| Angelina Simakova | |
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 Simakova at the 2019 Russian Cup | |
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Full name |
Angelina Vladimirovna Simakova |
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Country represented |
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Born |
August 26 2002 |
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Years on National Team |
2015 - 2021 |
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Current status |
Retired |
Angelina Vladimirovna Simakova (Russia: Ангелина Владимировна Симакова; born August 26, 2002 in Khimki, Moscow Oblast) is an elite Russian gymnast. She has been a member of the National Team since 2015 and her best events are floor exercise and vault. She is the 2019 Russian National Champion.
Junior Career[]
2013-2014[]
Simakova competed at Russian Hopes, winning all-around gold and floor exercise bronze. The following year, she returned to Russian Hopes, winning all-around, vault, and uneven bars gold, balance beam bronze, and placing fourth with her team.
2015[]
Simakova made her international debut at the International Gymnix in Canada, winning team silver, floor exercise bronze, and placing fourth on beam and fifth in the all-around. At the Russian Junior Championships, she won team, all-around, vault, and floor exercise gold, and uneven bars and balance beam silver. She went on to compete at the Student Spartakiada, winning all-around, vault, and floor exercise gold, and placing fifth on bars and beam, and thirteenth with her team. She capped off the year at the Top Gym in Belgium, winning balance beam gold, vault and floor exercise silver, and placing sixth in the all-around.
2016[]
Simakova began her season at the Russian Championships, winning team gold, floor exercise silver, balance beam bronze, and placing fourth in the all-around and on vault and fifth on uneven bars. She was named to Russia's junior team for the European Championships, where she helped them win team gold. She competed at the Russian Junior Championships later, winning all-around, vault, uneven bars, and floor exercise gold, and placing tenth with her team.
2017[]
Simakova competed at the WOGA Classic in America, winning all-around, balance beam, and floor exercise gold, uneven bars silver, and vault bronze. In the fall, she competed at the Japan Junior International, winning gold on vault and placing fourth in the all-around and sixth on floor. In November, she competed at the Elite Gym Massilia in France, winning all-around, balance beam, and floor exercise gold, team and uneven bars silver, and placing fifth on vault.
Senior Career[]
2018[]
Simakova's senior debut came at the Tokyo World Cup, where she hit four solid routines and finished fourth in the all-around. At her first senior Russian Championships, she won team gold, all-around and floor exercise silver, and placed fourth on bars and fifth on vault. In June, she competed at the Russian Cup, winning gold on floor exercise, silver with her team, bronze on uneven bars, and placing fourth in the all-around and eighth on vault. She went on to compete at the European Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, where she won team gold. She was later named to the Russian team for the World Championships in Doha, Qatar in late October. In qualifications, she fell on vault but earned a score of zero as she did not land feet first. Nevertheless, she contributed in the team final, helping Russia win a silver medal and automatically qualify a full team to the 2020 Olympics. After Doha, she competed at the Joaquim Blume Memorial in Spain in December, winning balance beam gold, all-around bronze, and placing fourth on vault and floor and seventh on bars.
2019[]
Simakova started off her season at the Russian Championships, winning team, all-around, and balance beam gold, and placing fifth on uneven bars. She later competed in the Team Challenge at the Stuttgart World Cup, helping the Russian team qualify to the team final and win silver behind Brazil. At the European Championships in Szczecin, Poland in April, she placed ninth in the all-around. In August, she competed at the Russian Cup, placing sixth in the all-around and on floor exercise and eighth on uneven bars.
2020-2021[]
In December, Simakova competed at the Voronin Cup. She only competed on two events, winning gold on uneven bars and silver on balance beam. In 2021, she attended the Russian Championships, winning gold with the Moscow team. She qualified eighth into the all-around final but did not compete.
Medal Count[]
| Year | Event | TF | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| 2013 | Russian Hopes | 1st | 3rd | ||||
| 2014 | Russian Hopes | 4 | 1st | 1st | 1st | 3rd | |
| 2015 | International Gymnix | 2nd | 5 | 4 | 3rd | ||
| Russian Junior Championships | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | |
| Student Spartakiada | 13 | 1st | 1st | 5 | 5 | 1st | |
| Top Gym | 6 | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | |||
| 2016 | Russian Championships | 1st | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3rd | 2nd |
| Bern European Championships | 1st | ||||||
| Russian Junior Championships | 10 | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||
| 2017 | WOGA Classic | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | |
| Japan Junior International | 4 | 1st | 6 | ||||
| Élite Gym Massilia | 2nd | 1st | 5 | 2nd | 1st | 1st | |
| 2018 | Tokyo World Cup | 4 | |||||
| Russian Championships | 1st | 2nd | 5 | 4 | 2nd | ||
| Russian Cup | 2nd | 4 | 8 | 3rd | 1st | ||
| Glasgow European Championships | 1st | ||||||
| Doha World Championships | 2nd | ||||||
| Joaquim Blume Memorial | 3rd | 4 | 7 | 1st | 4 | ||
| 2019 | Russian Championships | 1st | 1st | 5 | 1st | ||
| Stuttgart World Cup | 2nd | ||||||
| Szczecin European Championships | 9 | ||||||
| Russian Cup | 6 | 8 | 6 | ||||
| 2020 | Voronin Cup | 1st | 2nd | ||||
| 2021 | Russian Championships | 1st |