Ksenia Semyonova
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Full name | Ksenia Andreyevna Semyonova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alternative name(s) | Kseniya | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Novomoskovsk, Russia | 20 October 1992|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residence | Moscow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eponymous skills | Beam: Full turn with leg held in back attitude Floor: Double turn with leg held in back attitude | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ksenia Andreyevna Semyonova (
Personal life
Semyonova was born on 20 October 1992 in Novomoskovsk, Russia. In September 2016 she married Russian gymnast Denis Ablyazin and on 21 January 2017 she gave birth to their son, Yaroslav Ablyazin.
Semyonova and Ablyazin divorced in 2018, with Semyonova having full custody of their son.
Career
2007
Semyonova's initial international success was at the WOGA Classic in January, where she placed first on
2008
Semyonova's first major meet came in April with the European championships, where she helped Russia take silver in the team competition and secured gold in both the uneven bars and the balance beam, with scores of 15.9 and 15.95 respectively. In May she competed at the Moscow Stars World Cup, where she won another gold on the bars, scoring 16.075. Her success continued in June when she finished 2nd at the Dutch Open, behind Anna Pavlova, the two of them leading an all Russian sweep of places first to sixth. Semyonova had problems during the Russian Cup in July, where she fell on beam in qualifications and on vault in the all around final, but she still managed to take silver behind her teammate Afanasyeva.
2008 Summer Olympics
Aged just 15, Semyonova represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics and placed fourth in the all-around, just out of medal contention. Semyonova's team was considered to be one of the top four competitive teams (along with China, the USA, and Romania), but narrowly missed an opportunity to medal in Beijing, trailing the third place Romanian team by less than a full point. Semyonova also placed sixth in the uneven bars competition. In the team preliminaries, she placed eighth overall on balance beam; her excellent scores almost qualified her to compete in the balance beam finals. However, only two athletes from each country may compete in the event finals. Her teammates Pavlova and Afanasyeva qualified in sixth and seventh place, edging her out of the competition. Semyonova and Afanasyeva both earned a score of 15.775, but the tie-breaking rules gave the advantage to Afanasyeva. Semyonova competed in the uneven bars finals, placing a respectable 6th, but was left behind the front runners Nastia Liukin, Yang Yilin, He Kexin and Beth Tweddle because of a deficit in start value, which Semyonova had little time to upgrade due to her determination to excel in the all-around competition. Semyonova ended the season with a wrist injury that prevented her from competing at the World Cup finals in Madrid.
2009
Semyonova started her season at the Russian National Championships, where she placed second in the all around to junior
2010
The season was marred by injuries for Semyonova, who had to sit out the earlier competitions to rest a back injury. Nevertheless, she competed at the European championships in Brussels on floor and beam and qualified for the floor final, from which she eventually gave up her spot to let her teammate Myzdrikova (who went on to win the silver medal) compete. She also contributed to Russia's gold medal in the team final. Semyonova was selected to compete at the World Championships in Rotterdam, again only competing in two events. Whereas her beam routine in the qualifying round was steady and well-executed, she counted two falls in her floor exercise on her opening pass (double layout) and on her double pike. Another steady beam routine helped her team to win Russia's first team world title in history and earned Semyonova her second world title. She retired after the competition due to injuries and growth spurts.[3]
Post-competitive career
Semyonova has become a meet judge and regularly attends meets that members of the several Russian gymnastics teams compete in. She also helps coach at her old gymnastics club.[4] In September 2016, she married fellow Russian Olympic gymnast Denis Ablyazin,[1] but they have since divorced. They have one son, Yaroslav.
Routines
As of 2009, Semyonova performed the following routines:
Apparatus | Skills | D Score |
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Vault | Yurchenko 1½ | 5.3 |
Uneven Bars | Glide kip cast to HS (KCHS), Stalder shoot to HB (Ray); KCHS, Pike stalder (Inbar) 1½, straddled jaegar; KCHS, Inbar ½, Inbar full, Deltchev; KCHS, Pak salto, KCHS, stadler 1/2 Toe shoot to HB; Toe-on full to piked double Arabian dismount | 6.5 |
Balance Beam | Swing to handstand mount; switch split leap; front aerial, flip-flop, pike back salto; side somi; aerial cartwheel; full turn with leg at Horizontal; sheep jump; onodi, flip-flop, layout stepout; sissone, split jump; roundoff (RO) double pike dismount | 6.0 |
Floor Exercise | Double Layout ; 2½ twist punch layout barani; Switch ring, Split leap full; Double turn with leg in attitude (Semyonova); 1½ twist punch layout front full; Double pike dismount | 5.6 |
Special skills
Semyonova performed the "Tkatchev to immediate giant full" combination on the uneven bars and may be the first female gymnast to perform it (but the combination [toe-on] Tkatchev to immediate giant was already performed by former gymnasts like Elise Ray in 2000's or Roza Galieva in 1993).[5] This move is usually done by men on the horizontal bar. She also performed a Deltchev salto on uneven bars, now an unusual skill in the women's sport and an uncommon piked double Arabian dismount.
Eponymous skill
Semyonova has one eponymous skill listed in the
Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty[a] |
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Floor exercise | Semenova | 2/1 turn (720°) in back attitude (knee of free leg at horizontal throughout turn) | D |
- ^ Valid for the 2022-2024 Code of Points
Competitive history
Year | Event | Team | AA | VT
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UB
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BB
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FX
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2007 | WOGA Classic |
1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | |
International Gymnix | 1st | 1st | 3rd | ||||
National Championships | 1st | 1st | 3rd | ||||
Russian Cup |
1st | ||||||
World Championships | 8th | 1st | |||||
2008 | European Championships | 2nd | 1st | 1st | |||
Moscow World Cup | 1st | 4th | |||||
Dutch Open | 2nd | ||||||
Russian Cup |
2nd | ||||||
Olympic Games | 4th | 4th | 6th | ||||
2009 | National Championships | 2nd | 1st | 1st | |||
European Championships | 1st | 2nd | 5th | 3rd | |||
World Championships | 13th | ||||||
Stuttgart World Cup | 3rd | ||||||
2010 | European Championships | 1st | |||||
World Championships | 1st | ||||||
2011 | Russian Cup | 9th | 8th | 8th |
Year | Competition description | Location | Apparatus | Rank-Final | Score-Final | Rank-Qualifying | Score-Qualifying |
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2007 | World Championships | Stuttgart | Team | 8 | 164.525 | 4 | 238.000 |
Uneven bars | 1 | 16.350 | 1 | 16.325 | |||
Balance beam | 14 | 15.300 | |||||
2008 | European Championships | Clermont-Ferrand | Team | 2 | 179.475 | 2 | 176.425 |
Uneven bars | 1 | 15.900 | 2 | 15.875 | |||
Balance beam | 1 | 15.950 | 9 | 15.025 | |||
Floor exercise | 16 | 14.475 | |||||
Olympic Games | Beijing | Team | 4 | 180.625 | 3 | 244.400 | |
All-around | 4 | 61.925 | 4 | 61.475 | |||
Uneven bars | 6 | 16.325 | 2 | 16.475 | |||
Balance beam | 8 | 15.775 | |||||
Floor exercise | 29 | 14.475 | |||||
2009 | European Championships | Milan | All-around | 1 | 58.175 | 1 | 57.625 |
Uneven bars | 2 | 15.500 | 8 | 14.425 | |||
Balance beam | 5 | 14.125 | 3 | 14.475 | |||
Floor exercise | 3 | 14.625 | 4 | 14.400 | |||
World Championships | London | All-around | 13 | 54.525 | 10 | 54.900 | |
Uneven bars | 10 | 14.200 | |||||
Balance beam | 11 | 14.075 | |||||
Floor exercise | 46 | 12.775 | |||||
2010 | World Championships | Rotterdam | Team | 1 | 175.397 | 1 | 234.521 |
Balance beam | 13 | 14.458 | |||||
Floor exercise | 116 | 12.566 | |||||
European Championships | Birmingham | Team | 1 | 169.700 | 1 | 168.325 | |
Balance beam | 17 | 13.600 | |||||
Floor exercise | WD | 5 | 13.700 |
See also
- List of Olympic female gymnasts for Russia
References
- ^ a b Turner, Amanda (3 November 2016). "Mustafina Marries Bobsledder Zaitsev". International Gymnast. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
- ^ "Kseniya Semyonova". sports-reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
- ^ "Where is Ksenia Semenova?". WOGymnastika. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ^ "Sunday Spotlight: Ksenia Semenova (RUS)". I FLIP for Gymnastics. 2 November 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ^ NBC Olympics Biography
- ^ "2022-2024 Code of Points Women's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation. pp. 159, 211. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
External links
- Ksenia Semenova at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Ksenia Semenova at Olympics.com
- Ksenia Semenova at Olympic.org (archived)
- Kseniya Semyonova at Olympedia