Adi Asya Katz
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| Country represented |  Israel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 31 March 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Tel Aviv | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | International Elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Maccabi Tel Aviv | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Ella Smolov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Alona Koshevatskiy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Adi Asia Katz (Hebrew: עדי כץ; born 31 March 2004) is a retired Israeli rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2022 European bronze medallist in Ribbon, and Team Bronze medallist. As a Junior, She was the 2019 Junior World silver medalist with Ribbon and bronze medalist with Clubs.
Rhythmic gymnastics career
Junior
She competed at the 2018 Junior European Championships in Guadalajara, Spain, where she placed 41st in Hoop Qualifications and 8th in Ribbon Qualifications. Next day, she improved her result with Ribbon, when she placed 5th in the final. A year later, she took part in the 2019 Junior World Championships as a part of Israeli team, which won bronze medal in Team ranking. She also won silver medal in Ribbon final and bronze medal in Clubs final.[1][2]
Senior
She debuted as a senior in 2020, but made her first big international appearance at World Cup Sofia in 2021. She placed 15th in All-around and qualified to Hoop final, where she ended on 8th place. Then she also competed at World Challenge Cup Minsk and placed 9th in All-around. In Clubs final, she took 6th place. On a national level, she became the all-around champion of 2021 in Israel.
She won her first-ever World Cup medal in 2022, at World Cup Baku. It was bronze in Hoop final, behind Italian Sofia Raffaeli and Bulgarian Boryana Kaleyn. Afterwards, she won another medal, silver in Clubs final at World Challenge Cup Pamplona in May. She achieved her first win at World Challenge Cup Portimão, where she won gold medal in All-around in front of Darja Varfolomeev and Eva Brezalieva, becoming the second Israeli rhythmic gymnast to win gold in All-around at FIG World Cup.
She was selected to compete at the 2022 European Championship in her home city, Katz qualified for the All-Around and ribbon finals. On Saturday she finished 11th in the All-Around final with a score of 124.450,[3] on the same day she earned a bronze medal in the team category along with Daria Atamanov and the senior group.[4] The next day, she had earned that bronze medal in the Ribbon competition.
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Routine music information
| Year | Apparatus | Music title |
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| 2023 | Hoop | Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by Kat León |
| Ball | Forever for Now by LP | |
| Clubs | Innuendo (Remastered 2011) by Queen | |
| Ribbon | Diles by Malú | |
| 2022 | Hoop | Love Runs Out by OneRepublic |
| Ball | Somnambule by Cœur De Pirate | |
| Clubs | Make You a Believer by THE K!X | |
| Ribbon | Total View by Inon Zur | |
| 2021 | Hoop | The Illusionist by Maxime Rodriguez |
| Ball | Just For You by Los Ultimos Romanticos | |
| Clubs | Footloose by Glee Cast | |
| Ribbon | The Ride (Instrumental) by James Horner | |
| 2020 | Hoop | |
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| 2019 | Rope | Glam (electro-swing remix) by Dimie Cat |
| Ball | Waltz by Eugen Doga | |
| Clubs | Long Tall Sally by Cagey String | |
| Ribbon | A Bad Kitty by Henry Jackman |
Competitive highlights
(Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)
| International: Senior | |||||||
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| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon |
| 2023 | European Championships | 10th | 3rd | 2nd | 11th (Q) | 12th (Q) | 7th |
| World Cup Baku | 7th | 9th (Q) | 5th | 14th (Q) | 7th | ||
| World Cup Sofia | 4th | 2nd | 8th | 10th (Q) | 10th (Q) | ||
| World Cup Palaio Faliro | 12th | 8th | 20th (Q) | 23rd (Q) | 2nd | ||
| 2022 | World Challenge Cup Portimão | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 7th | |
| World Challenge Cup Pamplona | 5th | 6th | 5th | 2nd | 5th | ||
| World Cup Baku | 10th | 3rd | 14th (Q) | 14th (Q) | 7th | ||
| 2021 | World Challenge Cup Minsk | 9th | 11th (Q) | 10th (Q) | 6th | 9th (Q) | |
| World Cup Sofia | 15th | 8th | 28th (Q) | 15th (Q) | 16th (Q) | ||
| 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; OC = Out of Competition(competed but scores not counted for qualifications/results) | |||||||
References
- ^ "Results for 1st FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics Junior World Championships". longinestiming. 22 July 2019.
- ^ "Russian rhythmic talent reigns at first junior Worlds". UEG. 22 July 2019.
- ^ All-Around Results European Gymnastics
- ^ Team Results European Gymnastics
External links
- Adi Asia Katz at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Adi Asya Katz at The-Sports.org
