Dina Averina

Dina won gold in team, hoop and ribbon at the 2019 European Championships. She also competed at the 2019 European Games, winning gold in all-around, hoop and ribbon, silver in clubs and bronze in ball.^[citation needed] At the 2019 World Championships in Baku, she won the All-Around Gold for the third year in a row, as well as gold in the ball, clubs and ribbon final and bronze in the hoop final. She also won Team Gold, together with Ekaterina Selezneva and her sister Arina Averina.

2021: Controversial Silver at Tokyo Olympics

Dina started the season at the Moscow Grand Prix, where she won gold ahead of her silver and bronze compatriots Arina Averina and Lala Kramarenko. In the finals of apparatus, she won gold in ball and ribbon, silver in hoop and bronze in clubs. At the Tashkent World Cup, she also won full gold ahead of Arina Averina and Anastasiia Salos, and gold on hoop, silver on ball and clubs, and bronze on ribbon in the finals. In the Pesaro World Cup, she also achieved full gold ahead of Arina Averina and Alina Harnasko, and in the finals, she achieved gold in hoop, silver in ball and ribbon, and bronze in clubs. From 9–13 June, she competed in the European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, in Varna, Bulgaria, achieving bronze in the general final, behind Boryana Kaleyn, and in the apparatus finals she achieved gold in hoop, ball and ribbon, and silver in clubs. By teams with Lala Kramarenko, Arina Averina and the Russian group, they achieved first place. At the Moscow Challenge World Cup, the last competition prior to the Olympic Games, she achieved complete gold ahead of Lala Kramarenko and Ekaterina Vedeneeva, and took gold in all apparatus finals. Her sister Arina, was removed from the competition list the day before, and was replaced by Kramarenko.^{[citation needed]}

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Dina Averina was the Top Qualifier, ahead of her sister Arina Averina who was second. In the All-Around Final Dina lost to Linoy Ashram from Israel and finished second with a silver medal, with a total score of 107.650.^[29] Thus Russia finished for the first time without a gold medal in the sport since 1996.^[30] The Results of the Games were controversial, mainly because Ashram had a drop in her ribbon routine. The ROC and the head coach of the Russian Team, Iriner Viner accused the judges of bias towards Linoy Ashram and called the results an „injustice“.^[31] They also requested several inquiries during the final. However, many argued that Ashrams difficulty was higher than Averinas, which allowed her to win the Gold despite the drop in her ribbon routine.

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) has officially launched a complaint to the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) over the all-around rhythmic result at Tokyo 2020, with a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman calling the outcome a "forgery".^[32] The FIG responded to this, stating that „ Following this process, we can confirm that no bias or irregularities were identified in the judging panels.“ and that „The FIG has set up strict criteria for objective selection of the most qualified and unbiased judges for the Olympic Games and we are pleased by their work.“^[33] Ashram was the first non-Russian gymnast to win the gold since Ukraine's Ekaterina Serebrianskaya at Atlanta 1996.

After the Olympic Games

Later, the Averina twins returned to competition after the Olympic Games with their new coach Yulia Barsukova, at the international Olympico Cup tournament in Moscow, where Dina launched a new club routine, and her sister a new club and ribbon routine. Dina was champion ahead of Arina Averina and Elzhana Taniyeva. Dina competed in the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, where in the apparatus finals she won gold in hoop, ball and clubs, and in ribbon she won silver, surpassed by Alina Harnasko. In the all-around final, Dina again took the all-around gold and the title of World Champion for the fourth time in a row, becoming the gymnast with the most world titles (Beating the record of Maria Gigova, Maria Petrova, Evgenia Kanaeva and Yana Kudryatseva) . She also achieved team gold with Arina Averina and the Russian Group^{[citation needed]} She and her sister kept competing (although limited due to the FIG ban on Russian Belarusian athletes due to the Invasion of Ukraine) until 2023.

2024 Retirement from the Sport

On February 23, 2024, Dina Averina (like her sister Arina) announced her retirement from sports.^[34]

Gymnastics technique

Dina is known for her fast routines and dynamic apparatus handling. She has maintained a Difficulty value of 10 which was scored in her clubs routine; the last rhythmic gymnast before Dina to score a 10 in Difficulty was

Detailed Olympic results

Year	Competition Description	Location	Music	Apparatus	Rank-Final	Score-Final	Rank-Qualifying	Score-Qualifying
2020	Olympics	Tokyo		All-around	2nd	107.650	1st	106.300
			"Thunderstruck", by David Garrett	Hoop	2nd	27.200	1st	27.625
			" Pyotr Tchaikovsky	Ball	1st	28.300	2nd	27.600
			"FOGO", by Garmiani feat. Julimar Santos	Clubs	2nd	28.150	1st	28.275
			"La Cumparsita", by Yasmin Levy	Ribbon	1st	24.000	3rd	22.800

Competitive highlights

(Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)

See also

• Arina Averina

References

External links

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