- Source: Elvira Krasnobaeva
Elvira Krasnobaeva (Bulgarian: Елвира Краснобаева; born 10 March 2008) is a rhythmic gymnast who formerly competed for Bulgaria. She is the 2024 European bronze medalist with ribbon and team champion, the 2022 junior European hoop champion and 2023 junior World ball champion. At the Bulgarian national level, she is the 2024 Senior all-around silver medalist. She is also the 2022 and 2023 Junior national champion, as well as the 2021 Junior all-around silver medalist.
Personal life
Elvira Krasnobaeva was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. At the age of six, she moved with her family to Varna, Bulgaria. There she entered the National School of Arts "Dobri Hristov" as part of the ballet department and continued to train in rhythmic gymnastics as a member of the club "Gracia". In 2021 she was given Bulgarian citizenship. Her dream is to compete at the Olympics.
Career
= Junior
=2021
In 2021 Krasnobaeva was included in the Bulgarian national team ahead of the junior European and World Championships. She then went on to became the national junior silver medalist behind Nikol Todorova and ahead of Victoria Georgieva. She was the silver medalist at the Julieta Shismanova tournament in Burgas.
2022
Krasnobaeva won the first two junior-level internal competitions of 2022. In March she competed at the Aphrodite Cup in Greece, where she was eighth with clubs. At the Andalusia Cup in Spain, she won gold in all-around, gold with ball and ribbon, and bronze with clubs. She next won the all-around silver in the junior portion of the Sofia Cup. Krasnobaeva won the junior national title.
In June, she was selected to represent Bulgaria, along with Dara Stoyanova, at the 2022 European Championships in Tel Aviv, where she won bronze in team, silver with ball and gold with hoop.
2023
Krasnobaeva started the 2023 season at the Miss Valentine Tournament in Tartu, along with teammates Nikol Todorova, Dara Stoyanova and Dara Malinova. In the junior team event, she won silver with the rest of the Bulgarian team behind Ukraine and above Kazakhstan. She also qualified for the hoop and ball finals, winning gold in both. At the second Junior World Championships, Krasnobaeva won two gold medals. One was in the team competition, where she contributed to the team score along with the Bulgarian group and Nikol Todorova. She also won an individual gold in the ball final.
= Senior
=2024
In 2024, she made her senior debut at Miss Valentine, winning silver in the all-around, silver in the hoop final and bronze in the ribbon final. On March 23, she won gold in the all-around at her first World Cup in Athens. In the apparatus finals, she won gold with hoop, and silver with clubs and ribbon. At her next World Cup in Baku, she won the silver medal in the all-around and was one of only two gymnasts to qualify for every event final. She won another silver in the ribbon final.
In early May, she won the silver all-around medal at the Bulgarian national championships behind Stiliana Nikolova. Later that month, she competed at the 2024 European Championships with her teammates Nikolova and Boryana Kaleyn, with whom she won the gold medal in the Team event. She took 7th place in the clubs final and won the bronze medal in the ribbon final. On June 15-16, she competed at the Brno Grand Prix in the Czech Republic and won gold in the all-around, ribbon and ball as well as silver with clubs and bronze with hoop.
In October, Krasnobaeva announced that she would no longer compete for Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation ruled that she would be required to pay compensation due to breaking her contract with them. Krasnobaeva said that she would be representing Armenia in the future and that she was changing countries because her family was moving to Russia and she needed to represent a country that would allow her to train there.
Routine music information
Competitive highlights
(Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)
References
External links
Elvira Krasnobaeva at the International Gymnastics Federation
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Elvira Krasnobaeva
- Taisiia Onofriichuk
- 2024 in gymnastics
- 2024 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships
- Vera Tugolukova
- 2024 FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup series
- Amalia Lică
- Darja Varfolomeev
- Nikol Todorova
- Alona Tal Franco
