Suzanna Shahbazian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 18 October 2004||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years on national team | 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 a silver medalist in the ball event. She is also a medalist at the Pan American Championships.
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]