Tjaša Kysselef (born 27 April 1993) is a Slovenian

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the '' Code of Points'' used ...

and a member of the Slovenian national team. Throughout her career, she has primarily competed as a vault specialist and has been successful on the

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circuit. She has represented Slovenia at seven

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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

and

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

. She is the

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vault silver medalist.

Career

2009–2010

Kysselef won a silver medal on the vault at the 2009 Doha World Cup. She then competed at the 2009 World Championships and finished 55th in the all-around during the qualification round. She won a vault bronze medal at the 2010 Ostrava World Cup. Then at the 2010 World Championships, she finished 93rd in the all-around during the qualification round. Additionally, she helped the Slovenian team finish 26th.

2015–2016

Kysselef won a vault silver medal at the 2015 Cottbus World Cup behind

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. She finished 96th in the all-around during the qualification round of the 2015 World Championships. At the 2016 Baku World Challenge Cup, Kysselef won the vault silver medal behind

. She then won bronze medals at the World Challenge Cup stages in Doha, Cottbus, and Ljubljana. Then at the Osijek World Challenge Cup, she won the vault silver medal behind

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. She was the first reserve for the vault final at the 2016 European Championships.

2017–2018

Kysselef won the vault bronze medal at the 2017 Osijek World Challenge Cup behind Hungarians Boglárka Dévai and Zsófia Kovács. She also won the bronze medal at the Cottbus World Cup. Kysselef won the vault title at the 2018 Melbourne World Cup, and she won a bronze medal on the floor exercise. She then won the vault bronze medal at the Baku World Cup. She competed at the

and won the vault silver medal behind Egypt's

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. At the

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, she was the first reserve for the vault final. At the Osijek World Challenge Cup, she won the vault silver medal, and she won the bronze medal at the Paris World Challenge Cup.

2019–2021

Kysselef won the vault bronze medal at the 2019 Osijek World Challenge Cup. She then won the silver medal behind teammate

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at the Mersin World Challenge Cup. At the 2019 European Championships, she was the third reserve for the vault final. At the 2021 European Championships, Kysselef qualified for the vault final and finished fifth. She won the vault title at the 2021 Koper World Challenge Cup. She then won the silver medal at the Mersin World Challenge Cup behind

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2022–2023

Kysselef won the vault gold medal at the 2022 Cottbus World Cup, and she also won at the World Cup stage in Cairo. She finished fourth in the vault final at the

2022 Mediterranean Games The 2022 Mediterranean Games (), officially known as the XIX Mediterranean Games and commonly known as Oran 2022, was an international multi-sport event held from 25 June to 6 July 2022 in Oran, Algeria. Oran was announced as the host city at th ...

. At the Osijek World Challenge Cup, she won the vault bronze medal. She then won the silver medal at the Koper World Challenge Cup behind Zsófia Kovács.

2024–2025

Kysselef won the vault title at the 2024 Antalya World Challenge Cup. She then won the bronze medal at the Osijek World Challenge Cup behind Coline Devillard and

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. Kysselef won the vault silver medal behind teammate

at the 2025 Cottbus World Cup. She then won the bronze medal behind

and Belak at the Baku World Cup. She won another silver medal behind Belak at the Doha World Cup.

Personal life

Kysselef works as a gymnastics coach and judge to fund her training.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kysselef, Tjaša 1993 births Living people Slovenian female artistic gymnasts Mediterranean Games medalists in gymnastics Gymnasts at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Gymnasts from Ljubljana Gymnasts at the 2019 European Games European Games competitors for Slovenia Gymnasts at the 2022 Mediterranean Games 21st-century Slovenian sportswomen