Darja Varfolomeev: Em-heroine from Schmiden is fighting for new medals!

Darja Varfolomeev: Em-heroine from Schmiden is fighting for new medals!

Tallinn, Estland - Darja Varfolomeev, the only 18-year-old Olympic champion from Schmiden, qualified for three finals at the European Championships in Rhythmic Sport Gymnastics in Tallinn, Estonia. The talented athlete, who was the first German in the all -around at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, won the gold medal, showed convincing achievements with the band and the tire, which brought her first place. For the all-around final on Sunday she fights as the second best athlete, behind the Ukrainian Taisiia Onofriitschuk.

While Varfolomeev did not get over ninth place in competition with the legs, her teammate Lada Pusch was able to make the leap into the final as fifth. Another promising talent from Schmiden, Anastasia Simokova, will fight for medals as the best second with the ball in the device finals on Saturday. These achievements show the enormous potential of the German team in rhythmic gymnastics.

The way to the Olympic champion

born on November 4, 2006 in Barnaul, Russia, started to do sports at the age of three at the age of three. Her mother, herself a rhythmic gymnast, played a crucial role in her early training. At the age of twelve, she dared to move to Fellbach-Schmiden without moving to the boarding school of the German Turner Association without her parents and without knowledge of German. There she trains under the guidance of Julyja Raskina from Belarus and starts for TSV Schmiden.

Your first international appearance took place in 2019 at the Junior World Championships in Moscow. There she took 15th place in the team competition. After her first successes in the adult area, including several medals at the 2022 World Cup in Tashkent, she won two bronze medals at the 2022 European Championships in Tel Aviv. Her five-time success at the 2023 World Championships in Valencia was an outstanding performance that she positioned among the best athletes in the world.

rhythmic sports gymnastics in focus

Rhythmic sports gymnastics is a pure women's sport that requires skill, flexibility and musicality. She celebrated her Olympic debut in Los Angeles in 1984. The points are calculated by a d grade for the levels of difficulty of the performance and an e-note for the execution, whereby the final score is determined from the average of the grades of the judges.

Although Eastern European countries traditionally dominate the scene, Varfolomeev establishes itself as an outstanding athlete on an international parquet and brings a breath of fresh air to the German rhythmic sports gymnastics sports. Their successes at the Olympic Games and World Championships set standards for future generations of young athletes in Germany.