First coach of the Averin twin gymnasts: I asked them - are you Dina or Arina? Averina Dina and Arina: biography, parents, sporting achievements. Sister-gymnasts Averina Averina km in rhythmic gymnastics

Today we are watching the formation of new stars - Dina and Arina Averina. Gymnastic acrobats, the Averina twins have won many medals and continue to improve to achieve more.

Biography

Childhood

Athletes Dina and Arina Averina are twin sisters. The athletes were born on August 13, 1998. Their childhood was spent in the small town of Zavolzhye, Nizhny Novgorod region. Since birth, the Averina sisters have been side by side: they are members of the Russian rhythmic gymnastics team together, they participate in competitions together, and together they endure all the joys and hardships inherent in professional sports.

Dina and Arina had sports in their blood; their entire family consists of athletes: the twins’ father is a professional football player, their mother devoted part of her life to rhythmic gymnastics, and their older sister Polina was on the national team. It was thanks to the training of their older sister that the girls became interested in sports.

Girls were enrolled in the gymnastics section at the age of 4, 1 year earlier than in school. The first coach of the twins was Larisa Viktorovna Belova (mother of Olympic champion Irina Belova). She notes that even as children, the sisters decided that they would make a career in sports. The girls were serious, purposeful and strict with themselves beyond their age.

Dina and Arina’s entire childhood was devoted to gymnastics. They went to a regular school until the age of 12, but studied individually with teachers and took a lot of external exams. From the age of 13, girls were completely transferred to individual education.

The sisters remember when they were little they often got offended over trifles and quarreled over rivalry in gymnastics. Now they think about it with a smile and support each other at all competitions.

When they were little, they often got offended over trifles and quarreled over rivalry in gymnastics.

Dina and Arina are often asked: how to distinguish you? The girls say that strangers can tell them apart by the mole on their cheek. At the same time, their coach initially easily distinguished Dina and Arina Averin. The sisters are compared not only externally, but also on a professional level. However, qualified trainers are confident that it will not be possible to choose the strongest. They have the same chances for a medal, only Dina is closer, and Arina has a ball and a ribbon.

Start of a sports career

The Averina sisters improved and improved their performance. When my parents decided that they needed to continue their education at a new level, the whole family moved to Nizhny Novgorod.

In 2011, the Averina sisters participated in the “Young Gymnast” tournament; this performance became fateful for the young athletes. At the tournament, Vera Nikolaevna Shataeva noticed the twins. She invites the Averins to a training camp in Croatia, and then immediately to the Olympic Training Center (Moscow) and become their coach.

At this time, the girls' gymnast careers were in jeopardy. At the age of 12, their height was 138 cm. Coaches who did not know them always asked how old they were, because they looked 9. However, an examination of the athletes by specialists (in particular, an endocrinologist) determined that it was necessary to adjust the training process and diet. Vera Shataeva monitored not only the sisters’ training process, but also their health. Soon, the implementation of these principles yielded results and now the height of the athletes is 164 cm.

In 2011-2012 included many successful performances:

World Cup
Russian Championship
International tournament in Slovenia
Hopes of Russia and more

The year 2013 was marked for the athletes by receiving MS, as well as the transition to the adult national team. After joining the adult Russian national rhythmic gymnastics team, the Averins go to live and train at the Novogorsk training center.

Adult period

Season 2014-2015

In 2014, the sisters began to compete in more respectable competitions. At the beginning of the year they attended the Grand Prix in Moscow. Dina Averina earns a gold medal, and Arina a silver. At the next stage of the Cup in Israel, Arina Averina receives a high rating and beats Dina by only 0.048 points. At the Moscow tournament, Dina again becomes the winner, and Arina takes 2nd place.

Afterwards, Arina goes to Portugal to compete in the Baltic Hoop and wins 5 medals: for the all-around, hoop, clubs, ribbon and gold for the exercise with the ball. At the same time, Dina and her coach competed in the World Cup in Portugal. Dina Alekseevna Averina earned bronze in the all-around, silver in clubs and bronze in ribbon. Then, together with his sister, he goes to the Russian Championship in Penza. Together they won 5 awards:
Arina

Dina

In 2015, at the Moscow Grand Prix, the sisters did not receive medals. The Russian Championship brought the sisters many awards:

Arina

Dina

In 2015, the Averina sisters also participated in Corbeil-Essones, from which they brought 5 medals each. In the same year, they earned 8 awards at the Cup in Hungary. In general, for beginning professional athletes in the 2014-2015 season, the Averins showed themselves to be excellent.

Season 2016-2017

In 2016, there was no doubt that the Averins would soon become leaders in gymnastics. They were called Russia's "secret weapon", and the successes and failures of the sisters were carefully monitored. More and more responsibility fell on their shoulders, which Averina’s sisters handled brilliantly.

Sports achievements of Arina Averina for the 2016 season:

Tournament	All-around	Hoop	Ball	Maces	Ribbon
Grand Prix Final	bronze	silver			silver
World Cup Sofia	fourth	bronze	fourth	bronze	6th
Grand Prix Bucharest	silver	fourth	silver	bronze	bronze
Grand Prix Brno	fifth
Grand Prix Thieu	fifth			fourth	fourth
World Cup Lisbon	fifth		fourth		silver
Grand Prix Moscow	bronze			silver	gold

At this time, Dina did not lag behind her sister:

Bronze for the Russian Championship
3 golds from a performance at the World Cup in Lisbon (ball, ribbon, all-around)
Victory at the championship in Lithuania
2 silvers at the Grand Prix final (ball, all-around)
Bronze at the Club World Cup
Prize for artistry from Alina Kabaeva

In 2017, the twins continued to perform successfully at world championships.

Sports achievements of Arina Averina for the 2017 season:

Tournament	Arina
Tournament	All-around	team	hoop	ball	maces	ribbon
World Cup Kazan	silver		silver	gold	silver	gold
World Games			gold	gold	bronze	gold
Grand Prix Holon	gold			silver
Europe championship		gold		gold	gold
World Cup Baku	gold		gold	silver	bronze	silver
World Cup Tashkent	silver		gold	gold		gold
Grand Prix Marbella	silver			bronze	bronze
Desio Italia Trophy	silver	gold

For Dina Averena, 2017 was a triumphant year. At the Grand Prix in Moscow, Dina beat Soldatova. For clubs, Dina received the highest score at this tournament - 19.6. She also became the winner in the finals with objects: hoop, clubs, ribbon. She earned silver for her performance with the ball. From Thie Dina he brings 4 medals of the highest standard and a silver for his number with a ribbon.

In 2017, Dina Averena won the all-around at the Russian Championship, thanks to which she received the status of Absolute Champion of Russia.

Tournament	Dina
Tournament	All-around	team	hoop	ball	maces	ribbon
Pisaro World Cup	silver		silver	gold	gold	gold
World Games			silver	silver	gold	silver
Grand Prix Holon	silver			gold	silver
Europe championship	gold		gold		silver	gold
World Cup Tashkent	gold		silver	silver	gold	silver
Word Challenge Cup in Kazan	gold		gold	silver	gold	silver
World Championships in Italy	gold		gold	silver	gold	silver

Thus, in 2017, Dina acquired the status of not only the Absolute Champion of Russia, but also a 3-time and Absolute World Champion.

Personal life

In their personal lives, none of the sisters have their hearts occupied yet. For female athletes, the most important thing now is gymnastics. Averina Oksana, the girls’ mother, shares in an interview: “You have to put love into the child, then you will get everything.” Most of all, the athletes are supported by their family, with whom the girls have very warm and close relationships.

The sisters participated in several television shows:

Alexey Nemov and sports legends
Without insurance

Among their activities, gymnasts highlight traveling. Athletes, like many girls their age, love good music and communication with friends. Girls consider learning foreign languages, especially English, to be their hobby.

Experts say that today the Averina sisters are the most promising rhythmic gymnasts in Russia.

The girls run an Instagram account together. Athletes always treat their costumes with trepidation and love. Dina and Arina's swimsuits make a lasting impression on everyone and get a lot of likes.

Experts say that today the Averina sisters are the most promising rhythmic gymnasts in Russia. Every championship and every tournament is an important stage in preparation for the Olympic Games.

Russia, whatever one may say, is a paradoxical country in terms of sports. We seem to be, as Leonid Slutsky put it as a meme, a non-football country, but at the same time football is the most popular sport. But rhythmic gymnastics has been our discipline for many years, but here it doesn’t go beyond a couple of news headlines about how we destroyed everyone with our grace at the next tournament. Alina Kabaeva became a star on an all-Russian scale - but not only thanks to sports.

At the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships that just ended in Italy, the Russians again had no equal. However, the latest victory is not routine. New stars have appeared in this Olympic sport - 19-year-old twin sisters Dina and Arina Averina from the small town of Zavolzhye in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The girls were born into a sports family - their mother brought them to gymnastics, and their older sister Polina also competed in the Russian national team.

In just three months, the Averins between them won 15 gold, 8 silver and 2 bronze medals at the European Championships, World Games and World Championships, while competing for first and second place in almost 100% of the disciplines. At the world championship, Dina had three golds, Arina had two. Even by the standards of our hegemony, summer 2017 performed by the sisters and their coach Vera Nikolaevna Shatalina is a unique example of talent and professionalism. Moreover, according to the girls, they do not compete with each other, the main thing is the victory of the family.

Life talked to the winners of the World Championship - and even after such a performance, the best gymnasts in the world do not experience star fever.

Arina, thank you for your performance at the World Championships. Many congratulations came, which famous people responded?

Thank you too. Yes, there were a lot of messages, Alexander Karelin came to the airport to meet us, and mostly people from gymnastics - Yana Kudryavtseva, Rita Mamun, Alina Kabaeva.

- Do you feel like you are becoming more popular?

Oh I do not know. Maybe just a little bit.

Wikipedia says that from the age of 12 you studied at school according to an individual program. Did you expect that everything would turn out so great in the end?

The school met us halfway, helped us, we were allowed to study together, separately. We sat and decided... But we chose sports. The results showed good, we thought that we should have stayed in gymnastics. But, of course, such results were not expected. We just worked hard, trained and... dreamed.

- What about studying? Completely abandoned? Or has the Unified State Exam caught up with you too?

But what? We passed the Unified State Exam and entered the university. Now we are in our third year studying at Lesgaft University to become trainers.

- Will people recognize you in your native Trans-Volga region?

Of course, they immediately ask for a photo and an autograph.

- Haven’t you had enough of fame yet?

No, that's normal.

In rhythmic gymnastics, Russia is head and shoulders above everyone else. Having trouble finding motivation? Does competition with your sister add to it?

We don’t compete with our sister; on the contrary, we support each other, and this is what helps us move forward. We reach out to each other, and the result improves.

- That is, there are no disputes or discrepancies, even over small things?

Previously, they quarreled over trifles. Now, apparently, we have matured and have an understanding. This doesn't happen anymore.

- You have one"instagram" , you often spend leisure time together. How much time do you spend without each other?

This season we went to almost all competitions separately. It was somehow unusual, we were bored, there was no support. And so, we live in the same room, train together, do everything together.

- Your mother brought you to gymnastics. Is she currently participating in the training process?
No, she has never been to training, but she follows the competitions and is constantly interested in how we are doing. Moreover, he doesn’t watch the competitions themselves, only the online results. He can’t watch us live, it’s something like a superstition.
- What are your plans now? Rest?
- Only a week?
Yes. We are planning to go to the seaside, to Dubai.
- Have a good rest and new victories!
Thank you. And thanks to all those who supported us!

Arina Alekseevna Averina. Born on August 13, 1998 in the Volga region, Nizhny Novgorod region. Russian rhythmic gymnast. Master of Sports of international class.

Father is a football player. Mother Oksana Averina did gymnastics.

Twin sister - also a famous rhythmic gymnast.

The older sister, Polina Averina, was a member of the Russian rhythmic gymnastics team.

Arina, like her twin sister Dina, began doing rhythmic gymnastics at the age of 4. Then the parents brought the twins to Larisa Belova, who became their first coach. By the way, the daughter of their first coach, Irina Belova, is an Olympic champion in gymnastics.

Irina Belova said: “Before that, I already knew the family of Dina and Arisha - their older sister Polina did gymnastics with me. The kids always came with their mother to meet Polina. They were very restless: they always tried to climb higher on the gymnastics rail. I was still afraid that they might fall, but mother Oksana was very calm about this, because she knew that her daughters were very independent... They were very purposeful, diligent and demanding of themselves.”

Her serious sports career began at the age of 11.

Since September 2011, she began training at the Novogorsk Training Center. She and Dina were noticed at the “Young Gymnast” competition, and after the training camp in Croatia they were invited to the training center with Vera Nikolaevna Shatalina.

The sisters had problems with growth. So, at the age of 12 they looked 9. Because of this, their career could not have happened. But then they were already in the Russian youth team and the coach decided to examine the girls - doctors studied their bones, phalanges of the fingers to determine what their growth zone was. No pathologies were identified. They reduced their workload a little, added more fish and sour cream to their diet - and the athletes began to grow.

Until the age of 12, Arina studied in a regular school, but not with the whole class, but individually in all subjects except music, drawing, physical education, labor and life safety. Just like her sister.

Since 2014, Arina and Dina began to go to more serious competitions. They took part in the Moscow Championship, where Dina became the 2014 Moscow champion, and Arina was second.

Next, the girls went to Israel, to the Holon Grand Prix 2014. This time Arina won, beating her sister by only 0.048 points. Then Arina goes alone to the “Baltic Hoop 2014” in Riga and takes second place in the all-around, and in the finals of the clubs and ribbon competition she takes a silver medal, a bronze medal for the hoop and, finally, gold in the ball performance. In total, she won 5 medals.

At the 2014 Russian Championship in Penza, Arina competed with a hand injury. In the all-around, like her sister, she did not take any prizes, but in the ball final she received a gold medal. In the final with hoop - bronze, with clubs - silver.

At the Luxembourg Trophy 2014, Arina took second place in the all-around.

In 2015, she performed at the annual Grand Prix stage in Moscow, where, due to an unfortunate mistake with the ribbon, she became only thirteenth in the all-around.

At the Spring Cup in Krasnoyarsk she competes in the finals, winning two gold medals (ball, ribbon), one silver (hoop) and one bronze (clubs). At the Moscow Championship she takes second place in the all-around, losing three points to her sister, and is selected for the Russian Championship.

In the team championship at the Russian Championship in Penza, he takes first place, becomes second in the all-around and adds gold to his collection in the finals with hoop and clubs, and is in second position with ball and ribbon.

At the international senior tournament in Pesaro she becomes the first in a team with Dina, and in the finals in individual events she wins two golds in an exercise with a ribbon and a ball. A real triumph for the gymnast was her performance in Corbeil-Essonne, where Arina won five gold medals out of a possible five - for the all-around and all finals. By the way, in the ribbon final, Averina shared the first step of the podium with her sister.

At international tournaments in Budapest and Sofia, Arina takes 3rd and 2nd places in the all-around, respectively.

In 2016, Arina and Dina Averin began to be called “the secret weapon of the Russian national team,” who replaced the leaders of Russian rhythmic gymnastics. Dina and Arina have been given additional responsibility, and throughout the season they have been proving their right to compete in tournaments together with the first numbers of the national team.

In the all-around at the Grand Prix stage in Moscow, Arina took third place in the all-around, became second in clubs and first in ribbon. She is sent to the World Cup in Lisbon, where she places fifth in the all-around and second in the ribbon final.

2017 was a triumphant year for the Averin sisters.

At the World Games in Wroclaw, she took four medals, of which three were gold - she won in the exercises with hoop, ribbon and ball, and was also third in the exercises with clubs.

At the European Championships in Budapest, she took three golds - in the team, as well as in exercises with the ball and clubs.

At the World Championships in Pesaro, Arina won five medals, two of which were of the highest standard (ball and ribbon). She was also second in all-around and hoop exercises, third in clubs.

In the all-around (i.e. in the absolute championship) she lost only to her sister Dina, who won with a total of 74.700 points, Arina - 73.450.

Arina Averina - ball (World Championships in Pesaro 2017)

Arina Averina's height: 164 centimeters.

Personal life of Arina Averina:

Single. At the moment, the young athlete devotes herself entirely to rhythmic gymnastics.

Achievements of Arina Averina:

World Championships:

Gold - Pesaro 2017 - ball
Gold - Pesaro 2017 - ribbon
Silver - Pesaro 2017 - all-around
Silver - Pesaro 2017 - hoop
Bronze - Pesaro 2017 - clubs

European Championships:

Gold - Budapest 2017 - team
Gold - Budapest 2017 - ball
Gold - Budapest 2017 - clubs

World Games:

Gold - Wroclaw 2017 - hoop
Gold - Wroclaw 2017 - ball
Gold - Wroclaw 2017 - ribbon
Bronze - Wroclaw 2017 - clubs

07.06.2017

Since 2000, students of the Nizhny Novgorod rhythmic gymnastics school, performing in group exercises, regularly win gold medals at the Olympics. The new Olympic quadrennial promises to break the existing stereotype. Dina and Arina Averina took leading roles in the individual program! The coach of the Nizhny Novgorod region national team, Honored Coach of Russia Larisa Belova, who is the first mentor of the Averin sisters, and also the mother of Sydney Olympic champion Irina Belova, talks about how the twin sisters broke tradition and who is replacing our group Olympic champions.

The Averina sisters are a special case

– Larisa Viktorovna, Nizhny Novgorod rhythmic gymnastics has traditionally supplied group exercises to the Russian national team. How did it happen that Dina and Arina Averina succeeded in individual exercises so much that they became leaders among Russian “artists”?

– Dina and Arina came to study at the age of four. We worked in the Volga region for nine years before they went to Moscow. Usually promising young people continue to train at the Olympic Reserve School, but this was a special case. The head coach of the Nizhny Novgorod region team, Natalya Borisovna Tishina, I remember said: “Larisa Viktorovna, you are used to working with them individually, but in order for me to continue this work, I need to leave everyone else. Therefore, send your sisters to Moscow."

Kristina Telyatnikova (second from left) made her debut at the European Championships in May

By that time, Dina and Arina were winners and medalists of the national championship and had already joined the Russian national team. You can’t just transfer the “teamers” to another coach - such issues are decided by the head coach of the Russian national team, Irina Aleksandrovna Viner. Then the girls and I were invited for the first time to a training camp in Croatia (Dina and Arina were just turning 13 years old). After that, I gave Dina and Arina to coach Vera Nikolaevna Shatalina.

Not everyone can handle such loads.

– Recently, the Averina sisters collected a whole collection of awards at the European Championships. Do you think these victories will not turn the heads of 18-year-old girls?

- No no. They themselves are very modest. Real hard workers, such children probably don’t exist now. With them, we held two training sessions in the gym every day, and sometimes, when the girls didn’t succeed, they went out for the third, which I could schedule for ten o’clock in the evening! Now I have a lot of children working out: if you offer them the same loads that Dina and Arina had, they will immediately faint and not get up (smiles.) But the Averina sisters did all this and never complained. Plus they are such neat people - they have everything neatly organized.

– Can the next Olympic cycle be called the Averin sisters’ fourth anniversary in rhythmic gymnastics?

“Before the Olympics in Rio, Irina Aleksandrovna Wiener told them: “The next Olympic cycle will be yours.” I hope so, but I'm afraid to say so. Before my eyes is the example of another Nizhny Novgorod resident, Natalya Pichuzhkina, who first worked in a personal program, including with Natalya Borisovna Tishina. Then Natasha was transferred to group exercises. It so happened that literally six months before the Olympics, Pichuzhkina suffered a knee injury and did not go to the 2012 Games in London...

In professional sports, it is difficult to predict in advance how an athlete’s career will turn out. I hope that one of the stronger sisters will make it to the Olympic team. But, to be honest, I would like them to go to the Olympic Games together - they deserve it with their attitude to the matter.

Irina and Christina have different personalities

– You mentioned your granddaughter Kristina Telyatnikova, who also distinguished herself at the European Championships, only in group exercises. Looks like she's following in her mom's footsteps?

– Until recently, Kristina competed in individual competitions, was a silver medalist at the Russian Championship, took second place at the Hopes of Russia, and third at the Young Gymnast. Therefore, when a year and a half before the start of the 2017 European Championship, the coaches of the national team began to recruit a junior team for group exercises, taking into account personal results, they invited her to the training camp.

Whether my granddaughter will continue to perform in group exercises is an open question. The Russian team, made up of gymnasts born in 2002 and 2003, showed good results at the European Championships in Budapest. But masters in group exercises begin to work at the age of 15–16, and for the next year and a half, Christina will have to return to working in a personal program.

– In your opinion, is Christina similar to Irina in her manner of speaking?

– There is, of course, an external resemblance; genes have also been passed on. However, it seems to me that they are different in character. Ira started studying ballet and joined gymnastics at the age of five. At the age of two, Christina threw clubs, and at three, she threw them to her great-grandmother (my mother), who caught them. The baby spent all her time in the gym and competed in her first competition at three years and four months!

After Margarita Mamun and Yana Kudryavtseva left the big sport, it seemed that Russia would not be able to quickly replace the two main stars of world rhythmic gymnastics

But the West again miscalculated. At the World Championships in Italy, 7 out of 8 gold medals were won by Russian gymnasts. The twins Dina and Arina AVERINA created a real sensation in Pesaro.

In individual all-around Dina Averina became the first, and Arina - the second. The miracle girls won between them (including performances on individual apparatus) five gold, four silver and a bronze medals. All this valuable cargo will go to the small town of Zavolzhye, Nizhny Novgorod region, where charming gymnasts were born 19 years ago.

The country's main television channels endlessly broadcast a touching moment: in Pesaro, Italy, the Averin sisters are embraced motherly by the famous Irina Viner-Usmanova, head coach of the Russian national team. Here, they say, she is the main culprit of the long-term hegemony of domestic gymnastics. And few people suspect that it was not Wiener who made Dina and Arina champions, but Vera Shatalina. The same coach who, by the way, raised the magnificent Alina Kabaeva.

Vera SHATALINA immediately recognized future superstars in the twin girls. Photo from the site gimnastika.pro

In 2011, Vera Nikolaevna saw the twins for the first time in Novogorsk. Their parents brought them to watch. The girls' mother is an economist Ksenia Averina- then she said:

If you think that your daughters lack talent, we will not be offended. Arina and Dina will give up gymnastics.

Vera SHATALINA. Photo from the site vfrg.ru

But Shatalina immediately realized that the little ones could be turned into champions. And so it happened. And the two-time Olympic champion also helped the Averin sisters a lot Zhenya Kanaeva. She is now a coach and also works in Novogorsk.

“I have no envy towards my sister,” she said after the championship Arina Averina. - I'm glad that Dina won the all-around. If I manage to win next time, she will also be happy about my success.

What happens if both fall in love with the same guy? The twins have left this question unanswered for now. It even seemed that he scared them.

By the way

Before each performance, the Averina sisters look intently into each other's eyes. This is not just a sign. Psychologists explained: such a ritual adds energy and self-confidence to the twins.