29 Facts About Khrystyna Pohranychna

Khrystyna Oleksandrivna Pohranychna is a Ukrainian individual rhythmic gymnast.

Khrystyna Pohranychna is the 2018 Youth Olympic Games all-around silver medalist, a 2020 Olympic Games all-around finalist, and a four-time medalist at the 2018 European Junior Championships.

Khrystyna Pohranychna's mother is a surgeon and her father is a journalist.

Khrystyna Pohranychna has a sister named Olesya who is two years older than her and a younger sister Angela who was born in 2017.

Olesya and Khrystyna began rhythmic gymnastics when Khrystyna was five years old at the Nika Sports Club in Lviv.

Khrystyna Pohranychna's inspiration is Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast and Olympic medalist Hanna Rizatdinova.

Khrystyna Pohranychna was added to the junior national team in 2016.

Khrystyna Pohranychna made her international debut at the 2016 Junior European Championships in Holon and placed sixth in the team competition alongside Olena Diachenko and Yeva Meleshchuk.

Khrystyna Pohranychna became the 2017 Ukrainian junior all-around champion, becoming the first gymnast from Lviv to win the Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships since Ukrainian independence.

Khrystyna Pohranychna won the silver medals in the ball and ribbon event finals, both behind Russia's Lala Kramarenko, and she won hoop bronze and placed fourth in clubs.

Khrystyna Pohranychna was then selected to represent Ukraine at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, and she won the silver medal in the individual all-around behind Russia's Daria Trubnikova.

Khrystyna Pohranychna made her senior international debut at the Pesaro World Cup and placed fifth in the hoop final.

Khrystyna Pohranychna won her first World Cup medal at the Guadalajara World Challenge Cup with a silver in hoop behind Russia's Alexandra Soldatova.

Khrystyna Pohranychna then won the all-around silver medal behind Vlada Nikolchenko at the Ukrainian Championships.

Khrystyna Pohranychna then finished twelfth in the all-around final with a score of 80.575, earning Ukraine a second quota for the 2020 Olympic Games.

Khrystyna Pohranychna did not compete at the beginning of the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In March 2021, Khrystyna Pohranychna tested positive for COVID-19 and had to miss the Sofia World Cup.

Khrystyna Pohranychna returned to competition at the Tashkent World Cup and placed seventh in the clubs and ribbon event finals.

Khrystyna Pohranychna then finished fifteenth in the all-around at the Pesaro World Cup.

Khrystyna Pohranychna competed at her first senior European Championships in Varna, Bulgaria.

Khrystyna Pohranychna only competed on the ribbon, helping the Ukrainian team place fifth and qualifying for the ribbon final.

Khrystyna Pohranychna placed eighth in the hoop and clubs finals.

Khrystyna Pohranychna then competed in the all-around final and finished in eleventh place, and Ukraine placed fourth in the team competition.

Khrystyna Pohranychna had surgery on her knee at the beginning of the year.

Khrystyna Pohranychna began volunteering as a medical assistant during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Khrystyna Pohranychna represented Ukraine at the 2021 Summer Universiade in Chengdu, China, which was postponed from 2021 to 2023 because of COVID-19 pandemic.

Khrystyna Pohranychna won silver medal in All-around, behind Hungarian Fanni Pigniczki and two gold medals in Apparatus finals.

Khrystyna Pohranychna competed at 1st European Cup in Baku, where she placed 12th in All-around Qualifications.

Khrystyna Pohranychna was voted "Lvivian of the Year" by the citizens of Lviv in 2017.