IAKOVLEVA Lidiia

Australia

Rhythmic Gymnastics

Date of Birth: 28 Aug 2003

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Youth Olympian

Height (m/ft): 1.58/5'2''

Place of birth: PETROZAVODSK

Birth Country:

Russian Federation

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Rhythmic Gymnastics	Individual All-Around

Schedule

Change

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Ariake Gymnastics Centre	Individual All-Around Qualification - Rotation 1	Finished
Followed By	Ariake Gymnastics Centre	Individual All-Around Qualification - Rotation 2	Finished
	Ariake Gymnastics Centre	Individual All-Around Qualification - Rotation 3	Finished
Followed By	Ariake Gymnastics Centre	Individual All-Around Qualification - Rotation 4	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	Indv. AA
2018	Buenos Aires, ARG	23

World Championships

Year	Location	Indv. AA	Ball	Clubs	Hoop	Ribbon	Team AA
2019	Baku, AZE	65	57	62	84	114	30

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017

Year	Indv. AA	Ball	Clubs	Hoop	Ribbon
2019	1 x 59th	1 x 55th	1 x 58th	1 x 57th	1 x 71st

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
55	2019	Women's Ball	Pesaro, ITA	15.850
57	2019	Women's Hoop	Pesaro, ITA	15.350
58	2019	Women's Clubs	Pesaro, ITA	14.500
59	2019	Individual All-Around	Pesaro, ITA	57.100
71	2019	Women's Ribbon	Pesaro, ITA	11.400

Legend
Indv. - Individual, Gr - Group, AA - All-Around, B - Ball, H - Hoop, C - Clubs, Ri - Ribbon, Ro - Rope, 5B - 5x Ball, 3H/2C - 3x Hoop + 2x Clubs, 3H/4C - 3x Hoop + 4x Clubs

ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	Multidiscipline Team Event X
2018	Buenos Aires, ARG	3

Legend
BB - Balance Beam, FX - Floor Excercise, UB - Uneven Bars, VT - Vault, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Nickname:

Lida (gymnastics.org.au, 01 Jan 2019)

Music:

Hoop: Guerilleos by Maxime Rodriguez

Ball: We Can't Stop performed by Scott Bradlee and Postmodern Jukebox

Club: Porto by Worakls

Ribbon: Wonder Woman 1984 by Edge Official

Languages spoken:

English, Russian

Club name:

Aspire Gymnastics Academy [Brisbane, QLD, AUS]

Coach:

Iuliia Iakovleva [club, mother]

Other sports:

Her mother Iuliia Iakovleva has coached rhythmic gymnastics in Australia. (Nikki Fogden-Moore The Mojo Maker YouTube channel, 28 Sep 2018)

Start:

She took up the sport at age five in the Russian Federation. (Aspire Gymnastics Academy Facebook page, 12 Aug 2019; gymnastics.org.au, 28 Feb 2017)

Reason:

"Rhythmic gymnastics is a very popular sport [in the Russian Federation]. My parents decided to take me to a class and I loved it from the first class I ever did." (Aspire Gymnastics Academy Facebook page, 12 Aug 2019)

Ambition:

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. (Aspire Gymnastics Academy Facebook page, 12 Aug 2019)

Training:

She trains about 30 hours per week. (Aspire Gymnastics Academy Facebook page, 07 Sep 2020)

Memorable:

Winning a bronze medal in the mixed multi-discipline team event at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Aspire Gymnastics Academy Facebook page, 07 Sep 2020)

Hero:

Russian rhythmic gymnast Evgenia Kanaeva. (gymnastics.org.au, 28 Feb 2017)

Philosophy:

"Keep working hard and never give up. Even if it's hard, you have to set goals and work towards achieving them and then it will become easier." (Aspire Gymnastics Academy Facebook page, 12 Aug 2019)

General Interest

General
MOVE TO AUSTRALIA
Born in Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation, she moved to Australia with her family at age seven. (Aspire Gymnastics Academy Facebook page, 12 Aug 2019; gymnastics.org.au, 28 Feb 2017)

TRAINING CAMP ABROAD
At age 12 she returned to the Russian Federation to take part in a training camp under coach Elena Kholodova. "The first time I trained in Russia, my performance instantly improved due to their intense training structure and discipline, which I have now adopted in my own training. When I returned home to Australia after my first training session in Russia, I surprised the rest of the competition. During the Sydney selection trials for the [2016] Pacific Rim Championships, I ended up ranking No.1 due to the new skills I had learnt. This was a turning point for me. It was then that I started to believe in myself as a gymnast and I realised that this was what I wanted to pursue as my career." (olympics.com.au, 18 Jul 2018)

COACHING
She has worked with some of the younger rhythmic gymnasts at Aspire Gymnastics Academy in Brisbane, QLD, Australia. "I assist my coach in training some of the younger gymnasts within my club by demonstrating some of the complex and difficult skills so they could learn. My long-term goal after gymnastics is to go into coaching and developing not only the sport in Australia but the future development of our young girls in the sport." (asf.org.au, 01 Jan 2019)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/lidiia.iakovleva.35
Facebook Profile 2: https://www.facebook.com/lidiia.iakovleva
https://instagram.com/_lidiia.iakovleva_
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lidiia-iakovleva-790252171

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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