# Elvira Krasnobaeva

Elvira Krasnobaeva (Bulgarian: Елвира Краснобаева; born 10 March 2008) is a rhythmic gymnast who formerly competed for Bulgaria. She is the 2024 European bronze medalist with ribbon and team champion, the 2022 junior European hoop champion and 2023 junior World ball champion.
At the Bulgarian national level, she is the 2024 Senior all-around silver medalist. She is also the 2022 and 2023 Junior national champion, as well as the 2021 Junior all-around silver medalist. Krasnobaeva is currently not a member of a federation.

## Personal life

Elvira Krasnobaeva was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. At the age of six, she moved with her family to Varna, Bulgaria. There she entered the National School of Arts "Dobri Hristov" as part of the ballet department and continued to train in rhythmic gymnastics as a member of the club "Gracia". In 2021 she was given Bulgarian citizenship. Her dream is to compete at the Olympics.

## Gymnastics career
### 2021

In 2021 Krasnobaeva was included in the Bulgarian national team ahead of the junior European and World Championships. She then went on to became the national junior silver medalist behind Nikol Todorova and ahead of Victoria Georgieva. She was the silver medalist at the Julieta Shismanova tournament in Burgas.

### 2022

Krasnobaeva won the first two junior-level internal competitions of 2022. In March she competed at the Aphrodite Cup in Greece, where she was eighth with clubs. At the Andalusia Cup in Spain, she won gold in all-around, gold with ball and ribbon, and bronze with clubs. She next won the all-around silver in the junior portion of the Sofia Cup. Krasnobaeva won the junior national title.
In June, she was selected to represent Bulgaria, along with Dara Stoyanova, at the 2022 European Championships in Tel Aviv, where she won bronze in team, silver with ball and gold with hoop.

### 2023

Krasnobaeva started the 2023 season at the Miss Valentine Tournament in Tartu, along with teammates Nikol Todorova, Dara Stoyanova and Dara Malinova. In the junior team event, she won silver with the rest of the Bulgarian team behind Ukraine and above Kazakhstan. She also qualified for the hoop and ball finals, winning gold in both. At the second Junior World Championships, Krasnobaeva won two gold medals. One was in the team competition, where she contributed to the team score along with the Bulgarian group and Nikol Todorova. She also won an individual gold in the ball final.

### 2024

In 2024, she made her senior debut at Miss Valentine, winning silver in the all-around, silver in the hoop final and bronze in the ribbon final. On March 23, she won gold in the all-around at her first World Cup in Athens. In the apparatus finals, she won gold with hoop, and silver with clubs and ribbon. At her next World Cup in Baku, she won the silver medal in the all-around and was one of only two gymnasts to qualify for every event final. She won another silver in the ribbon final.
In early May, she won the silver all-around medal at the Bulgarian national championships behind Stiliana Nikolova. Later that month, she competed at the 2024 European Championships with her teammates Nikolova and Boryana Kaleyn, with whom she won the gold medal in the Team event. She took 7th place in the clubs final and won the bronze medal in the ribbon final. On June 15-16, she competed at the Brno Grand Prix in the Czech Republic and won gold in the all-around, ribbon and ball as well as silver with clubs and bronze with hoop.
In October, Krasnobaeva announced that she would no longer compete for Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation ruled that she would be required to pay compensation due to breaking her contract with them. Krasnobaeva said that she would be representing Armenia in the future and that she was changing countries because her family was moving to Russia and she needed to represent a country that would allow her to train there.
Less than two months later, the Armenian federation said they were no longer working with her, citing disrespectful behavior toward the coaches in training, and claimed they had not been repaid the money invested in her training. Her mother disputed how much the federation had provided and said that the coaches had unreasonably high demands of Krasnobaeva given that she had not trained for several months. The International Gymnastics Federation has not yet approved her change of nationality.
In December, Krasnobaeva returned to training at her first club, "Zhemchuzhina" St. Petersburg, where she began gymnastics as a child. She represented the club when she took part in a gala show, "Sky Grace", organized by Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva, which was her first appearance performing gymnastics since leaving Bulgaria.

## Routine music information

| Year | Apparatus | Music Title |
| 2025 | Hoop | The Show Must Go On (Remastered 2011) by Queen |
| 2025 | Ball | Mascagni by Andrea Bocelli & Celso Valli |
| 2025 | Clubs | Adiemus by Miriam Stockley |
| 2025 | Ribbon | Earth Song by Michael Jackson |
| 2024 | Hoop | Turandot, Act III: Nessun dorma by Luciano Pavarotti John Alldis Choir, Wandsworth School Boys Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Zubin Mehta |
| 2024 | Ball | Thought I’d Ring You by Alain Delon & Shirley Bassey |
| 2024 | Clubs | Buleria by David Bisbal |
| 2024 | Ribbon | Who Wants to Live Forever (feat. Lindsey Stirling) by The Tenors |
| 2023 | Hoop | Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Lindsey Stirling |
| 2023 | Ball | Exercise in Free Love (New Orchestrated Version) by Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe |
| 2023 | Clubs | Shape Of You Indian Mix (New Age Carnatic) by IndianRaga & Aditya Rao |
| 2023 | Ribbon | El Mar Y Tu by Andrea Bocelli, Dulce Pontes |
| 2022 | Hoop | Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Lindsey Stirling |
| 2022 | Ball | Exercise in Free Love (New Orchestrated Version) by Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe |
| 2022 | Clubs | Palestine Pursuit by Greg J Walker |
| 2022 | Ribbon | El Mar Y Tu by Andrea Bocelli, Dulce Pontes |
| 2021 | Hoop | "Tristan & Iseult", by Maxime Rodriguez |
| 2021 | Ball | Chopin Nocturne by David Garrett feat David Foster |
| 2021 | Clubs | We Will Rock You by Queen |
| 2021 | Ribbon | Les Temps des Cathédrales by Josh Groban |

## Competitive highlights

(Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)
International: Senior :
| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon |
| 2024 | World Cup Milan | 17th | | 5th | 15th (Q) | 27th (Q) | 26th (Q) |
| 2024 | Grand Prix Final: Brno | 1st | | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 1st |
| 2024 | European Championships | | 1st | | | 7th | 3rd |
| 2024 | World Cup Baku | 2nd | | 7th | 5th | 4th | 2nd |
| 2024 | World Cup Athens | 1st | | 1st | | 2nd | 2nd |
| 2024 | Grand Prix Tartu | 2nd | | 2nd | 8th (Q) | 6th | 3rd |
| International: Junior ||||||||
| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon |
| 2023 | Junior World Championships | | 1st | 4th | 1st | 15th (Q) | |
| 2022 | Junior European Championships | | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | | |
| National: Senior ||||||||
| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon |
| 2024 | Bulgarian Championships | 2nd | | | | | |
| National: Junior ||||||||
| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon |
| 2023 | Bulgarian Junior Championships | 1st | | | | | |
| 2022 | Bulgarian Junior Championships | 1st | | | | | |
| Q = Qualifications (Did not advance to Event Final due to the 2 gymnast per country rule, only Top 8 highest score, no Event Finals held); WD = Withdrew ||||||||