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77-464: At the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials, Douglas, Wieber, and Raisman finished first, second, and third respectively in the all-around competition. Maroney won the vault competition, Douglas and Ross tied for first on the uneven bars, while Raisman won the balance beam and floor exercise. Afterwards, Douglas, Maroney, Raisman, Ross, and Wieber were the five gymnasts chosen to represent the United States at

154-599: A 2.5 twisting Yurchenko vault in the final. Five days later, she had surgery in Straubing, Germany . Mustafina's coaches had her resume workouts slowly. Coach Valentina Rodionenko said in May, "Only when we are told that she can proceed with training will we go forward. It's important to save her for the Olympic Games." By July, she was only doing upper body conditioning and rehabilitation on her leg. In August, after

231-463: A double Arabian) and crashed her second vault (round-off, half-on, full twist off), causing her to miss the finals in both events. However, she still qualified fifth for the all-around final with a score of 57.165, fifth for uneven bars, and eighth for balance beam. In the all-around final, she finished third with a total of 58.856 (14.891 on vault, 15.233 on uneven bars, 14.166 on balance beam, and 14.566 on floor), behind Simone Biles and Kyla Ross of

308-560: A double-twisting Yurchenko vault , 14.333 on uneven bars, 15.400 on balance beam, and 15.100 on floor exercise. In May, she competed at the 2014 European Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria . Hampered by an ankle injury, she performed on only two events in qualifications: uneven bars and balance beam. She qualified to both finals, with scores of 15.100 and 14.233, respectively. In the team final, she scored 14.700 on vault, 15.166 on bars, and 14.800 on beam, leading an inexperienced Russian team to

385-476: A fall on the latter. At the 2013 European Championships in Moscow, she fell twice off the balance beam in qualifications and entered the all-around final in fourth place, with a score of 56.057. In the final, she scored 15.033 on vault, 15.133 on uneven bars, 14.400 on balance beam, and 14.466 on floor, winning the all-around title—her first individual European title—with a total of 59.032. The next day, she won

462-564: A fall; and second on floor, scoring 14.766. She left Rotterdam with five medals, more than any other artistic gymnast, male or female. Andy Thornton wrote for Universal Sports : The story behind Aliya Mustafina's all-around gold today is that of a revived dynasty; the dominant Soviet women's team of the 1980s and early 1990s—whom many consider to represent the absolute epitome of artistic gymnastics—was dead and now reborn. In addition to leading her teammates to their country's first world title as an independent nation, Mustafina has delivered one of

539-529: A gymnast had appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated . The US media originally dubbed the team the "Fab Five" before the Olympic competition started. Maroney and Wieber were credited for changing the team's nickname from the "Fab Five" to the "Fierce Five" a few days before their gold medal win at the Olympics. "I guess (Fab Five) was taken by some basketball team or something," Maroney said, referring to

616-558: A score of 14.900, earning the bronze medal in a tie-breaker over Italy's Vanessa Ferrari . In December, she competed at the DTB Stuttgart World Cup, where the Russian team finished first. At the 2013 Russian national championships, Mustafina successfully defended her all-around title with a score of 59.850, earning a 15.450 on beam, 15.500 on bars, 13.600 on floor, and 15.300 on vault. These scores qualified her to

693-433: A score of 14.966, which would have left her in fourth place. However, her coach inquired about the difficulty being too low, and the judges accepted and raised her difficulty score by one-tenth of a point. Her 15.066 matched Romanian Cătălina Ponor for third place, and this time, Raisman won the tie-breaker to earn the bronze medal. In the floor final , Raisman won the gold medal with a score of 15.600, four-tenths ahead of

770-481: A score of 59.167. In event finals, she placed first on uneven bars, scoring 16.150; second on balance beam, scoring 15.000; and first on floor, scoring 14.750. At the end of July, Mustafina competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London . She helped Russia to qualify to the team final in second place, and qualified to the individual all-around final in fifth place with a score of 59.966. She also qualified fifth for

847-495: A silver medal behind the US, with a total team score of 176.688. Mustafina contributed a 15.133 on vault, 15.933 on bars, 14.958 on beam, and 14.000 on floor. Two days later, Mustafina competed in the individual all-around final and scored 58.665 (15.200 on vault, 15.666 on uneven bars, 13.866 on balance beam, and 13.933 on floor). She placed third behind Americans Simone Biles and Aly Raisman, repeating her bronze-medal performance from

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924-640: A third-place finish behind Romania and Great Britain, which took gold and silver, respectively. In event finals, she placed second on the uneven bars with a score of 15.266, and third on balance beam with a score of 14.733. At the Russian Cup in Penza in August, Mustafina represented Moscow alongside Paseka, Alla Sosnitskaya , and Daria Spiridonova , and they easily won the team title by five points over silver medalist Saint Petersburg. Individually, Mustafina won

1001-628: The 2008 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Clermont-Ferrand, France , Mustafina helped the Russian junior team finish in first place and won the silver medal in the individual all-around with a score of 60.300. In event finals, she placed fourth on uneven bars, scoring 14.475, and fourth on floor, scoring 14.375. In November, she competed in the senior division at the Massilia Cup in Marseille . She placed sixth in

1078-581: The 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam and made history by qualifying for the all-around final and all four event finals—the first gymnast to do so since Shannon Miller and Svetlana Khorkina in 1996. She contributed an all-around score of 60.932 toward the Russian team's first-place finish and won the individual all-around with a score of 61.032. In event finals, she placed second on vault, scoring 15.066; second on uneven bars, scoring 15.600; seventh on balance beam, scoring 13.766 after

1155-426: The 2012 Summer Olympics , Mustafina won four medals, making her the most decorated gymnast of the competition and the most decorated athlete in any sport except swimming. At the 2016 Summer Olympics , she became the first female gymnast since 2000 to win an all-around medal in two consecutive Olympics, and the first since Svetlana Khorkina (also in 2000) to defend her title in an Olympic apparatus final. Mustafina

1232-480: The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Mustafina qualified to the all-around final with a total of 58.098, despite a fall on the balance beam. She also qualified in second place to the uneven bars final with a score of 15.833, and scored 15.166 on vault and 14.066 on floor. Russia qualified to the team final in third place, behind the United States and China. In the team final on 9 August, Mustafina helped Russia win

1309-715: The MTV Video Music Awards . The Fierce Five members were among those who performed in the 40-city Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions, which started in September. In November, they met U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House and performed on Dancing with the Stars in support of former gymnast Shawn Johnson . In December, Gabby Douglas was named the Associated Press female athlete of

1386-699: The Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium . Due to uncertainty over the nuclear situation following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami , the International Federation of Gymnastics revealed it was considering moving the event, but on May 22 FIG president Bruno Grandi announced that the World Championships would take place in Tokyo as planned. 83 countries participated, which included gymnasts from This event

1463-690: The five members of the Michigan college basketball team recruited in 1991. Jalen Rose , a former Michigan Fab Five member, complained about the gymnastics team being dubbed the Fab Five as well. "To use the nickname just points and screams of lazy journalism by the national media, that's really what it is," Rose said. "It's no fault at all of the young gymnasts. But I really wish they would have come up with an even more creative tag for them and their gold medal pursuit." Maroney and Wieber decided for that reason to "come up with an even more creative" name while on

1540-418: The team competition by performing the three highest-scoring vaults, giving the U.S. a lead that they would never relinquish. Douglas', Ross', and Wieber's scores combined for the third-highest score on uneven bars. Douglas, Raisman, and Ross kept the team in first with their performances on the balance beam. Then, Raisman, Douglas, and Wieber clinched the gold medal by scoring first, third, and fourth highest on

1617-403: The vault final . As the defending world champion in this event, she scored 15.866 on her first vault but fell on her second, scored 14.300, and won the silver medal. Her facial expression while standing on the podium became an internet meme . The only American in the uneven bars final , Douglas, finished in eighth. On the balance beam , Douglas finished in seventh. Raisman initially received

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1694-441: The 2012 Olympics. On 14 August, Mustafina competed in the individual uneven bars final. She defended her 2012 title and scored a 15.900, winning the gold medal ahead of American silver medallist Madison Kocian and bronze medallist Sophie Scheder of Germany . Mustafina returned to training in 2017 after the birth of her daughter, Alisa, with the hope of returning to competition for the 2018 European Championships and eventually

1771-467: The 2012 Summer Olympics. Douglas, nicknamed "the Flying Squirrel" for her skill on the uneven bars, finished first at the trials and was thus the automatic qualifier for the team. The team members were all between the ages of 15 and 18. They were close to each other: Raisman and Wieber had been best friends, and Maroney and Ross had been best friends since they were young. All except Ross were on

1848-503: The 2015 Russian Championships or the 2015 European Championships . She returned to competition at the 2015 European Games in Baku in June with Viktoria Komova and Seda Tutkhalyan . They won the team final, and in the individual all-around final, Mustafina again placed first with a score of 58.566. She also received a gold medal on bars (15.400) and silver on floor (14.200, her best score of

1925-558: The Olympics, either as individuals or as members of their national team. Additional individual gymnasts qualified from the Test Event in January. All times are JST ( UTC+9 ). Oldest and youngest competitors 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships – Women's qualification In the qualifying round, 5 gymnasts performed on each apparatus, and the top 4 scores were counted towards the team's total. The top 8 teams qualified to

2002-704: The Russian team was announced for the 2011 World Championships , Rodionenko said: "Aliya really wanted to go to Worlds—her heart and soul are literally crying, 'I can do it! I'm ready!' But we do not want to risk costing her the Olympics, and her surgeon in Germany said that she can start real training only in December. She just thinks she's ready now. But she does not really understand what she will face. She must be protected. Sometimes it takes years for people to recover from these injuries, and she hasn't even had five months." In December, Mustafina returned to competition at

2079-545: The Russian team's first-place finish and placed second on uneven bars, scoring 15.050; second on balance beam, scoring 14.375; and eighth on floor, scoring 13.225. At the Russian Cup in Chelyabinsk in August, Mustafina won the all-around competition with a score of 62.271. In event finals, she placed second on vault, scoring 13.963; first on uneven bars, scoring 14.775; third on balance beam, scoring 14.850; and first on floor, scoring 15.300. In October, she competed at

2156-426: The U.S. team that won the team competition at the 2011 World Championships . Raisman, the oldest on the team at 18 years old, was elected team captain by the other members. The team's replacement athletes were Sarah Finnegan , Anna Li , and Elizabeth Price , but they were not used at the games. The team was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated ' s Olympic Preview issue; it was the first time since 1996 that

2233-410: The United States in bronze medal position. Oldest and youngest competitors The all-around final was held on October 14. Three gymnasts had ranked high enough to qualify, but were not allowed to compete due to the two-per-country rule. The affected gymnasts were Jonathan Horton (5th), Fabian Hambüchen (19th) and Steven Legendre (24th). On the day of the final, Marian Drăgulescu pulled out of

2310-426: The United States, who was a member of the team who won the gold medal in the team competition and later won the individual vault title, was sexually assaulted by the former national team and Olympic team doctor Larry Nassar. Maroney has since described this incident as "the scariest night of my life" Nassar, later convicted pedophile, was on the floor next to the gymnasts for most of the world championships. The final

2387-611: The United States. At the time, this made her the ninth-most decorated female artistic gymnast at the World Championships , with a total of 11 medals. At the Stuttgart World Cup in late 2014, Mustafina fell on uneven bars and balance beam and made several errors on floor exercise, causing her to finish fifth. In December, after competing for two seasons without a coach, she began working with Sergei Starkin, who coached world champion Denis Ablyazin . In order to recover from injuries and stress, Mustafina did not compete at

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2464-458: The United States. In the uneven bars final, she scored 15.033 and finished in third place, behind Huang Huidan and Ross. She went on to win her first world beam title with a score of 14.900, ahead of Ross and Biles. In her last competition of 2013, Mustafina helped her team finish second at the Stuttgart World Cup, competing only on balance beam. On 3 April, Mustafina successfully defended her Russian national all-around title, scoring 14.733 for

2541-589: The Voronin Cup in Moscow . She placed fourth in the all-around and second on uneven bars with a score of 15.475. Coach Alexander Alexandrov said, "I was pleasantly surprised and happy about her first meet. She didn't do her full routines and full difficulty, but she tried what she was ready for at the time, and for me, it was enough to see. She was nervous, even though her goal was just to compete, to see how she does after eight months off and how well she could handle

2618-775: The absolute gymnasts to watch over the next two years—and the gymnasts to beat. In November, Mustafina competed in the Italian Grand Prix in Cagliari, Sardinia . She placed fourth on uneven bars, scoring 13.570, and first on balance beam, scoring 14.700. Mustafina competed at the American Cup in Jacksonville, Florida , in March. She finished in a controversial second to American Jordyn Wieber , with an all-around score of 59.831, after leading for three-quarters of

2695-541: The all-around and event finals. Note 2: Although Wieber, Raisman, and Douglas all had top eight finishes on vault, none opted to do a second vault to qualify for event finals. In the week after the Olympic Games, the Fierce Five appeared on The Today Show and Late Show with David Letterman . They also rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. In September, they appeared at

2772-477: The all-around final, she finished fourth with a total score of 57.915, performing well on vault and bars but making mistakes on beam and floor. She would later state that a fever was the cause of her poor performance. In the uneven bars final, she finished in sixth place with a score of 15.100. She then won bronze medals in the balance beam and floor exercise finals, scoring 14.166 on beam and 14.733 on floor to beat out Asuka Teramoto of Japan and MyKayla Skinner of

2849-542: The all-around final, she won the title with a score of 57.900. Individually, she won gold on bars and silver on beam. In the floor final, she fell on her last tumbling pass and finished 9th. In October, just after turning 19, Mustafina competed at the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp . Prior to the competition, she had been sick for weeks and had been experiencing knee pain. In qualifications, she fell on her first tumbling pass on floor (two whips into

2926-564: The all-around with a score of 57.300; fourth on vault, scoring 13.950; and second on floor, scoring 14.925. Mustafina competed in the senior division at the Russian national championships in Bryansk in March, and won the all-around with a score of 58.550. She also placed second on uneven bars, scoring 15.300; first on balance beam, scoring 14.950; and third on floor, scoring 14.700. The new Russian head coach, Alexander Alexandrov , lamented

3003-731: The all-around with a score of 58.825. The following month, she competed at the Stella Zakharova Cup in Kyiv and placed second in the all-around with a score of 55.150. In September 2007, Mustafina competed at the Japan Junior International in Yokohama . She placed second in the all-around with a score of 59.800 and second in all four event finals, scoring 14.750 on vault , 15.250 on uneven bars , 15.450 on balance beam , and 14.100 on floor exercise . At

3080-495: The all-around with a score of 59.533 and uneven bars with a score of 16.220, and finished fifth on balance beam with a score of 13.680. In May, at the 2012 European Championships in Brussels , she contributed scores of 15.166 on vault, 15.833 on uneven bars, and 13.933 on floor toward the Russian team's second-place finish. At the Russian Cup in Penza in June, she placed second in the all-around, behind Viktoria Komova , with

3157-464: The all-around with a total score of 59.133. In the event finals, she won beam with a score of 15.567 and floor with a score of 14.700, and placed second on the uneven bars with a score of 15.267. At the end of the meet, she was selected—along with Paseka, Sosnitskaya, Spiridonova, Maria Kharenkova , and Ekaterina Kramarenko —to represent Russia at the 2014 World Championships in Nanning, China . In

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3234-419: The award. In the all-around final , she finished in third place with a score of 59.566. She earned the same score as American Aly Raisman , but after tie-breaking rules were applied, Mustafina was awarded the bronze medal. Mustafina went on to win the uneven bars final with a score of 16.133, ending Russia's 12-year gold medal drought in Olympic gymnastics. In the floor final , she placed third with

3311-613: The beam and uneven bars finals in first place, and to the floor exercise final in third place, but she withdrew from all but the bars final to protect her knee. She received a silver medal with the Moscow Central team and finished third in the uneven bars final, behind Anastasia Grishina and Tatiana Nabieva . Later, Mustafina won the all-around and team titles at the Stella Zakharova Cup. In event finals, she won gold on uneven bars and silver on balance beam after

3388-407: The bus to a training session. They reportedly started searching on their phones for words that started with F that described the team. The top choices were feisty and fierce. Maroney and Wieber opted for "fierce", as they said it described their floor routines, and the rest of the team concurred. Maroney also stated, "There have been Fab Fives in the past but I like Fierce Five because we are definitely

3465-400: The competition and Nathan Gafuik took his place. Kōhei Uchimura 's gold-medal-winning-margin was 3.101 points over runner-up Philipp Boy , who defended his silver medal from 2010 as well. Oldest and youngest competitors The final for Men's Floor Exercise took place on October 15. Marian Drăgulescu had qualified in 2nd, but pulled out of the competition on the morning of the final. As

3542-557: The competition but falling on floor exercise, the last event. Later that month, she placed second on vault at a World Cup event in Paris, scoring 14.433; first on uneven bars, scoring 15.833; and first on balance beam, scoring 15.333. In April, she competed at the 2011 European Championships in Berlin . She qualified to the all-around final in first place, with a score of 59.750, but tore her left anterior cruciate ligament while competing

3619-574: The competition on that apparatus). On 18 September, Mustafina announced that she was withdrawing from the World Championships in Glasgow due to back pain. At the end of March, Mustafina was reportedly hospitalized for back pain. On 6 April, she returned to competition at the Russian Championships in Penza. In the first round, she performed watered-down routines on bars and beam, which scored 15.333 and 14.400 respectively. Next day in

3696-441: The competition, her participation had been in question after she was hospitalized for flu . In the team competition, which also served as a qualification round for the individual finals, Mustafina contributed scores of 13.750 on floor, 14.950 on vault, 15.000 on uneven bars, and 15.200 on beam toward Russia 's first-place finish. She qualified to the all-around final as well as the uneven bars, balance beam, and floor finals. In

3773-886: The fact that "girls of that age cannot compete at senior international competitions". She competed twice over the summer, placing second in the all-around (58.250) at the Japan Cup in Tokyo in July and winning the all-around (59.434) in the senior division at the Russian Cup in Penza in August. In December, she won the all-around at the Gymnasiade competition in Doha, Qatar , with a score of 57.350, and went on to place second on vault (13.900), first on uneven bars (14.825), first on balance beam (14.175), and first on floor (14.575). Mustafina

3850-466: The fiercest team out there." Despite the name change, some news sources still used the term Fab Five during the Olympics. When the U.S. won the team competition, NBC announcer Al Trautwig proclaimed, "The Fab Five is going gold!" The United States qualified in first place with an overall score of 181.863. Wieber, Douglas, and Raisman competed on all four events. Ross competed on uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise. Maroney competed on vault. For

3927-404: The final. In the final round, held on October 11, only 3 gymnasts performed on each apparatus, and all the scores counted. The United States team won the gold medal with solid performances by all gymnasts on all apparatus, while the Russian team made several mistakes and finished a distant second. China narrowly beat Romania to win the bronze medal, followed by Great Britain in fifth place. This

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4004-434: The final. Shortly after the women's beam competition, it was announced that Russia decided to pull Viktoria Komova from the competition to give her teammate (and second reserve) Ksenia Afanasyeva a chance to compete in the final instead. During warm up Vanessa Ferrari injured herself; so, third reserve Diana Chelaru was quickly added to replace her. In the qualifying round , 5 gymnasts performed on each apparatus, and

4081-578: The first reserve, Jake Dalton (USA) took his place. There was also an inquiry made by the Japanese coaches into the scoring when Kōhei Uchimura's difficulty score was only awarded a 6.500 because they had mistaken a triple twisting move for a double twisting move. The inquiry was accepted by the judges, and the score adjusted accordingly, which gave Uchimura the gold medal. Oldest and youngest competitors Oldest and youngest competitors Oldest and youngest competitors Originally, Marian Drăgulescu

4158-399: The floor, respectively. The team finished with a score of 183.596, 5.066 points higher than second-place Russia; this was an "unheard-of" margin of victory. They became the second U.S. team, after the " Magnificent Seven " in 1996, to win the team competition. In the individual all-around competition , Douglas won the gold medal, becoming the first African-American woman to win the event. She

4235-438: The great performances by a female gymnast ever—capturing the very same artistry, difficulty, and competitive composure that made her Soviet predecessors so beloved and revered. Mustafina's four-event arsenal is so well balanced it's hard to pick a favorite event to watch her on, and a win so convincing and undeniable as hers gives a satisfying sense of closure to a competition. She has established herself and her Russian teammates as

4312-445: The individual all-around competition, Raisman, Douglas, and Wieber qualified in second, third, and fourth place, respectively. Due to the rule allowing only the top two from each country to compete in a World or Olympic individual final, only Raisman and Douglas advanced. Wieber had won the all-around at the previous year's World Championships and was photographed in tears after the qualifications. Maroney, Douglas, and Wieber started off

4389-423: The pressure and how her knee would feel. I came up to her and said, 'Well, it seems like you're not very nervous at all, and I'm surprised!' And she said, 'Look at my hands, Alexander', and her hands were shaking. 'Maybe I'm not showing that I'm nervous, but inside I have butterflies!'" Mustafina competed at the Russian national championships in Penza in March at what Alexandrov said was "75 to 80 percent". She won

4466-493: The qualifying round at the World Championships, Mustafina scored 14.900 on vault, 15.166 on bars, 14.308 on beam, and 14.500 on floor, for a total of a 58.874. She qualified second to the all-around final, fourth on bars, seventh on beam, and fifth on floor. Russia qualified to the team final in third place, behind the United States and China. In the team final, Mustafina contributed a 15.133 on vault, 15.066 on bars, 14.766 on beam, and 14.033 on floor to Russia's third-place finish. In

4543-412: The second-place Ponor. Raisman became the first American woman to win the gold medal on the floor, and with her third medal overall, she was the most decorated member of the Fierce Five during the Olympics. Wieber finished seventh in the event. Note 1: Wieber would have qualified for the all-around and Ross for the balance beam final, but they did not because only two athletes may represent each country in

4620-466: The team final, she received a 15.333 on bars, 14.800 on beam, and 13.466 on floor. Russia won the gold with a team total of 175.212, five points ahead of the second-place British team. In the uneven bars final, Mustafina won a bronze medal with a score of 15.100, followed by a gold medal on beam with a 15.100: Her next appearance was at the Russian Cup. In qualifying, she placed fifth after failing to perform an acrobatic series on beam and falling twice on

4697-548: The team final, she scored 15.300 on bars and 14.133 on beam, helping her team to a silver. In the event finals, she won bronze on bars and beam, scoring 15.200 and 14.800 respectively. At the European Championships in Bern in June, she qualified first to the uneven bars and balance beam finals, scoring 15.166 and 14.733, respectively. She also performed a downgraded floor routine, for which she scored 13.533. In

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4774-425: The top 4 scores counted towards the team's total. The top 8 teams qualified for the final. In the final round, held on October 12, only 3 gymnasts performed on each apparatus, and all the scores were counted. The Chinese team won the title for the fifth successive time, benefiting from crucial mistakes by the last 2 Japanese gymnasts. Japan was still able to win the silver medal, with a margin of only 0.010 point from

4851-436: The two-per-country rule. All the gymnasts from the US that competed in the preliminary round ranked in the top 24. The gymnasts affected were Gabby Douglas (5th), Sabrina Vega (9th), and McKayla Maroney (12th) of the United States. Also affected were Tan Sixin (15th) and Jiang Yuyuan (20th) of China, Yuko Shintake (21st) and Yu Minobe (23rd) of Japan, and Anna Dementyeva (31st) of Russia. The last gymnast to qualify

4928-466: The uneven bars final with a score of 15.300. She also qualified to the floor exercise final in third place, but withdrew and gave her spot to Grishina, who had been left out of the final due to the limit of two gymnasts per country. In July, Mustafina competed at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia , alongside teammates Nabieva, Ksenia Afanasyeva , Maria Paseka , and Anna Dementyeva . Before

5005-508: The uneven bars final, scoring 15.700, and eighth for the floor final, scoring 14.433. In the team final , Mustafina contributed an all-around score of 60.266 toward the Russian team's second-place finish. On 15 August, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Mustafina the Order of Friendship at a special ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow . She was one of 33 Russian athletes to receive

5082-475: The uneven bars. In the all-around final, she placed third, with one fall on bars. This was her first all-around competition since the 2015 European Games, which she won. Despite withdrawing from event finals to work with a physiotherapist in Moscow, she was named to the Olympic team for Russia along with first-year senior and Russian Cup champion Angelina Melnikova , 2015 World Championships team member Tutkhalyan, and 2015 world champions Paseka and Spiridonova. At

5159-813: The year . Aly Raisman was a contestant on Season 16 of Dancing with the Stars . The group was nominated for Best Team at the 2013 ESPY Awards , and Douglas and Raisman were also nominated for individual awards. In August 2013, the team was inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame. At the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships , Maroney won a gold medal on vault, and Ross won silver medals on all-around, uneven bars, and balance beam. All five women later came forward as survivors of Larry Nassar 's systematic sexual abuse against US female gymnasts. 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Tokyo, Japan, from October 7–16, 2011, at

5236-518: Was Carlotta Ferlito , who ranked 32nd in the preliminary competition. Oldest and youngest competitors Phan's bronze medal was the first medal for Vietnam at a World Championships. Maroney's performance secured the third consecutive World gold medal for the USA on women's vault following Kayla Williams in 2009 and teammate Alicia Sacramone in 2010. Chusovitina's silver was her 11th world medal (her 9th vault world medal). As her first world championships

5313-404: Was also the first American gymnast ever to win both the team and individual all-around gold at the same Olympics. Raisman tied for the third-highest score with Russian Aliya Mustafina . A tiebreaker was used to determine the bronze medalist, in which the highest combined execution score was awarded the tie. This led to Mustafina taking the bronze medal. Maroney was the only American to qualify for

5390-795: Was born in Yegoryevsk, Russia , on 30 September 1994. Her father, Farhat Mustafin , a Volga Tatar born in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Mishar village Bolshoye Rybushkino , was a bronze medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics , and her mother, Yelena Kuznetsova, an ethnic Russian , is a physics teacher. Mustafina's first major international competition was the International Gymnix in Montreal in March 2007. She placed second in

5467-434: Was held on October 13. None of the medalists from the previous year were able to compete to defend their title as the gold and bronze medalists— Aliya Mustafina and Rebecca Bross , respectively—were both unable to compete at worlds due to knee injuries, and silver medalist Jiang Yuyuan did not qualify high enough over her teammates. A number of gymnasts ranked high enough to make the all-around final, but did not qualify due to

5544-486: Was in Indianapolis in 1991, she has been competing at an international level since before her fellow vault finalists were born. Oldest and youngest competitors Oldest and youngest competitors Oldest and youngest competitors Oldest and youngest competitors On the day before the competition, it was announced that Diana Bulimar injured her foot, and first reserve Lauren Mitchell would take her place in

5621-563: Was injured during a training session in March and was unable to compete in the Russian national championships. In April, she competed at an Artistic Gymnastics World Cup event in Paris . She placed fourth on uneven bars after an error, scoring 14.500, and second on balance beam, scoring 14.175. At the end of the month, she competed at the 2010 European Championships in Birmingham , where she contributed an all-around score of 58.175 toward

5698-494: Was the 2010 all-around world champion, the 2013 European all around champion, the 2012 and 2016 Olympic uneven bars champion and a seven-time Olympic medalist. Mustafina has tied with Svetlana Khorkina for the most Olympic medals won by a Russian gymnast (not including Soviet Union women's national artistic gymnastics team ). She was the ninth gymnast to win medals on every event at the World Championship. At

5775-692: Was the first qualifying stage for the 2012 Summer Olympics , which were held in London. The top 24 men's and women's teams from the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were allowed to send a full team of gymnasts. The top 8 men's and women's teams directly qualified for the team events at the 2012 Olympics. Teams placed 9th to 16th got a second chance to qualify a full team at the Olympic Test Event on January 10–18, 2012, from which four men's and women's teams qualified. The winners of gold, silver and bronze medals in each apparatus qualified for

5852-469: Was the highest ranking finish Great Britain had ever had for a team at a World Championship. Oldest and youngest competitors During the presentation of medals, the National Anthem of the United States was abruptly ended, causing some frustration amongst both the coaches and the gymnasts themselves. It has since been reported that right before the team competition began, McKayla Maroney from

5929-427: Was to compete in this final, but had to pull out of competition due to an injury. Denis Ablyazin replaced him in the final as the first reserve. Oldest and youngest competitors Oldest and youngest competitors Oldest and youngest competitors Aliya Mustafina Aliya Farkhatovna Mustafina ( Russian : Алия Фархатовна Мустафина ; born 30 September 1994) is a Russian former artistic gymnast . She

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