Natalia Alexeyevna Kononenko ( uk, Наталія Олексіївна Кононенко; born 25 August 1994 in

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) is a retired

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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 ...

who competed at the

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. She is a two-time European bronze medalist on the

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Career

Junior

Kononenko competed at the 2008 Junior European Championships and helped the Ukrainian team finish seventh. She qualified for the uneven bars and

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event finals where she finished eighth and fourth respectively. She also competed at the 2009

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where the Ukrainian team won the bronze medal behind Russia and Italy. Individually, Kononenko finished seventh in the all-around. In the event finals, she won the silver medal on the uneven bars behind

Aliya Mustafina Aliya Farkhatovna Mustafina (russian: Алия Фархатовна Мустафина) is a Russian former artistic gymnast. With a combined total of 45 Olympic, World and European Championship medals, she is considered one of the most success ...

and finished eighth on the balance beam.

Senior

At the 2010 European Championships in

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, Kononenko contributed scores of 14.625 on uneven bars and 12.600 on balance beam towards Ukraine's eighth-place finish. She won the bronze medal on the uneven bars with a score of 14.750 behind

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and Aliya Mustafina. At the 2012

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, Kononenko placed eighth on the uneven bars. This qualified her a spot for the 2012 Olympics. Then at the 2012 European Championships in

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, she finished tenth with her team. She also won a bronze medal on the uneven bars with a score of 15.133 behind Russians

Viktoria Komova Viktoria Aleksandrovna Komova (russian: Виктория Александровна Комова; born 30 January 1995) is a former Russian artistic gymnast. She is a two-time Olympic medalist, having won silver medals in the all-around and te ...

and

Anastasia Grishina Anastasia Nikolayevna Grishina (russian: Анастасия Николаевна Гришина) (born 16 January 1996) is a former Russian artistic gymnast. She was a member of the silver medal winning Russian team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, a ...

. Kononenko was Ukraine's only representative for women's artistic gymnastics at the

. In the qualification round, she finished 44th in the all-around, and did not qualify into any event finals.

Eponymous skill

Kononenko has one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points.

Personal life

Kononenko now lives in

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and is a coach.https://www.facebook.com/kononenkonatali

External links

Official Website
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References

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