Yulia Yurievna Belokobylskaya (russian: Ю́лия Ю́рьевна Белокобы́льская; born 14 December 1995) is a

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former

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. She is the 2011 Russian champion and

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bronze medalist on the

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. She also won a silver medal with the Russian team at the 2011 World Championships.

Career

Junior

At the International Gymnix in

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in March 2009, Belokobylskaya won a bronze medal with the Russian team. She also won a bronze medal on the floor exercise, and she finished seventh on the

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and eighth in the all-around.

Senior

2011

In February, Belokobylskaya competed at the Russian Championships. She won gold on the floor exercise and bronze on the

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, and she finished fifth in the all-around. She then competed at the Cottbus Challenger Cup, where she finished seventh on the

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. At the

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later in March, she won bronze with the Russian team and finished seventh in the all-around with a score of 54.650. Belokobylskaya competed at the

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where she won a bronze medal on the floor exercise with a score of 14.450 (just 0.050 behind the gold medal winner, Sandra Izbaşa). At the Russian Cup, she won the bronze medal in the all-around behind

Anna Dementyeva Anna Yurievna Dementyeva (russian: Анна Юрьевна Дементьева; born 28 December 1994) is a retired Russian artistic gymnast. She is the 2011 European all-around and beam champion, and a world gold medalist with the team. Per ...

and

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 ...

. In the event finals, she won the bronze medals on the uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise. Belokobylskaya competed at the

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alongside

Ksenia Afanasyeva Ksenia Dmitrievna Afanasyeva (russian: Ксения Дмитриевна Афанасьева; born 13 September 1991) is a retired Russian artistic gymnast who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. She is the 2011 ...

, Viktoria Komova, Anna Dementyeva,

Tatiana Nabieva Tatiana Olegovna Nabieva (russian: Татьяна Олеговна Набиева; born November 21, 1994, in Pushkin) is a Russian artistic gymnast who has won four World Championship medals. She is known for the F-rated uneven bars skill named ...

, and

Yulia Inshina Yulia Andreyevna Inshina (russian: Юлия Андреевна Иньшина, born 15 April 1995) is a Russian-born Azerbaijani artistic gymnast. She has been known for her consistent and reliable work, especially on balance beam. A competitor fo ...

. In the team finals, she competed on the floor exercise and scored a 14.633 to help the team win the silver medal behind the United States.

2012–2013

At the 2012 Russian Championships, she finished ninth in the all-around. In the event finals, she finished fifth on the uneven bars and fourth on the balance beam, and she won the bronze medal on the floor exercise behind

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 ...

and Ksenia Afanasyeva. Then at the 2012 Russian Cup, she placed seventh in the all-around. She was not selected for the Olympic team. In November 2012, she competed at the Swiss Cup with Igor Pakhomenko, and they finished seventh in the team competition. Belokobylskaya retired from gymnastics in 2013.

Competitive history

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Belokobylskaya, Yulia Russian female artistic gymnasts 1995 births Living people Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Sportspeople from Rostov-on-Don