Elizaveta Pletneva
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Nickname(s) | Liza | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Saint Petersburg, Russia | January 21, 2002|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Caldwell, New Jersey, United States[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residence | Wheeling, Illinois[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years on national team | 2018 - present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | North Shore Rhythmic Gymnastics Center | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elizaveta Pletneva (born January 21, 2002)[3] is a Russian-born American group rhythmic gymnast who represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[2]
Personal life
[edit]Pletneva and her family moved to the United States when she was three years old.[4] She began rhythmic gymnastics when she was five years old.[4]
Career
[edit]Pletneva competed at the 2018 World Championships where the American group finished fourteenth in the all-around.[5] Then at the 2018 Pan American Championships in Lima, she won the silver medal in both the group all-around and the 3 balls + 2 ropes event final, both behind Mexico.[6]
Pletneva competed at the 2019 Pan American Games and won the silver medal in the group all-around and in the 5 balls event final, both times finishing behind Mexico.[7] Then at the 2019 World Championships in Baku, the American group finished tenth.[8]
At the 2021 Pan American Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Pletneva and the American group won the bronze medals in the all-around, and in both the 5 balls and the 3 hoops + 4 clubs event finals.[3] The United States qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games after Japan's host spot was reallocated. Pletneva was selected to represent the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Isabelle Connor, Camilla Feeley, Lili Mizuno, and Nicole Sladkov.[9] They finished eleventh in the qualification round for the group all-around.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Elizaveta Pletneva". Team USA. Archived from the original on July 22, 2021. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
- ^ a b c "Pletneva Elizaveta". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on July 22, 2021. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
- ^ a b "Elizaveta Pletneva". USA Gymnastics. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
- ^ a b "Pletneva Elizaveta". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
- ^ "U.S. group finishes 14th at 2018 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships". USA Gymnastics. September 15, 2018. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
- ^ "USA wins eight event medals at 2018 Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships". USA Gymnastics. September 30, 2018. Archived from the original on July 21, 2021. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
- ^ "Griskenas, Feeley win rhythmic gold medals at 2019 Pan American Games". USA Gymnastics. August 5, 2019. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
- ^ "USA finishes 10th in group all-around at 2019 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships". USA Gymnastics. September 21, 2019. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
- ^ "Laura Zeng leads first full U.S. Olympic rhythmic gymnastics team". NBC Sports. July 2, 2021. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
- ^ "Rhythmic Gymnastics — Group All-Around — Qualification — Results" (PDF). 2020 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 8, 2021. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
External links
[edit]- 2002 births
- Living people
- American rhythmic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Gymnasts from Saint Petersburg
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in gymnastics
- Russian emigrants to the United States
- People from Caldwell, New Jersey
- Sportspeople from Essex County, New Jersey
- Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts for the United States
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics Pan American Championships