Biography
Anna Bessonova (Ukrainian: Ганна Володимирівна Безсонова/Hanna Volodymyrivna Bezsonova; Russian: Анна Владимировна Бессонова/Anna Vladimirovna Bessonova) (born July 29, 1984) is an Individual Rhythmic Gymnast who was born in Kiev, Ukraine. Her father is the Dynamo Kiev football player Vladimir Bessonov and her mother, Viktoria, was a two time world champion group rhythmic gymnast.
Bessonova began rhythmic gymnastics at age 5. Her mother would have rather seen her daughter on the ballet stage, however, Bessonova decided on rhythmic gymnastics. She is coached by the mother/daughter combination of Albina and Irina Deriugina at the Deriugins School in Kiev.
Bessonova is the number one rhythmic gymnast in Ukraine and is currently ranked first in the world in clubs, ribbon and rope, and third in ball and hoop (as of July 19, 2008). She won the bronze individual all around medals at the 2008 Beijing and 2004 Athens Olympics. (with a total score of 106.700: Ribbon 26.725, Clubs 26.950, Ball 26.525, Hoop 26.500). Over the course of her career she has won 24 World Championship medals, 2 Olympic medals, 24 European Championship medals and 10 World Cup medals (60 in total).
In 2007, Bessonova became world champion at the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship in Patras winning the all-around gold medal. This was long-awaited by the RG community after her second places at the previous 2003 and 2005 Championships.
In 2008, Bessonova also won all around golds at the LA Lights, Deriugina Cup (Kiev World Cup) and Miss Valentine Competitions as well as the all around silver at the European Championships in Torino. At 2008 World Cup events, Anna accumulated 15 medals. The year culminated in her all around bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics.
In 2009, Anna placed first in the All-Around at the Kiev World Cup and Deriugina Cup events, and also won bronze in both the World and European Championships.
She is 1.74m (5'9") and weighs 49 kg (108 lbs).
1999 World Championships, Osaka, 10 th place - group all-around, third place - the team.
2000 World Cup Final, Glasgow 5 th place - the ball, hoop, ribbon, and 7 th place - skipping rope.
2000 European Championships, Zaragoza 4 th place - ribbon.
2001 FIFA World Cup, Madrid 2 nd place - the ball, hoop, 4 th place - clubs, third place - individual all-around, third place - skipping rope.
2002 World Championships, New Orleans 6-th - the group around.
2002 World Cup Final, Stuttgart 2 nd place - the ball, 1 st place - clubs, hoop, jump rope.
2002 European Championships, Grenada 4 th place - the ball, hoop, 3rd place - clubs, individual all-around, 2 nd place - skipping rope.
2003 World Championships, Budapest 2 nd place - ball, ribbon, individual all-around, team, 1 st place - clubs, hoop
2003 European Championships, Reese 2 nd place - the ball, 1 st place - clubs, hoop, ribbon.
2004 Olympic Games, Athens, 3rd place - individual all-around.
2004 European Championship, Kiev 2 nd place - individual all-around.
2005 World Games 2 nd place - the ball, 4 th place - clubs, 3rd place - ribbon; 1 st place - skipping rope.
2005 World Championships, Baku, 2 nd place - the ball, clubs, individual all-around, tape, rope, team.
2005 European Championships, Moscow, 2 nd place - ball, ribbon, team, 3rd place - clubs, rope.
2006 European Championships, Moscow, 3rd place - individual all-around.
2006 World Cup Final, Mie 3rd place - rope, ribbon, ball.
2007 World Championships, Patras, 1 st place - individual all-around.
2008 Olympic Games, Beijing 3rd place - individual all-around.
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