Victoria Ilina

Victoria Ilina
 Gymnast 
Nickname(s) Vika
Country represented  Russia
Born (1999-03-28) March 28, 1999
Saransk, Mordovia, Russia
Hometown Saransk
Discipline Rhythmic gymnastics
Club Gazprom
Gym Novogorsk
Head coach(es) Irina Viner
Assistant coach(es) Natalia Kukushkina
Choreographer Mikhail Pervykh

Victoria Ilina (Russian: Виктория Ильина, born March 28, 1999 in Saransk, Russia) is a Russian Group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2014 Youth Olympic Group all-around champion and the 2013 European Junior Group all-around champion.

Junior

Ilina started out competing as an individual gymnast. Her first major international tournament was competing in the junior division at the 2012 Moscow Grand Prix. In 2013, Ilina began competing as a Group gymnast, she was member of the Russian Group at the 2013 European Junior Championships with Russia taking the gold medal scoring a total of (33.916) ahead of Belarus (32.700) and Bulgaria (32.532) in the all-around competition. They won another gold medal in 5 hoops final.[1]

In 2014, Ilina competed with the Russian Group at the 2014 Moscow Grand Prix taking gold in Group all-around, following their placement, the Russian Group earned a qualification to compete for the Youth Olympic Games. In August 26–27, Ilina was member of the Russian Group (with Daria Anenkova, Daria Dubova, Sofya Skomorokh, Natalia Safonova) that competed at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China where they won gold in Group All-around finals.[2][3]

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