Nicol Zelikman
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Nicol Zelikman (Hebrew: ניקול זליקמן; born January 30, 2001) is a former Israeli individual rhythmic gymnast. She is a two-time medalist at the 2016 European Junior Championships.
Early life
Zelikman was born and raised in
Soviet Azerbaijan.[6][7][8] They had lived there, met and married; and in 1993 they moved to Russia, and then immigrated to Israel.[6]
She has a twin brother and two older brothers.
She was introduced to rhythmic gymnastics by her mother; Elena "Lena" Zelikman, who is also her personal assistant coach.[9] In 2019, Zelikman was enlisted to the Israel Defense Forces, but also continued practicing professionally. Her head coach is Ella Samofalov.[1]
Rhythmic gymnastics career
Junior
Zelikman began appearing in international junior competitions in 2012; at the Miss Valentine and Vitry Cup. She has competed in numerous competitions since 2014 at the
2016 Lisboa Junior World Cup. Zelikman competed at the 2016 European Junior Championships where Israel finished 4th in Team event, she qualified in 2 apparatus finals where she won silver in hoop and bronze in ball.[10][11]
Senior
In 2017 season Zelikman made her senior debut at the Moscow International tournament where she won the all-around bronze medal. On March 24–26, Zelikamn competed at the
2017 Sofia World Cup finishing 6th in the all-around behind Katsiaryna Halkina of Belarus, she qualified in 2 apparatus finals and finished 5th in clubs and 6th in ribbon. Zelikman suffered an arm injury where she broke 2 bones which will require a surgery, thus she was not selected to compete at the European Championships
.
In 2018, Zelikman returned to competition at the
Maria Sergeeva
, she qualified in all apparatus finals and won gold in ball, silver in hoop, bronze in clubs and finished 7th in ribbon.
In 2019, during the European Championships which were held in Baku, Zelikman has won the bronze medal in hoop.
In 2021, Zelikman competed in the
2021 European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Varna, Bulgaria, where she placed ninth in the individual overall final behind Sofía Raffaeli. In the apparatus finals, she placed eighth in ribbon and fifth in ball. The Israeli team also won the bronze medal which was represented by herself, Linoy Ashram and the Israeli group gymnasts. At the beginning of July, she returned to the Minsk Challenge World Cup, where she came in fifth place overall behind Daría Trubnikova. She also placed fifth in the hoop and ball and ribbon finals, and won bronze in clubs. Two weeks later, she participated in the Tel Aviv Grand Prix, in her home country - the last competition before the Tokyo Olympic Games. She finished fourth behind Anastasia Salos. She also gained fourth place in the hoop final, sixth in the ball and ribbon finals, and fifth in the club final. From August 6–8, Zelikman and her teammate, Linoy Ashram, competed in the individual competition of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Having made the top ten, both Zelikman (who finished seventh in qualifications) and Ashram (who finished third) advanced to the individual overall final. In the individual overall competition, Zelikman repeated the seventh place behind Milena Baldassarri
. Ashram won the gold medal becoming the first athlete from a non-former Soviet country to do so at an Olympics. Following the Games, the Israeli Gymnastics Federation announced Zelikman has retired as an individual gymnast and will instead move to competing as a group rhythmic gymnast in the Israeli team.
In early 2022, she announced her retirement from competitive sport.[13]
Routine music information
| Year | Apparatus | Music Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Hoop | Anya by Deep Purple |
| Ball | Humanity by Scorpions | |
| Clubs | Devil Inside Me (feat. KARRA) by Kshmr Kazza | |
| Ribbon | Concerto De Espania by Michael Lides | |
| 2019 | Hoop | Dark Avenger by Phantom Power Music |
| Ball | When You Came Into My Life by Scorpions | |
| Clubs | The Look by The Baseballs | |
| Ribbon | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald main theme by James Newton Howard | |
| 2018 | Hoop | Paint it Black by Ramin DJawadi |
| Ball | Je n'attendais que vous by Garou | |
| Clubs | Proud Mary by Tina Turner | |
| Ribbon | Miserlou by Caroline Campbell, William Joseph & Tina Guo | |
| 2017 | Hoop | The Children of Captain Grant (Ouverture) by Isaak Dunayevsky |
| Ball | Si tu etais by Salvatore Adamo | |
| Clubs | Remains Of The Day by Danny Elfman | |
| Ribbon | ? | |
| 2016 | Hoop | Perdóname by David Civera |
| Ball | And The Waltz Goes On by André Rieu | |
| Clubs | ? | |
| Ribbon | ? | |
| 2015 | Hoop | Perdóname by David Civera |
| Ball | And The Waltz Goes On by André Rieu | |
| Clubs | ? | |
| Ribbon | ? |
Detailed Olympic results
| Year | Competition Description | Location | Music | Apparatus | Rank-Final | Score-Final | Rank-Qualifying | Score-Qualifying |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Olympics | Tokyo | All-around | 7th | 95.600 | 7th | 95.900 | |
| Anya by Deep Purple | Hoop | 10th | 23.700 | 8th | 24.350 | |||
| Humanity by Scorpions | Ball | 7th | 24.150 | 9th | 25.500 | |||
| Devil Inside Me (feat. KARRA) by Kshmr Kazza | Clubs | 8th | 25.600 | 8th | 24.950 | |||
| Concerto De Espania by Michael Lides | Ribbon | 5th | 22.150 | 9th | 21.100 |
See also
- Sports in Israel
- Linoy Ashram
- List of medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics Junior European Championships
References
- ^ a b ""ראיון השבוע" עם אלה סמופלוב, מאמנת ההתעמלות האמנותית של נטע ריבקין וניקול זליקמן". הוועד האולימפי (in Hebrew). 2019-06-01. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "Rhythmic Gymnastics World Ranking 2019 Individual Competitions". fig-gymnastics.com. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ^ "Rhythmic Gymnastics World Ranking 2018 Individual Competitions" (PDF). fig-gymnastics.com. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ^ "Rhythmic Gymnastics Challenge Ranking 2018 Individual Competitions" (PDF). fig-gymnastics.com. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ^ "FIG World standings for rhythmic gymnastics". International Federation of Gymnastics. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
- ^ a b "Nicole Zelikman tells about Baku roots". Archived from the original on 2019-09-20.
- ^ "ZELIKMAN Nicol". FIG Athlete Profile (in Kinyarwanda). 2018-09-17. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
- ^ "Nicole Zelikman: World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Baku will be great". Archived from the original on 2019-05-18.
- ^ "ניקול זליקמן - התעמלות אמנותית". Ynet. ynet.co.il. 19 November 2015.
- ^ "Israel exceeds expectations at their first ever European Championships". European Union of Gymnastics. 22 June 2016. Archived from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ^ "Israeli national anthem to conclude Rhythmic Europeans". European Union of Gymnastics. 19 June 2016.
- ^ "Résultats édition 2017". grandprixthiais.fr. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
- ^ "התעמלות: דריה אטמנוב זכתה בזהב בגביע האיגוד" (in Hebrew). 11 February 2022.
External links
- Nicol Zelikman at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Nicol Zelikman at the Olympic Committee of Israel (in Hebrew) (English translation)
- Nicol Zelikman at Olympics.com
- Nicol Zelikman at Olympedia
- Nicol Zelikman at The-Sports.org
- Nicol Zelikman on Instagram
