Yevgeniya Kanayeva

About Yevgeniya Kanayeva

Evgenia Olegovna Kanaeva OMF is a Russian rhythmic gymnast, known for her consistency, elegant routines and high level of technical difficulty. She is the only individual rhythmic gymnast in history to win two Olympic all-around gold medals, winning at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she finished an unprecedented 3.75 points ahead of silver medalist Inna Zhukova, and at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she also became the oldest gymnast to win the Olympic gold. On 4 July 2013, Kanaeva received the International Fair Play Award for "Sport and Life"

European titles:

Kanaeva holds the record for most World titles with seventeen and thirteen European titles. Kanaeva shares the record for most individual world all-around titles with Maria Petrova (1995 tied with Ekaterina Serebrianskaya) and Maria Gigova (1971 tied with Galina Shugurova), and Kanaeva is the only gymnast to have won all three titles without being tied, impossible due to the tie breaking system even though she never was tied for a title.

World Cup:

Kanaeva is the only gymnast to hold both the World Cup Final All-around and Grand Prix Final All-around title in a single season for three consecutive years. Kanaeva is the only gymnast to receive a perfect score under the 30-point judging system, having done so twice: in the 2011 Grand Prix Final in Brno and in the 2012 Grand Prix in Vorarlberg.

Kanaeva is the only gymnast to hold both the World Cup Final All-around and Grand Prix Final All-around title in a single season for three consecutive years. Kanaeva is the only gymnast to receive a perfect score under the 30-point judging system, having done so twice: in the 2011 Grand Prix Final in Brno and in the 2012 Grand Prix in Vorarlberg.        

Yevgeniya Kanayeva Achievements

Grand-Slam

Kanaeva is only one of the three rhythmic gymnasts to win all Grand-Slam titles after Alina Kabaeva and Ekaterina Serebrianskaya (Olympics, World Championships, European Championships, World Cup Final and Grand Prix Final).

24th RG European Championships Torino, Italy 2008

Kanaeva became the first RG to score above 19 points ( 19.050 in Clubs ) under the 20-point judging system.

29th RG World Championships Mie, Japan 2009

Kanaeva set a record in the 29th RG World Championships 2009 in Mie by winning 6 gold medals. She is the first gymnast in RG history to achieve such results in one single World Championship.

31st World Championship Montpellier, France 2011

• She is the only gymnast in the entire rhythmic gymnastics history who has won the most World Championships titles; 17 gold medals.
  
• She equals the record of Maria Petrova, who won 3 world titles for three consecutive years (1993/1994/1995), and of Maria Gigova (1969/1971/1973).
  
• She is the first gymnast to have won 3 consecutive world titles without sharing the triumph with other gymnasts. Petrova shared the 1995 All-around world title with Ekaterina Serebrianskaya and Gigova shared the 1971 All-around world title with Galima Shugurova.
  
• It is the second time when Kanaeva won 6 gold medals out of 6. She equals her own record.
  
• She has won gold medals in all of the apparatus ( 5 apparatus: rope, hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon), a record only tied by Bianka Panova and Ekaterina Serebrianskaya.
  
• She levels with Maria Petrova in hoop: both have won 3 gold medals in the World Championships.
  
• She levels with Ekaterina Serebrianskaya and Lilia Ignatova in ball: all of them have won 3 gold medals in the World Championships.
  

World Cup and Grand Prix

She is the only gymnast to hold both the World Cup Final All-around and Grand Prix Final All-around title in a single season for three consecutive years.

Grand Prix Final Brno, Czech 2011

On 16 October 2011 Evgenia Kanaeva scored 30, she got perfect 10 in difficulty, artistry and execution at the ribbon final, Grand Prix Final Brno 2011, Czech. She is the first gymnast in the history of rhythmic gymnastic to achieve full mark under 30 points judging system.

Grand Prix Vorarlberg, Austria 2012

On 30 June 2012, Evgenia Kanaeva again scored a perfect 30 under the 30-point judging system at the hoop final, making history again as the only gymnast to achieve full mark in a scoring system twice.

Olympic Games

Kanaeva is the only rhythmic gymnast to win 2 gold medals (also consecutively) in an individual all around (Beijing 2008 and London 2012).

On her second Olympics, she became the oldest Rhythmic Gymnast to win a gold medal at 22 years, 4 months and 7 days (Record previously held by Yulia Barsukova of the Russian Federation).

Gold Medal records:

• Olympic Games-2
  
• World Championships-17
  
• European Championships-13
  
• World Cup Final-18
  
• Grand Prix Final-15
  
• World Games-4
  
• Summer Universiade-9