Mariya Livchikova ( uk, Марія Лівчікова, born 28 April 1995) is a Ukrainian 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 ...

Personal life

Livchikova was born on 28 April 1995 in Horlivka. She started gymnastics when she was seven years old. Her mother, Oksana Viktorovna, is a former figure skater.

Career

2011

Livchikova made her senior debut at the Cottbus World Cup. However, she did not qualify for any of the event finals. She then went to the Ghent World Cup where she won a silver medal on the balance beam behind Chinese gymnast

Wu Liufang Wu Liufang (), born on 22 December 1994, is a retired Chinese gymnast. Gymnastics career Wu Liufang made the Chinese national team in 2008. At the 11th Chinese national games in September 2009, she achieved bronze for uneven bars and silver fo ...

and a gold medal on the floor exercise. At the

European Championships The European Championships is a multi-sport tournament which brings together the existing European Championships of some of the continent's leading sports every four years. The inaugural edition in 2018 was staged by the host cities of Berlin, ...

, she scored a 12.700 on the vault, 11.150 on the balance beam, and 13.600 on the floor exercise during the

qualification round Qualification is either the process of qualifying for an achievement, or a credential attesting to that achievement, and may refer to: * Professional qualification, attributes developed by obtaining academic degrees or through professional expe ...

. She did not qualify for any event finals. At the World Championships, Livchikova tore her ACL during podium training, and it prevented her from competing for the remainder of the season. The Ukrainian team finished nineteenth in the

with a total score of 204.229. This meant that Ukraine did not qualify for the London Test Event, and they could only send one female gymnast to the

2012 Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

2012

At the Ukrainian Cup, Livchikova didn't perform her most difficult routines, but she still finished second in the all-around with a score of 55.500. She won the bronze medal in the all-around at the Stella Zakharova Cup. Then at the

, she contributed an all-around score of 52.999 in the qualification round towards Ukraine's tenth place finish. She qualified in seventh place for the floor exercise event final with a score of 14.000. She finished sixth in the floor final with a score of 13.466. Ukraine's single spot for the

was given to

Natalia Kononenko Natalia Alexeyevna Kononenko ( uk, Наталія Олексіївна Кононенко; born 25 August 1994 in Kyiv) is a retired Ukrainian artistic gymnast who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is a two-time European bronze medalist on ...

. At the Brno Grand Prix, Livchikova scored a 15.250 on the balance beam and won the mixed-pairs competition with Maxim Semiankiv.

2013

At the

WOGA Classic The World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA) is a two-facility gymnastics club located in Frisco and Plano. The head coaches at WOGA are former USA Gymnastics women's national team coordinator Valeri Liukin, who was a Soviet medalist at the 1 ...

, Livchikova placed second in the all-around and third on beam and floor. She suffered another torn ACL and could not compete at the European Championship. Although she had resumed training, she was not ready for the World Championships and did not compete.

2014

During training in August 2014, Livchikova tore her ACL for a third time and had another surgery. This injury took her out of the World Championships.

Retirement

On 21 October 2014, Livchikova announced her retirement from gymnastics, citing the injuries she had sustained throughout her career as the reason.

Competitive History

References

External links

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Official Website
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