Salome Pazhava
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| Nickname(s) | Sali | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  2013 Season)[5] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Salome Pazhava (
2015 World Championships
.
Personal life
Pazhava was born to Georgian parents in Moscow, Russia. She began gymnastics at age one, after participating in dance and swimming. In 2008, she moved to Georgia with her grandmother. She speaks Georgian, Russian, and English.[6]
Junior career
Pazhava started appearing in international junior competitions in 2005. She was a member of the Georgian junior team that won the team bronze medal at the 2012 European Junior Championships in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. She finished 6th in the ribbon final.
Senior career
2013
In 2013, Pazhava debuted as a senior and competed in the
Georgia's Got Talent!
, performing a traditional Georgian dance.
2014
In 2014, Pazhava started her season at the
2014 Corbeil-Essonnes World Cup
and finished 9th in all-around with an overall score of 67.666 points.
At the
2014 World Championships, finishing 13th in the all-around finals with a total score 67.182 points. On October 17–19, she finished 6th in the all-around finals behind Katsiaryna Halkina at the 2014 Aeon Cup in Tokyo
, Japan.
2015
In 2015, Pazhava began the season at the
2015 Pesaro World Cup
with a score of 69.500 points, and qualified to two apparatus finals, placing 7th in ball and clubs.
At the
2015 Grand Prix Berlin
, Pazhava finished 6th in all-around with a total of 70.900 points and qualified to all four event finals.
On June 15–21, Pazhava competed at the inaugural
2015 World Cup series in Kazan
, Pazhava finished 6th in the all-around with a total of 69.950 points and qualified to three apparatus finals. She placed 8th in hoop after a drop and finishing the routine without apparatus, and 7th in ball with two drops. Performing her last routine, she won the bronze medal in clubs, becoming the first Georgian gymnast to win a medal at a World Cup stage.
In September, Pazhava qualified to two apparatus finals at the
2015 World Championships in Stuttgart; she finished 7th in hoop (17.766) and 5th in clubs (18.000). In the all-around finals, she narrowly missed the bronze medal, scoring a total of 71.782 points and finishing in 4th place behind Belarusian Melitina Staniouta.[8] At the 2015 Aeon Cup, held in October in Tokyo
, Pazhava finished 5th in the individual all-around finals with a total of 71.099 points.
2016
In 2016, Pazhava began her season at the
Brno Grand Prix
. She finished 6th in the all-around with a total of 70.750 points and she qualified to three apparatus finals, taking bronze in clubs, and placing 4th in ball and hoop.
In May, Pazhava finished 4th in the all-around with a total of 72.850 points at the
2016 Guadalajara World Cup
, she finished 6th in the all-around and qualified to all four apparatus finals.
In June, Pazhava finished fifth at the
2016 Kazan World Cup
with a total of 72.000 points. She qualified to all apparatus finals; during her last event in ribbon, Pazhava scored 0 points as her music stopped halfway even as she performed her ribbon routine twice.
On August 19–20, Pazhava competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[12] She finished in 14th place with a score of 69.115 in the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around qualifications, thus was unable to get into the top 10 finals.[6] She competed at the Olympics with an injury.[6]
2017
In 2017 Season, recovering from her previous injury, Pazhava suffered another setback injuring her arm, thus withdrawing her name in the entry list for the
2017 World Championships in Pesaro, Italy. She qualified in the clubs final and finished in 8th place, and also finished a disappointing 15th place in the all-around final after multiple errors and drops of her apparatus.[13] On November 5–6, Pazhava competed at the 2017 Dalia Kutkaite Cup
finishing 7th in the all-around.
2018
Pazhava started the season with a competition at the
2018 Holon Grand Prix
finishing 6th in the all-around, she qualified in 2 apparatus finals and won her first Grand Prix medal gold (in clubs), she finished 5th in the hoop final.
2021
At the
2020 Olympic Games, Pazhava finished seventeenth in the qualification round for the individual all-around.[14]
Routine music information
| Year | Apparatus | Music title |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Hoop | Run Boy Run by Woodkid |
| Ball | The Untold by Secession Studios | |
| Clubs | Carlifornia Dreamin by 33 Tours | |
| Ribbon | Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. | |
| 2018 | Hoop | In This Shirt by The Irrepressibles |
| Ball | Megi Gogitidze by Nu Geshinia | |
| Clubs | Hero With A Red Mask by Rok Nardin | |
| Ribbon | Fuyu no Samu - Sa by Martin Barra | |
| 2017 | Hoop | In This Shirt by The Irrepressibles |
| Ball | Nu Geshinia by Megi Gogitidze | |
| Clubs | Hero with a Red Mask by Rok Nardin | |
| Ribbon | Epilogue, The End (La La Land OST) by Justin Hurwitz | |
| 2016 | Hoop | Unstoppable by E.S. Posthumus |
| Ball | Chalkboard by Jóhann Jóhannsson | |
| Clubs | Rachuli, Mokle Kaba by Jgufi Bani | |
| Ribbon | Supremacy by Muse | |
| 2015 | Hoop | Unstoppable by E.S. Posthumus |
| Ball | Taka Yak Ty by Okean Elzy | |
| Clubs | Rachuli, Mokle Kaba by Jgufi Bani | |
| Ribbon | Hit The Road Jack by Ray Charles
| |
| 2014 | Hoop | Pango Pango by The Atomic Fireballs |
| Ball | Taka Yak Ti by Okean Elzy | |
| Clubs | Rachuli, Mokle Kaba by Jgufi Bani | |
| Ribbon | Black Or White by Michael Jackson | |
| 2013 | Hoop | Pango Pango by The Atomic Fireballs |
| Ball | Taka Yak Ti by Okean Elzy | |
| Clubs | Rachuli, Mokle Kaba by Jgufi Bani | |
| Ribbon | Black Or White by Michael Jackson |
References
- ^ "FIG World standings for rhythmic gymnastics". International Federation of Gymnastics. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
- ^ "FIG World standings for rhythmic gymnastics" (PDF). International Federation of Gymnastics. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- ^ "FIG World standings for rhythmic gymnastics" (PDF). International Federation of Gymnastics. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ^ "FIG World standings for rhythmic gymnastics" (PDF). International Federation of Gymnastics. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
- ^ "FIG World standings for rhythmic gymnastics" (PDF). International Federation of Gymnastics. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
- ^ a b c "PAZHAVA Salome". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
- ^ "World Champion Kudryavtseva is also Europe's Gymnastics Queen". gymmedia. 14 June 2014.
- ^ "2015 World Championships All-around results". Intlgymnast. 11 September 2015.
- ^ "Rhythmic Gymnastics Grand Prix starts into Olympic Season". Gymmedia. 21 February 2016..
- ^ "Israel exceeds expectations at their first ever European Championships". European Union of Gymnastics. 22 June 2016.
- ^ "Berlin Masters 2016 is a World Cup Event now". Gymmedia. 4 July 2016.
- ^ "Salome PAZHAVA - Olympic | Georgia". International Olympic Committee. 2017-06-24. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
- ^ "35th WORLDS of RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS 2017". gymmedia. 3 September 2017.
- ^ "Rhythmic Gymnastics — Individual All-Around — Qualification — Results" (PDF). 2020 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
External links
- Salome Phajava at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Salome Pazhava at Olympics.com
- Salome Pazhava at Olympic.org (archived)
- Salome Pazhava at Olympedia
- Salome Pazhava on Instagram
