Evgeniya Kanaeva Profile

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This profile of Zhenya is written by me and catts according to the taken from her interviews、related news articles and CSKA data. Take a look and we welcome you to translate to any other languages, just indicate the source is from here.

Name: Evgenia Kanaeva (Russian: Евгения Олеговна Канаева)
Short First Name: Zhenya
Nickname: Kanai, Mother Theresa (named by the parents of kids of Omsk RG School)
Father: Oleg Kanaev (coach of Greek-Rome style wrestling,master of sports)
Mother: Svetlana Kanaeva (used to be a RG gymnast,master of sports)
Date of Birth: 2 April 1990
Place of Birth: City of Omsk in Siberia, Russia
Zodiac: Aries
Chinese Zodiac: Horse
Brothers and Sisters: One elder brother
Height: 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight: 49 kgs (108 lb)
Age of starting RG: 6 years old
Coach: Vera Efremovna Shtelbaums
First coach: Elena Arajs (Shtelbaums’s daughter)
Head coach: Irina Viner
Training hours: 8-10 hours per day
National team experience: Zhenya moved to Novogorsk training center at 12 years old
First big prize got from competitions: Zhenya got a color TV at 12 years old
Favorite Apparatus: All
Favorite Country: Japan、Spain、France and Italy
Favorite Food: Sushi, fruit salad, kotalete (Russian food, her grandmother’s speciality)
Favorite place: Sea
Leisure: Reading and embroider
Favorite books: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde、Sergie Esenin’s poetry
Favorite Music: Various, dependent on the mood
Favorite Movies: Russian old movies,like “irony of fate”、“official novel” etc…(“Иронию судьбы”, “Служебный роман”…)
Favorite sports besides RG: Figure Skating
Favorite color: White
Best rest:Healthy sleep
Scar on the right eyebrow:Hit by clubs at young age
Interesting habit:Like to talk with apparatus! (so lovely and cute   )
Primary school teacher’s words: She was small, weak … but with unseen will power
How and where to spend vacation: Home or the sea
Most emotional audience (in Zhenya’s opinion):Japanese and Spanish.
The appropriate adjectives to describe her character: Unable to judge, because I do not see myself from the outside.
Her view on her future life:My life has been formed in such a way that I completely dedicate myself to the sport, therefore at the moment I don’t have a clue.

Major Achievement:
Olympic Games:
2008 – 1 Gold (All Around)
2012  – 1 Gold (All Around)

World Championships:
2007 – 1 Gold (Team)
2009 – 6 Golds (Team, Rope, Hoop, Ball, Ribbon & All Around)
2010 –  4 Golds (Team, Hoop, Ball, All-Around) + 1 Silver (Rope)
2011 – 6 Golds (Team, Hoop, Ball, Clubs, Ribbon & All Around)

European Championships:
2007 – 2 Golds (Team & Ribbon)
2008 – 1 Gold (All Around)
2009 – 5 Golds (Team, Rope, Hoop, Ball & Ribbon)
2010 –  1 Gold (All Around)
2011–  3 Golds (Team, Hoop & Ribbon)+1 Silver (Ball)
2012 –  1 Gold (All Around)

Record:
29th RG World Championships Mie, Japan  2009
◆ Kanaeva set a record in the 29th RG World Championships 2009 in Mie by wining 6 gold medals. She is the first gymnast in RG history to achieve such results in one single World Championship.

31st World Championship Montpellier, France 2011
◆ She equals the record of Maria Petrova, who won 3 world titles for three consecutive years (1993/1994/1995), and of María Gigova (1969/1971/1973).
◆ She is the first gymnast who has won 3 consecutive world titles without sharing the triumph with other gymnasts. Petrova and Gigova shared their respective titles with other gymnasts.
◆ It is the second time when Zhenya won 6 gold medals out of 6. She equals her own record.
◆ She is the first gymnast who has won gold medals in all of apparatus. (5 apparatus, rope, hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon)
◆ She levels with Maria Petrova in hoop: both have won 3 gold medals in the World Championships.
◆ She levels with Ekaterina Serebrianskaya and Lilia Ignatova in ball: all of them have won 3 gold medals in the World Championships.
◆ She is the gymnast in the entire RG history who has won the most World Championships titles: 17 gold medals.

Grand Prix Brno, Czech 2011
◆ On October 16, 2011 Evgenia Kanaeva scored 30, she got perfect 10 in difficulty, artistry and execution at ribbon final, Grand Prix Brno 2011, Czech. She is the first gymnast in the history of rhythmic gymnastic to achieve full mark under 30 points judging system.

Olympic Games 
◆ Zhenya is the first and only rhythmic gymnast so far to win 2 gold medals in individual all around ( Beijing 2008 and London 2012)
◆ On her second Olympics, she became the oldest Rhythmic Gymnast to win a gold medal at 22 years, 4 months and 7 days.

Remark:
Novogorsk Trianing Centre
«Новогорск»
141435, Russia,
Moscow region,
Khimki, microdistrict Novogorsk
Tel: (495) 940-89-52  (495) 571-62-47
141435, Россия, Московская обл., г. Химки.
микрорайон Новогорск, Учебно-тренировочный Центр «Новогорск»

Evgeniya Kanaeva Profile-Chinese version
Evgenia Kanaeva-training-WCH Mie 2009-screenshot FIG DVD Bonus-edit-Zoe
姓名: Evgenia Kanaeva (俄文: Евгения Олеговна Канаева)
Short First Name: Zhenya (在俄羅斯, 名字有分Full First Name 跟 Short First Name)
Nickname: Kanai, Mother Theresa (OMSK RG學校小選手的家長幫她取的)
父親: Oleg Kanaev (希臘羅馬式摔角教練,master of sports)
母親: Svetlana Kanaeva (以前也是RG選手,master of sports)
生日: 2 April 1990
出生地: City of Omsk in Siberia, Russia
星座: 牡羊座
生肖: 馬
兄弟姊妹: 一個哥哥
身高: 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
體重: 49 kgs (108b)
何時開始練RG: 6歲
教練: Vera Efremovna Shtelbaums
第一個教練: Elena Arajs (Shtelbaums 的女兒)
主教練: Irina Viner
訓練時數: 一天練8-10 個小時
何時進入國家隊: 12歲時,Zhenya 進了Novogorsk 國家訓練中心
第一次在比賽時拿到的大獎: 12歲時在某個比賽中得到彩色電視機
最喜歡的器械: 都喜歡
最喜歡的國家: 日本、西班牙、法國跟義大利
最喜歡的食物: 壽司, 水果沙拉, kotalete (一種俄羅斯食物, 炸肉排, Zhenya奶奶的拿手菜)
最喜歡的地方: 海邊
休閒時喜歡做的事: 看書跟刺十字繡
最喜歡的書: 奧斯卡王爾德-「美少年格雷的畫像」(The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde) 、俄羅斯詩人葉賽寧的詩(Sergie Eselin’s poetry)
最喜歡的音樂: 很雜很多元, 看心情而定
喜歡的電影: 俄羅斯的老電影,如 “irony of fate”、“official novel” etc…(“Иронию судьбы”, “Служебный роман”…)
除了RG還喜歡的運動: 花式溜冰 (Figure Skating)
喜歡的顏色: 白色
最佳的休息方式: 健康的睡眠
右邊眉毛的傷疤: 小時候被棍棒打到造成的
有趣的習慣: 喜歡跟自己的器械說話! (真的好可愛  )
小學老師的話: 她-Zhenya 看起來很弱小,確有看不見的堅強意志力
在哪&如何渡過假期: 在家或去海邊
最激動的觀眾 (Zhenya的看法):日本跟西班牙的觀眾
適當的形容自己的個性: 無法評斷, 因為我自己沒辦法從外在客觀的看待自己
對自己未來的願景: 我的人生完全的奉獻給運動, 因此對於未來, 現階段我還沒有任何頭緒

重要成就:
奧運會:
2008 – 1 Gold (個人全能)
2012 – 1 Gold (個人全能)

世錦賽:
2007 – 1 Gold (團隊競賽),
2009 – 6 Golds (團隊競賽, 繩, 環, 球, 彩帶 & 個人全能)
2010 – 4 Golds (團隊競賽, 環, 球, 個人全能)+1 Silver (繩)
2011 – 6 Golds (團隊競賽, 環, 球, 棒, 彩帶 & 個人全能)

歐錦賽:
2007 – 2 Golds (團隊競賽& 彩帶)
2008 – 1 Gold (個人全能),
2009 – 5 Golds (團隊競賽, 繩, 環, 球 & 彩帶)
2010 – 1 Gold (個人全能)
2011–  3 Golds (團隊競賽, 環, 彩帶)+1 Silver (球)
2012 – 1 Gold (個人全能) 

紀錄:
2009年29屆日本三重縣世錦賽:
◆ Kanaeva 在2009年日本三重縣世錦賽創紀錄贏得六面金牌,她是RG史上第一位在單一屆世錦賽拿下六面金牌的選手。

2011年31屆法國Montpellier世錦賽:
◆ 她追平前輩選手 Maria Petrova (1993/1994/1995)跟 María Gigova (1969/1971/1973),達成世錦賽個人全能冠軍三連霸的紀錄。
◆ 她是首位完成個人全能冠軍三連霸而沒有跟其他選手共享冠軍頭銜的選手。 (Maria Petrova跟María Gigova都曾經跟其他選手共享世錦賽個人全能冠軍頭銜)
◆ 這是卡納耶娃第二次在世錦賽囊括所有個人項目六面金牌,追平她自己在2009年日本三重縣世錦賽所創下的紀錄。
◆ 她是第一位在韻律體操世錦賽贏得所有單項金牌的選手。(5個器械單項金牌,繩、環、球、棒跟彩帶)
◆ 她追平Maria Petrova贏得三次環的單項金牌。
◆ 她追平Ekaterina Serebrianskaya 跟 Lilia Ignatova贏得三次球的單項金牌。
◆ 她是韻律體操史上贏得最多世錦賽金牌的選手,總共17面金牌。

2011年捷克布爾諾大獎賽:
◆ 2011年10月16日, 卡納耶娃在捷克布爾諾大獎賽彩帶決賽中獲得30分滿分,她在難度、藝術跟完成分都拿到完美十分。她是韻律體操史上第一位在30分制的評分系統下拿到滿分的選手。

奧運會:
她是韻律體操史上第一個也是目前唯一一位贏得兩次個人全能金牌的選手,且是連霸。(北京奧運跟倫敦奧運)
在倫敦奧運,她成為年紀最大贏得個人全能冠軍的選手,22歲4個月又7天。

備註:
Novogorsk Training Centre Address
Novogorsk Trianing Centre
«Новогорск»
141435, Russia,
Moscow region,
Khimki, microdistrict Novogorsk
Tel: (495) 940-89-52  (495) 571-62-47
141435, Россия, Московская обл., г. Химки.
микрорайон Новогорск, Учебно-тренировочный Центр «Новогорск»

Note by WanWan: Zhenya 還蠻特別的,最喜歡的書是 ThePicture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde,當時訪問她的記者也說很少這年紀的人會說最喜歡這本書。這本書我只知道大綱而已,也還沒看過,是在說一個年輕人因為想永保青春美貌而陷入犯罪墮落沈淪。

27 Responses to Evgeniya Kanaeva Profile

  1. Elysia says:

    I love Evgenia Kanaeva she is my inspiration, I really miss her so much since she retired I really wish she was still competing ❤ I know that she has a son now Vladimir who is nearly 2 years old ❤ I know Zhenya can not speak English but I hope that she sees my comment one day ❤

  2. ZKG-Zoe Wan says:

    @danka, sorry, personal information is private.

  3. danka says:

    Hellow,I love your’e page very much do you know how can I contact evgenya? Like an email or somthing

  4. ZKG-WanWan says:

    Updated this page

    @Giglio, you can send letter to her to Novogorsk training center, I have posted the address of Novogorak in this page. or you can check the address in this page
    https://zhenyakanaevagymnasium.wordpress.com/relative-links/

  5. Giglio says:

    Hi, i’m Escobar, from Spain, I love the rhythmic gimnastic and I like Kanaeva. Does it’s possible to contact whith her? I have watched her in the Olympic Games to London, in the European Championship to Novgorod, in the World Championship to Mompellier… She’s the best, she’s my idol. I would like to write a letter to Kanaeva.

    Thank you,

  6. Me gustaría que algun día nos enviaras un mensaje a nuestro club de gimnasia ritmica Antofagasta , Chile

  7. Low Kok Meng says:

    You had shown the world what’s a true talent is & the detemination to success. Congrats to you for your Olympic success. Also, you have a beautiful & lovely smile. Keep on smiling & with this, you can melt the heart of the world.

  8. Suhan says:

    Hi Evgenia!!

    I am your fun from Turkey. You are absolutely amazing. Your success shows that what human can do after such a hard work.

    One day if you come to Turkey for show or any reason, will be my pleasure to meet you.

    Once again congragulations for Olympics success!!

    Surhan.

  9. katherine says:

    i though evgenia made this page, but i still love her and this page♥

  10. ZKG-WanWan says:

    @katherine, Thank you for your support and comment! But as I said in my previous comment in this page, this is a fans website that I created for Zhenya, not her personal account, I am not Evgeniya Kanaeva.

  11. katherine says:

    evgeniya i love you so much♥ i wanna meet you someday, but i live in latin america 😦 you are my idol 🙂 you inspire me. my dream is that you follow me on twitter @katherineavend5 and you answer me please!!! love you i wish you the best in london 2012!! i would cry 😦

  12. Meme says:

    Hi, people call me meme, I from Canada. Thanks for being such a great hero and role model! before a competions I watch your competitions and I get inspird!

  13. ZKG-WanWan says:

    To Nicole: I am Zoe Wan, here, this is just a website I build for Evgenia Kanaeva and her fans. If you want to contact with Zhenya may be you can try to write letter to Novogorsk training center.
    http://www.novogorsksport.ru/contact/?PHPSESSID=l5si1pe0uirn8soifoqs1mkjh2

  14. nicole says:

    Hi Evgenia Kanaeva im nicole from ireland i do gymnastics is well i love it i went to russia i had a compition my mum and dad are from ukraine i can talk on russian you are so cool can you be my sister please.

  15. nicole says:

    privet evgenia kanaeva

  16. ZKG-WanWan says:

    Updated this page, added Zhenya’s records.

  17. tito says:

    Kanaeva is a MIRACLE !!!

  18. ZKG-WanWan says:

    made few edited for this page, added Zhenya’s major competitions medals results, I am still on the travel now, will make more edition for Zhenya’s profile when I return to Taiwan

  19. ZKG-WanWan says:

    @activschorle, OK check this photo, do you mean this one? it’s a gala @GP Moscow 2005, the Nutcracker, not a solo gala, it’s a group one

  20. activschorle says:

    hi,thanks for your effort 🙂
    Her clothes were grey, white ,silver… something like this.
    but its not so important.i just asked .
    thanks 🙂

  21. ZKG-WanWan says:

    @activschorle, hoop in her hand, more like gala in 2010, the one since EC Bremen, it’s a flexible hoop, I can’t think other galas. check this video, Is this the gala that you mentioned?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo2sc47kPiI
    or can you tell me what’s the color of her cloth?

  22. activschorle says:

    hey,ive got a question.maybe you know more.ive seen a pic,there was zhenya.she looked like a ballerina with a hoop in her hand.it was a gala in … 2007?sorry,i cant show you the pic because i dont know where i found and saw it.the world wide web is BIG… so…:D bye

  23. Anonymous says:

    天啊!原來台灣也有這麼棒的粉絲
    我感動的都要哭了
    身邊都是些不懂欣賞韻律體操的人

  24. Joy 思佳妳好: 這裡是Evgenia Kanaeva的專屬網站. 我幫她建的. 我並不是她哦. 我也是台灣人, 如果妳要我當妳姊姊我是很樂意的 🙂 有什麼問題盡量可以問我, 還有妳可以寫中文 🙂 -Zoe Wan

  25. Joy Ho says:

    Dear Kanaeva , I’m Joy , from Taiwan ,13 years old .
    You’re so beautiful and I love you !
    Would you be my sister ?
    Thank you !

  26. jojo says:

    sports is in her genes

  27. 王明颖 says:

    I LOVE IT!

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