AVERINA Arina Alekseevna

Athlete

Gymnastics

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Updated: 02.12.2024
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Name
АВЕРІНА Аріна Олексіївна
АВЕРИНА Арина Алексеевна
AVERINA Arina Alekseevna

Date and place of birth
13.08.1999
Zavolzhye, Nizhny Novgorod region, russian federation

Citizenship
russian federation

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Position
Russian rhythmic gymnast
Five-time world champion
Nine-time European champion
Two-time European all-around champion
Honored master of sports
Three-time absolute champion of russia

Reasons
Participant in the 2023 CIS Games in Minsk, Belarus.
She is a member of the russian national rhythmic gymnastics team, in 2024 she announced that she was retiring from sports due to the inability to participate in international competitions.
On March 18, 2022, at the Luzhniki Stadium, together with her sister Dina Averina, she performed at a concert rally in honor of the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea by russia called "For Peace without Nazism! For russia! For the President". The sisters were wearing jackets with the letter "Z" made of ribbons in the colors of the russian flag, a symbol of the russian invasion of Ukraine.
Represented by the Central Sports Club of the russian Army (CSKA), which is subordinated to the russian Ministry of Defense.
CSKA provides active assistance to the military and veterans of the so-called "SMO" by purchasing and delivering special equipment, FPV drones, generators and humanitarian supplies to the front, conducts military-patriotic education of children and youth, organizes and conducts sports and patriotic events and promotes international cooperation, in particular within the framework of the World War Games project.
In May 2024, the Averina sisters attended putin's inauguration ceremony.
In 2019, the Averina sisters received personal congratulations from putin on their victory at the World Cup in Baku.
The Averina sisters have received public support from putin, who has spoken out about the bias of judges who allegedly underestimated the Averinas' scores at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and called for the competition records to be made public.
In 2021, Arina Averina was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, for her participation in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The Averina sisters head the expert council on sports in the Youth Parliament of the State Duma of the russian federation, and in 2023 they launched the Arina and Dina Averina Cup All-russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition in Nizhny Novgorod.


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