Yekaterina Lobaznyuk
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| Country represented |
 Russia
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| Born |
June 10, 1983  Uzbekistan
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| Hometown | Rubtsovsk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Vancouver, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior International Elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Leonid Arkayev | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach(es) | Valery Dianov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | Hava Nagila | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yekaterina Vladimirovna Lobaznyuk (Russian: Екатерина Владимировна Лобазнюк) (born June 10, 1983 in Fergana, Uzbek SSR, USSR) is a former Olympic gymnast who competed for Russia in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, winning three medals. Her name is sometimes written Ekaterina Lobazniouk.
The second daughter of a gymnastics coach (who is also a former gymnast) and a sports school director, Lobaznyuk grew up in Uzbekistan amid the strife and turbulence of the 1980s. She began her gymnastics career at the young age of six, when her mother brought her to a gym in Fergana. In the 1990s, after the USSR fell apart, the Lobaznyuk family fled to Tashkent due to violence and riots in the Fergana Valley area. The family attempted to join a circus there but, failed. Help came in 1994 thanks to her grandmother, living in Russia at the time; the Lobaznyuks eventually settled in Rubtsovsk, a city of some 170,000 people located in southwestern Siberia.
It was in Rubtsovsk that Lobaznyuk met her future coach, Valery Fyodotovich Dianov, and the two quickly became a team.
Lobaznyuk made her debut as a junior elite gymnast in a children's meet sometime prior to 1996. Although she fell eleven times during the meet, Russian National Team coach Leonid Arkayev was very impressed with her. In 1996 she placed first in the all-around and first on floor exercise at the Russian Youth Championships (in the Candidate for Master of Sport category) and the next year won four gold and one silver medal at the Russian Cup's junior competition. Arkayev subsequently invited her to the national team's training center, located at Round Lake.
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