Tatiana Cocsanova

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Tatiana Cocsanova
Born (2004-01-16) 16 January 2004 (age 21)
Chișinău, Moldova
Height169 cm (5 ft 7 in) [1]
Gymnastics career
Discipline Rhythmic gymnastics
Country
represented
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
(2018-)
ClubQuesto RG
Head coach(es)Natalia Popova
Medal record
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Pan American Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Guadalajara Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Guadalajara Ribbon
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 Ciudad de Guatemala Team
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Birmingham Team
Junior Pan American Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Monterrey Team
Pacific Rim Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Cali Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 Cali All-Around
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 Cali Clubs

Tatiana Cocsanova (born 16 January 2004) is a Canadian rhythmic gymnast. She is a Commonwealth Games champion and Pan American Championships medalist. [2] On national level, she is a four-time (2021-2024) Canadian national all-around champion.

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Early life

In 2004, Cocsanova was born Chișinău, Moldova and later immigrated to Canada. She took up rhythmic gymnastics at age 6. [2]

Career

Junior

Cocsanova entered the Canadian team in 2018, when she finished in 4th at nationals. In 2019 she competed at Élite Canada finishing 4th in the all-around and ribbon, 5th with clubs and winning bronze medals with rope and ball. [3] At the Canadian championships she was 4th with ball and ribbon, won bronze in the all-around and with rope, and gold with clubs. That year she was selected for the Junior Pan Am Championships in Monterrey, finishing 5th in the rope final and winning team silver. [4] [5] [6]

Senior

Cocsanova debuted as a senior at the 2020 Élite Canada in Burnaby where she was 6th with ribbon but won bronze in the all-around and with hoop and ball, as well as gold with clubs. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic she returned to competition a year later at nationals, winning all the gold medals apart from a silver with ball. [6]

2022 was her breakout year, Cocsanova won Élite Canada [7] and then took part in the World Cup in Sofia taking 17th place in the all-around and with hoop, 15th with ball, 8th with clubs and 24th with ribbon. [8] In August she competed at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham where she won team gold alongside Carmel Kallemaa and Suzanna Shahbazian. [9] Later that month she was at the World Cup in Cluj-Napoca, finishing 23rd in the all-around, 24th with hoop, 29th with ball, 25th with clubs and 16th with ribbon. [10] A month later Cocsanova was selected for the World Championships in Sofia where she competed with ribbon and finished 37th. [11]

In 2023 she finished 15th in the All-Around at the World Cup in Tashkent, later she won bronze in teams and with ribbon at the Pan American Championships in Guadalajara. [12] [13] [14] In August she was selected for the World Championships in Valencia where she was 41st in the All-Around, 31st with hoop, 35th with ball, 67th with clubs and 53rd with ribbon. [15]

In 2024, together with Jana Alemam, Eva Cao, Carmel Kallemaa, Suzanna Shahbazian and Kate Vetricean, she won silver medal in team competition at the 2024 Pacific Rim Championships in Cali, Colombia. [16] She also won bronze medal in all-around and clubs. [17] [18] Later that year, she won bronze medal in team competition with Kallemaa and Shahbazian at the 2024 Pan American Championships in Guatemala City, Guatemala. [19] She competed at Milan World Cup and finished on 38th place in all-around.

In May 2025, she announced that she is taking a break from training, due to the recurrence of her back injury from 2022. [20]

Personal life

In her free time, Cocsanova makes videos for her YouTube channel. She studies science at Vanier College in Montreal. [6] [21] Her idols are Russian gymnasts Alina Kabaeva, Margarita Mamun and Aleksandra Soldatova, and Israeli gymnast Linoy Ashram. [2]

References

  1. "Tatiana Cocsanova". Birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organising Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games Limited . Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "COCSANOVA Tatiana - FIG Athlete Profile". gymnastics.sport. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  3. "Elite Canada 2019". rgform.eu. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  4. "News | Gymnastics Canada". gymcan.org. Archived from the original on 22 October 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  5. "2019 Junior Pan Am event finals" (PDF). usagym.org.
  6. 1 2 3 "Tatiana Cocsanova". Fédération de gymnastique du Québec (in French). Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  7. "2022 Elite Canada" (PDF). gymcan.org.
  8. "Gymnastics - World Cup Rhythmic Gymnastics - Sofia 2022 - Results". the-sports.org. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  9. "2022 Commonwealth Games Rhythmic Gymnastics" (PDF).
  10. "Gymnastics - World Cup Rhythmic Gymnastics - Cluj-Napoca 2022 - Results". the-sports.org. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  11. "2022 World Championships Result Book" (PDF). longinestiming.com.
  12. "Gymnastics - World Cup - Rhythmic Gymnastics - Tashkent 2023 - Results". the-sports.org. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  13. "Senior Team" (PDF). static.usagym.org.
  14. "Senior Event Finals" (PDF). static.usagym.org.
  15. "2023 World Championships Result Book" (PDF). gym.longinestiming.com.
  16. "U.S. collects 20 medals on the final day of T&T and RG Pac Rims competition". USA Gymnastics. 23 April 2024.
  17. "Pacific RG 2024 - All Around / Senior" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation. 23 April 2024.
  18. "Pacific RG 2024 - Event Finals / Senior" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation. 23 April 2024.
  19. "2024 Pan American Championships Results Book (Media)". International Gymnastics Federation . Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  20. "I'm staying positive through it all, trying to see what other opportunities are opening to me in this time..." Instagram . 20 May 2025. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  21. "Tatiana Cocsanova - YouTube". youtube.com. Retrieved 19 November 2022.