Yulia Bravikova

Yulia Bravikova
— Gymnast —
Full name	Yulia Bravikova
Alternative name(s)	Iulia Bravikova
Country represented	Russia
Born	(1999-07-17) 17 July 1999 Oryol Oblast
Residence	Moscow
Discipline	Rhythmic gymnastics
Level	Junior International Elite
Club	Novogorsk
Head coach(es)	Irina Viner
Assistant coach(es)	Marina Nikolaeva
Choreographer	Veronika Shatkova

Yulia Bravikova (Russian: Юлия Юрьевна Бравикова; born 17 July 1999) is a Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2014 European Junior hoop champion and a two-time (2013, 2014) Russian Junior National All-around champion.

Career

Junior

Bravikova began appearing in international junior competitions in the 2011 Season, she competed in her first junior nationals at the 2012 Russian Junior Championships finishing 12th in all-around behind Arina Averina.^[1] she competed in junior division at the 2012 Aeon Cup and won the silver medal in all-around behind Katsiaryna Halkina of Belarus.

In 2013 Season, Bravikova started her season winning the 2013 Russian Junior Championships scoring ahead of Aleksandra Soldatova.^[2] She won the junior all-around titles at the 2013 Moscow Grand Prix and 2013 Bucharest World Cup.^[3] In October 25–27, Bravikova competed at the World Club Championship, the 2013 Aeon Cup in Tokyo, Japan representing team Gazprom where she won the junior all-around division and (together with Senior teammates Yana Kudryavtseva and Margarita Mamun) and won the team gold.^[4] She culminated her successful season winning the junior all-around title at the 2013 Gymnasiade held in Brasilia, Brazil.

In 2014 Season, Bravikova repeated as Russian Junior National champion, She won the all-around gold at the 2014 Moscow Grand Prix.^[5] She continued her success winning gold in Team and apparatus finals in the 2014 World Cup series in Debrecen, Pesaro. In June 10–16, Bravikova competed at the 2014 European Junior Championships and together with teammates (Veronika Polyakova, Irina Annenkova and Olesya Petrova) won Russia the Team gold. She qualified to 1 event final and won gold in hoop. In early July, Bravikova suffered a leg injury, she stayed in hospital was discharged 2 days later. She then was withdrawn from the entry list for Russia at the 2014 Youth Olympics and was replaced by Irina Annenkova.

Senior

In 2015, after spending last season recovering form her surgery; Bravikova appeared as Define Hors concours (Out of Competition, her scores were not counted, e.g.: appearing only for an Exhibition) at the 2015 World Cup Final in Kazan. Early of the 2016 season, Bravikova underwent another surgical operation to correct her injury rehabilitation, she returned to competition at the 2016 Russian Championships finishing 10th in the all-around.

Routine music information

Competitive Highlights

References

External links

• Yulia Bravikova at the International Federation of Gymnastics
• Rhythmic Gymnastics Results
• Yulia Bravikova on Instagram