1. Aliya Farkhatovna Mustafina is a Russian former artistic gymnast.
54 Facts About Aliya Mustafina
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Aliya Mustafina was the 2010 all-around world champion, the 2013 European all around champion, the 2012 and 2016 Olympic uneven bars champion and a seven-time Olympic medalist.
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Aliya Mustafina was the ninth gymnast to win medals on every event at the World Championship.
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At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Aliya Mustafina won four medals, making her the most decorated gymnast of the competition and the most decorated athlete in any sport except swimming.
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Aliya Mustafina was born in Yegoryevsk, Russia, on 30 September 1994.
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Aliya Mustafina's father, Farhat Mustafin, a Volga Tatar born in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Mishar village Bolshoye Rybushkino, was a bronze medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and her mother, Yelena Kuznetsova, an ethnic Russian, is a physics teacher.
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Aliya Mustafina placed second in the all-around with a score of 58.825.
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In September 2007, Aliya Mustafina competed at the Japan Junior International in Yokohama.
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Aliya Mustafina placed second in the all-around with a score of 59.800 and second in all four event finals, scoring 14.750 on vault, 15.250 on uneven bars, 15.450 on balance beam, and 14.100 on floor exercise.
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At the 2008 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Aliya Mustafina helped the Russian junior team finish in first place and won the silver medal in the individual all-around with a score of 60.300.
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Aliya Mustafina placed sixth in the all-around with a score of 57.300; fourth on vault, scoring 13.950; and second on floor, scoring 14.925.
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Aliya Mustafina placed second on uneven bars, scoring 15.300; first on balance beam, scoring 14.950; and third on floor, scoring 14.700.
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Aliya Mustafina placed fourth on uneven bars after an error, scoring 14.500, and second on balance beam, scoring 14.175.
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Aliya Mustafina contributed an all-around score of 60.932 toward the Russian team's first-place finish and won the individual all-around with a score of 61.032.
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Aliya Mustafina left Rotterdam with five medals, more than any other artistic gymnast, male or female.
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Aliya Mustafina placed fourth on uneven bars, scoring 13.570, and first on balance beam, scoring 14.700.
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Aliya Mustafina finished in a controversial second to American Jordyn Wieber, with an all-around score of 59.831, after leading for three-quarters of the competition but falling on floor exercise, the last event.
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Aliya Mustafina placed fourth in the all-around and second on uneven bars with a score of 15.475.
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Aliya Mustafina didn't do her full routines and full difficulty, but she tried what she was ready for at the time, and for me, it was enough to see.
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Aliya Mustafina was nervous, even though her goal was just to compete, to see how she does after eight months off and how well she could handle the pressure and how her knee would feel.
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Aliya Mustafina won the all-around with a score of 59.533 and uneven bars with a score of 16.220, and finished fifth on balance beam with a score of 13.680.
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Aliya Mustafina helped Russia to qualify to the team final in second place, and qualified to the individual all-around final in fifth place with a score of 59.966.
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Aliya Mustafina was one of 33 Russian athletes to receive the award.
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Aliya Mustafina earned the same score as American Aly Raisman, but after tie-breaking rules were applied, Mustafina was awarded the bronze medal.
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Aliya Mustafina went on to win the uneven bars final with a score of 16.133, ending Russia's 12-year gold medal drought in Olympic gymnastics.
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At the 2013 Russian national championships, Aliya Mustafina successfully defended her all-around title with a score of 59.850, earning a 15.450 on beam, 15.500 on bars, 13.600 on floor, and 15.300 on vault.
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Aliya Mustafina received a silver medal with the Moscow Central team and finished third in the uneven bars final, behind Anastasia Grishina and Tatiana Nabieva.
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Later, Aliya Mustafina won the all-around and team titles at the Stella Zakharova Cup.
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In July, Aliya Mustafina competed at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia, alongside teammates Nabieva, Ksenia Afanasyeva, Maria Paseka, and Anna Dementyeva.
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In October, just after turning 19, Aliya Mustafina competed at the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp.
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Aliya Mustafina went on to win her first world beam title with a score of 14.900, ahead of Ross and Biles.
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Individually, Aliya Mustafina won the all-around with a total score of 59.133.
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Aliya Mustafina then won bronze medals in the balance beam and floor exercise finals, scoring 14.166 on beam and 14.733 on floor to beat out Asuka Teramoto of Japan and MyKayla Skinner of the United States.
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At the Stuttgart World Cup in late 2014, Aliya Mustafina fell on uneven bars and balance beam and made several errors on floor exercise, causing her to finish fifth.
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Aliya Mustafina returned to competition at the 2015 European Games in Baku in June with Viktoria Komova and Seda Tutkhalyan.
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Aliya Mustafina received a gold medal on bars and silver on floor.
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Aliya Mustafina performed a downgraded floor routine, for which she scored 13.533.
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Aliya Mustafina contributed a 15.133 on vault, 15.933 on bars, 14.958 on beam, and 14.000 on floor.
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Two days later, Aliya Mustafina competed in the individual all-around final and scored 58.665.
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Aliya Mustafina placed third behind Americans Simone Biles and Aly Raisman, repeating her bronze-medal performance from the 2012 Olympics.
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Aliya Mustafina defended her 2012 title and scored a 15.900, winning the gold medal ahead of American silver medallist Madison Kocian and bronze medallist Sophie Scheder of Germany.
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Aliya Mustafina returned to training in 2017 after the birth of her daughter, Alisa, with the hope of returning to competition for the 2018 European Championships and eventually the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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Aliya Mustafina later placed sixth in the bars final, fourth in the beam final, and withdrew from the floor final.
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On September 29, Aliya Mustafina was named on the nominative team to compete at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar alongside Lilia Akhaimova, Irina Alexeeva, Melnikova, and Simakova.
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Aliya Mustafina contributed a 14.5 on bars, 13.266 on beam, and 13.066 on floor.
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At the Stuttgart World Cup Aliya Mustafina finished in fifth place after falling off the balance beam.
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In July, Aliya Mustafina trained in Tokyo alongside the rest of the Russian national team, including Juniors Vladislava Urazova and Elena Gerasimova, in preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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Aliya Mustafina officially announced her retirement from the sport on June 8,2021, at the Russian Cup.
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In 2021 Aliya Mustafina began working as a coach for the junior national team.
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Aliya Mustafina began dating Russian bobsledder Alexey Zaitsev in Autumn 2015.
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In January 2017, it was reported that Aliya Mustafina was pregnant and that the baby was due in July.
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Aliya Mustafina gave birth to her daughter, Alisa, on 9 June 2017.
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Aliya Mustafina was reported to have divorced her husband in April 2018.
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Aliya Mustafina has two eponymous skills listed in the Code of Points.