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Kateryna Serebrianska[a] (born 25 October 1977 in Simferopol) is a Ukrainian former individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 1996 Olympics gold medalist, the 1995 World All-around champion, a two time (1995,1996) European All-around champion, and three time Grand Prix Final All-around champion.
Serebrianska was born in Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. She started gymnastics in 1982 at age 4, with her mother Liubov as her coach at the Gratsia club in Simferopol. She later moved to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, to train at the Deriugina School.
In 1994, Serebrianska participated at the 1994 Goodwill GamesinSaint Petersburg and won gold medals in clubs and ribbon, a silver medal in all-around and bronze medals in hoop and ball.[1]
Serebrianska tied Bulgaria's Maria Petrova for the all-round title at the 1995 World ChampionshipsinVienna, Austria. She also won several individual apparatus titles: rope at the 1993 World Championships in Alicante, Spain; hoop (tied with Belarusian Larissa Lukyanenko and Bulgarian Maria Petrova), ball (tied with Ukrainian teammate Olena Vitrychenko), clubs and ribbon in the 1994 World Championships in Paris, France; ball (tied with Russians Yanina Batyrchina and Amina Zaripova) at the 1995 Worlds in Vienna, Austria; and again in 1996 in Hungary. Her sweep of all 4 event finals golds at the 1994 World Championships is one of only two times in history this has been achieved, the other being Alexandra Timoshenko, and was all the more miracle after major mistakes in the All Around final put her in 4th place after being favored to win (ironically Timoshenko in 1991 also failed to win the All Around title, coming 2nd to teammate Oksana Skaldina, prior to sweeping the event final golds). She also won the 1996 European all-round title, together with the team gold, and gold on rope, ball and ribbon finals.
As the gold medal favorite after her dominance in 1994, 1995, and early 1996, at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Serebrianska's technical strength, cleanliness, difficulty, and mature presentation won her the gold medal, although she had a slight fumble with the ribbon before her final toss. She was ahead of her closest rival, Russia's Yanina Batyrchina by 0.150 points going into the ribbon routine, who competed before her and dropped the ribbon.
Serebrianska, Alina Kabaeva, Olexandra Tymoshenko and Evgenia Kanaeva are the only rhythmic gymnasts to win World, European and Olympic titles.
At the 1997 European Championships in Greece, Serebrianska dropped a club at the end of her all-round clubs routine (9.825), but scores of 9.950 on both the rope and ribbon, and a 9.912 on hoop gave her an accumulated score of 29.637 and hence the bronze medal by 0.012 ahead of French competitor, Eva Serrano. In the apparatus finals, she won the gold in the rope event with a perfect 10.000, and took silver in the clubs and ribbon events. She did not compete at the 1997 World Championships due to an illness suffered by her mother. In her final major competition, the 1998 European Championships, she reached each of the apparatus final events. She won gold in the hoop final (9.950) and silver in rope (9.933). She also won bronze in the ribbon event (9.933), tying with the same score as Evgenia Pavlina of Belarus and Yanina Batyrchina of Russia, but winning the medal due to the new tie-breaker scoring system. She placed 6th (lost in the tie-breaker to Belarusian, Yulia Raskina) in the all-round final.
Serebrianska retired from rhythmic gymnastics in 1998.
Year | Apparatus | Music title[2] |
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1998 | Hoop | Nature Boy by Nat King Cole |
Clubs | Summertime from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin | |
Rope | Jugglers in Obsidian by Andreas Vollenwieder | |
Ribbon | Indigo Bay | |
1997 | Hoop | ? |
Clubs | Summertime from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin | |
Rope | Tipsy Bumblebee by Günter Noris Gala Big Band | |
Ribbon | Nature Boy by Nat King Cole | |
1996 | Ball | Atrocious Romance |
Rope | Kalinka / Katyusha (Russian traditional) | |
Clubs | Nur kein genieren from Elisabeth | |
Ribbon | Tipsy Bumblebee by Günter Noris Gala Big Band | |
1995 | Ball | Dream by Vladimir Bustriakov |
Rope | Kalinka / Katyusha (Russian traditional) | |
Clubs | Nur kein genieren from Elisabeth | |
Ribbon | Rock'n'Roll by Vladimir Bustriakov | |
1994 | Ball | Ne me quitte pas by Jacques Brel |
Hoop | Besame Mucho by Consuela Velazques | |
Clubs | the Sleeping BeautybyPyotr Tchaikovsky | |
Ribbon | Theme from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein | |
1993 | Ball | Ne me quitte pas by Jacques Brel |
Hoop | Phantom of the OperabyAndrew Lloyd Webber | |
Clubs | March of the Trolls (remix) by Edvard Grieg | |
Ribbon | Macavity, the Mystery Cat from Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Year | Competition Description | Location | Music[3] | Apparatus | Score-Final | Score-Qualifying |
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1996 | Olympics | Atlanta | All-around | 39.683 | 39.113 | |
Tipsy Bumblebee | Ribbon | 9.833 | 9.699 | |||
Kalinka/Katyusha | Rope | 9.950 | 9.799 | |||
Atrocious Romance | Ball | 9.950 | 9.783 | |||
Nur kein genieren | Clubs | 9.950 | 9.832 |
a. | ^ Ukrainian: Катерина Олегівна Серебрянська, Kateryna Olehivna Serebrianska. Russian: Екатерина Олеговна Серебрянская, Yekaterina Olegovna Serebryanskaya. |
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1973 Elena Karpukhina (URS) 1995 Kateryna Serebrianska (UKR) |
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1975 Carmen Rischer (FRG) 1987 Bianka Panova (BUL) 1989 Oksana Skaldina (URS) 1989 Alexandra Timoshenko (URS) 1992 Larisa Lukyanenko (BLR) 1994 Maria Petrova (BUL) 1994 Kateryna Serebrianska (UKR) |
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1983 Lilia Ignatova (BUL) 1983 Lilia Ignatova (BUL) 1994 Olena Vitrychenko (UKR) 1995 Kateryna Serebrianska (UKR) 1995 Amina Zaripova (RUS) 2014 Margarita Mamun (RUS) |
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1979 Irina Deriugina (URS) 1979 Iliana Raeva (BUL) 1983 Lilia Ignatova (BUL) 1983 Lilia Ignatova (BUL) 1987 Bianka Panova (BUL) 1995 Amina Zaripova (RUS) 2014 Margarita Mamun (RUS) |
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1983 Diliana Georgieva (BUL) 1983 Bianka Panova (BUL) 1987 Bianka Panova (BUL) 1993 Maria Petrova (BUL) |
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1987 Bianka Panova (BUL) 1989 Oksana Skaldina (URS) 1989 Alexandra Timoshenko (URS) 1992 Larisa Lukyanenko (BLR) 1997 Olena Vitrychenko (UKR) |