Yana Kudryavtseva

Yana's father, Aleksey Kudryavtsev was an elite swimmer and won an Olympic gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics in the 4 × 200 m freestyle.

Her mother, Viktoriia Kharitonova has called her an "Angel with iron wings", resembling a ballerina in the jewelry box when performing yet has an unbreakable constitution and strong will.

Yana has a younger sister named Anna.

During her gymnastics career, Kudryavtseva trained 6–8 hours a day.

A typical schedule included an early get up, then choreography and an open practice at the gym until 2 p.m. and a second practice in the afternoon lasting until 7 p.m., after which she would go to the sauna or swim.

Her nickname in the gym was "Crystal Statuette".

Despite having achieved so much at a young age, Kudryavtseva has said about her success, "I cannot say I have accomplished really a lot. Like Irina Viner says: 'When you're on the victory podium, you're a queen, but when you come down from it, you're nobody. You cannot be too proud of yourself'. I am just like my teammates, we're all equal."

Yana Alexeyevna Kudryavtseva (Я́на Алексе́евна Кудря́вцева; born 30 September 1997) is a retired Russian individual rhythmic gymnast.

She made her international debut competing on the novice level at the 2007 IT Finland.

She won junior national competitions in Russia, including the national junior championships in 2009 Dmitrov, 2011 Samara and 2012 in Kazan.

In the 2011 season, Kudryavtseva won the junior World Cup titles at the 2011 and 2012 World Cup Pesaro.

At the 2012 European Junior Championships she won the gold medal in ball as well as helping the Russian junior team (with Julia Sinitsina, Aleksandra Soldatova and Diana Borisova) win the junior team gold medal.

She is a former record holder under the (2013–2016) 20-point judging system in the all-around with a total of 76.450 points.

Her record was broken twice by teammate Margarita Mamun.

Kudryavtseva debuted as a senior at the 2013 Moscow Grand Prix.

At her next Grand Prix in Holon, she competed in the Senior International event where she won the All-around gold medal as well as gold in clubs, ball and bronze in hoop, ribbon final.

At age 15, she competed in her first World Cup at the 2013 Sofia where she became the first rhythmic gymnast to win a World Cup All-around gold medal in her debut beating Sylvia Miteva (silver) of Bulgaria and teammate Margarita Mamun (bronze), she also won gold medal in hoop, clubs and bronze in ribbon, ball final.

Kudryavtseva won her second All-around gold medal at the 2013 Minsk World Cup.

She missed qualifying in hoop final due to a drop and fumble of her hoop on the carpet but was able to win gold in ball and silver in clubs, ribbon final.

Kudryavtseva debuted at her first senior Europeans when she replaced Alexandra Merkulova who was one of Russia's nominal list entry for the 2013 European Championships in Vienna, Austria.

Kudryavtseva competed in three apparatus and together with her teammates (Margarita Mamun and Daria Svatkovskaya) won Russia the Team gold medal.

She won gold in clubs and ball (the first to score a 19.000 under the 2013–16 New Code of Points), she finished 4th in ribbon final.

Kudryavtseva became the youngest gold medalist at the Europeans since Alina Kabaeva won also at 15 years of age.

Kudryavtseva competed at the 2013 World Cup stage in Saint Petersburg, Russia where she won the all-around bronze medal.

She failed to qualify in hoop because of the fumble of her hoop outside the carpet at the end of her routine but won gold in ball and two silver medals in clubs, ribbon final behind teammate Margarita Mamun.

Kudryavtseva then debuted in her first Worlds at the 2013 World Championships in Kyiv, Ukraine.

She broke another record at the 2014 World Championships becoming the youngest to win back-to-back All-around World titles at 16.

In national level, she is a two-time (2015, 2014) Russian National All-around champion and three time Russian Junior National all-around champion.

She holds the record as the youngest rhythmic gymnast to win the World Championships in the All-around at 15 years of age.

Kudryavtseva was one of the finalist for the 2015 SportAccord Awards in category of the Sportswoman of the Year 2014.

At the 2015 World Championships, Kudryavtseva for the first time became the youngest to win three World All-around titles at 17 years of age, she won with a total of 75.632 surpassing her previous score at Worlds.

She is the 2016 Olympic All-around silver medalist, three-time World Champion in the All-around (2013–2015), the 2015 European Games All-around champion, two-time (2014, 2016) European Championships All-around champion, the 2012 European Junior ball champion.

Kudryavtseva retired in January 2017 due to multiple leg injuries, including a fracture in the left foot sustained during the 2016 World Cup in Kazan.

Throughout her career she had never finished a competition off an international All-around podium.

Kudryavtseva announced her engagement to Russian ice hockey player Dmitri Kugryshev in June 2018 via Instagram, the couple later married in July.

On 4 October 2018, Kudryavtseva announced via her Instagram that she was pregnant.

She gave birth to a baby girl, Eva Dmitrievna Kugrysheva, on 25 December 2018.

On 1 April 2020, Kudryavtseva announced her second pregnancy on her Instagram account.

On 29 August 2020, Kudryavtseva gave birth to a baby girl, Zoya.

Her father introduced her to gymnastics when she was four to improve her posture, flexibility, and body shape.