic results

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tolkacheva, Maria 1997 births Living people Russian rhythmic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts of Russia Olympic gold medalists for Russia Olympic medalists in gymnastics Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games Gymnasts at the 2019 European Games European Games medalists in gymnastics European Games gold medalists for Russia Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships European Games bronze medalists for Russia People from Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast Sportspeople from Moscow Oblast