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Elzhana Taniyeva
Эльжана Таниева
Taniyeva at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games
Personal information
Country represented Kazakhstan
Born (2005-09-06) 6 September 2005 (age 19)
HometownAlmaty, Kazakhstan
Training locationShymkent, Kazakhstan
DisciplineRhythmic gymnastics
Years on national team2019-present
Head coach(es)Aliya Yusupova
Assistant coach(es)Lola Adilbekova, Yana Arintseva
Medal record
Rhythmic gymnastics
Representing  Kazakhstan
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Asian Games 0 2 0
Asian Championships 3 4 1
Summer Universiade 0 2 1
FIG World Cup 1 1 3
Islamic Solidarity Games 1 0 3
Total 5 8 8
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Hangzhou All-around
Silver medal – second place 2022 Hangzhou Team
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Pattaya Ribbon
Gold medal – first place 2024 Tashkent All-around
Gold medal – first place 2024 Tashkent Hoop
Silver medal – second place 2022 Pattaya Clubs
Silver medal – second place 2022 Pattaya Team
Silver medal – second place 2023 Manila All-around
Silver medal – second place 2023 Manila Hoop
Silver medal – second place 2023 Manila Ribbon
Silver medal – second place 2023 Manila Team
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Manila Ball
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Manila Clubs
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Tashkent Ball
World University Games
Silver medal – second place 2021 Chengdu Ball
Silver medal – second place 2021 Chengdu Ribbon
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Chengdu Hoop
Islamic Solidarity Games
Gold medal – first place 2021 Konya Ball
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Konya Team
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Konya Hoop
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Konya Ribbon

Elzhana Taniyeva (Kazakh: Эльжана Таниева; born 6 September 2005) is a Kazakh rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2024 Asian all-around champion and will represent Kazakhstan at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She is the 2022 Asian Games all-around and team silver medalist. She won three medals at the 2021 Summer World University Games and four medals at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games. Taniyeva competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the rhythmic individual all-around.

Early life

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Taniyeva took up rhythmic gymnastics at age four, following her older sister.[1] She grew up in Almaty, but at age 10, she moved to Shymkent for her gymnastics training.[2]

Junior career

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Taniyeva won gold medals in the all-around, hoop, ball, and ribbon and a silver medal in the clubs at the 2018 Asian Cup.[3] She competed in the 2019 Junior World Championships in Moscow, Russia, finishing 13th with the Kazakhstan team. She qualified for the rope final and finished in fourth place, 0.200 away from the bronze medal.[4]

Senior career

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2021

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Taniyeva became age-eligible for senior competition in 2021. She took part in the Moscow World Challenge Cup, finishing seventh in the all-around and qualifying for all the event finals. In the event finals, she placed sixth in the hoop and clubs and fifth in the ball and ribbon.[5] Later that year, she was selected to compete at the World Championship in Kitakyushu, Japan, and finished 21st in the all-around during the qualification round.[6]

2022

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At the Moscow Grand Prix, Taniyeva won the silver medal in the clubs final behind Russia's Lala Kramarenko.[7] She finished sixth in the hoop final at the Palaio Faliro World Cup.[1] Then at the Marbella Grand Prix, she won the bronze medal in the clubs final behind Bulgarians Stiliana Nikolova and Eva Brezalieva.[8] At her next World Cup in Sofia, she won the bronze medal in the clubs final- her first FIG World Cup medal.[9] Then at the Baku World Cup, she was fourth in the ball final and fifth in the clubs final.[10] At the final World Cup event in Pesaro, she finished fifth in the all-around and in the ribbon final and eighth in the hoop final.[11][12]

Taniyeva competed at the Asian Championships and won the gold medal in the ribbon final. Additionally, she placed seventh in the all-around and won silver medals in the clubs final and with the Kazakhstan team.[13] She then represented Kazakhstan at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games, which were held in 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She won a bronze medal in the team event alongside Aibota Yertaikyzy. Individually, she won the gold medal in the ball final and bronze medals in the hoop and ribbon finals.[14]

Taniyeva finished 14th in the all-around and seventh in the ribbon final at the World Challenge Cup in Cluj-Napoca.[15][16] She then competed at the World Championship and qualified for the all-around final, where she finished in eighth place.[17] Additionally, the Kazakhstan team finished 13th.[18]

2023

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Taniyeva began the 2023 season at the Miss Valentine Tartu Grand Prix and won a silver medal in the hoop final behind Ukraine's Viktoriia Onopriienko.[19] Then at the Marbella Grand Prix, she won a bronze medal in the ball final behind Bulgarian gymnasts Stiliana Nikolova and Eva Brezalieva,[20] and she placed fourth in the all-around.[21] She then competed at the Palaio Faliro World Cup and finished 11th in the all-around.[22] The day after, she won a bronze medal in the clubs final and placed fourth in the ribbon final.[23] At the Sofia World Cup, she ended fifth place in the all-around,[24] and she won a silver medal in the ribbon final.[25] Then at the Tashkent World Cup, she placed sixth in the all-around,[26] seventh in the ball final, and fifth in the clubs final.[27] She won the gold medal in the ball final at the Portimão World Challenge Cup, and she won a bronze medal in the ribbon final.[28]

Taniyeva won the silver medal in the all-around at the Asian Championships behind Uzbekistan's Takhmina Ikromova.[29] In the event finals, she won silver medals in the hoop and ribbon and bronze medals in the ball and clubs, and she helped the Kazakh team win the silver medal.[30] She then won three medals at the World University Games- silver with the ball and ribbon and bronze with the hoop.[31] Then at the Asian Games, she won the all-around silver medal once again behind Ikromova.[32] She also won a silver medal in the team event alongside Milana Parfilova and Erika Zhailauova.[33] At the World Championship, she qualified for the ball final and finished seventh.[34]

2024

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Taniyeva won the gold medal in the ball final at the Marbella Grand Prix.[35] She finished fifth in the all-around at the Sofia World Cup.[36] At the Asian Championships, Taniyeva won the all-around title. Her placement gave her an individual berth to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[37][38] In the event finals, she won the gold medal in the hoop and the bronze medal in the ball.[39]

In August, Taniyeva competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She had a loss in her ball routine and ended the qualification round in 13th place; she did not advance to the final.[40]

Competitive history

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Taniyeva (left) at the 2023 Sofia World Cup
Taniyeva competing ball at the 2024 Sofia World Cup
Year Event Team AA HP BA CL RB
Junior
2018 Asian Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Year Event Team AA RP BA CL RB
2019
Junior World Championships 13 4
Year Event Team AA HP BA CL RB
Senior
2021 Moscow World Challenge Cup 7 6 5 6 5
World Championship 21
2022 Moscow Grand Prix 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Palaio Faliro World Cup 17 6
Marbella Grand Prix 8 5 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Sofia World Cup 7 5 5 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Baku World Cup 15 4 5
Pesaro World Cup 5 8 5
Asian Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 7 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Islamic Solidarity Games 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 6 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Cluj-Napoca World Challenge Cup 14 4 5
World Championship 13 8
2023 Miss Valentine Tartu Grand Prix 9 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 6
Marbella Grand Prix 4 6 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 7
Palaio Faliro World Cup 11 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4
Sofia World Cup 5 5 7 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Tashkent World Cup 6 7 5
Portimão World Challenge Cup 4 4 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Asian Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World University Games 5 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Asian Games 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Championship 13 26 7
2024 Marbella Grand Prix 5 8 1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 4
Sofia World Cup 5 4 7
Asian Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 4
Olympic Games R3

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Routine music information

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Taniyeva (right) at the 2023 Asian Championships
Year Apparatus Music title
2019 Rope The Dark Game by Neil Black
Ball Le Poulpe by Dimie Cat
Clubs Puerto Rico by The Rumbar
Ribbon V.E.S.P.A by Dimie Cat
2021 Hoop No Good by KALEO
Ball I Put A Spell On You by Garou
Clubs Natural by Imagine Dragons
Ribbon Obsidian (No Drums) by Audiomachine
2022 Hoop Navras by Juno Reactor
Ball It's a Man's Man's Man's World by James Brown
Clubs Run the World (Girls) by Beyoncé
Ribbon Cleopatra by Trevor Jones
2023 Hoop War from The Turkish Gambit OST
Ball Speak Softly Love by Simone
Clubs Loca by Shakira
Ribbon Heed: Of Penetration And The City Dweller - Head Remix by Julian Cope, Clubbed to Death from Matrix OST
2024 Hoop Beneath the Floorboards / V for Vivaldi (feat. Sebastián Pecznik & Duomo) by Power-Haus
Ball Speak Softly Love by Simone
Clubs Sueta by AlexEmelya, Maga
Ribbon Heed: Of Penetration And The City Dweller - Head Remix by Julian Cope, Clubbed to Death from Matrix OST

References

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