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Hélène Karbanov

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Hélène Karbanov
Karbanov in 2024
Country represented France
Born (2004-12-29) 29 December 2004 (age 19)
Lille, France
HometownCalais, France
Height158 cm (5 ft 2 in)
Weight43 kg (95 lb)
DisciplineRhythmic gymnastics
LevelSenior International Elite
Years on national team2018
ClubCalais GRS
Head coach(es)Katia Guillere
ChoreographerSacha Vangrevelynghe
World ranking19 WC[1]
Medal record
Representing  France
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
FIG World Challenge Cup 0 1 0
Grand Prix 1 1 3
Total 1 2 3
Gymnasiades
Gold medal – first place 2022 Normandy All-around
Gold medal – first place 2022 Normandy Ball
Gold medal – first place 2022 Normandy Clubs
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Normandy Hoop

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

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Karbanov took up rhythmic gymnastics at age eight. She first competed in the sport in 2013 with her club Calais GRS.

Junior

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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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Karbanov competing with clubs at the 2024 Sofia World Cup

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

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Year Apparatus Music title
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

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  1. ^ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport.
  2. ^ "Gymnastique : très déçue, la Calaisienne Hélène Karbanov médaillée de bronze des France". La Voix du Nord. 27 May 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Résultats". www.ffgym.fr.
  4. ^ "Helene Karbanov". FIG. 1 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Results by apparatus" (PDF). gymmedia.com. 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  6. ^ "Hélène Karbanov à Moscou - Actualités - FFGYM Hauts-de-France". hauts-de-france.ffgym.fr.
  7. ^ "All Around Results" (PDF). europeangymnastics.com. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  8. ^ Morgan Maury. "Hélène Karbanov qualifiée pour les JO en gymnastique rythmique" (in French). Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  9. ^ "Results for FIG World Cup 2024 Sofia (BUL)". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.