Olesya Vitalievna Petrova (russian: Олеся Витальевна Петрова; born 26 April 1999 in
Moscow) is a Russian
rhythmic gymnast
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. She is the
2014 European Junior champion in
clubs
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and with the Russian team.
Career
Junior
Petrova competed at her first junior nationals at the
2012 Russian Junior Championships where she finished seventeenth in all-around.
During the 2013 season, Petrova finished fourth in all-around at the
Russian Junior Championships behind
Yulia Bravikova,
Aleksandra Soldatova, and
Dina Averina. She then won the junior all-around gold medal at the
Grand Prix
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in
Brno
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with a score of 64.316, ahead of her Russian teammate
Veronika Polyakova.
In 2014, Petrova once again finished fourth in the all-around at the
Russian Junior Championships, this time behind Yulia Bravikova, Veronika Polyakova, and
Alina Ermolova
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. Next, she competed at the
World Cup in
Lisbon
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where she won gold medals in team and
ball
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and a bronze medal in clubs. Then at the
World Cup in
Minsk, she won gold medals in both team and clubs. She then competed at the
2014 Junior European Championships, where Petrova together with teammates
Irina Annenkova, Yulia Bravikova, and Veronika Polyakova won the team gold medal. She qualified for the clubs event final where she won the gold medal with a score of 16.400.
Senior
Petrova sustained an ankle injury early in the 2016 season. She returned to competition at the
2016 Russian Championships and finished fourteenth in the all-around and won the gold medal with the Moscow team.
References
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1999 births
Living people
Russian rhythmic gymnasts
Gymnasts from Moscow