Takhmina Ikromova (born 6 August 2004) is an Uzbekistani rhythmic gymnast. She is an Asian Games champion individually and in the team event, and she is also a two-time all-around champion at the Asian Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, in 2022 and 2023. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the rhythmic individual all-around.
Ikromova began rhythmic gymnastics when she was five after being brought to the gym by her mother. She won several international competitions for young gymnasts. [2]
She represented Uzbekistan at the 2019 Junior World Championships in Moscow, Russia and finished in 11th place in the Team competition. Individually, she placed 10th in both the rope and ribbon qualifications.
At the 2021 Asian Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, she won the silver medals in the all-around, clubs and ribbon finals and a gold medal in the hoop final. At the 2021 World Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan she placed 29th in the all-around qualification.
In 2022, she competed at World Cup Tashkent and won a gold medal in the all-around in front of Ekaterina Vedeneeva from Slovenia. [3] She also took gold medals in the hoop and clubs finals, a bronze medal in the ribbon final, and finished 4th place in the ball final.
She competed at the Islamic Solidarity Games. In the team event, she won the silver medal along with her teammates Yosmina Rakhimova and Sabina Tashkenbaeva. She also won three individual silver medals, in the ball, clubs, and ribbon finals, and the gold medal in the hoop final. [4]
At the 2022 World Championships, she qualified to the all-around final in eleventh place. She qualified for the clubs final with the fifth-highest score with that apparatus; it was the first time in more than a decade that an Uzbekistani rhythmic gymnast had qualified to an apparatus final at the World Championships. [5] She was again 11th place in the all-around final and just out of the medals in 4th place in the clubs final. [6]
In 2023, she started the competition season at Athens World Cup, where she finished 4th in the all-around and won a silver medal in the clubs final. She took part in Sofia World Cup, where she won bronze in the all-around. She qualified for three apparatus finals, winning gold in ribbon and bronze in ball final. On April 14-16, she competed at Tashkent World Cup, winning the silver medal in the all-around, behind Italian Sofia Raffaeli. She qualified to all apparatus finals, but only won a medal in the hoop final (bronze). She finished 4th in the all-around at Baku World Cup and won bronze medals in the ball and ribbon finals. At the 2023 Asian Championships, she won gold in the all-around, team event, and three of the apparatus finals (hoop, ball, and clubs). [7]
She competed at the 2023 World Championships, where she finished in 5th place in the all-around final and qualified to two apparatus finals; she was 4th with the clubs and 8th with the ribbon. [8] This was a qualifying event for the 2024 Summer Olympics, and her placement gave Uzbekistan a berth in the individual event at the Olympics, which was allotted to Ikromova. [9]
In October, she competed at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. She won gold in the team event with her teammates Vilana Savadyan and Evelina Atalyants, and she also won gold in the individual event. [10] [11] At the end of 2023, she was given an award for the best female Uzbekistani athlete of the year. [12] She was featured on a commemorative postage stamps due to her two gold medals at the Asian Games. [13]
Ikromova began her 2024 season by competing at the Grand Prix event in Marbella, Spain. She finished second in the all-around, behind Stiliana Nikolova and ahead of Darja Varfolomeev, and she also won silver with the clubs and the ball. [14] At the next Grand Prix event in Thiais, she won the all-around gold medal. [15]
She competed at her first World Cup of the season in Sofia. There she was sixth in the all-around and won a silver in the ball final. [16] At her next World Cup in Tashkent, Ikromova won the all-around silver medal behind Varfolomeev and ahead of Boryana Kaleyn. She won two of the four event finals (hoop and ball) and won silver in the other two (clubs and ribbon). [17]
At the 2024 Asian Championships in Tashkent, Ikromova was silver in the all-around behind Elzhana Taniyeva. Along with the other Uzbekistani gymnasts, she won gold in the team event. She won two gold medals (ball, clubs) and an additional silver (ribbon) in the apparatus finals. [18]
Ikromova competed at the World Cup in Milan in June. She came in 8th place in the all-around and qualified for three apparatus finals. In the ball final, she won bronze. [19]
In August, Ikromova competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics. In the qualification round, she made mistakes in her first three routines, but she finished more strongly with her last routine with the ribbon. She ended the qualification round in 14th place and did not advance to the final. [20]
| Year | Apparatus | Music Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Hoop | Get out of Here by Charlie Ryan |
| Ball | Bad Guy by KONG. | |
| Clubs | Carmen by Arcadian | |
| Ribbon | À nos folies by Léa Paci | |
| 2023 | Hoop | "Main Title" from The Queen's Gambit, "Piano by Candlelight", "Prodigy" by Carlos Rafael Rivera, Carl Doy, Kōtarō Nakagawa |
| Ball | La salvaora by Concha Buika and Jacob Sureda | |
| Clubs | Carmen by Arcadian | |
| Ribbon | Dangerous Affairs by Inon Zur | |
| 2022 | Hoop | Hero With A Red Mask by Rok Nardin |
| Ball (first) | Seven Nation Army by Postmodern Jukebox | |
| Ball (second) | Iron, Badabum Cha Cha, Dancina, Day N Night by Woodkid, Marracash, Yemi Alade, Aiyo | |
| Clubs | Palladio 'a cappella' cover by SeiOttavi | |
| Ribbon | Legendary by Welshly Arms | |
| 2021 | Hoop | End Credits from Coraline by Bruno Coulais |
| Ball | Carmen's Story by Edith Piaf | |
| Clubs | Sloppy Soup Samba by Daniel Pemberton | |
| Ribbon | Pogonya by Yan Frenkel | |
| 2020 | Hoop | Grand Guignol by Bajofondo |
| Ball | The Swing Phenomenon (Radio Edit) by Back&Baker (feat. Nicolle Rochette) | |
| Clubs | Party Rockers by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band | |
| Ribbon | ||
| 2019 | Rope | Taka takata by Irakere |
| Ball | ||
| Clubs | ||
| Ribbon | Mi Bombón (Extended Remix) / Circle of Life (District 78 Remix) by Caba and Lion King | |
(Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)
| International: Senior | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon |
| 2024 | Asian Championships Tashkent | 2nd | 1st | 11th (Q) | 1st | 1st | 2nd |
| World Cup Tashkent | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | ||
| World Cup Sofia | 6th | 6th | 2nd | 5th | 13th (Q) | ||
| Grand Prix Thiais | 1st | 7th | 4th | 8th | 4th | ||
| Grand Prix Marbella | 2nd | 10th (Q) | 2nd | 2nd | 6th | ||
| 2023 | |||||||
| Asian Games Hangzhou | 1st | 1st | |||||
| World Championships Valencia | 5th | 10th | 14th(Q) | 50th(Q) | 4th | 8th | |
| World Cup Milan | 7th | 9th (Q) | 8th | 4th | 14th (Q) | ||
| Asian Championships Manila | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 6th | |
| World Cup Baku | 5th | 20th (Q) | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | ||
| World Cup Tashkent | 2nd | 3rd | 5th | 6th | 5th | ||
| World Cup Sofia | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 9th (Q) | 1st | ||
| World Cup Athens | 4th | 7th | 5th | 2nd | 9th (Q) | ||
| Gymnastik International Schmiden 2023 | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | ||
| 2022 | World Championships Sofia | 11th | 7th | 10th (Q) | 19th (Q) | 4th | 11th (Q) |
| Islamic Solidarity Games | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | ||
| Asian Championships Pattaya | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | |
| World Cup Pesaro | 4th | 4th | 6th | 7th | 10th (Q) | ||
| World Cup Baku | 11th | 5th | 10th(Q) | 15th (Q) | 17th (Q) | ||
| World Cup Tashkent | 1st | 1st | 4th | 1st | 3rd | ||
| 2021 | World Championships Kitakyushu | 29th (Q) | 27th (Q) | 37th (Q) | 26th (Q) | 17th (Q) | |
| Asian Championships Tashkent | 2nd | 1st | 5th | 2nd | 2nd | ||
| World Cup Pesaro | 29th | 16th (Q) | 41st (Q) | 39th (Q) | 19th (Q) | ||
| World Cup Baku | 37th | 21st (Q) | 36th (Q) | 48th (Q) | 31st (Q) | ||
| International: Junior | |||||||
| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop/Rope | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon |
| 2019 | Junior World Championships | 11th | 10th (Q) | 10th (Q) | |||
| Junior Asian Championships | 2nd | 1st | |||||
| 2018 | Aeon Cup | 5th | 7th | ||||
| 2017 | Aeon Cup | 2nd | 3rd | ||||
| Asian Championships Astana | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | ||
| Q = Qualifications (Did not advance to Event Final due to the 2 gymnast per country rule, only Top 8 highest score); WR = World Record;WD = Withdrew;NT = No Team Competition; OC = Out of Competition(competed but scores not counted for qualifications/results) | |||||||
Source: [21]
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