Riselda Selaj

Riselda Selaj

Riselda Selaj on beam during European Championship in Birmingham 2010
Personal information
Height	5 ft 6.54 in (169 cm)
Gymnastics career
Sport	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Albania (2001–2010)
Club	Klubi Sportiv Partizani

Riselda Selaj is a former elite artistic gymnast from Albania. She is an International Champion, Olympic Competitor and All-around, Beam and Vault Balkan Champion. She is the first Albanian gymnast to win 5 gold medals at an international competition and the first gymnast to win 5 medals in the same international competition twice in a row.

Career

She won gold medals for the all-around, beam, floor, vault and uneven bars and a team bronze medal. She won the all-around, beam and vault Balkan Championship in 2009, in North Macedonia.

Selaj became a member of the Albanian senior team in 2008. She is a 10-time Albania all-around Champion, winning five as a junior and five as a senior.

Selaj participated in the World Artistic Gymnastics Championship 2009, in London, holding the National record for the best all-around finish by an Albanian gymnast in a World Championship.

She was also part of the Albanian team during the Mediterranean Games in Italy, where she was qualified in all-around final ranking 13th place, and on vault final, ranking 6th, another national record in the history of artistic gymnastics of Albania.

Selaj competed at European Championships and at the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF).

Selaj announced her retirement from Albanian gymnastics federation in October 2014.

External links

• Riselda SELAJ at the International Gymnastics Federation
• "Riselda Selaj training in Romania". YouTube. 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
• "Riselda Selaj on beam". YouTube. 2011-08-02. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
• "Riselda Selaj Pictures XVI Mediterranean Games – Day 5 – Artistic Gymnastics". Zimbio.com. 2009-07-01. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
• "Maqedoni, Riselda Selaj fiton 5 medalje ari". Sport.albeu.com. 2008-09-25. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
• "Albania's Riselda Selaj performs in the Pictures". Getty Images. 2009-10-14. Retrieved 2016-12-04.