Vlada Nikolchenko
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| Full name | Vlada Ihorivna Nikolchenko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Dusya, Vladusya[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 December 2002[1] Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 177 cm (5 ft 10 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior International Elite[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Iryna Deriugina[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach(es) | Natalia Alexandrovna Kuznets[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vlada Ihorivna Nikolchenko (Ukrainian: Влада Ігорівна Нікольченко; born 9 December 2002)[1] is a Ukrainian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2019 Worlds clubs bronze medalist, the double (2018-19) World Cup Series winner with clubs and the Grand Prix Final 2018 Winner. She has won multiple medals at European Championships and European Games.
Career
[edit]Junior
[edit]Before beginning rhythmic gymnastics, Nikolchenko participated in Aesthetic Group Gymnastics. She was part of the junior Ukrainian group at the 2017 European Championships, where they finished 8th in the 10 clubs final. Nikolchenko also participated as an individual at the International Tournament in Eilat, Israel and won it.
Senior
[edit]2018
[edit]Nikolchenko commenced her 2018 senior season at the LA Lights International Tournament in Los Angeles. She also competed at the Miss Valentine Tournament in Tartu, Estonia, where she won the all-around, hoop, ball and clubs finals and finished 4th in ribbon.[3]
Nikolchenko participated at the Baltic Hoop Tournament and won the all-around and clubs final, as well as a bronze in hoop. She finished 7th in the ribbon and 8th in the ball final.[4]
Her Grand Prix debut took place in Kyiv, where she finished 10th in the AA final, 5th in the clubs final and 8th in ribbon and ball.[5] At the 2018 Grand Prix Thiais, she placed 9th in the all-around, won a gold in hoop ahead of Russians Arina Averina and Ekaterina Selezneva and placed 7th in clubs.
Nikolchenko’s first World Cup event was the 2018 Sofia World Cup, where she finished 7th in the AA and qualified to the ribbon and clubs final. In Sofia, she won her first World Cup medal, a silver in clubs, and finished 8th in ribbon.[6] At the 2018 Pesaro World Cup, Nikolchenko placed 13th in the all-around final, won the silver medal for clubs and placed 8th in the ball final.[7] At the 2018 Tashkent World Cup, she placed 10th in AA, 5th in ribbon and 8th in clubs. Nikolchenko’s final 2018 World Cup event was the Baku World Cup, where she won silver in the all-around, gold with clubs and bronze with ribbon. She also placed 5th in hoop and 6th in ball.[8] Nikolchenko was the 2018 World Cup Series winner for clubs.
Nikolchenko made her World Cup Challenge debut at the 2018 Guadalajara World Challenge Cup, where she finished 5th in the all-around, 4th in hoop and 4th in ribbon.[9] She also took part in the Holon Grand Prix, where she also placed 5th in all-around and won the silver medal for hoop and clubs. At the 2018 European Championships, Nikolchenko finished 11th.[10] At the 2018 Minsk World Challenge Cup, she placed 5th in the all-around and qualified to three finals. She won bronze with hoop, finished 4th in ribbon and 6th in ball.[11] At the 2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, she placed 5th in the clubs final, 7th in ribbon, 8th in hoop and 4th in the all-around. Her team finished 5th for the team competition. Nikolchenko finished her 2018 season at the Grand Prix Final in Marbella, where she won the all-around gold. She also won gold in clubs, gold in ribbon and silver in ball.
2019
[edit]Her 2019 season commenced at the LA Lights Tournament, where she finished 2nd in all-around behind Alina Harnasko.[12]
At the Grand Prix in Marbella, Nikolchenko finished 4th in the all-around, 3rd in hoop, 6th in ribbon, 7th in clubs and 8th in ball.[13] At the Grand Prix Kyiv, she won the all-around gold, hoop gold, ball silver and ribbon bronze. Nikolchenko took part at the Thiais Grand Prix, placing 7th in all-around, 5th in clubs and 8th in ball. She also won the bronze in hoop.[14] Her first World Cup event of the season was the 2019 Sofia World Cup, where she placed 5th in all-around, 6th in clubs and 8th in ribbon.[15]
Nikolchenko participated at the 2019 Tashkent World Cup, finishing 6th in the all-around after several mistakes in her ball routine. She won bronze for hoop and clubs, and took 6th place in ribbon.[16] The following week, she took part in the Baku World Cup and took the all-around bronze behind Russian twins Arina Averina and Dina Averina. She won bronze for clubs and placed 4th in ribbon, 5th in hoop and 7th in ball.[17] Like in 2018, Nikolchenko was the World Cup winner for clubs ; she was also the World Cup winner for clubs for the second year in a row.
At the Ukrainian National Championships, Nikolchenko won gold in the all-around. At the European Championships in Baku, she qualified for the hoop and clubs final, winning a quota place for the following year’s European Championship in Kyiv. She won bronze in clubs and finished 8th for hoop.[18]
Nikolchenko participated at the Grand Prix Holon, finishing 11th in the all-around. She only qualified to one final for hoop, where she won silver.[19] At the 2019 Cluj Napoca World Challenge Cup, Nikolchenko brought two new routines for ball and ribbon. She finished 4th in the all-around and qualified for the hoop, ball and clubs finals. She won gold in clubs and finished 5th for hoop and ball.
At the 2019 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Baku, she qualified for the ball, clubs and ribbon final. Nikolchenko won a bronze with clubs, her first world championship medal, and placed 4th for ribbon and ball. She finished 5th at the all-around final, her second year placed in the top five. Nikolchenko succeeded in winning an Olympic quota.
2020-2021
[edit]At the 2020 European Championships in Kyiv, Nikolchenko finished eighth in the all-around. She won gold in clubs at the 2020 Grand Prix Final in Kyiv. At the 2021 European Championships in Varna, she finished 13th in the all-around. In July 2021, she announced through her Instagram account that she was taking a break from gymnastics and would not attend the Olympic Games due to health issues after contracting COVID-19.[20]
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Nikolchenko in Thiais -
Grand Prix 2019
2023
[edit]In July 2023, Nikolchenko announced that she would be coming back to Ukraine after her stay in the United Arab Emirates.
[21] On July 4, Nikolchenko went back to competing and won bronze at the Championship of Ukraine. [22]
On November 23, 2023, Nikolchenko was expelled from Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation following racist comment posted about Poles via Instagram.[23]
Routine music information
[edit]| Year | Apparatus | Music title |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Hoop | Make-up by The Hardkiss |
| Clubs | The Best by Tina Turner | |
| Ribbon | Is Paris Burning? by Takashi Kako | |
| 2021 | Hoop | O Fortuna by Carl Orff |
| Ball | Desert from Cirque Du Soleil's "O" by Benoit Jutras | |
| Clubs | Panda by Desiigner | |
| Ribbon | España cañí by Pascual Marquina Narro | |
| 2020 | Hoop (first) | Swan Lake by Peter I. Tchaikovsky |
| Hoop (second) | O Fortuna by Carl Orff | |
| Ball | Another One Bites the Dust by Queen | |
| Clubs | Fantasy Overture from Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky | |
| Ribbon (first) | Come Together by the Beatles (cover by Gary Clark Jr. and Junkie XL) | |
| Ribbon (second) | España cañí by Pascual Marquina Narro | |
| 2019 | Hoop (first) | Survivor by 2WEI from Tomb Raider |
| Hoop (second) | Fantasy Overture from Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky | |
| Ball (first) | Run This Town by Jay-Z feat. Rihanna and Kanye West | |
| Ball (second) | Another One Bites the Dust by Queen | |
| Clubs | Carmen's Entrance and Habanera by Rodion Shchedrin | |
| Ribbon | Sarajevo by Max Richter | |
| Ribbon (second) | Come Together by the Beatles (cover by Gary Clark Jr. and Junkie XL) | |
| 2018 | Hoop | Innuendo by Queen[24] |
| Ball | Private Investigations by Dire Straits[24] | |
| Clubs | Leave no Witnesses by James Horner[24] | |
| Ribbon | Carmina Burana: O Fortuna by Carl Orff |
References
[edit]- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "Влада Никольченко". Федерация гимнастики Украины. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "NIKOLCHENKO Vlada". Federation Internationale De Gymnastique. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- ^ "ksis". rgform.eu. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- ^ "Rezultāti 2018". www.baltijasaplis.lv. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- ^ "Kiev Grand Prix 2018: The Event Finals Selezneva and Sergeeva are gold". March 18, 2018. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- ^ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- ^ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- ^ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- ^ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- ^ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- ^ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- ^ "2019 LA Lights Tournament of Champions - Culver City" (PDF). January 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-04-28. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
- ^ "Resultados en Directo - Soft Station". www.infogim.com. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- ^ "33è Internationaux de Thiais - Results" (PDF). 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
- ^ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- ^ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- ^ Asgarov, Ayaz. "SmartScoring". smartscoring.com. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- ^ "UEG Gymnastics". UEG Gymnastics. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- ^ "Results – Grand Prix Holon". Retrieved September 27, 2019.
- ^ "Nikolchenko Vladа on Instagram: "Я беру перерыв… Ранее, я делилась с Вами о последствиях после COVID 19. Не хочется вдаваться во все подробности, но реабилитация после болезни проходит не легко и требует времени. Ожидала , что все пройдёт легче . Тяжёлый режим тренировок , выступление , стресс , нагрузки никак не совместить с периодом восстановления. Я искренне надеялась и верила . Но увы …появились новые последствия… и после консультации и советов врачей , мы с семьёй приняли решение о перерыве в спорте. Вернусь ли я на выступательный ковёр? Время покажет… Все будет зависеть от моего здоровья. Для меня гимнастика- это важная часть моей жизни…Но сейчас важнее заниматься здоровьем. Я знаю, что многие болельщики меня ждали в Токио, мне очень жаль, что на Олимпиаде меня не будет. Но это жизнь. Хочу пожелать удачи всем участникам Олимпийских игр и нашей сборной Украины 🇺🇦 Это решение далось мне достаточно сложно, поэтому надеюсь на вашу поддержку 💜 #vladanikolchenko #олимпиада #olympics #tokyo2020 #олимпиадатокио #гимнастика #спорт #olympicgames #rhythmicgymnastics"". Instagram. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
- ^ "Nikolchenko Vladа on Instagram: "Покинула дом в Эмиратах, чтобы вернуться жить в Украину😱 Еще несколько месяцев назад я даже не думала о таком повороте судьбы😅 И, если честно, это решение далось мне совсем не просто. Так что сейчас я заряжена как никогда🔥 Жизнь все-таки удивительная штука. Ожидали моего возвращения?❤️ #гимнастикаукраина #гімнастика #владаникольченко #блогерукраина #блогерукраїна #backtoukraine #lifeblog"". Instagram.
- ^ "Nikolchenko Vladа on Instagram: " После двухлетнего перерыва сразу на соревнования Бронзовая медаль ЧУ в этот раз стала для меня золотом минимум ЧМ Пускай это станет новым началом и отправной точкой к новым вершинам Искренне благодарю вас за веру и поддержу. Дальше - больше #гімнастика #гімнастикаукраїни #гимнастикаукраина #профессиональный спорт #спортукраина #спортукраїна #успіх #мотивація #художнягімнастика #чемпіонатукраїни #владаникольченко"". Instagram.
- ^ "Gymnast expelled from Ukraine team for expressing hatred for Poland 22:25". Archived from the original on 2023-11-23. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "2018 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. Individual Hoop Final". YouTube. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
External links
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Media related to Vlada Nikolchenko at Wikimedia Commons
- Profile from FIG
- Vlada Nikolchenko on Instagram
- (in Russian) "The Price of Victory" – profile from UATV on YouTube
- Living people
- 2002 births
- Sportspeople from Kharkiv
- Ukrainian rhythmic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 2019 European Games
- European Games medalists in gymnastics
- European Games bronze medalists for Ukraine
- Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships
- Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships
- 21st-century Ukrainian sportswomen