The 2013 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XXVII Summer Universiade, was held in the city of Kazan, Russia, the most northerly city ever to host a Summer Universiade. Over 10,400 university athletes from 162 countries participated in 13 mandatory and 14 optional sports, making the 2013 Universiade the biggest ever in the history of the event. For the first time in history a Cultural Universiade was also included, with many festivals and shows held simultaneously with the sporting events. The Universiade was organized by the International University Sports Federation (FISU) and by the authorities of the Russian Federation.
Alina Oleksandrivna Maksymenko is a retired individual rhythmic gymnast.
Son Yeon-jae KTM is a South Korean retired individual rhythmic gymnast. She is a former member of the South Korean national gymnastics team, based in Taereung, Seoul. She is the 2014 Asian Games All-around Champion, the 2010 Asian Games All-around bronze medalist, three-time Asian Championships All-around Champion. She is the first and only South Korean individual rhythmic gymnast to win a medal at the World Championships, FIG World Cup series, Universiade and the Asian Games.
Qualifications for Men's artistic gymnastic competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics were held at the North Greenwich Arena on July 28. The results of the qualification determined the qualifiers to the finals: 8 teams in the team final, 24 gymnasts in the all-around final, and 8 gymnasts in each of 6 apparatus finals. The competition was divided to 3 subdivisions. The first subdivision took place at 11:00 British Summer Time (UTC+1); the second and third subdivision at 15:30 BST and 20:00 BST respectively.
The qualifications round of the women's artistic gymnastics competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics was held at the North Greenwich Arena on July 29. The top 8 teams advanced to the team final, the top 24 gymnasts to the individual all-around final, and the top 8 gymnasts on each apparatus to the apparatus finals.
Nikolai Yulievich Kuksenkov is a retired Russian gymnast who won a silver medal in the team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He competed for Ukraine for many years and moved to Russia after the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he placed fourth in the all-around and fourth with the team.
Deng Senyue is a retired Chinese individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2014 Asian Games silver medalist. She finished 4th in All-around at the 2013 World Championships.
Canada competed at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia. The team won a total of 16 medals, including 2 gold.
Russian Federation hosted and competed at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia. 663 athletes are a part of the Russian team which is the biggest team there. Russian team took a first place with almost a half of gold and more than quarter of all medals and set 38 of 67 records in this Universiade.
Turkey competed at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia from 6 July to 17 July 2013. A total of 82 athletes were a part of the Turkish team competing in ten sports branches.
Monika Míčková (born 29 July 1991) is a retired Czech rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2012 Grand Prix Final All-around bronze medalist.
Grace Matsetsa Legote is a South African rhythmic gymnast.
Laura Yihan Zeng is an American former individual rhythmic gymnast. She represented the United States at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. She swept all of the events at the 2015 Pan American Games and at the 2018 Pan American Championships. She is the 2014 Youth Olympic and 2019 Summer Universiade all-around bronze medalist and the 2019 Grand Prix Final hoop bronze medalist. She is an eight-time national all-around champion, six times at the senior level and twice at the junior level (2013-14).
Sakura Hayakawa is a Japanese individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2015 Asian Championships All-around bronze medalist.
Anastasia Ivanovna Maksimova is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympics Group champion, the 2015 Worlds Group All-around champion, two-time World Group All-around bronze medalist and three-time European Group All-around champion.
Lisa Katharina Hill is a German artistic gymnast. She was the alternate for the German team that finished ninth at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was a member of the German team that finished eleventh at the 2010 World Championships, and she helped the team finish sixth at the 2011 World Championships. At the 2013 Summer Universiade, she won a bronze medal with her team and on the uneven bars. At the 2014 World Championships, she helped the German team finish ninth. She was the only member of the German team to qualify for the all-around final, where she finished 22nd. She finished seventh in the uneven bars final with a score of 14.333.
Chloé Henry is a Belgian gymnast and pole vaulter. She is multiple times Belgian Champion and National Record holder in pole vault. She is also known for her participation in Ninja Warrior France season 2. She made it to the semi-final where she became the last woman standing, just missing out on the finals.
Shogo Nonomura is a Japanese male artistic gymnast and part of the national team. At the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Nonomura won the team all-around bronze medal. He participated at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Nanning, China. He won the team all-around gold medal at the 2017 Summer Universiade. Nonomura won the gold medal in the men's all-around competition at the 2018 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Series in Birmingham, UK in March, 2018.
Shu Siyao is a Chinese rhythmic gymnast. She won a gold medal at the 2014 World Cup in Debrecen, Hungary. She competed in the group rhythmic gymnastics competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where the team was eliminated in the qualification round. After the Rio Olympics in 2016, Shu Siyao chose to retire and became a rhythmic gymnast. She took up the sport at age six in the Sichuan province, China.
Aleksandra Semenova is a Russian rhythmic gymnast.
Filip Ude (CRO)
Rohan Sebastian (IRL)
Erdenebold Ganbar (MGL)
Christian Decidet (CHI)
Ruslan Namazov (AZE)
Ferhat Arican (TUR)
Slavomir Michnak (SVK)
Sergejs Kalitonciks (LAT)
Maxime Gentges (BEL)
Tarik Soto Byfield (CRC)
Salohiddin Mirzaev (UZB)
Joao Fuglsig (DEN)
