Lidiia Iakovleva (gymnast)

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Lidiia Iakovleva
Brisbane, Australia
DisciplineRhythmic gymnastics
ClubAspire Gymnastics Academy
Head coach(es)Iuliia Iakovleva
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham Team
Junior Pacific Rim Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Everett Clubs
Representing International Olympic Committee Mixed-NOCs team
Youth Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Buenos Aires Mixed team

Lidiia Iakovleva (born 28 August 2003)[1] is a Russian-born Australian rhythmic gymnast who represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She represented Australia at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and won a bronze medal in the mixed multi-discipline team event. She won a silver medal in the team event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Early life

Lidiia Iakovleva was born in Petrozavodsk, and she began rhythmic gymnastics when she was five years old.[2] She moved with her family to Australia when she was seven years old.[2] She is coached by her mother, Iuliia Iakovleva, at Aspire Gymnastics Academy in Brisbane.[3]

Career

Iakovleva (bottom row, second from the right) and the bronze medal-winning mixed team at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Junior

Iakovleva competed at the

2018 Youth Olympic Games, she finished twenty-third in the all-around qualification round and won the bronze medal in the mixed multi-discipline team event.[1][5]

Senior

Iakovleva became eligible for senior competition in 2019. She finished fifty-ninth in the all-around at the 2019 Pesaro World Cup.[6] Then at the World Challenge Cup in Kazan, she finished forty-seventh in the all-around.[7] She was selected to compete at the 2019 World Championships in Baku. The Australian team finished thirtieth, and she finished sixty-fifth in the all-around during the qualification round.[8]

Iakovleva won the gold medal in the all-around at the 2021 Australian Championships.

2020 Olympic Games, she finished twenty-third in the qualification round for the individual all-around.[11] Her total score of 78.775 was a personal best.[12]

In 2022, Iakovleva was awarded with a Tier 3 scholarship for the Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship and Mentoring Program.[13] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b "Lidiia Iakovleva". Olympedia. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Iakovleva Lidiia". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Lidiia Iakovleva". Gymnastics Australia. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  4. ^ "2016 Pacific Rim Event Finals Event Results" (PDF). USA Gymnastics. 10 April 2016. p. 3. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Lidiia Iakovleva prepares to face the world". Gymnastics Queensland. 8 August 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Results For FIG World Cup 2019 Pesaro (ITA)". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Results For FIG World Challenge Cup 2019 Kazan (2019)". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  8. ^ "37th FIG Rhymic Gymnastics World Championships Baku (AZE), 16-22 September 2019 Team Ranking" (PDF). USA Gymnastics. International Gymnastics Federation. 17 September 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  9. ^ "2021 Australian Gymnastics Championships - Rhythmic Gymnastics Results - All Around" (PDF). Gymnastics Australia. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  10. ^ "List of the Rhythmic Gymnastics 2020 Olympic Qualifiers". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  11. ^ "Rhythmic Gymnastics — Individual All-Around — Qualification — Results" (PDF). 2020 Summer Olympics. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  12. ^ "Lidiia Iakovleva". Commonwealth Games Australia. 18 June 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  13. ^ "Lidiia Iakovleva". Sport Australia Hall of Fame. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  14. ^ "Reinvigorated Gymnastics Team Leaps and Bounds Its Way to Birmingham". Commonwealth Games Australia. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.

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