Vlada Nikolchenko
Personal information
Full nameVlada Ihorivna Nikolchenko
Nickname(s)Dusya, Vladusya[1]
Country represented Ukraine
Born (2002-12-09) 9 December 2002[1]
Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine[1]
ResidenceKyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine[1]
Height177 cm (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
DisciplineRhythmic gymnastics
LevelSenior International Elite[2]
Head coach(es)Iryna Deriugina[2]
Former coach(es)Natalia Alexandrovna Kuznets[1]
Medal record
Representing  Ukraine
Rhythmic gymnastics
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place2019 BakuClubs
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place2019 BakuClubs
European Games
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Minsk Hoop
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Minsk Clubs
Grand Prix Final
Gold medal – first place2018 MarbellaAll-around
Gold medal – first place2018 MarbellaClubs
Gold medal – first place2018 MarbellaRibbon
Gold medal – first place2020 KievClubs
Silver medal – second place2018 MarbellaBall

Vlada Ihorivna Nikolchenko (Ukrainian: Влада Ігорівна Нікольченко; born 9 December 2002)[1] is a Ukrainian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2019 Worlds clubs bronze medalist, the double (2018-19) World Cup Series winner with clubs and the Grand Prix Final 2018 Winner. She has won multiple medals at European Championships and European Games.

Career

Junior

Before beginning rhythmic gymnastics, Nikolchenko participated in Aesthetic Group Gymnastics. She was part of the junior Ukrainian group at the 2017 European Championships, where they finished 8th in the 10 clubs final. Nikolchenko also participated as an individual at the International Tournament in Eilat, Israel and won it.

Senior

2018

Nikolchenko commenced her 2018 senior season at the LA Lights International Tournament in Los Angeles. She also competed at the Miss Valentine Tournament in Tartu, Estonia, where she won the all-around, hoop, ball and clubs finals and finished 4th in ribbon.[3]

Nikolchenko participated at the Baltic Hoop Tournament and won the all-around and clubs final, as well as a bronze in hoop. She finished 7th in the ribbon and 8th in the ball final.[4]

Her Grand Prix debut took place in Kyiv, where she finished 10th in the AA final, 5th in the clubs final and 8th in ribbon and ball.[5] At the 2018 Grand Prix Thiais, she placed 9th in the all-around, won a gold in hoop ahead of Russians Arina Averina and Ekaterina Selezneva and placed 7th in clubs.

Nikolchenko’s first World Cup event was the 2018 Sofia World Cup, where she finished 7th in the AA and qualified to the ribbon and clubs final. In Sofia, she won her first World Cup medal, a silver in clubs, and finished 8th in ribbon.[6] At the 2018 Pesaro World Cup, Nikolchenko placed 13th in the all-around final, won the silver medal for clubs and placed 8th in the ball final.[7] At the 2018 Tashkent World Cup, she placed 10th in AA, 5th in ribbon and 8th in clubs. Nikolchenko’s final 2018 World Cup event was the Baku World Cup, where she won silver in the all-around, gold with clubs and bronze with ribbon. She also placed 5th in hoop and 6th in ball.[8] Nikolchenko was the 2018 World Cup Series winner for clubs.

Nikolchenko made her World Cup Challenge debut at the 2018 Guadalajara World Challenge Cup, where she finished 5th in the all-around, 4th in hoop and 4th in ribbon.[9] She also took part in the Holon Grand Prix, where she also placed 5th in all-around and won the silver medal for hoop and clubs. At the 2018 European Championships, Nikolchenko finished 11th.[10] At the 2018 Minsk World Challenge Cup, she placed 5th in the all-around and qualified to three finals. She won bronze with hoop, finished 4th in ribbon and 6th in ball.[11] At the 2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, she placed 5th in the clubs final, 7th in ribbon, 8th in hoop and 4th in the all-around. Her team finished 5th for the team competition. Nikolchenko finished her 2018 season at the Grand Prix Final in Marbella, where she won the all-around gold. She also won gold in clubs, gold in ribbon and silver in ball.

2019

Her 2019 season commenced at the LA Lights Tournament, where she finished 2nd in all-around behind Alina Harnasko.[12]

At the Grand Prix in Marbella, Nikolchenko finished 4th in the all-around, 3rd in hoop, 6th in ribbon, 7th in clubs and 8th in ball.[13] At the Grand Prix Kyiv, she won the all-around gold, hoop gold, ball silver and ribbon bronze. Nikolchenko took part at the Thiais Grand Prix, placing 7th in all-around, 5th in clubs and 8th in ball. She also won the bronze in hoop.[14] Her first World Cup event of the season was the 2019 Sofia World Cup, where she placed 5th in all-around, 6th in clubs and 8th in ribbon.[15]

Nikolchenko participated at the 2019 Tashkent World Cup, finishing 6th in the all-around after several mistakes in her ball routine. She won bronze for hoop and clubs, and took 6th place in ribbon.[16] The following week, she took part in the Baku World Cup and took the all-around bronze behind Russian twins Arina Averina and Dina Averina. She won bronze for clubs and placed 4th in ribbon, 5th in hoop and 7th in ball.[17] Like in 2018, Nikolchenko was the World Cup winner for clubs ; she was also the World Cup winner for clubs for the second year in a row.

At the Ukrainian National Championships, Nikolchenko won gold in the all-around. At the European Championships in Baku, she qualified for the hoop and clubs final, winning a quota place for the following year’s European Championship in Kyiv. She won bronze in clubs and finished 8th for hoop.[18]

Nikolchenko participated at the Grand Prix Holon, finishing 11th in the all-around. She only qualified to one final for hoop, where she won silver.[19] At the 2019 Cluj Napoca World Challenge Cup, Nikolchenko brought two new routines for ball and ribbon. She finished 4th in the all-around and qualified for the hoop, ball and clubs finals. She won gold in clubs and finished 5th for hoop and ball.

At the 2019 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Baku, she qualified for the ball, clubs and ribbon final. Nikolchenko won a bronze with clubs, her first world championship medal, and placed 4th for ribbon and ball. She finished 5th at the all-around final, her second year placed in the top five. Nikolchenko succeeded in winning an Olympic quota.

2020-2021

At the 2020 European Championships in Kyiv, Nikolchenko finished eighth in the all-around. She won gold in clubs at the 2020 Grand Prix Final in Kyiv. At the 2021 European Championships in Varna, she finished 13th in the all-around. In July 2021, she announced through her Instagram account that she was taking a break from gymnastics and would not attend the Olympic Games due to health issues after contracting COVID-19.[20]

2023

In July 2023, Nikolchenko announced that she would be coming back to Ukraine after her stay in the United Arab Emirates. [21] On July 4, Nikolchenko went back to competing and won bronze at the Championship of Ukraine. [22]
On November 23, 2023, Nikolchenko was expelled from Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation following racist comment posted about Poles via Instagram.[23]

Routine music information

Year Apparatus Music title
2023 Hoop Make-up by The Hardkiss
Clubs The Best by Tina Turner
Ribbon Is Paris Burning? by Takashi Kako
2021 Hoop O Fortuna by Carl Orff
Ball Desert from Cirque Du Soleil's "O" by Benoit Jutras
Clubs Panda by Desiigner
Ribbon España cañí by Pascual Marquina Narro
2020 Hoop (first) Swan Lake by Peter I. Tchaikovsky
Hoop (second) O Fortuna by Carl Orff
Ball Another One Bites the Dust by Queen
Clubs Fantasy Overture from Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky
Ribbon (first) Come Together by the Beatles (cover by Gary Clark Jr. and Junkie XL)
Ribbon (second) España cañí by Pascual Marquina Narro
2019 Hoop (first) Survivor by 2WEI from Tomb Raider
Hoop (second) Fantasy Overture from Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky
Ball (first) Run This Town by Jay-Z feat. Rihanna and Kanye West
Ball (second) Another One Bites the Dust by Queen
Clubs Carmen's Entrance and Habanera by Rodion Shchedrin
Ribbon Sarajevo by Max Richter
Ribbon (second) Come Together by the Beatles (cover by Gary Clark Jr. and Junkie XL)
2018 Hoop Innuendo by Queen[24]
Ball Private Investigations by Dire Straits[24]
Clubs Leave no Witnesses by James Horner[24]
Ribbon Carmina Burana: O Fortuna by Carl Orff

References

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  2. 1 2 "NIKOLCHENKO Vlada". Federation Internationale De Gymnastique. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "ksis". rgform.eu. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Rezultāti 2018". www.baltijasaplis.lv. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Kiev Grand Prix 2018: The Event Finals Selezneva and Sergeeva are gold". March 18, 2018. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  8. ↑ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  9. ↑ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  10. ↑ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  11. ↑ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  12. ↑ "2019 LA Lights Tournament of Champions - Culver City" (PDF). January 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-04-28. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  13. ↑ "Resultados en Directo - Soft Station". www.infogim.com. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  14. ↑ "33è Internationaux de Thiais - Results" (PDF). 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  15. ↑ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  16. ↑ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  17. ↑ Asgarov, Ayaz. "SmartScoring". smartscoring.com. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  18. ↑ "UEG Gymnastics". UEG Gymnastics. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  19. ↑ "Results – Grand Prix Holon". Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  20. ↑ "Nikolchenko Vladа on Instagram: "Я беру перерыв… Ранее, я делилась с Вами о последствиях после COVID 19. Не хочется вдаваться во все подробности, но реабилитация после болезни проходит не легко и требует времени. Ожидала , что все пройдёт легче . Тяжёлый режим тренировок , выступление , стресс , нагрузки никак не совместить с периодом восстановления. Я искренне надеялась и верила . Но увы …появились новые последствия… и после консультации и советов врачей , мы с семьёй приняли решение о перерыве в спорте. Вернусь ли я на выступательный ковёр? Время покажет… Все будет зависеть от моего здоровья. Для меня гимнастика- это важная часть моей жизни…Но сейчас важнее заниматься здоровьем. Я знаю, что многие болельщики меня ждали в Токио, мне очень жаль, что на Олимпиаде меня не будет. Но это жизнь. Хочу пожелать удачи всем участникам Олимпийских игр и нашей сборной Украины 🇺🇦 Это решение далось мне достаточно сложно, поэтому надеюсь на вашу поддержку 💜 #vladanikolchenko #олимпиада #olympics #tokyo2020 #олимпиадатокио #гимнастика #спорт #olympicgames #rhythmicgymnastics"". Instagram. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
  21. ↑ "Nikolchenko Vladа on Instagram: "Покинула дом в Эмиратах, чтобы вернуться жить в Украину😱 Еще несколько месяцев назад я даже не думала о таком повороте судьбы😅 И, если честно, это решение далось мне совсем не просто. Так что сейчас я заряжена как никогда🔥 Жизнь все-таки удивительная штука. Ожидали моего возвращения?❤️ #гимнастикаукраина #гімнастика #владаникольченко #блогерукраина #блогерукраїна #backtoukraine #lifeblog"". Instagram.
  22. ↑ "Nikolchenko Vladа on Instagram: " После двухлетнего перерыва сразу на соревнования Бронзовая медаль ЧУ в этот раз стала для меня золотом минимум ЧМ Пускай это станет новым началом и отправной точкой к новым вершинам Искренне благодарю вас за веру и поддержу. Дальше - больше #гімнастика #гімнастикаукраїни #гимнастикаукраина #профессиональный спорт #спортукраина #спортукраїна #успіх #мотивація #художнягімнастика #чемпіонатукраїни #владаникольченко"". Instagram.
  23. ↑ "Gymnast expelled from Ukraine team for expressing hatred for Poland 22:25". Archived from the original on 2023-11-23. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  24. 1 2 3 "2018 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. Individual Hoop Final". YouTube. Retrieved 13 October 2018.

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