# Anastasia Simakova

Anastasia Gennadyevna Simakova (Russian: Анастасия Геннадьевна Симакова, born 9 September 2004 in Omsk, Russia) is a Russian-born individual rhythmic gymnast who competes for Germany, where she holds citizenship. She is the 2019 world junior rope and team all-around champion.
On the national level, she is a multiple medalist at the Russian junior nationals (among Candidates for Master of Sport in 2017, 2018 and 2019) and the 2024 German national all-around bronze medalist.

## Gymnastics career

Simakova was born in Omsk on 9 September 2004. She began training in rhythmic gymnastics at age 4.

### Junior

Simakova competed in the 2019 Junior World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, where she became the World junior champion in the rope and team events.

### Senior

Simakova competed at the 2020 Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, placing 7th in the individual senior all-around final. She won bronze in the ribbon final. Simakova was registered to compete in the 2021 World Cup Sofia, along with Lala Kramarenko, which took place on March 26–28; however, both were withdrawn, and there was no individual Russian representation. Simakova competed in the Grand Prix in Marbella, where she placed third behind Viktoriia Onopriienko in the all-around. She also won silver in the ball final, and she came in 4th place in the ribbon final and 5th in the clubs final.
In 2022 she moved to Germany, following her parents, who enrolled in the program of repatriation for Russian Germans. She started to train in Fellbach with Yulia Raskina in November 2023. Her change of nationality from Germany to Russia was approved in March 2023, which meant she could begin to represent Germany at competitions beginning March 2024.
In 2024, she represented Germany for the first time at the Marbella Grand Prix, where she ended in 12th place in the all-around competition and eighth in the ball final. She next competed in the World Cup Palaio Faliro, where she finished in 25th place in the all-around, and in the World Cup Baku, where she finished in ninth place in the all-around and eighth in the hoop final. On May 10–12, she competed at World Cup Portimao and again finished in ninth place in the all-around. She also qualified to two apparatus finals and placed fourth in ribbon and 8th in ball.
She represented Germany at the 2024 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, where she and her teammates placed 4th in the team competition. Simakova competed with two apparatuses, hoop and ribbon, and finished 12th in qualifications with both. At the 2024 German National Championships, she won the bronze medal in the all-around behind teammates Margarita Kolosov and Darja Varfolomeev.
In March 2025, Simakova won the Gymnastik International ahead of Liliana Lewińska.

## Routine music information

| Year | Apparatus | Music title |
| 2025 | Hoop | Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 1: I. Vivace by Vladimir Ashkenazy, London Symphony Orchestra & André Previn |
| 2025 | Ball | Skyfall by Adele |
| 2025 | Clubs | Gravitational Forces by ITG Studios |
| 2025 | Ribbon | WOMAN by Lady Bri |
| 2024 | Hoop | Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Lorde/Monsters by Tommee Profitt |
| 2024 | Ball | Crazy in Love by Sofia Karlberg |
| 2024 | Clubs | Boombayah by Blackpink |
| 2024 | Ribbon | WOMAN by Lady Bri |
| 2023 | Hoop | Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Lorde/Monsters by Tommee Profitt |
| 2023 | Ball | Another Love by Tom Odell |
| 2023 | Clubs | Boombayah by Blackpink |
| 2023 | Ribbon | Adiós by Benjamin Clementine |
| 2021 | Hoop | The Gypsies; Journey Across Europe / Fanatico Master music from Oxford / KOI by John Corigliano / Edvin Marton & Ari Zakaryan |
| 2021 | Ball | Melody from Orpheus and Eurydice by The duet I |
| 2021 | Clubs (first) | The Cobra's Dance (feat. Luru) by TSVI |
| 2021 | Clubs (second) | Shake Shake by Nessi |
| 2021 | Ribbon | Anastasia by Sergey Lazarev |
| 2020 | Hoop | The Gypsies; Journey Across Europe / Fanatico Master music from Oxford / KOI by John Corigliano / Edvin Marton & Ari Zakaryan |
| 2020 | Ball | 24 Préludes op. 28 - No.7 in A Major by Frédéric Chopin |
| 2020 | Clubs (first) | Russian Dance from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky |
| 2020 | Clubs (second) | Cuba by Robert Abigail and DJ Rebel ft. The Gibson Brothers |
| 2020 | Ribbon | Anastasia by Sergey Lazarev |
| 2019 | Rope (first) | Russian Dance from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky |
| 2019 | Rope (second) | Smuglyanka by the Alexandrov Ensemble |
| 2019 | Ball | Rond de Jambe à Terre Roudnev, Vol. 3 by Dmitri Roudnev |
| 2019 | Clubs | Me Gusta by Adolescent’s Orquesta |
| 2019 | Ribbon | |