Ganna Rizatdinova

Ganna Serhiivna Rizatdinova (born 16 July 1993) is a Ukrainian individual rhythmic gymnast.

She won gold in hoop beating newly turned Russian senior Yana Kudryavtseva and her teammate Margarita Mamun, it was Ukraine's first gold medal since Anna Bessonova became the World Champion in 2007, Rizatdinova also won silver in ribbon, placed 6th in ball and 4th in clubs final.

She won the silver all-around medal at the 2008 Kyiv Junior World Cup behind Russian gymnast Daria Dmitrieva.

She was part of the Ukraine team that won bronze at the 2008 European Junior Championships in Torino.

As a senior, Rizatdinova won bronze with Team Ukraine at the 2011 World Championships and 2011 European Championships.

Rizatdinova had a successful World Cup series at the 2012 Deriugina Cup in Kyiv.

She won the bronze in the all-around and in the hoop final, and silver for the ball and clubs final.

She then competed at the 2012 European Championships and finished 8th in the all-around.

Rizatdinova represented Ukraine in the individual all-around event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she placed 10th in the finals.

Rizatdinova returned to competition in the 2013 Season under the new Code of Points system.

She won the 2013 LA Lights and won the gold in all-around at the first World Cup series held in Tartu, Estonia.

At the second World Cup in Lisbon, Portugal, Rizatdinova won the bronze medal in All-around behind Russians Margarita Mamun and Alexandra Merkulova.

She won another pair of silver medal in clubs, a ball final and a bronze medal in the hoop final.

Rizatdinova competed at the 2013 Pesaro World Cup where she won a bronze medal in ribbon and clubs.

She finished 5th in all-around at the 2013 Sofia World Cup, she shared the bronze medal in clubs with Son Yeon-jae and won silver in clubs and ribbon (tied with Margarita Mamun).

Hanna won her second World Cup All-around gold in 2013 Corbeil-Essonnes beating gymnasts Melitina Staniouta of Belarus and Margarita Mamun of Russia.

She won gold in clubs, silver in hoop and ribbon, bronze in ball final.

Rizatdinova then competed at the 2013 European Championships in Vienna, Austria and (together with her teammates Alina Maksymenko and Viktoria Mazur) won the Team silver medal.

She won silver in the ribbon final.

At the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, she won the bronze medal in all-around.

In the event finals, she shared the silver medal with teammate Alina Maksymenko and won bronze in ball and clubs (also tied with Alina Maksymenko).

Rizatdinova together with Maksymenko and Mazur appeared in an editorial on the 2013 August edition of Ukraine Vogue.

Rizatdinova competed at the 2013 World Games in Cali where she won gold in hoop and silver medals in ball, clubs.

She then competed at the 2013 World Championships in Kyiv, Ukraine where she qualified to 4 event finals.

Rizatdinova won the All-around silver at the 2013 World Championships with an overall score of 73.041 ahead of Belarusian Melitina Staniouta.

She was awarded the Longines Prize for Elegance in rhythmic gymnastics event.

On October 25–27, Rizatdinova competed at the World Club Championship, the 2013 Aeon Cup in Tokyo, Japan representing team Deriugina school (together with teammates Viktoria Mazur and junior Eleonora Romanova) won the team silver.

She finished 4th in the All-around finals behind Melitina Staniouta of Belarus.

In 2014 Season, Rizatdinova began competing at the 2014 LA Lights and won the all-around silver medal behind Melitina Staniouta.

She finished 5th in all-around at the 2014 Thiais Grand Prix, won silver in ball, bronze in clubs, hoop and gold in ribbon (tied with Melitina Staniouta of Belarus).

Rizatdinova won the All-around silver medal behind Russian debutante Aleksandra Soldatova at the 2014 Debrecen World Cup after missing a ball routine element and dropping the apparatus.

Qualifying to all 4 event finals, she won the gold medal in ball, silver in clubs, placed 4th in ribbon and 6th in hoop.

She finished 5th in All-around at the 2014 Stuttgart World Cup, qualifying to 4 event finals: she won bronze in ball (tied with Mamun), placed 4th in hoop, 7th in clubs and 8th in ribbon.

Rizatdinova's next event was at the 2014 Pesaro World Cup where she won the all-bronze behind Kudryavtseva and Mamun, in the event finals: she won bronze in hoop and ribbon.

On 9–11 May Rizatdinova won the all-around bronze at the 2014 Corbeil-Essonnes World Cup, she qualified to 4 event finals and won gold in hoop, ball and bronze in ribbon.

On 10–15 June Rizatdinova competed at the 2014 European Championships and won the all-around bronze medal.

On 22–28 September Rizatdinova (along with teammates Viktoria Mazur and Eleonora Romanova) represented Ukraine at the 2014 World Championships where they took the Team bronze with a total of 135.515 points.

She qualified to all event finals and won 2 bronze medals (clubs, ribbon) and placed 4th (in hoop, clubs).

In the all-around event, she is the 2016 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time World All-around medalist (silver in 2013, bronze in 2014), and a two-time (2014, 2016) European All-around bronze medalist.

Rizatdinova started to train gymnastics in Simferopol and was coached by her mother Oksana Rizatdinova.