Kateryna Serebrianska

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Kateryna Serebrianska
Катерина Серебрянська
Serebryanska 017a HBR.jpg
Personal information
Alternative name(s)Ekaterina Serebrianskaya
Born (1977-10-25) 25 October 1977 (age 47)
Simferopol, Crimean Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Gymnastics career
Discipline Rhythmic gymnastics
Country
represented
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
Retired1998
Medal record
International gymnastics competitions
Event1st2nd3rd
Olympic Games 100
World Championships 864
European Championships 1053
European Cup Final 300
Grand Prix Final 300
Goodwill Games 212
Junior European Championships 210
Total29139
Representing Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Olympic Games
Olympic rings.svg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1996 Atlanta All-around
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1993 Alicante Rope
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1994 Paris Hoop
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1994 Paris Ball
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1994 Paris Clubs
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1994 Paris Ribbon
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1995 Vienna All-around
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1995 Vienna Ball
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1996 Budapest Ball
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1992 Brussels 3 ropes/3 balls
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1993 Alicante All-around
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1993 Alicante Hoop
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1993 Alicante Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1995 Vienna Rope
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1996 Budapest Rope
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1993 Alicante Ball
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1993 Alicante Ribbon
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1995 Vienna Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1995 Vienna Clubs
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1994 Thessaloniki Ball
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1994 Thessaloniki Ribbon
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1994 Thessaloniki Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1996 Asker All-Around
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1996 Asker Rope
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1996 Asker Ball
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1996 Asker Ribbon
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1996 Asker Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1997 Patras Rope
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1998 Porto Hoop
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1996 Asker Clubs
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1997 Patras Clubs
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1997 Patras Ribbon
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1998 Porto Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1998 Porto Rope
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1994 Thessaloniki Clubs
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1997 Patras All-around
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1998 Porto Ribbon
European Team Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1997 Paris Team
European Cup Final
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg1995 TelfordAll-around
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg1995 TelfordRope
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg1995 TelfordClubs
Grand Prix Final
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg1994 ViennaAll-around
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg1995 DeventerAll-around
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg1996 ViennaAll-around
Goodwill Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1994 Saint Petersburg Clubs
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1994 Saint Petersburg Ribbon
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1994 Saint Petersburg All-around
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1994 Saint Petersburg Hoop
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1994 Saint Petersburg Ball
Representing Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
Junior European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1991 Lisbon Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1991 Lisbon Ball
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1991 Lisbon Hoop
Event1st2nd3rd
Grand Prix 1822
Total1822

Kateryna Serebrianska [a] (born 25 October 1977 in Simferopol) is a Ukrainian former individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 1996 Olympics gold medalist, the 1995 World All-around champion, the 1996 European All-around champion, and three time Grand Prix Final All-around champion.

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Life and career

Serebrianska was born in Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. She started gymnastics in 1982 at age 4, with her mother Liubov as her coach at the Gratsia club in Simferopol. She later moved to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, to train at the Deriugina School.

In 1994, Serebrianska participated at the 1994 Goodwill Games in Saint Petersburg and won gold medals in clubs and ribbon, a silver medal in all-around and bronze medals in hoop and ball. [1]

Serebrianska tied Bulgaria's Maria Petrova for the all-round title at the 1995 World Championships in Vienna, Austria. She also won several individual apparatus titles: rope at the 1993 World Championships in Alicante, Spain; hoop (tied with Belarusian Larissa Lukyanenko and Bulgarian Maria Petrova), ball (tied with Ukrainian teammate Olena Vitrychenko), clubs and ribbon in the 1994 World Championships in Paris, France; ball (tied with Russians Yanina Batyrchina and Amina Zaripova) at the 1995 Worlds in Vienna, Austria; and again in 1996 in Hungary. Her sweep of all 4 event finals golds at the 1994 World Championships is one of only two times in history this has been achieved, the other being Alexandra Timoshenko, and was all the more miracle after major mistakes in the All Around final put her in 4th place after being favored to win (ironically Timoshenko in 1991 also failed to win the All Around title, coming 2nd to teammate Oksana Skaldina, prior to sweeping the event final golds). She also won the 1996 European all-round title, together with the team gold, and gold on rope, ball and ribbon finals.

Serebrinaskaya at the 1996 World Championships Larissa Loukianenko, Ekaterina Serebrianskaya, Maria Petrova y Amina Zaripova 1996 Budapest 02.jpg
Serebrinaskaya at the 1996 World Championships

As the gold medal favorite after her dominance in 1994, 1995, and early 1996, at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Serebrianska's technical strength, cleanliness, difficulty, and mature presentation won her the gold medal, although she had a slight fumble with the ribbon before her final toss. She was ahead of her closest rival, Russia's Yanina Batyrchina by 0.150 points going into the ribbon routine, who competed before her and dropped the ribbon.

Serebrianska, Alina Kabaeva, Olexandra Tymoshenko and Evgenia Kanaeva are the only rhythmic gymnasts to win World, European and Olympic titles.

At the 1997 European Championships in Greece, Serebrianska dropped a club at the end of her all-round clubs routine (9.825), but scores of 9.950 on both the rope and ribbon, and a 9.912 on hoop gave her an accumulated score of 29.637 and hence the bronze medal by 0.012 ahead of French competitor, Eva Serrano. In the apparatus finals, she won the gold in the rope event with a perfect 10.000, and took silver in the clubs and ribbon events. She did not compete at the 1997 World Championships due to an illness suffered by her mother. In her final major competition, the 1998 European Championships, she reached each of the apparatus final events. She won gold in the hoop final (9.950) and silver in rope (9.933). She also won bronze in the ribbon event (9.933), tying with the same score as Evgenia Pavlina of Belarus and Yanina Batyrchina of Russia, but winning the medal due to the new tie-breaker scoring system. She placed 6th (lost in the tie-breaker to Belarusian, Yulia Raskina) in the all-round final.

Serebrianska retired from rhythmic gymnastics in 1998.

Records

Routine music information

YearApparatusMusic title [2]
1998HoopNature Boy by Nat King Cole
Clubs Summertime from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin
RopeJugglers in Obsidian by Andreas Vollenwieder
RibbonIndigo Bay
1997Hoop?
ClubsSummertime from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin
RopeTipsy Bumblebee by Günter Noris Gala Big Band
RibbonNature Boy by Nat King Cole
1996BallAtrocious Romance
Rope Kalinka / Katyusha (Russian traditional)
ClubsNur kein genieren from Elisabeth
RibbonTipsy Bumblebee by Günter Noris Gala Big Band
1995BallDream by Vladimir Bustriakov
Rope Kalinka / Katyusha (Russian traditional)
ClubsNur kein genieren from Elisabeth
RibbonRock'n'Roll by Vladimir Bustriakov
1994BallNe me quitte pas by Jacques Brel
Hoop Besame Mucho by Consuela Velazques
Clubs the Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
RibbonTheme from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein
1993BallNe me quitte pas by Jacques Brel
Hoop Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber
ClubsMarch of the Trolls (remix) by Edvard Grieg
RibbonMacavity, the Mystery Cat from Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Detailed Olympic results

YearCompetition DescriptionLocationMusic [3] ApparatusScore-FinalScore-Qualifying
1996Olympics Atlanta All-around39.68339.113
Tipsy BumblebeeRibbon9.8339.699
Kalinka/Katyusha Rope9.9509.799
Atrocious RomanceBall9.9509.783
Nur kein genierenClubs9.9509.832

Notes and references

a.   ^ Ukrainian : Катерина Олегівна Серебрянська, Kateryna Olehivna Serebrianska.
     Russian : Екатерина Олеговна Серебрянская, Yekaterina Olegovna Serebryanskaya.

References

  1. ""USA Gymnastics - September/October 1994 by USA Gymnastics - Issuu"".
  2. "Serebrianksaya RG music list". rgforum. Archived from the original on 2022-04-27. Retrieved 2013-07-20.
  3. "Serebrianskaya RG music list". rgforum. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-04-12.