Elizaveta Pletneva
{{short description|American rhythmic gymnast}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2022}}
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| birth_place = Saint Petersburg, Russia
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| club = North Shore Rhythmic Gymnastics Center
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{{MedalSport|Rhythmic gymnastics}}
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{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}}
{{MedalSilver|2019 Lima|Group all-around}}
{{MedalSilver|2019 Lima|5 balls}}
{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|2018 Lima|Group all-around}}
{{MedalSilver|2018 Lima|3 balls + 2 ropes}}
{{MedalBronze|2021 Rio de Janeiro|Group All-around}}
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{{MedalBronze|2021 Rio de Janeiro|3 hoops + 4 clubs}}
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Elizaveta Pletneva (born January 21, 2002){{cite web |title=Elizaveta Pletneva |url=https://usagym.org/pages/athletes/athleteListDetail.html?id=381240 |website=USA Gymnastics |access-date=July 21, 2021}} is a Russian-born American group rhythmic gymnast who represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Personal life
Pletneva and her family moved to the United States when she was three years old.{{cite web |title=Pletneva Elizaveta |url=https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/athletes/bio_detail.php?id=43316&type=licence |website=International Gymnastics Federation |access-date=July 21, 2021}} She began rhythmic gymnastics when she was five years old.
Career
Pletneva competed at the 2018 World Championships where the American group finished fourteenth in the all-around.{{cite web |title=U.S. group finishes 14th at 2018 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships |url=https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=22571 |website=USA Gymnastics |access-date=July 21, 2021 |date=September 15, 2018}} Then at the 2018 Pan American Championships in Lima, she won the silver medal in both the group all-around and the 3 balls + 2 ropes event final, both behind Mexico.{{cite web |title=USA wins eight event medals at 2018 Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships |url=https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=22643 |website=USA Gymnastics |access-date=July 21, 2021 |date=September 30, 2018 |archive-date=July 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721224513/https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=22643 |url-status=dead }}
Pletneva competed at the 2019 Pan American Games and won the silver medal in the group all-around and in the 5 balls event final, both times finishing behind Mexico.{{cite web |title=Griskenas, Feeley win rhythmic gold medals at 2019 Pan American Games |url=https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=24326 |website=USA Gymnastics |access-date=July 21, 2021 |date=August 5, 2019}} Then at the 2019 World Championships in Baku, the American group finished tenth.{{cite web |title=USA finishes 10th in group all-around at 2019 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships |url=https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=24546 |website=USA Gymnastics |access-date=July 21, 2021 |date=September 21, 2019}}
At the 2021 Pan American Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Pletneva and the American group won the bronze medals in the all-around, and in both the 5 balls and the 3 hoops + 4 clubs event finals. The United States qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games after Japan's host spot was reallocated. Pletneva was selected to represent the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Isabelle Connor, Camilla Feeley, Lili Mizuno, and Nicole Sladkov.{{cite web |title=Laura Zeng leads first full U.S. Olympic rhythmic gymnastics team |url=https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2021/07/02/laura-zeng-rhythmic-gymnastics-olympics/ |website=NBC Sports |access-date=July 21, 2021 |date=July 2, 2021}} They finished eleventh in the qualification round for the group all-around.{{cite web |title=Rhythmic Gymnastics — Group All-Around — Qualification — Results |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/GRY/OG2020-_GRY_C73B_GRYW5AA---------------QUAL--------.pdf |website=2020 Summer Olympics |access-date=7 August 2021 |archive-date=8 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808053149/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/GRY/OG2020-_GRY_C73B_GRYW5AA---------------QUAL--------.pdf |url-status=dead }}
References
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External links
- {{FIG|bio=69630|lic=43316|name=Elizaveta Pletneva}}
- {{Instagram|id=lizapetneva20|name=Liza Pletneva}}
{{Footer USA Gymnastics 2020 Summer Olympics}}
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Category:American rhythmic gymnasts
Category:Gymnasts at the 2019 Pan American Games
Category:Gymnasts from Saint Petersburg
Category:Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
Category:Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in gymnastics
Category:Russian emigrants to the United States
Category:People from Caldwell, New Jersey
Category:Sportspeople from Essex County, New Jersey
Category:Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic gymnasts for the United States
Category:21st-century American sportswomen
Category:Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics Pan American Championships