Ekaterina Kurbatova

Ekaterina Kurbatova
 Gymnast 
Full name Ekaterina Vladimirovna Kurbatova
Country represented  Russia
Born (1992-10-07) October 7, 1992
Moscow, Russia
Hometown Moscow, Russia
Height 162 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Weight 49 kg (108 lb)
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics
Level Senior
Years on national team 2007 -
Club CSKA Moscow
Gym "Lake Krugloe"
Head coach(es) Marina Ulyankina
Choreographer Olga Burova

Ekaterina Vladimirovna Kurbatova (Russian: Екатери́на Влади́мировна Курба́това) (born October 7, 1992) is a Russian gymnast.

Career

Kurbatova competed in the 2009 Glasgow Grand Prix in May winning vault and placing 3rd on the uneven bars.

She also went to the world championships that year in London where she qualified for the all-around and placed 9th on uneven bars behind Italy's Serena Lichetta. In the all-around competition she fell on balance beam taking her out of the medals.

In 2010, Kurbatova competed at the European Championships where she won the gold medal with her team and on vault.[1] At the 2010 Moscow World Cup, she made both vault and floor finals, and finished on 4th and 1st respectively. She was also part of the 2010 World Championship team and was mostly taken along due to her vaulting, when it became clear that the Russian team was in desperate need for a third vaulter in team finals. The team went on to become the first Russian gymnastics team ever to win a team gold medal in a World Championship or Olympic Games.

Kurbatova is remarkable for her unique style: a "kick-in" on vault with sometimes questionable leg form, interesting choreography on floor exercise and a compact and efficient composition on the uneven bars (once having performed a very complex combination of Pak salto into a Khorkina II transition) where she is one of the very few Russian gymnasts ever having performed a one-armed pirouette which is more typical for the Chinese style on the uneven bars.

Competitive history

Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
2009World Championships 10th 4th
2010European Championships 1st 1st
World Championships 1st
2011Russian Cup 11th
Year Competition Description Location Apparatus Rank-Final Score-Final Rank-Qualifying Score-Qualifying
2009 World Championships London All-Around 10 55.475 6 55.950
Vault 4 14.337 5 14.225
Uneven Bars 9 14.200
Balance Beam 19 13.750
Floor Exercise 13 13.475
2010 European Championships Birmingham Team 1 169.700 1 168.325
Vault 1 14.287 4 14.075
Uneven Bars 57 11.425
World Championships Rotterdam Team 1 175.397 1 234.521
Vault WD 4 14.633
Uneven Bars 13 14.300

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