Rhythmic gymnasts aspire to be the best in their craft; why not list down the Top 10 Best Rhythmic Gymnasts of All Time?
Top 10 Best Rhythmic Gymnasts of All Time: A History Still in the Making
Before we start ticking down the Top 10 Best Rhythmic Gymnasts of All Time, let’s go in depth on what the sport is.
Rhythmic gymnastics is another branch of gymnastics. It involves the use of equipment to perform a routine. Commonly, the equipment used by most rhythmic gymnasts is ropes, ribbons, hoops, and balls. Unlike the other branches of gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics use the props along with their performance, not performing on the equipment itself.
All of these wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the bright, artistic ideas of the Triumvirates of rhythmic gymnastics. They are Jean-Georges Noverre, Francois Delsarte and Rudolf Bode. All of them had one thing in common; they all believed in movement expression, wherein on dances to express oneself.
However, rhythmic gymnastics never had its own limelight until in 1929. Hinrich Medau founded his own school, The Medau School in Berlin, which aimed to train gymnasts in Modern Gymnastics, along with the use of apparatus.
Top 10 Best Rhythmic Gymnasts of All Time: Holistic Elegance
The elegance brought about by the expressive and impressive movements of rhythmic gymnastics cannot be matched by any sport. We all credit it to the performer’s constant practice to become the epitome of sophistication.
These performers wouldn’t be listed in our Top 10 Best Rhythmic Gymnasts of All Time if it weren’t for their balance and coordination, flexibility, and strength. Also, their psychological discipline and grace under pressure tops it all.
Ready? Here’s our Top 10 Best Rhythmic Gymnasts of All Time!
Anna Bessonova
Represents Ukraine
Achievements:
2003 Twice World Champion in Hoop Event Final and Clubs Final
2003 Triple European Champion — Hoops, Clubs, and Ribbon Events
2005 6-time Silver Medalist in 2005 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
2007 All-around Gold Medalist, World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship in Patras
From 1996 to 2008, won 60 medals all in all
24 World Championship medals, 24 European Championship medals 2 Olympic medals and 10 World Cup medals
Irina Tchachina
Represents Russia
Retired last early 2006
Achievements:
Won the Individual All-Around Medal last 2001 in the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships held in Madrid, Spain
She garnered a total of 27 Medals: 9 World Championships medals, 11 European Championships Medals, 4 World Games Medals, two World Cup medals, and an Olympic Medal.
Alina Kabaeva
Represents Russia
Russian Honored Master of Sports
Retired in 2007
Achievements:
Throughout her 11-year career, she already won 30 Gold Medals from every competition she had joined.
She won a total of 43 Medals: 14 World Championships medals, 21 European Championships Medals, 6 World Games Medals, two World Cup medals, and two Olympic Medals.
Tamara Yerofieieva
Represents Ukraine
Retired in 2004
Achievements:
She was scouted to join Cirque De Soleil from 2005 to 2007.
Ranked 6th in the All-Around at the 2000 Sydney Olympics
Yevgeniya Kanayeva
Represents Russia
Achievements:
Throughout her career, she won a total of 39 medals. Two of those are silver, the rest are gold.
Her medals were 18 World Championships medals, 13 European Championships Medals, 4 World Games Medals, three World Cup medals, and an Olympic Medal.
Oxana Kostina
Represents Russia
Achievements:
Although her career was short, she had the chance to be hailed as the New RG Queen of her time. She gained popularity with her excellent results at the 1992 European Championships.
Throughout her career, she won a total of 14 medals; 8 World Championships medals and 6 European Championships Medals.
Yulia Barsukova
Represents Russia
She is the oldest Olympic Champion in RG; 21 years, 8 months and 27 days.
Achievements:
She is now participating in a project for a Russian television, “Star on Ice”
She won a total of 16 medals; 3 World Championships medals and 8 European Championships Medals and a gold Olympic medal.
Ekaterina Serebrianskaya
Represents Ukraine
Achievements:
She is the first female rhythmic gymnast to hold the World, European and Olympic all-around titles at the same time.
She won a whopping amount of 43 medals; 18 World Championships medals and 24 European Championships Medals and a gold Olympic medal.
Elena Vitrichenko
Represents Ukraine
Achievements:
Although her career was marred by unfavorable favoritisms, she gathered 49 medals; 23 World Championships medals and 25 European Championships Medals and a bronze Olympic medal.
Olexandra Tymoshenko
Represents Unified Team
Retired in 1992 at the age of 20
Achievements:
Olexandra became the USSR All-Around Champion. She started rhythmic gymnastics at a tender age of 8, and it ended on her twenties. She has a total of 41 medals: a medal each for Olympic Games and Competitor for Soviet Union, 12 medals for World Championships and 27 for the European Championships.
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I love Barsukova’s routine, it’s so elegant! It’s one of the best RG routines in history)
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No offence, but I don’t know half of them. Where’s daria dmitrieva and son yeon jae?
I think Evgenia should be number 1 no offence, she is the best in history and two time Olympic champion and she created lots of elements including switch turn, ring pivots etc she had a huge influence on RG it even states on her wiki page and she is nicknamed “The Queen” after all. I disagree a lot with this list, some of the best gymnasts are at the bottom when they should be right at the top