Hélène Karbanov
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| Country represented |  France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 December 2004 Lille, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Calais, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 158 cm (5 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 43 kg (95 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior International Elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Calais GRS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Katia Guillere | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Sacha Vangrevelynghe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World ranking | 19 WC[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hélène Karbanov (born 29 December 2004) is a French individual rhythmic gymnast of Kazakh and Russian descent. She is the 2024 French National all-around champion and the 2022 bronze medalist.[2] She competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the rhythmic individual all-around and finished in 17th place in qualification.
Career
[edit]Karbanov took up rhythmic gymnastics at age eight. She first competed in the sport in 2013 with her club Calais GRS.
Junior
[edit]In her first junior season, she won the silver medal in the French National all-around behind Valérie Romenski, even though she still had Russian citizenship at that point.[3] In January 2018, she obtained French citizenship.[4] Being able to compete internationally for France, she was selected to represent her country at the 2018 European Championships in Guadalajara. She finished 8th in the team competition, 29th with ball and 30th with clubs.[5]
In 2019 she became the French junior all-around champion, and she also won silver with ball and bronze with ribbon.[3] She was selected to compete at the 2019 Junior World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Moscow, Russia. She participated with clubs and ribbon, where she finished in 9th and 11th place respectively. Polina Murashko from Estonia had the same clubs score as her, but the Estonian gymnast was able to enter the final with her better execution score as the tiebreaker.[6]
Senior
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In 2022, she was part of French team that competed at the 2022 European Championships in Tel Aviv, Israel and took 7th place in the team competition. She placed 13th in the all-around Final and qualified for the ribbon final, where she finished 7th. That year, she also debuted at the senior World Championships. The competition was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, and she placed 22nd in the all-around qualifications.
In 2023, she competed at Portimao World Challenge Cup, where she took 8th place in the all-around and won a silver medal in the ribbon final. At the 2023 World Championships, she ended in 13th place in the all-around qualifications and qualified to the all-around final, where she took 17th place.[7][8]
In 2024, she entered the World Cup stage in Sofia, where she placed 16th.[9] In May, she competed at the 2024 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary and took 15th place in the all-around final. In June, she won her first senior National all-around title in front of Maelle Millet.[10]
In August, she competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics. In the qualification round, she placed 17th and did not advance to the final. She said of competing at the Olympics in her home country, "It's unreal. I tried to make the most of it all."[11]
Routine music information
[edit]| Year | Apparatus | Music title |
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| 2024 | Hoop | "Carmina Burana" by Ed Starink |
| Ball | "Le temps qui reste" by Serge Reggiani | |
| Clubs | "I Got You (I Feel Good)" by James Brown | |
| Ribbon | "Surviving" by Kaz Hawkins, Sam York | |
| 2023 | Hoop | "Carmina Burana" by Ed Starink |
| Ball | "Le temps qui reste" by Serge Reggiani | |
| Clubs | "Middle Of The Night" by Power-Haus, Tom Evans, Joel Sunny | |
| Ribbon | "Corps" by Yseult | |
| 2022 | Hoop | "Torna a casa" by Måneskin |
| Ball | "Le temps qui reste" by Serge Reggiani | |
| Clubs | "It's Raining Men" by Geri Halliwell | |
| Ribbon | "Corps" by Yseult | |
| 2020/2021 | Hoop | "Je suis malade" by Lara Fabian |
| Ball | "Feelings" by Edvin Marton | |
| Clubs | "Imagine" by Artem Uzanov | |
| Ribbon | "Black Betty" by Ram Jam |
References
[edit]- ^ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport.
- ^ "Gymnastique : très déçue, la Calaisienne Hélène Karbanov médaillée de bronze des France". La Voix du Nord. 27 May 2022.
- ^ a b "Résultats". www.ffgym.fr.
- ^ "Helene Karbanov". FIG. 1 July 2019.
- ^ "Results by apparatus" (PDF). gymmedia.com. 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
- ^ "Hélène Karbanov à Moscou - Actualités - FFGYM Hauts-de-France". hauts-de-france.ffgym.fr.
- ^ "All Around Results" (PDF). europeangymnastics.com. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
- ^ Morgan Maury. "Hélène Karbanov qualifiée pour les JO en gymnastique rythmique" (in French). Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ "Results for FIG World Cup 2024 Sofia (BUL)". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
- ^ Par Céline Penicaud (9 June 2024). "Championnats de France de gymnastique artistique et rythmique : Léo Saladino remporte le concours général, Hélène Karbanov s'impose en GR" (in French). Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ Pomelle, Didrick (8 August 2024). "JO 2024 - Gymnastique rythmique. « Je savais que ça allait être dur » : Hélène Karbanov s'arrête là" [Olympic Games 2024 - Rhythmic gymnastics. "I knew it was going to be hard": Hélène Karbanov stops there]. Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 12 August 2024.