Yana Kudryavtseva Quotes

Russia, Rhythmic Gymnast
September 30, 1997

Yana Alexeyevna Kudryavtseva (Russian: Я́на Алексе́евна Кудря́вцева; born 30 September 1997) is a retired Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympic All-around silver medalist, three-time World Champion in the All-around (2013–2015), the 2015 European Games All-around champion, two-time (2014, 2016) European Championships All-around champion, the 2012 European Junior ball champion. In national level, she is a two-time (2015, 2014) Russian National All-around champion and three time Russian Junior National all-around champion.

I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.

Yana Kudryavtseva
- Good
- Kids
- Education
I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.

Yana Kudryavtseva
- Years
- Old
- Gymnastics

When you're on the victory podium, you're a queen, but when you come down from it, you're nobody. You cannot be too proud of yourself.

Yana Kudryavtseva
- Proud
- Yourself
- Victory
Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport - we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym.

Yana Kudryavtseva
- Art
- True
- Day
For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.

Yana Kudryavtseva
- She
- Balance
- Successful