Polina Karika
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| Born | 25 June 2005 Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Ukraine (2020-) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Deriugina School | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Irina Deriugina | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Diana Kolokot | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Iryna Blokhina | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Polina Yevheniyivna Karika (Ukrainian: Поліна Євгеніївна Каріка; born 25 June 2005) is a Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2020 Junior European champion with Ball.[2]
Personal life
Her brother Dmytro Karika is a football player at FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin.[3]
Career
Junior
She won bronze medal in Team competition at the 2020 Deriugina Cup. She competed at the 2020 Junior European Championships and won gold medal in Team competition. She also qualified to Ball final and won another gold medal.
Senior
Karika became age-eligible for senior international competitions in 2021. She made her World Cup debut at Baku World Cup and took 32nd place in all-around. She won bronze medal in all-around at Ukrainian Championships that year.[4]
Polina competed at the 2022 European Championships in Tel Aviv, Israel, and finished 8th in the team competition with Viktoriia Onopriienko and the senior group. She took 28th place in ribbon Qualifications. She was selected to represent Ukraine at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham alongside Viktoriia Onopriienko. She only qualified to ribbon final, where she finished on 8th place.[5] She then competed at the World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. She finished 29th in the all-around qualificatoins and did not advance into any apparatus finals. She was a part of Ukrainian team that finished 4th.[6]
In 2023, she competed at Palaio Faliro World Cup in March. She took 5th place in all-around and qualified to her first World Cup apparatus finals. She was 4th in clubs, 5th in hoop and 7th in ball final. She represented Ukraine at the 2023 European Championships together with Viktoriia Onopriienko and Polina Horodnycha. They won a silver medal in the team competition together with the senior group (Yelyzaveta Azza, Diana Baieva, Daryna Duda, Yeva Meleshchuk, Anastasiya Voznyak, Mariia Vysochanska). Karika finished in 5th place in the all-around and failed to qualify to apparatus finals.[7] She won silver medal in all-around at Ukrainian Championships. In August, she competed at the 2023 World Championships in Valencia, Spain. She placed 25th in the all-around qualifications and missed all-around final for one place. She and her teammates took 6th place in team competition.
In 2025, Polina began her season by competing at the Miss Valentine Grand Prix in Tartu in March. She won silver medal in all-around competition behind her teammate Taisiia Onofriichuk and qualified for three apparatus finals, winning gold in ball and silver in clubs and ribbon. On March 22-23, she competed at Grand Prix Marbella and took 7th place in all-around. She won bronze medal in ball final and took 7th place in hoop. In the end of May, she won silver medal in all-around at Ukrainian Championships behind Taisiia Onofriichuk.
In June, Karika competed at the 2025 European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia together with Taisiia Onofriichuk. They won a silver medal in the team competition together with the senior group (Yelyzaveta Azza, Diana Baieva, Anastasiia Ikan, Valeriia Peremeta, Kira Shyrykina, Oleksandra Yushchak). She also took 10th place in all-around final and 4th place in clubs final.[8]
Routine music information
| Year | Apparatus | Music title |
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| 2025 | Hoop | The Plot Thickens / Dead Reckoning Openin Titles (from Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One) by Lorne Balfe |
| Ball | Caruso by Luciano Pavarotti | |
| Clubs | Feeling Good by Michael Bublé | |
| Ribbon | Tico-Tico by K.T. Sullivan | |
| 2023 | Hoop | |
| Ball | I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston | |
| Clubs | ||
| Ribbon |
See also
References
- ^ "Polina Karika". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
- ^ "Bright Ukrainian Quintet Has Won During Half An Hour A Gold And A Silver Medal At The Home Gymnastics Euro". Главком. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
- ^ "Українські гімнастки завоювали золото на чемпіонаті Європи в Києві" (in Ukrainian). Unian. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
- ^ "Травневий Чемпіонат України з художньої гімнастики у м. Біла Церква: результати". Федерация гимнастики Украины (in Russian). 2021-05-18. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- ^ Mandziy, Oleksiy (14 July 2022). "Вікторія Онопрієнко виграла для України першу за 9 років медаль у художній гімнастиці на Всесвітніх іграх" [Victoria Onoprienko won Ukraine's first medal in rhythmic gymnastics at the World Games in 9 years]. Suspilne Sport (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 8 February 2023.
- ^ "39th FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships Results Book" (PDF). USA Gymnastics. International Gymnastics Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 December 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ^ Iryna Zhuravlyova (2023-05-20). "Вау! 17-річна Каріка очолила багатоборство на ЧЄ-2023 з художньої гімнастики після першої половини змагань (ВІДЕО)" (in Ukrainian).
- ^ Maksim Gudzenko (2025-06-08). "Онофрійчук здобула три медалі у окремих фіналах Євро з художньої гімнастики: усі нагороди" (in Ukrainian).