33 Facts About Dina Averina

Dina Averina was the 2020 Olympic All-around silver medalist, the only four-time World All-around Champion, the 2018 silver and 2021 European All-around bronze medalist and the 2016 Grand Prix Final All-around silver medalist.

Dina Averina's identical twin sister, Arina Averina, is a competitive rhythmic gymnast.

Dina and her identical twin sister Arina Averina were born on 13 August 1998.

Arina was born 20 minutes ahead of Dina, while both have moles on the upper cheekbone, Dina has it on the lower right compared to Arina's upper right.

In 2020, Dina Averina received a serious back injury, which actually needed a surgery but in order to prepare for the postponed Olympics she decided not to undergo the surgery.

Dina Averina announced her retirement from competitive sport in February 2024.

The Averinas began appearing in international competitions in 2011 competing at the 2011 Russian-Chinese Youth Games where Dina won the gold and Arina finishing 5th in the all-around.

In 2012, Dina Averina finished 4th at the Russian Junior Championships.

Dina Averina then competed at International MTM Cup in Ljubljana won the Team gold medal.

In 2013 season, Dina won bronze in all-around at the 2013 Russian Junior Championships behind Soldatova, she competed in Junior division at Happy Caravan Cup in Tashkent and won Team gold with Arina Averina.

At the 2013 Russian Spartakiada's 6th Summer Student Games, Dina Averina won the all-around bronze medal.

In 2014 Season, Dina Averina debuted at the 2014 Moscow Grand Prix competing in the senior international tournament division.

Dina Averina appeared in her first World Cup competition at the 2014 Lisboa World Cup where she won the all-around bronze medal behind Melitina Staniouta.

In 2015 season, Dina started her season at the 2015 Moscow Grand Prix, she then competed at the Corbeil-Essonnes International Rhythmic Gymnastics Tournament where she won the all-around silver medal behind twin sister Arina Averina, she qualified to 4 event finals, taking gold in ribbon, silver medals in hoop, ball and placed 6th in clubs.

Dina Averina followed another gold medal win in the all-around at the 2015 Dundee International Tournament in Sofia, ahead of twin sister Arina.

In 2016, Dina Averina began her season competing at the 2016 Grand Prix Moscow finishing 6th in the all-around and qualified to the hoop final.

Dina Averina then competed in the senior division at the International tournament in Lisbon where she won the all-around gold and all apparatus finals.

At the 30th Thiais Grand Prix event in Paris, Dina Averina finished 9th in the all-around.

Dina Averina won the all-around bronze at the 2016 Russian Championships held in Sochi.

In 2017, Dina Averina's season began in competition at the 2017 Grand Prix Moscow where she won the all-around gold medal with a new personal best total score of 76.050 points, she qualified to all the apparatus finals taking gold in hoop, clubs, ribbon and a silver medal in ball behind Aleksandra Soldatova.

Dina Averina then participated in the organized Desio-Italia Trophy where she won the All-around and team gold medal.

In 2018, Dina Averina's season began in competition at the 2018 Grand Prix Moscow, where she won the all-around gold, she qualified to 3 apparatus finals taking gold with hoop, clubs and silver with ball.

Dina Averina competed at the 2018 Sofia World Championships, winning Gold in the All-Around, Hoop, Ball and Clubs.

Dina Averina won gold in team, hoop and ribbon at the 2019 European Championships.

Dina Averina competed at the 2019 European Games, winning gold in all-around, hoop and ribbon, silver in clubs and bronze in ball.

Dina Averina won Team Gold, together with Ekaterina Selezneva and her sister Arina Averina.

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Dina Averina was the Top Qualifier, ahead of her sister Arina Averina who was second.

Later, the Averina twins returned to competition after the Olympic Games with their new coach Yulia Barsukova, at the international Olympico Cup tournament in Moscow, where Dina launched a new club routine, and her sister a new club and ribbon routine.

Dina Averina competed in the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, where in the apparatus finals she won gold in hoop, ball and clubs, and in ribbon she won silver, surpassed by Alina Harnasko.

Dina Averina achieved team gold with Arina Averina and the Russian Group Dina Averina and her sister kept competing until 2023.

On February 23,2024, Dina Averina announced her retirement from sports.

Dina Averina is known for her fast routines and dynamic apparatus handling.

Dina Averina has maintained a Difficulty value of 10 which was scored in her clubs routine; the last rhythmic gymnast before Dina to score a 10 in Difficulty was Evgenia Kanaeva.