Kateryna Serebrianska
Катерина Серебрянська
Personal information
Alternative name(s)Ekaterina Serebrianskaya
Country represented Ukraine
Born (1977-10-25) 25 October 1977
Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
DisciplineRhythmic gymnastics
Retired1998
Medal record
International gymnastics competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 0 0
World Championships 8 6 4
European Championships 10 5 3
European Cup Final 3 0 0
Grand Prix Final 3 0 0
Goodwill Games 2 1 2
Total 27 12 9
Representing  Ukraine
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1996 AtlantaAll-around
World Championships
Gold medal – first place1993 AlicanteRope
Gold medal – first place1994 ParisHoop
Gold medal – first place1994 ParisBall
Gold medal – first place1994 ParisClubs
Gold medal – first place1994 ParisRibbon
Gold medal – first place1995 ViennaAll-around
Gold medal – first place1995 ViennaBall
Gold medal – first place1996 BudapestBall
Silver medal – second place1992 Brussels3 ropes/3 balls
Silver medal – second place1993 AlicanteAll-around
Silver medal – second place1993 AlicanteHoop
Silver medal – second place1993 AlicanteTeam
Silver medal – second place1995 ViennaRope
Silver medal – second place1996 BudapestRope
Bronze medal – third place1993 AlicanteBall
Bronze medal – third place1993 AlicanteRibbon
Bronze medal – third place1995 ViennaTeam
Bronze medal – third place 1995 ViennaClubs
European Championships
Gold medal – first place1994 ThessalonikiBall
Gold medal – first place1994 ThessalonikiRibbon
Gold medal – first place1994 ThessalonikiTeam
Gold medal – first place1996 AskerAll-Around
Gold medal – first place1996 AskerRope
Gold medal – first place1996 AskerBall
Gold medal – first place1996 AskerRibbon
Gold medal – first place1996 AskerTeam
Gold medal – first place1997 PatrasRope
Gold medal – first place1998 PortoHoop
Silver medal – second place1996 AskerClubs
Silver medal – second place1997 PatrasClubs
Silver medal – second place1997 PatrasRibbon
Silver medal – second place1998 PortoTeam
Silver medal – second place1998 PortoRope
Bronze medal – third place1994 ThessalonikaClubs
Bronze medal – third place1997 PatrasAll-around
Bronze medal – third place1998 PortoRibbon
European Team Championships
Bronze medal – third place1997 ParisTeam
European Cup Final
Gold medal – first place1995 TelfordAll-around
Gold medal – first place1995 TelfordRope
Gold medal – first place1995 TelfordClubs
Grand Prix Final
Gold medal – first place1994 ViennaAll-around
Gold medal – first place1995 DeventerAll-around
Gold medal – first place1996 ViennaAll-around
Goodwill Games
Gold medal – first place 1994 Saint Petersburg Clubs
Gold medal – first place 1994 Saint Petersburg Ribbon
Silver medal – second place 1994 Saint Petersburg All-around
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Saint Petersburg Hoop
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Saint Petersburg Ball

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.

Life and career

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 Games in Saint 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 Championships in Vienna, 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.

Serebrinaskaya at the 1996 World Championships

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.

Records

Routine music information

Year Apparatus Music title[2]
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 Beauty by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Ribbon Theme from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein
1993 Ball Ne me quitte pas by Jacques Brel
Hoop Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Clubs March of the Trolls (remix) by Edvard Grieg
Ribbon Macavity, the Mystery Cat from Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Detailed Olympic results

Year Competition Description Location Music[3] Apparatus Score-Final Score-Qualifying
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

Notes and references

a.   ^ Ukrainian: Катерина Олегівна Серебрянська, Kateryna Olehivna Serebrianska.
    Russian: Екатерина Олеговна Серебрянская, Yekaterina Olegovna Serebryanskaya.

References

  1. ""USA Gymnastics - September/October 1994 by USA Gymnastics - Issuu"".
  2. "Serebrianksaya RG music list". rgforum.
  3. "Serebrianskaya RG music list". rgforum.
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