Alina Harnasko

Alina Harnasko (Belarusian: Аліна Гарнаско; Russian: Али́на Горносько́; born 9 August 2001 in Minsk) is a Belarusian individual rhythmic gymnast and former junior rhythmic gymnastics group gymnast. She is the 2020 European All-around silver medalist, the 2019 World Championships Team bronze medalist, and the 2018 Grand Prix Final All-around silver medalist.

Alina Harnasko
Full nameAlina Aleksandrovna Gornosko
Country represented Belarus
Born (2001-08-09) 9 August 2001
Minsk, Belarus
HometownMinsk
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight51 kg (112 lb)
DisciplineRhythmic gymnastics
LevelSenior international elite
Years on national team2015-present
ClubDinamo
Head coach(es)Irina Leparskaya
Assistant coach(es)Marina Lobatch
World ranking18 WC[1] 13 WCC (2019)
6 WC 3 WCC (2017) [2]
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Championships 0 0 1
European Championships 1 6 1
FIG World Cup 1 4 12
Grand Prix 4 3 4
Total 6 13 18
Rhythmic gymnastics
Representing  Belarus
World Championships
2019 BakuTeam
European Championships
2017 BudapestTeam
2019 BakuTeam
2020 KyivAll-around
2017 BudapestBall
Grand Prix Final
2019 BrnoClubs
2018 MarbellaAll-around
2019 BrnoRibbon
2018 MarbellaBall
Junior European Championships
2015 Minsk5 Balls
2015 MinskGroup All-around
2016 HolonHoop
2016 HolonTeam

Personal life

She is studying coaching at Belarusian State University of Physical Education.

Career

She was introduced in rhythmic gymnastics at age three in Minsk, Belarus by her parents.

2015

Harnasko has won numerous medals in the Junior World Cup and Junior Grand Prix series. She briefly competed as a member of the Belarusian Group that competed at the 2015 European Junior Championships where Belarus won Group silver in the All-around and gold in 5 Balls. Right after, she started competing as individual again. On October 16-18 she competed at International Tournament Tart Cup, where she took bronze medal in Junior All-around (59.500), behind Anna Sokolova and Maria Sergeeva. This was her first individual competition that year.

2016

In 2016, she started the competition season in Hungary at International Tournament Gracia Fair Cup, where she won gold All-around medal in junior category. At the International Tournament Alina Cup in Moscow, she won gold in clubs and rope, bronze in hoop and silver in Team competition.[3] She also competed at International Tournament Baltic Hoop in Riga, Latvia, winning silver medal in Junior All-around. At the 2016 European Junior Championships in Holon, Harnasko won 2 silver medals in team (together with Yulia Isachanka, Julia Evchik) and individual hoop final (tied with Israel's Nicol Zelikman).[4] On September 9–11, Harnasko together with senior teammates Katsiaryna Halkina and Hanna Bazhko represented team Dinamo at the annual 2016 Aeon Cup in Tokyo, where they won the team silver and with Harnasko taking silver in the junior all-around.

2017

In 2017 season, Harnasko made her senior international debut competing at the L.A. Lights. She then competed at the Senior International tournament in Moscow, the Alina Cup where she finished 4th in the all-around behind Israel's Nicol Zelikman. At the 2017 Grand Prix Kyiv she finished 10th in the all-around. She finished 5th in the all-around at the 2017 Grand Prix Thiais, she qualified to 3 apparatus finals and won a bronze in clubs. From March 31 – April 2, Harnasko competed at the Grand Prix Marbella finishing 9th in the all-around and qualified 2 event finals, where she won bronze in ribbon. She competed in her first World Cup meet at the Pesaro World Cup where she finished 8th in the all-around behind Israel's Victoria Veinberg Filanovsky, she qualified to 2 apparatus finals[5][6] finishing 5th in clubs and 7th in hoop.[7] At the 2017 Baku World Cup, she finished 4th in the all-around finals, behind Bulgaria's Neviana Vladinova, and also won a bronze in the ribbon and hoop in the apparatus finals.[8] On May 5–7, Harnasko competed at the 2017 Sofia World Cup again finishing 4th in the all-around, she qualified in 3 apparatus finals and won gold in clubs ahead of hometown girl Neviana Vladinova, bronze in ball and placed 7th in ribbon. On May 19–21, Harnasko along with teammate Katsiaryna Halkina represented the individual seniors for Belarus at the 2017 European Championships, she qualified in all apparatus finals taking bronze in ball, finished 4th in clubs, 5th in ribbon and 7th in hoop. Harnasko's next event was at the 2017 World Challenge Cup Guadalajara where she won bronze in the all-around behind Ekaterina Selezneva, she qualified in 3 apparatus finals: taking silver in hoop, bronze in ball and placed 7th in clubs. On July 7–9, Harnasko finished 16th in the all-around at the 2017 Berlin World Challenge Cup, she qualified in ribbon final. Harnasko competed at the quadrennial held 2017 World Games in Wrocław, Poland from July 20–30, she qualified in 2 apparatus finals finishing 4th in hoop and ball. On August 4–6, Harnasko competed at the 2017 Minsk World Challenge Cup winning silver in the all-around behind Aleksandra Soldatova, she qualified in all 4 apparatus finals taking 2 silver medals in ball and ribbon, a bronze in clubs and finished 7th in hoop. On August 11–13, Harnasko competed at the 2017 Kazan World Challenge Cup finishing 9th in the all-around, she qualified in the hoop final and finished in 5th. On August 30 - September 3, Harnasko and Katsiaryna Halkina represented in the individual competitions for Belarus at the 2017 World Championships in Pesaro, Italy; she qualified in the clubs final and finished in 7th place. Harnasko finished 13th in the all-around final behind Japan's Sumire Kita[9] On September 29-October 1, Harnasko was scheduled to compete at the annual World Club Cup the "Aeon Cup" in Tokyo, Japan; however she withdrew before the start of competition because of injury. She underwent a knee surgery on November 8th in Helios Klinikum Emil von Behring in Berlin, Germany.

2018

Harnasko started the season at Baltic Hoop in Riga, Latvia where she took 9th place in All-around and silver medal in Ball final.[10] She then took silver medal in All-around at the International Tournament Deriguina Cup in Kyiv and then sat out from competitions for the rest of the season recovering from an ankle surgery, which she had in April. She also suffered a back injury, which meant she could not compete for most of the year. She competed at Grand Prix Marbella, Spain from October 26–28, where she finished 2nd in All-around behind Ukraine's Vlada Nikolchenko. She qualified to all apparatus finals and placed 5th with hoop, 3rd in ball, 7th in clubs and ribbon.

2019

In 2019, Harnasko started the season at L.A. Lights, where she won gold in all-around and clubs, placed 3rd with hoop and ball and 5th with ribbon. She scored 22,200 points with clubs, which is her personal best. Then she competed at Grand Prix Kyiv, in Ukraine, where she finished 9th in the all-around. She qualified to ball and clubs finals and placed 4th in both. Harnasko's next competition was an international tournament in Corbeil-Essonnes, France, where she won the all-around competition and qualified to all finals. She won three more medals there, bronze with hoop, silver with clubs and gold with ribbon. In April, she competed at World Cup Pesaro and took 12th place in All-around. Next day, she won bronze medals in both Clubs and Ribbon finals. She also qualified to two Apparatus finals at World Cup Sofia, where she took 7th place in All-around. On May 16-19, Harnasko along with teammates Katsiaryna Halkina and Anastasiia Salos represented the individual seniors for Belarus at the 2019 European Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan they won silver medal in Team competition together with Belarusian junior group. Alina then also qualified to Ball final, where she ended on 8th place (18.800).[11] Her next competiton was Grand Prix Holon in Israel, where she finished on 4th place in All-around. On August 30–September 1 she competed at World Challenge Cup Kazan, in Russia, and placed 14th in All-around, qualifying to Hoop and Clubs finals, where she won bronze medals. On September 6–8, she took bronze medal in All-around at World Challenge Cup in Portimão, Portugal. She took another bronze medal in Hoop final behind Alexandra Agiurgiuculese and teammate Anastasiia Salos the next day. On September 16–22, Harnasko, Katsiaryna Halkina and Anastasiia Salos represented Belarus in the individual competitions at the 2019 World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan and won bronze medal in Team competiton; she qualified in the clubs and ribbon finals and finished in 6th place. She ended on 16th place in the all-around Qualifications and did not advance into finals due to 2 gymnasts per country rule. In October, she competed at the annual World Club Cup the "Aeon Cup" in Tokyo, Japan, representing Dinamo with Katsiaryna Halkina and junior Darya Tkatcheva. They took bronze medal in Team competition, behind Russia and Ukraine. She also won silver medal in All-around at Belarusian Championships that year.

2020

This has been so far her best season. She competed at Grand Prix Brno and won gold medal in All-around in front of Ukrainian Khrystyna Pohranychna and Bulgarian Boryana Kaleyn with the score of 89,950. She qualified to all four finals, winning gold medal in Hoop final (23,700) and bronze medal in Ribbon final (20,250). She competed at International Tournament of Marina Lobatch and won gold medal in All-around (105.850) in front of teammate Anastasiia Salos. She won two more golds in Ball and Clubs final and two silver medals in Hoop and Ribbon final.[12] In November, she competed at the 2020 European Championships in Kyiv, Ukraine and won silver medal in All-around, tied with Linoy Ashram (100,900) who took gold.[13]

Routine music information
Year Apparatus Music title
2020
Hoop Concerto in F by George Gershwin
Ball The Hardest Button to Button by The White Stripes
Clubs L'assasymphonie from Mozart, l'Opéra Rock by Florent Mothe
Ribbon Danu Dana by Aleksey Rybnikov
2019
Hoop Les Parapluies des Cherbourg by Susi Hyldgaard
Ball Il est où le bonheur by Christophe Maé
Clubs Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Vladimir Ashkenazy, London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn
Ribbon Caravan by The Brian Setzer Orchestra
2018
Hoop Les Parapluies des Cherbourg by Susi Hyldgaard
Ball Historia de un amor by Brendon Stoun
Clubs Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Vladimir Ashkenazy, London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn
Ribbon Caravan by The Brian Setzer Orchestra
2017 Hoop Game On by Hans Zimmer
Ball Romance by Dmitri Shostakovich
Clubs Carmen's Story by Edith Piaf
Ribbon Korebeiniki
2016 Rope Tschubtschik by Khoronko Orchestra
Hoop The Second Waltz by André Rieu
Ball Libertango by Astor Piazzola
Clubs Luna mezz'o mare by Patrizio Buanne

Competitive highlights

(Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)

International: Senior
Year Event AA Team Hoop Ball Clubs Ribbon
2020European Championships2nd
International Tournament of Marina Lobatch1st2nd1st1st2nd
Grand Prix Kyiv2nd4th1st3rd1st
Grand Prix Brno1st1st9th4th3rd
International Tournament Gracia Fair Cup3rd3rd (Q)4th (Q)2nd (Q)3rd (Q)
International Tournament Moscow3rd
LA Lights Tournament3rd5th3rd1st5th
2019 Aeon Cup3rd
World Championships16th (Q)3rd18th (Q)6th6th
World Cup Portimao3rd3rd4th4th7th
World Cup Kazan14th3rd25th (Q)3rd34th (Q)
Grand Prix Brno9th17th (Q)5th11th (Q)2nd
Grand Prix Holon4th6th9th
European Championships2nd8th11th (Q)
World Cup Sofia7th16th (Q)5th4th11th (Q)
World Cup Pesaro12th30th (Q)15th (Q)3rd3rd
Grand Prix Kyiv9th11th (Q)4th4th13th (Q)
2018 Grand Prix Marbella2nd5th3rd7th7th
International Tournament Deriugina Cup2nd
International Tournament Baltic Hoop9th7th2nd4th17th (Q)
2017 World Championships13th10th (Q)11th (Q)7th14th (Q)
World Cup Kazan9th6th (Q)12th (Q)9th (Q)12th (Q)
World Cup Minsk2nd7th2nd3rd2nd
World Games4th4th11th (Q)10th (Q)
World Cup Berlin18th21st (Q)26th (Q)11th (Q)6th
World Cup Guadalajara3rd2nd3rd7th18th (Q)
European Championships2nd7th3rd4th5th
World Cup Sofia4th9th (Q)3rd1st7th
World Cup Baku4th3rd4th5th3rd
World Cup Pesaro8th7th19th5th18th
Grand Prix Marbella9th17th (Q)5th6th3rd
Grand Prix Thiais5th7th4th3rd17th (Q)
Grand Prix Kyiv10th13th (Q)4th14th (Q)9th (Q)
International Tournament Moscow4th
International: Junior
Year Event AA Team Rope Hoop Ball Clubs
2016Aeon Cup2nd2nd
Junior European Championships2nd5th (Q)2nd8th (Q)
International Tournament Guadalajara1st2nd1st
International Tournament Irina Deleanu Cup1st1st
International Tournament Baltic Hoop2nd
International Tournament Alina Cup2nd1st3rd1st
International Tournament Gracia Fair Cup1st
National
Year Event AA Team Hoop Ball Clubs Ribbon
2020Belarusian Championships2nd1st1st1st
2019Belarusian Championships2nd2nd1st1st2nd
Q = Qualifications (Did not advance to Event Final due to the 2 gymnast per country rule, only Top 8 highest score);
WR = World Record; WD = Withdrew; NT = No Team Competition; DNS = Did Not Start

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References
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