Anastasia Simakova
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| Full name | Anastasia Gennadyevna Simakova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Simka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 September 2004 Omsk, Russia[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Germany (2023-present) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former countries represented | Russia (2016-2022) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | TSV Schmiden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gym | Bundesstützpunkt Schmiden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Yulia Raskina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach(es) | Vera Shtelbaums, Elena Arays, Yevgeniya Kanayeva, Marina Drozd[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Anastasia Gennadyevna Simakova (Russian: Анастасия Геннадьевна Симакова; born 9 September 2004 in Omsk, Russia) is a Russian-born individual rhythmic gymnast who competes for Germany, where she holds citizenship.[3] She is the 2025 European silver medalist with ball and the 2019 World Junior rope and team champion.[2]
On the national level, she is the 2024 German national all-around bronze medalist and a multiple medalist at the Russian junior nationals (among Candidates for Master of Sport in 2017, 2018 and 2019).
Personal life
She studies finance at Moscow Finance Academy.[4]
Gymnastics career
She began training in rhythmic gymnastics at age 4.
Junior
In 2019, Simakova was part of a junior national team. She competed at International tournament Sofia cup, where she won gold medal in team and clubs.[5] She competed in the 2019 Junior World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, where she became the World junior champion in the rope and team events.[6]
Senior
Simakova competed at the 2020 Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, placing 7th in the individual senior all-around final. She won bronze in the ribbon final. Simakova was registered to compete in the 2021 World Cup Sofia, along with Lala Kramarenko, which took place on March 26–28; however, both were withdrawn, and there was no individual Russian representation. Simakova competed in the Grand Prix in Marbella, where she placed third behind Viktoriia Onopriienko in the all-around. She also won silver in the ball final, and she came in 4th place in the ribbon final and 5th in the clubs final.
In 2022 she moved to Germany, following her parents, who enrolled in the program of repatriation for Russian Germans.[3] She started to train in Fellbach with Yulia Raskina in November 2023. Her change of nationality from Russian to German was approved in March 2023, which meant she could begin representing Germany at competitions starting in March 2024.[7]
In 2024, she represented Germany for the first time at the Marbella Grand Prix, where she ended in 12th place in the all-around competition and 8th in the ball final. She next competed in the World Cup Palaio Faliro, where she finished in 25th place in the all-around, and in the World Cup Baku, where she finished in 9th place in the all-around and 8th in the hoop final. On May 10–12, she competed at World Cup Portimao and again finished in 9th place in the all-around. She also qualified to two apparatus finals and placed 4th in ribbon and 8th in ball.
She represented Germany at the 2024 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, where she and her teammates placed 4th in the team competition. Simakova competed with two apparatuses, hoop and ribbon, and finished 12th in qualifications with both.[8][9] At the 2024 German National Championships, she won the bronze medal in the all-around behind teammates Margarita Kolosov and Darja Varfolomeev.[10]
In March 2025, Simakova won the Gymnastik International ahead of Liliana Lewińska.[11] In early April, she was selected to compete at the 2025 Summer World University Games along with her teammate Margarita Kolosov. This was the first time that Germany had sent a team of rhythmic gymnasts to the event.[12] On April 25-27, she competed at the World Cup Tashkent, where she took 18th place in the all-around. She qualified to the ribbon final and won her first World Cup medal (bronze).[13] She then competed at the World Challenge Cup Portimão, finishing 4th in the all-around. She was also 5th in the hoop and ball finals.
She represented Germany at the 2025 European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, where she and her teammates placed 4th in the team competition.[14] She was 9th in the all-around final, despite performing to the wrong music in her clubs routine,[15] and won the silver medal behind Stiliana Nikolova in the ball final.[16][17][18]
Routine music information
| Year | Apparatus | Music title |
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| 2025 | Hoop | Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 1: I. Vivace by Vladimir Ashkenazy, London Symphony Orchestra & André Previn |
| Ball | Skyfall by Adele | |
| Clubs | Gravitational Forces by ITG Studios | |
| Ribbon | WOMAN by Lady Bri | |
| 2024 | Hoop | Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Lorde/Monsters by Tommee Profitt |
| Ball | Crazy in Love by Sofia Karlberg | |
| Clubs | Boombayah by Blackpink | |
| Ribbon | WOMAN by Lady Bri | |
| 2023 | Hoop | Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Lorde/Monsters by Tommee Profitt |
| Ball | Another Love by Tom Odell | |
| Clubs | Boombayah by Blackpink | |
| Ribbon | Adiós by Benjamin Clementine | |
| 2021 | Hoop | The Gypsies; Journey Across Europe / Fanatico Master music from Oxford / KOI by John Corigliano / Edvin Marton & Ari Zakaryan |
| Ball | Melody from Orpheus and Eurydice by The duet I | |
| Clubs (first) | The Cobra's Dance (feat. Luru) by TSVI | |
| Clubs (second) | Shake Shake by Nessi | |
| Ribbon | Anastasia by Sergey Lazarev | |
| 2020 | Hoop | The Gypsies; Journey Across Europe / Fanatico Master music from Oxford / KOI by John Corigliano / Edvin Marton & Ari Zakaryan |
| Ball | 24 Préludes op. 28 - No.7 in A Major by Frédéric Chopin | |
| Clubs (first) | Russian Dance from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky | |
| Clubs (second) | Cuba by Robert Abigail and DJ Rebel ft. The Gibson Brothers | |
| Ribbon | Anastasia by Sergey Lazarev | |
| 2019 | Rope (first) | Russian Dance from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky |
| Rope (second) | Smuglyanka by the Alexandrov Ensemble | |
| Ball | Rond de Jambe à Terre Roudnev, Vol. 3 by Dmitri Roudnev | |
| Clubs | Me Gusta by Adolescent’s Orquesta | |
| Ribbon |
See also
References
- ^ "Анастасия Симакова стала "международником"!". Ministry of Youth Affairs, Physical Education and Sports of the Omsk region. 2019-04-26. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
- ^ a b "Анастасия Симакова и Дана Семиренко – победительницы первого в истории юниорского чемпионата мира". Sovetsky Sport. 2019-07-22. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
- ^ a b Herschmann, Eva (7 November 2022). "Anastasia Simakova, Sportgymnastik: Weltmeisterin in der Probephase". stuttgarter-zeitung.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ "33 Tage". Instagram. 2025-06-13.
- ^ "МЕЖДУНАРОДЕН ТУРНИР ПО ХУДОЖЕСТВЕНА ГИМНАСТИКА "SOFIA CUP"" (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2020-11-25.
- ^ "Russian rhythmic talent reigns at first junior Worlds".
- ^ Vivaldi, Beatrice (2023-03-04). "Approvato il cambio cittadinanza per Simakova". BlaBlaGym (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-01-13.
- ^ "Sportgymnastik-Weltmeisterin Darja Varfolomeev nutzt EM in Budapest für Olympia-Vorbereitung". olympics.com (in German). 22 May 2024.
- ^ "Darja Varfolomeev holt EM-Gold mit dem Band" (in German). 26 May 2024. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
- ^ "Mehrkampf-Gold für Margarita Kolosov" (in German). 6 June 2024. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
- ^ "Ergebnisse/Results - Gymnastik International" (in German). 2023-11-28. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
- ^ "Der adh will mit historisch größter Delegation bei den Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games auf Medaillenjagd gehen" [The German University Sports Federation wants to go on the hunt for medals with the largest delegation ever at the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games]. Sport Presse Portal (in German). 2025-04-01. Retrieved 2025-05-10.
- ^ "FIG RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS WORLD CUP TASHKENT (UZB) 202" (in Russian). 2025-04-27. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ^ "Team Results" (PDF). European Gymnastics. 2025-06-07. Retrieved 2025-06-08.
- ^ "Bronze: Darja Varfolomeev im Mehrkampf-Finale mit Höhen und Tiefen" [Bronze: Darja Varfolomeev in the all-around final with highs and lows]. SWR Sport (in German). 2025-06-07. Retrieved 2025-06-07.
- ^ "ECH Tallinn 2025 Individual All-Around Final" (PDF). European Gymnastics. 2025-06-06.
- ^ "ECH Tallinn 2025 Ball Final" (PDF). European Gymnastics. 2025-06-08.
- ^ "Бывшая российская гимнастка Симакова завоевала серебряную медаль на чемпионате Европы" (in Russian). 2025-06-08. Retrieved 2025-06-08.
External links
- Anastasia Simakova at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Anastasia Simakova at Gimnastika.pro (in Russian)