Anastasiia Salos

Anastasiia Maksimovna Salos (Belarusian: Настасся Максімаўна Салас; Russian: Анастасия Максимовна Салос; born 18 February 2002) is an individual rhythmic gymnast representing Belarus. She is the 2020 European Championships All-around bronze medalist, as well as the 2019 World Championships Team bronze medalist and 2019 European Championships Team silver medalist.

Anastasiia Salos
Full name	Anastasiia Maksimovna Salos
Alternative name(s)	Anastasia Maximovna Salos
Nickname(s)	Nastya
Country represented	Belarus
Former countries represented	Russia
Born	(2002-02-18) 18 February 2002 (age 22) Barnaul, Russia
Residence	Minsk
Weight	42 kg (93 lb)
Discipline	Rhythmic gymnastics
Level	Senior international elite
Years on national team	2015-present
Club	Dinamo
Head coach(es)	Irina Leparskaya
Assistant coach(es)	Larisa Lukyanenko
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd World Championships 0 0 3 European Championships 0 2 3 FIG World Cup 1 6 9 Grand Prix Final 0 2 3 Total 1 10 16 Representing  Belarus Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships 2019 Baku Team 2021 Kitakyushu Team 2021 Kitakyushu Clubs European Championships 2021 Varna Team 2019 Baku Team 2020 Kyiv All-around 2021 Varna Hoop 2021 Varna Clubs Grand Prix Final 2020 Kyiv Ball 2020 Kyiv Clubs 2020 Kyiv All-around 2020 Kyiv Hoop 2020 Kyiv Ribbon

Career

Junior

Salos began rhythmic gymnastics at the age of 4 in her hometown of Barnaul, Russia. Her parents wanted to find an activity in which she could burn off her excess energy, so her mother took her to a gymnastics class.^[1] In 2014 she moved to Belarus to join the national team there. She started appearing in international competitions in 2016, competing at the Tart Cup where she won gold in the team event and placed second in the junior all-around.^[2] In 2017 Salos competed at the Alina Cup (held with Grand Prix Moscow) where she won bronze in the junior all-around. She then competed at the International Tournament Deriugina Cup, winning the junior all-around and qualifying to all 4 apparatus finals. She also won silver in the junior all-around at the 2017 Aeon Cup.

Senior

In 2018, Salos made her senior debut at the 2018 LA Lights competition. She then went on to win silver in the International Tournament Moscow. On March 30–April 1 Salos competed at her first senior World Cup event at 2018 World Cup Sofia, placing 5th in the all-around and qualifying to all 4 apparatus finals. Her next World Cup event was 2018 World Cup Pesaro, where she won bronze with ball. She first won her all-around medal at 2018 World Cup Baku, winning bronze behind Maria Sergeeva and Vlada Nikolchenko. Salos also won bronze at the 2018 World Challenge Cup Guadalajara with ball, and at the 2018 World Challenge Cup Minsk she won silver with ball and bronze with clubs. At the 2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships she placed 10th in the all-around and qualified to the ribbon final, where she placed 5th.

Salos began her 2019 season competing at the 2019 LA Lights competition, finishing 5th in the all-around.^[3] Her next competition was 2019 Grand Prix Moscow, where she placed 5th in the all-around and won bronze with ribbon. On March 2–3 she competed at the 2019 Grand Prix Marbella, where she won the bronze medal in the all-around behind Dina Averina and Aleksandra Soldatova. She qualified to all 4 apparatus finals, placing 4th with the ribbon, 5th with the clubs, 6th with the ball, and 8th with the hoop. Salos went on to win the all-around gold medal at the 2019 Deriugina Cup International Tournament, finishing ahead of Olena Diachenko and Maria Sergeeva. She also won gold with the ball and ribbon, and silver with hoop and clubs. At the 2019 Grand Prix Thias she finished 9th in the all-around and qualified for 2 apparatus finals, placing 4th with hoop and clubs.^[4] Her first World Cup event was at the 2019 World Cup Sofia, where she finished 10th in the all-around and placed 5th at the ribbon final. On April 16–18 Salos took part in the 2019 European Championships, where she won the silver medal in the team event (with Katsiaryna Halkina, Alina Harnasko, and Junior group) and qualified for 3 apparatus finals. During the apparatus finals she finished 4th with ribbon and 5th with hoop and clubs. Competing at the 2019 Grand Prix Holon she won her first all-around Grand Prix all-around gold medal, where she also won gold with ball, silver with ribbon, and bronze with clubs.^[5]

In 2021, Salos began her season at the Sofia World Cup at the end of March, where she placed fourth behind her compatriot Alina Harnasko overall, and in the finals, she earned silver in rim and ribbon and fifth place. in ball. In the next cup, at the Tashkent World Cup, where she obtained the complete bronze behind the Russian Arina Averina, the bronze in the hoop final, fifth place in the ball final and fourth in the ribbon final. At the Pesaro World Cup in late May, she placed fifth behind Israel's Linoy Ashram, and in the finals she was fourth in hoop and ball and eighth in ribbon. From June 9-13, Salos competed in the European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Varna, Bulgaria, where in the general final, she obtained fifth place behind Israel's Linoy Ashram, and in the apparatus finals, she obtained bronze in the hoop. and clubs, seventh place in ribbon and eighth place in ball. At the beginning of July, she competed in the Minsk World Cup, where she obtained bronze in the general classification behind Russia's Lala Kramarenko, and in the finals by apparatus, she obtained silver in rim and ribbon, bronze in ball and fifth place in clubs. Two weeks later, the last competition before the Olympic Games, he competed in the Tel Aviv Grand Prix, where he obtained bronze in the general classification and in the finals he obtained silver in the ring, bronze in ball and clubs and ribbon. From August 6-8, Salos competed in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. On the first day, he made it to the finals of the top 10 singles after finishing fifth behind compatriot Alina Harnasko. On the second day, the day of the grand final, various impressions left Salos in eighth place behind Israel's Nicol Zelikman.

Routine music information

Year	Apparatus	Music title
2024	Hoop	Horse Races (2023) by UUTAi
	Ball	Carmen by Antonio de Lucena
	Clubs	El Choclo (Arr. E. Runge and J. Ammon) by Cello Project
	Ribbon	Requiem by Aram MP3 & Forsh
2023	Hoop	Orobroy by David Peña Dorantes
	Ball	Dostochka by DakhaBakha
	Clubs	Haze by Power-Haus, Christian Reindl & Lucie Paradis
	Ribbon	I Will Survive by Musica Nuda
2022	Hoop	Nemesis by Benjamin Clementine
	Ball	Zeme Sukis Greitai by Alina Orlova
	Clubs	Haze by Power-Haus, Christian Reindl & Lucie Paradis
	Ribbon	Diabolo by Xavier Mortimer & Maxime Rodriguez
2021	Hoop	Damina by Mgzavrebi
	Ball	Magic Mirror by Xavier Mortimer & Maxime Rodriguez
	Clubs	Between Heaven and Earth by Camerata
	Ribbon	The Flight Attendant by Blake Neely
2020	Hoop	Damina by Mgzavrebi
	Ball	Compassion by Ilya Beshevli
	Clubs	Between Heaven and Earth by Camerata
	Ribbon	Il Trovatore by Therion
2019	Hoop	Primavera Tango by Gustavo Montesano & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Carlos Gomez
	Ball	Progeria by Bachar Mar-Khalifé
	Clubs	Feel It Still by Portugal. The Man
	Ribbon	Dominicano by Egor Grushin
2018	Hoop	Primavera Tango by Gustavo Montesano & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Carlos Gomez
	Ball	Chanter by Mireille Mathieu
	Clubs	Spy Wedding by Danny Elfman and John Debney
	Ribbon	Belleville Rendez-Vous (from The Triplets of Belleville) by Béatrice Bonifassi

Detailed Olympic results

Year	Competition Description	Location	Music	Apparatus	Rank-Final	Score-Final	Rank-Qualifying	Score-Qualifying
2020	Olympics	Tokyo		All-around	8th	95.175	5th	99.150
			Damina by Mgzavrebi	Hoop	6th	25.425	4th	25.700
			Magic Mirror by Xavier Mortimer & Maxime Rodriguez	Ball	10th	23.000	5th	26.300
			Between Heaven and Earth by Camerata	Clubs	9th	24.950	11th	24.550
			The Flight Attendant by Blake Neely	Ribbon	6th	21.800	4th	22.600

Competitive highlights

(Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)

International: Senior
Year	Event	AA	Team	Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon
2021	World Championships	10th	3rd	62nd (Q)	14th (Q)	3rd	11th (Q)
	Grand Prix Tel Aviv	3rd		2nd	3rd	3rd	3rd
	World Cup Minsk	3rd		2nd	3rd	5th	2nd
	European Championships	5th	2nd	3rd	8th	3rd	7th
	World Cup Pesaro	5th		4th	4th	18th (Q)	8th
	World Cup Tashkent	3rd		3rd	5th	10th (Q)	4th
	World Cup Sofia	4th		2nd	5th	17th (Q)	2nd
2020	European Championships	3rd
	International Tournament of Marina Lobatch	2nd	1st	1st	2nd		1st
	Grand Prix Kyiv	3rd		3rd	2nd	2nd	3rd
	Grand Prix Brno	2nd
	Grand Prix Moscow			2nd	2nd
	LA Lights Tournament	2nd
2019	World Championships	14th	3rd	8th		23rd (Q)	7th
	Grand Prix Marbella	3rd
	World Cup Portimao	7th		2nd	10th (Q)	3rd	19th (Q)
	World Cup Cluj-Napoca	9th		8th	12th (Q)	21st (Q)	9th (Q)
	World Cup Minsk	8th		8th	11th (Q)	19th (Q)	8th
	European Championships		2nd		5th	5th	4th
	World Cup Baku	8th		7th	8th	25th (Q)	1st
	World Cup Sofia	10th		14th (Q)	18th (Q)	17th (Q)	5th
2018	World Championships	10th	6th	26th (Q)	16th (Q)	11th (Q)	5th
	European Championships	10th
	World Cup Minsk	7th		9th	2nd	3rd	8th
	World Cup Guadalajara	6th		3rd	4th	4th	9th (Q)
	World Cup Baku	3rd		6th	5th	7th	7th
	World Cup Pesaro	6th		4th	3rd	8th	8th
	World Cup Sofia	5th		4th	8th	6th	6th
National
Year	Event	AA	Team	Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon
2020	Belarusian Championships	1st		1st		2nd	1st
2019	Belarusian Championships	1st		1st	2nd	2nd	2nd
Q = Qualifications (Did not advance to Event Final due to the 2 gymnast per country rule, only Top 8 highest score); WR = World Record; WD = Withdrew; NT = No Team Competition; DNS = Did Not Start

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References

1. "АНАСТАСИЯ САЛОС". Archived from the original on 2019-07-21. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
2. "Салос Анастасия Источник".
3. "2019 LA Lights Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-04-28. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
4. "Grand Prix Thias 2019 Results" (PDF).
5. "Grand Prix Holon 2019 Results".
6. "Салос Анастасия" (in Russian). gimnastika.pro. Retrieved 2 August 2021.

External links

• Anastasiia Salos on Instagram
• Anastasiia Salos at the International Gymnastics Federation
• Anastasiia Salos at Olympics.com
• Anastasiya Salos at Olympedia