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Lala Kramarenko

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Lala Kramarenko
Full nameLala Dmitrievna Kramarenko
Country represented Russia
Born (2004-12-06) December 6, 2004 (age 19)
Moscow, Russia
HometownMoscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Height1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight46 kg (101 lb)
DisciplineRhythmic gymnastics
LevelSenior International Elite
Years on national team2016–present
ClubMGFSO
GymNovogorsk
Head coach(es)Irina Viner
Assistant coach(es)Lyaysan Savitskaya
ChoreographerTatiana Pomerantseva, Kirill Barkan
Eponymous skillsThe Kramarenko: Backscale pivot with free leg bent 30 degrees from a standing position or from a seated position
Medal record
International gymnastics competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
European Championships 1 0 0
Grand Prix Final 6 3 0
Junior World Championships 3 0 0
Junior European Championships 3 0 0
Total 11 3 0
Representing  Russia
Rhythmic Gymnastics
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Varna Team
Grand Prix Final
Gold medal – first place 2021 Marbella All-around
Gold medal – first place 2021 Marbella Hoop
Gold medal – first place 2021 Marbella Ball
Gold medal – first place 2021 Marbella Ribbon
Gold medal – first place 2022 Moscow Ball
Gold medal – first place 2022 Moscow Clubs
Silver medal – second place 2021 Marbella Clubs
Silver medal – second place 2022 Moscow All-Around
Silver medal – second place 2022 Moscow Ribbon
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Moscow Ball
Gold medal – first place 2019 Moscow Clubs
Gold medal – first place 2019 Moscow Team
Junior European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Guadalajara Ball
Gold medal – first place 2018 Guadalajara Ribbon
Gold medal – first place 2018 Guadalajara Team

Lala Dmitrievna Kramarenko (Russian: Лала Дмитриевна Крамаренко, born December 6, 2004) is a Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2019 junior world champion in ball and clubs and the 2018 European junior champion in ball and ribbon. At the 2021 European Championships, she won team gold. She is also a three-time junior national all around champion (2017-2019)[1] and a two-time national all-around silver medalist (2020-2021).

Personal life

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Kramarenko was born in Moscow into a sporting family. Her father, Dmitry Kramarenko, is a retired Azerbaijani football goalkeeper and currently works as an academy coach at CSKA Moscow;[2] her mother, Irina, was a biathlete. Her paternal grandfather is Sergey Kramarenko, a Soviet football goalkeeper. Additionally, Kramarenko's twin sister, Diana, plays tennis.[3] She started Rhythmic Gymnastics together with her sister, who no longer practices the sport. [4]

Kramarenko considers herself more of a technical gymnast.[4]

Career

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Junior

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Kramarenko took up rhythmic gymnastics at age three in Baku, Azerbaijan.[5] She briefly competed for Azerbaijan in novice tournaments from 2011 to 2013.[6] In 2014 she moved from Baku to Novogorsk to train with coach Lyaysan Savitskaya and began competing in internal Russian tournaments.[1] In 2016, she won gold at the Championship of Moscow in the all-around.

2017

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In the 2017 season, Kramarenko won gold in the all-around at the 2017 Russian Junior Championships in Kazan. She debuted in her first Junior Grand Prix in Moscow, where she won the all-around gold.

The next competition was at the International Tournament of Lisbon, where she won 4 gold medals in the all-around, hoop, ball, and clubs. Kramarenko then won gold in the all-around at the Junior Grand Prix Marbella as well as team gold (together with Polina Shmatko). May 5–7, Kramarenko competed at the 2017 Sofia Junior World Cup and won gold in the all-around; she also swept the gold medals in all 4 apparatus finals in hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon.

On October 12–14, Kramarenko competed with new programs and routines in preparation for the 2018 Season at the "2017 Hope of Russia" where she finished 4th in the all-around behind Polina Shmatko.

On 4-6 November, Kramarenko won the all-around gold at the annual "Russian-Chinese Youth Games". She qualified to all 4 event finals: won bronze in the hoop and ribbon finals, silver in clubs, and placed 9th in ball.

2018

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On February 2–4, Kramarenko defended her title at the 2018 Russian Junior Championships, winning the gold medal ahead of Dariia Sergaeva.[7] She also won three gold medals - team, ball and ribbon - at the Junior European Championship in Guadalajara, Spain.

2019

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Kramarenko became the all-around champion at the Russian Junior Championships.

In July, Kramarenko won three gold medals at the 1st Junior World Championships: ball, clubs, and team all around. She shared the team all around gold with Dariia Sergaeva, Anastasia Simakova, Aleksandra Semibratova, Anna Batasova, Alisa Tishchenko, Amina Khaldarova, Elizaveta Koteneva and Dana Semirenko.

Senior

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2020

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Kramarenko made her senior debut at the 2020 Moscow Grand Prix, securing bronze in the individual all around competition behind Dina Averina and Daria Trubnikova.[8] At the 2020 Russian Championships she won the all-around silver medal behind Arina Averina. Except from a few online tournaments, most of the competitions were canceled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

2021

Kramarenko began her season competing in the 2021 Moscow Grand Prix, where she finished third in all around. She was registered to compete in the 2021 Sofia World Cup, along with Anastasia Simakova, but withdrew.

In May at Baku, she competed at her first senior World Cup,[9] winning silver in hoop, bronze in clubs and in bronze in all around, behind Boryana Kaleyn.[10] In June, Kramarenko competed in the 2021 European Championships in Varna, Bulgaria, finishing 5th in the hoop final and winning team gold with Dina and Arina Averina. In July, she competed in the 2021 Minsk World Cup Challenge, achieving gold in ribbon, bronze in hoop and silver in ball, clubs and all around, behind Alina Harnasko and in front of Anastasia Salos.[11] She also competed in the 2021 Moscow World Cup Challenge, replacing Arina Averina due to injury, winning silver in all events and all around, behind Dina Averina and in front of Ekaterina Vedeeneva.[12] Irina Viner selected Kramarenko, along with Ekaterina Selezneva and Daria Trubnikova, as the Olympic reserve athletes for the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games.[citation needed]

In September, Lala competed at the Brno Tart Cup, where she won the all-around gold ahead of Daria Trubnikova and Irina Annenkova. She also won gold in the ball and club final, silver in the hoop final, and bronze in the ribbon final.[13] In early October, she competed in the Moscow Olympico Cup. In mid-October she competed in the Marbella Grand Prix, where she once again won all-around gold, ahead of Viktoriia Onoprienko and Anastasia Simakova. In the apparatus finals, she won three golds along with a silver in the club final. She was again chosen as the reserve of the Averina sisters, this time for the 2021 World Championship, in Kitakyushu, Japan, which took place at the end of October. In the Barcelona International City Tournament, she took the all-around gold in front of Daria Trubnikova and Alexandra Agiurgiuculese.[citation needed]

2022

After recovering from the Corona Virus Kramarenko started her season competing at the 2022 Moscow Grand Prix, where she won silver in the all-around, behind fellow Russian Teammate Dina Averina and ahead of Arina Averina. She also won gold in the ball and clubs final and silver in the ribbon final.[14]

At the 2022 Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship, she won bronze in the all-around behind Dina and Arina Averina. In the Apparatus Finals, she won Silver in Clubs, Hoop and Ribbon as well as Gold in the Ball Final.[citation needed]

A few weeks later, the FIG banned all Russian and Belarusian Athletes due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[15] As of March 2024, she and her Russian teammates could only compete in domestic competitions, which prevented them from qualifying Spots for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Although they could’ve qualified 1 Spot and compete under neutral status if they’d meet certain criteria from the IOC.[16] This will be the first Olympics without Russian Gymnasts since 1984.[17]

Eponymous skill

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Kramarenko has one eponymous skill listed in the code of points, a pivot (turn on relevé) of 180 degrees from either a standing position or a seated position.[18]

Name Description Difficulty[a]
Kramarenko Kabaeva pivot starting from standing position (front split, trunk bent back below horizontal) with free leg bent 30 degrees 0.5 base value
Kramarenko Kramarenko pivot started from seated position 0.6 base value
  1. ^ Valid for the 2022-2024 Code of Points


Routine music information

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Year Apparatus Music title
2024
2023 Hoop Carmina Burana
Ball Je Suis Malade by Lara Fabian
Ball (second) Вечная любовь (feat. Tamara Gverdtsiteli)
Clubs "The Queen of Spades", by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ribbon(second) La Cumparsita by Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion
Ribbon The Show Must Go On by Queen
2022 Hoop "No. 14 Pas De Deux: Intrada-Variation I/II-Coda", by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ball "Ne Me Quitte Pas", by Sylvie Vartan
Ball (second) "I Put a Spell on You" by Garou
Clubs "Simarik", by Tarkan
Clubs (second) "The Queen of Spades", by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ribbon "Sway" by Chico & the Gypsies
Ribbon (second) "Mambo"
2021 Hoop (first) Symphony No.4 In F Minor, Op. 36: IV. Finale-Allegro Con Fueoco by Tchaikovsky
Hoop (second) The Second Waltz by Andre Rieu
Ball Палсо была влюбляться by Rada Volshaninova
Clubs Night On Disco Mountain by David Shire
Ribbon Act 1 - Appearance Of Kitri / Act 1 - Variation: Kitri by Leon Minkus
2020 Hoop (first) Rasputin/Rocking Son/Moskau by Dschinghis Khan
Hoop (second) Symphony No.4 In F Minor, Op. 36: IV. Finale-Allegro Con Fueoco by Tchaikovsky
Ball El Porompompero by Chico & The Gypsies
Ball (second) Палсо была влюбляться by Rada Volshaninova
Clubs Night On Disco Mountain by David Shire
Ribbon (first) Bumble Bee Boogie by Robert Wells
Ribbon (second) Act 1 - Appearance Of Kitri / Act 1 - Variation: Kitri by Leon Minkus
2019 Rope 1st cut Simarik by Tarkan
Rope 2nd cut Strobe's Nanafushi by Kodō
Ball Syrtaki by D. Moutsis
Clubs Очи чёрные by Radmila Karaklajić
Ribbon
2018 Hoop Cyganskaja by Marina Devyatova
Ball Vivire Paraty by Los Niños de Sara
Clubs Lament To Birch Bark by Moscow Balalaika Quartet
Ribbon Unknown remix, Give It Up (The Good Men song) by The Good Men
2017 Hoop Snakefood by Safri Duo
Ball Don Quixote: Quiteria(Kitri) Enters by Hayden Todorov
Clubs Caucasian Dances (folk)
Ribbon Unknown remix, Give It Up (The Good Men song) by The Good Men
Gala I Will Wait for You music from Les Parapluies de Cherbourg by Michel Legrand

Competitive highlights

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International: Senior
Year Event AA Team Hoop Ball Clubs Ribbon
2021 World Cup Moscow 2nd 2nd 2nd 2nd 2nd
World Cup Minsk 2nd 3rd 2nd 2nd 1st
European Championships 1st 5th
World Cup Baku 3rd 2nd 4th 3rd 13th (Q)
Grand Prix Moscow 3rd 4th (Q) 3rd (Q) 3rd (Q) 3rd (Q)
2020 Grand Prix Tartu 2nd 6th 4th (Q) 2nd 2nd
Grand Prix Moscow 3rd 6th (Q) 3rd 3rd (Q) 4th (Q)
International: Junior
Year Event AA Team Hoop/Rope Ball Clubs Ribbon
2019 World Junior Championships 1st 1st 1st
2018 Junior Grand Prix Final 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st
Happy Caravan Cup 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st
Junior World Cup Kazan 2nd (OC)
Junior World Cup Minsk 1st 2nd 2nd (Q)
European Junior Championships 1st 1st 1st
Junior Grand Prix Holon 1st 2nd (Q) 1st
Junior World Cup Guadalajara 1st 1st 1st
Junior World Cup Baku 1st 1st 2nd
MTM Ljubljana tournament 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st
Junior World Cup Sofia 1st 1st
Junior Grand Prix Moscow 1st
2017 Russian-Chinese Youth Games 1st
Junior World Cup Sofia 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st
Happy Caravan Cup 2nd (OC) 1st 1st
Junior Grand Prix Marbella 1st 1st
International Tournament of Lisbon 1st 1st 1st 1st 2nd
Junior Grand Prix Moscow 1st
National: Senior
Year Event AA Team Hoop Ball Clubs Ribbon
2021 Russian Championships 2nd 1st 2nd 1st
2020 Russian Championships 2nd 1st
National: Junior
Year Event AA Team Hoop Rope Ball Clubs
2019 Russian Junior Championships 1st
2018 Russian Junior Championships 1st
2017 Russian Junior Championships 1st
Q = Qualifications (Did not advance to Event Final due to the 2 gymnast per country rule, only Top 8 highest score);
WD = Withdrew; NT = No Team Competition; OC/HC = Out of Competition(competed but scores not counted for qualifications/results)

References

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  1. ^ a b "Meet Lala Kramarenko: Russia's rising star in rhythmic gymnastics".
  2. ^ "Kramarenko gimnast qızının yığma seçiminə qarışmaq istəmir" (in Russian). Retrieved 2018-05-03.
  3. ^ "MEDAL GEOGRAPHY". Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federation.
  4. ^ a b "Olympic Channel: Interview with Lala Kramarenko". www.olympics.com. 25 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Lala Kramarenko: "I support Azerbaijani gymnasts"".
  6. ^ "Azerbaijani gymnasts win 18 medals at int'l tournament". Azerbaijan Trend. 14 February 2011.
  7. ^ "2018 Russian Junior National Championships". Gimnastika Pro. 8 February 2018.
  8. ^ "Gymnast Dina Averina won the all-around at the Grand Prix in Moscow | the Global Domain News".
  9. ^ "Harnasko harnessing strength as Rhythmic World Cup series whirls through Baku". gymnastics.sport. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
  10. ^ "Ashram, Bulgarian Rhythmic Group prevail in Baku". gymnastics.sport. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
  11. ^ "Nine medals for hosts Belarus, Harnasko shines with four golds in Minsk". gymnastics.sport. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
  12. ^ "Golden sweep for Dina Averina and Russia at Moscow World Challenge Cup". gymnastics.sport. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
  13. ^ "Result Brno Tart Cup 2021". rgform.eu. 5 September 2021. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  14. ^ "Rising star Kramarenko wins two individual finals at Moscow Grand Prix". www.insidethegames.biz. 2022-02-20. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
  15. ^ "FIG extends ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials". www.insidethegames.biz. 2023-03-03. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
  16. ^ "Strict eligibility conditions in place as IOC EB approves Individual Neutral Athletes (AINs) for the Olympic Games Paris 2024". December 8, 2023.
  17. ^ "Russian rhythmic gymnasts boycott Paris Olympics over admission terms". Yahoo News. 2024-03-14. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
  18. ^ "2022–2024 Code of Points Rhythmic Gymnastics" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation. 25 April 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
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