Anna Dementyeva
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Anna at the 2011 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships
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| Full name | Anna Yurievna Dementyeva | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |
 Russia
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28 December 1994 Samara, Russia |
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| Height | 144 cm (4 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 35 kg (77 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2007 - 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | CSKA Moscow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Elena Zigano | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Mikhail Sarushkin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Olga Burova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Anna Yurievna Dementyeva (Russian: Анна Юрьевна Дементьева; born 28 December 1994) is a retired Russian artistic gymnast. She is the 2011 European all-around and beam champion, and a world gold medalist with the team.
Dementyeva was born on 28 December 1994 in Samara, Russia.
Dementyeva competed at the 2008 Junior European Championships in Clermont-Ferrand, France, winning the gold medal with the Russian team.
At the Japan Cup in July 2009, Dementyeva contributed to the team silver by competing on floor (scored 12.850). In August she competed at the Russian Cup where she won bronze in the all-around (overall score 55.133), and silver on beam (14.300) and on floor (14.625). She also placed fourth on uneven bars (13.900) and fifth on vault (13.475).
In August, at the Russian Cup, she won gold on beam (15.375) and bronze on vault (13.463), and placed eighth all-around and fourth on floor. In October, Dementyeva was the youngest gymnast competing at the 2010 World Gymnastics Championships. Here, she made a significant contribution to Russia's team gold medal winning performance by competing on uneven bars (13.366), beam (14.400), and on floor (14.533). She also made the beam final, placing sixth with a score of 13.966. Later that year she had a good showing at the DTB Cup in Stuttgart where she won silver on floor, and bronze on beam and uneven bars. Her final 2010 competition was the Toyota Cup, where she won silver on uneven bars and placed fifth on floor. She also placed seventh on beam after suffering two falls.
In February, Dementyeva became Russian all-around national champion. She performed consistently well in all four disciplines, scoring 15.100 on floor (the highest mark on that even among her teammates), 14.650 on the uneven bars, 14.350 on the beam, and 13.950 on the vault, resulting in an overall score of 58.050. Next, Dementyeva competed at the Bercy World Cup (French International) where she won bronze medal on beam and on floor.
In April, Dementyeva went to Berlin for the European Championships where she won gold in the all-around with a score of 57.475. The favourite going into the all-around event was Dementyeva's teammate Aliya Mustafina, but Mustafina injured her left knee on the vault during the first rotation and had to withdraw. In winning the competition, Dementyeva obtained the highest score on beam (15.150), the second highest on floor (14.475 - behind Diana Chelaru), and the third on uneven bars (14.250), and scored 13.600 on vault. These scores gave her an overall of 57.475 (0.775 ahead of second placed Elisabeth Seitz). In the event finals Dementyeva went on to win a second gold medal on beam (with a score of 15.350). She also placed fourth on the uneven bars and seventh in the floor exercise. Coach Alexander Alexandrov said of Dementyeva's win in the European all-around, "There isn't a bigger workaholic on the team; she trains the hardest. Maybe she still doesn't have the most difficult routines, but she is an example for the whole team. Nobody equals her when it comes to hard work. Thanks to this, she managed to become European champion. It's nice when athletes achieve everything thanks to their hard work." At the Moscow World Cup event in May, Dementyeva was in dominant form, winning gold medals in the floor exercise and on the beam. She also won silver on the uneven bars. In July, coach Alexandrov confirmed that the focus was now firmly on upgrading Dementyeva's routines to make her more competitive at the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 Summer Olympics. Alexandrov stated: "Let’s wait and see. I did not know she could win Europeans. And she got on beam and got the highest score right off and was a point ahead of everyone on one event. She needs to improve her vault and if she does then she can be competitive. She has a good beam routine, even though you can always fall on beam, but for the all-around she has a very high difficulty score. And we are still trying to add difficulty to her programme".
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