Shtelbaums, who worked in the same gymnastics school, recalled Kanaeva spending long hours practicing even though all other students were gone, while her grandmother stood in the corridor waiting to take her home. Her first trainer, Yelena Arais (daughter of Kanaeva's later trainer, Vera Shtelbaums), was impressed by her enthusiasm for learning difficult elements. Her grandmother, a devoted fan of rhythmic gymnastics and figure skating, introduced 6-year-old Kanaeva to rhythmic gymnastics. 3 Skills and influence on rhythmic gymnastics.Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the honors. After the 2012 Summer Olympics, on 15 August at the Grand Kremlin Palace, Kanaeva, along with fellow Olympic gold medalists, was awarded the Merit for the Fatherland IV Degree. In 2009, Kanaeva was awarded the title Merited Master of Sports in Russia. Kanaeva is the only gymnast to receive a perfect score under the 30-point judging system, having done so twice: in the 2011 Grand Prix Final in Brno and in the 2012 Grand Prix in Vorarlberg. She repeated the feat at the 2011 World Championship in Montpellier, France, equaling her own record. Kanaeva shares the record for most individual world all-around titles with Maria Petrova (1995 tied with Ekaterina Serebrianskaya), Maria Gigova (1971 tied with Galima Shugurova) and fellow Russian gymnasts Yana Kudryavtseva and Dina Averina, and Kanaeva is the one of only three gymnasts to have won all three titles without being tied, impossible due to the tie breaking system even though she never was tied for a title.Īt the 2009 World Championship in Mie, Japan, Kanaeva became the first rhythmic gymnast to win all six titles.
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Kanaeva holds the record for most World titles with seventeen and thirteen European titles. On 4 July 2013, Kanaeva received the International Fair Play Award for "Sport and Life". She is the only individual rhythmic gymnast in history to win two Olympic all-around gold medals, winning at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she finished with 3.75 points ahead of silver medalist Inna Zhukova, and at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she also became the oldest gymnast to win the Olympic gold.
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Evgeniya Olegovna Kanaeva OMF ( Russian: Евгения Олеговна Канаева born 2 April 1990) is a Russian individual rhythmic gymnast.