Victoria Ilina

Victoria Valeryevna Ilina (Russian: Виктория Валерьевна Ильина; born March 28, 1999 in Saransk, Russia) is a Russian Group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2014 Youth Olympic Group all-around champion and the 2013 European Junior Group all-around champion.

Victoria Ilina
Full nameVictoria Valeryevna Ilina
Country represented Russia
Born (1999-03-28) March 28, 1999
Saransk, Mordovia, Russia
HometownSaransk
DisciplineRhythmic gymnastics
ClubGazprom
GymNovogorsk
Head coach(es)Irina Viner
Assistant coach(es)Natalia Kukushkina
ChoreographerMikhail Pervykh
Medal record
Rhythmic gymnastics
Representing  Russia
Junior European Championships
2013 Vienna Group All-around
2013 Vienna 5 Hoops
Youth Olympic Games
2014 Nanjing Group All-around

Junior

Ilina started out competing as an individual gymnast. Her first major international tournament was competing in the junior division at the 2012 Moscow Grand Prix. In 2013, Ilina began competing as a Group gymnast, she was member of the Russian Group at the 2013 European Junior Championships with Russia taking the gold medal scoring a total of (33.916) ahead of Belarus (32.700) and Bulgaria (32.532) in the all-around competition. They won another gold medal in 5 hoops final.[1]

In 2014, Ilina competed with the Russian Group at the 2014 Moscow Grand Prix taking gold in Group all-around, following their placement, the Russian Group earned a qualification to compete for the Youth Olympic Games. On August 26–27, Ilina was member of the Russian Group (with Daria Anenkova, Daria Dubova, Sofya Skomorokh, Natalia Safonova) that competed at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China where they won gold in Group All-around finals.[2][3]

References
  1. "Russia won all Juniors Titles with its Group". gymmedia. 2 June 2013. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
  2. "Russian Rhythmic gymnasts repeat golden sweep at Youth Olympic Games". International Federation of Gymnastics. 27 August 2014. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
  3. "Russians take more gold in rhythmic gymnastics". JSChina. 28 August 2014. Archived from the original on 5 September 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014.


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