| Suzanna Shahbazian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 18 October 2004 Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gymnastics career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Canada (2019-) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Questo RG | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Natalia Popova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Suzanna Shahbazian (born 18 October 2004) is a Canadian rhythmic gymnast. She is a 2022 Commonwealth Games team gold medalist and ball silver medalist, and also a Pan American Championships medalist. On national level, she is the 2025 Canadian all-around champion.
Shahbazian was born in Montreal, Quebec in 2004. [1] She began gymnastics at age four, her idols are Russian rhythmic gymnasts Alina Kabaeva and Liasan Utiasheva. [2]
Shahbazian was selected for the 2019 Junior Pan American Championships in Monterrey, where she won silver in the team competition. [3]
In 2022, she took part in the Pan American Championships in Rio de Janeiro, where she won silver with hoop and bronze with ball and in the team category. [4] [5] In August, she competed at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham where she won gold in teams along Carmel Kallemaa and Tatiana Cocsanova as well as silver with ball. [6] [7] [8] A month later Shahbazian was selected for the World Championships in Sofia where she ended 35th in the All-Around, 35th with hoop, 30th with ball and 38th with clubs. [9]
In 2024, together with Jana Alemam, Eva Cao, Tatiana Cocsanova, Carmel Kallemaa and Kate Vetricean, she won silver medal in team competition at the 2024 Pacific Rim Championships in Cali, Colombia. [10] She also won bronze medals in Hoop, Clubs and Ribbon finals. [11] [12] Later that year, she won bronze medal in team competition with Kallemaa and Cocsanova at the 2024 Pan American Championships in Guatemala City, Guatemala. [13]
In 2025, she won bronze medal in team competition alongside Pin Rong Lee and Carmel Kallemaa at the 2025 Pan American Championships in Asunción, Paraguay.Team [14] She took 8th place in Hoop, 5th in Ball and Clubs and 6th in Ribbon finals. [15] On July 17-19, she represented Canada at the 2025 Summer Universiade in Essen, Germany, and took 26th place in all-around. [16] Later that month, she competed in the World Cup Challenge Cluj-Napoca and finished 33rd in the all-around [17] .
| Year | Apparatus | Music title |
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| 2025 | Hoop | Vivo Tango by Maxime Rodriguez |
| Ball | Goliath by Woodkid / Who Wants To Live Forever by The Tenors | |
| Clubs | Royal Blood (as featured in The Redeem Team) by Caleb Swift | |
| Ribbon | California Dreamin' by 33Tours | |
| 2024 | Hoop | Smooth Criminal by David Garrett |
| Ball | The End (slowed down + reverbed) by JPOLND | |
| Clubs | ||
| Ribbon | Торо - Ко - Ко Пэк - Пэк by Дидюля |
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