# Anastasiia Salos

Anastasiia Maksimovna Salos (Belarusian: Настасся Максімаўна Салас; Russian: Анастасия Максимовна Салос; born 18 February 2002) is an individual rhythmic gymnast representing Belarus. She is the 2020 European Championships All-around bronze medalist, as well as the 2019 World Championships Team bronze medalist and 2019 European Championships Team silver medalist.

## Career
### Junior

Salos began rhythmic gymnastics at the age of 4 in her hometown of Barnaul, Russia. Her parents wanted to find an activity in which she could burn off her excess energy, so her mother took her to a gymnastics class. In 2014 she moved to Belarus to join the national team there. She started appearing in international competitions in 2016, competing at the Tart Cup where she won gold in the team event and placed second in the junior all-around. In 2017 Salos competed at the Alina Cup (held with Grand Prix Moscow) where she won bronze in the junior all-around. She then competed at the International Tournament Deriugina Cup, winning the junior all-around and qualifying to all 4 apparatus finals. She also won silver in the junior all-around at the 2017 Aeon Cup.

### Senior

In 2018, Salos made her senior debut at the 2018 LA Lights competition. She then went on to win silver in the International Tournament Moscow. On March 30–April 1 Salos competed at her first senior World Cup event at 2018 World Cup Sofia, placing 5th in the all-around and qualifying to all 4 apparatus finals. Her next World Cup event was 2018 World Cup Pesaro, where she won bronze with ball. She first won her all-around medal at 2018 World Cup Baku, winning bronze behind Maria Sergeeva and Vlada Nikolchenko. Salos also won bronze at the 2018 World Challenge Cup Guadalajara with ball, and at the 2018 World Challenge Cup Minsk she won silver with ball and bronze with clubs. At the 2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships she placed 10th in the all-around and qualified to the ribbon final, where she placed 5th.
Salos began her 2019 season competing at the 2019 LA Lights competition, finishing 5th in the all-around. Her next competition was 2019 Grand Prix Moscow, where she placed 5th in the all-around and won bronze with ribbon. On March 2–3 she competed at the 2019 Grand Prix Marbella, where she won the bronze medal in the all-around behind Dina Averina and Aleksandra Soldatova. She qualified to all 4 apparatus finals, placing 4th with the ribbon, 5th with the clubs, 6th with the ball, and 8th with the hoop. Salos went on to win the all-around gold medal at the 2019 Deriugina Cup International Tournament, finishing ahead of Olena Diachenko and Maria Sergeeva. She also won gold with the ball and ribbon, and silver with hoop and clubs. At the 2019 Grand Prix Thias she finished 9th in the all-around and qualified for 2 apparatus finals, placing 4th with hoop and clubs. Her first World Cup event was at the 2019 World Cup Sofia, where she finished 10th in the all-around and placed 5th at the ribbon final. On April 16–18 Salos took part in the 2019 European Championships, where she won the silver medal in the team event (with Katsiaryna Halkina, Alina Harnasko, and Junior group) and qualified for 3 apparatus finals. During the apparatus finals she finished 4th with ribbon and 5th with hoop and clubs. Competing at the 2019 Grand Prix Holon she won her first all-around Grand Prix all-around gold medal, where she also won gold with ball, silver with ribbon, and bronze with clubs.
In 2021, Salos began her season at the Sofia World Cup at the end of March, where she placed fourth behind her compatriot Alina Harnasko overall, and in the finals, she earned silver in rim and ribbon and 5th place. in ball. In the next cup, at the Tashkent World Cup, where she obtained the complete bronze behind the Russian Arina Averina, the bronze in hoop final, 5th place in ball final and 4th in ribbon final. At the Pesaro World Cup in late May, she placed fifth behind Israeli Linoy Ashram, and in the finals she was fourth in hoop and ball and eighth in ribbon. From June 9-13, Salos competed in the 2021 European Championships in Varna, Bulgaria, where in the general final, she obtained fifth place behind Israeli Linoy Ashram, and in the apparatus finals, she obtained bronze in the hoop. and clubs, seventh place in ribbon and eighth place in ball. At the beginning of July, she competed in the Minsk World Cup, where she obtained bronze in the general classification behind Russia's Lala Kramarenko, and in the finals by apparatus, she obtained silver in rim and ribbon, bronze in ball and fifth place in clubs. Two weeks later, the last competition before the Olympic Games, he competed in the Tel Aviv Grand Prix, where he obtained bronze in the general classification and in the finals he obtained silver in the ring, bronze in ball and clubs and ribbon. From August 6-8, Salos competed in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. On the first day, she made it to the All-around finals after finishing 5th behind compatriot Alina Harnasko. On the second day, the day of the grand final, various mistakes left Salos in 8th place behind Israeli Nicol Zelikman.
On 7 March 2022, the FIG banned all Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing until further notice due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In 2024, FIG allowed Belarusian athletes to compete under a neutral flag, but only as individual gymnasts, not in groups. On May 10–12, Salos made her first appearance at FIG World Cup series after two years in Portimão, Portugal. She took 14th place in All-around and did not advance into apparatus finals. On July 12–14, she competed at World Challenge Cup Cluj-Napoca and ended on 19th place in All-around.

## Routine music information

| Year | Apparatus | Music title |
| 2025 | Hoop | Horse Races (2023) by UUTAi |
| 2025 | Ball | TBA | TBA |
| 2025 | Clubs | TBA | TBA |
| 2025 | Ribbon | TBA | TBA |
| 2024 | Hoop | Horse Races (2023) by UUTAi |
| 2024 | Ball | Carmen by Antonio de Lucena |
| 2024 | Clubs | El Choclo (Arr. E. Runge and J. Ammon) by Cello Project |
| 2024 | Ribbon | Requiem by Aram MP3 & Forsh |
| 2023 | Hoop | Orobroy by David Peña Dorantes |
| 2023 | Ball | Dostochka by DakhaBakha |
| 2023 | Clubs | Haze by Power-Haus, Christian Reindl & Lucie Paradis |
| 2023 | Ribbon | I Will Survive by Musica Nuda |
| 2022 | Hoop | Nemesis by Benjamin Clementine |
| 2022 | Ball | Zeme Sukis Greitai by Alina Orlova |
| 2022 | Clubs | Haze by Power-Haus, Christian Reindl & Lucie Paradis |
| 2022 | Ribbon | Diabolo by Xavier Mortimer & Maxime Rodriguez |
| 2021 | Hoop | Damina by Mgzavrebi |
| 2021 | Ball | Magic Mirror by Xavier Mortimer & Maxime Rodriguez |
| 2021 | Clubs | Between Heaven and Earth by Camerata |
| 2021 | Ribbon | The Flight Attendant by Blake Neely |
| 2020 | Hoop | Damina by Mgzavrebi |
| 2020 | Ball | Compassion by Ilya Beshevli |
| 2020 | Clubs | Between Heaven and Earth by Camerata |
| 2020 | Ribbon | Il Trovatore by Therion |
| 2019 | Hoop | Primavera Tango by Gustavo Montesano & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Carlos Gomez |
| 2019 | Ball | Progeria by Bachar Mar-Khalifé |
| 2019 | Clubs | Feel It Still by Portugal. The Man |
| 2019 | Ribbon | Dominicano by Egor Grushin |
| 2018 | Hoop | Primavera Tango by Gustavo Montesano & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Carlos Gomez |
| 2018 | Ball | Chanter by Mireille Mathieu |
| 2018 | Clubs | Spy Wedding by Danny Elfman and John Debney |
| 2018 | Ribbon | Belleville Rendez-Vous (from The Triplets of Belleville) by Béatrice Bonifassi |

## Detailed Olympic results

| Year | Competition Description | Location | Music | Apparatus | Rank-Final | Score-Final | Rank-Qualifying | Score-Qualifying |
| 2020 | Olympics | Tokyo | | All-around | 8th | 95.175 | 5th | 99.150 |
| 2020 | Olympics | Tokyo | Damina by Mgzavrebi | Hoop | 6th | 25.425 | 4th | 25.700 |
| 2020 | Olympics | Tokyo | Magic Mirror by Xavier Mortimer & Maxime Rodriguez | Ball | 10th | 23.000 | 5th | 26.300 |
| 2020 | Olympics | Tokyo | Between Heaven and Earth by Camerata | Clubs | 9th | 24.950 | 11th | 24.550 |
| 2020 | Olympics | Tokyo | The Flight Attendant by Blake Neely | Ribbon | 6th | 21.800 | 4th | 22.600 |

## 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 |
| 2021 | World Championships | 10th | 3rd | 62nd (Q) | 14th (Q) | 3rd | 11th (Q) |
| 2021 | Grand Prix Tel Aviv | 3rd | | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd |
| 2021 | World Cup Minsk | 3rd | | 2nd | 3rd | 5th | 2nd |
| 2021 | European Championships | 5th | 2nd | 3rd | 8th | 3rd | 7th |
| 2021 | World Cup Pesaro | 5th | | 4th | 4th | 18th (Q) | 8th |
| 2021 | World Cup Tashkent | 3rd | | 3rd | 5th | 10th (Q) | 4th |
| 2021 | World Cup Sofia | 4th | | 2nd | 5th | 17th (Q) | 2nd |
| 2020 | European Championships | 3rd | | | | | |
| 2020 | International Tournament of Marina Lobatch | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | | 1st |
| 2020 | Grand Prix Kyiv | 3rd | | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd |
| 2020 | Grand Prix Brno | 2nd | | | | | |
| 2020 | Grand Prix Moscow | | | 2nd | 2nd | | |
| 2020 | LA Lights Tournament | 2nd | | | | | |
| 2019 | World Championships | 14th | 3rd | 8th | | 23rd (Q) | 7th |
| 2019 | Grand Prix Marbella | 3rd | | | | | |
| 2019 | World Cup Portimao | 7th | | 2nd | 10th (Q) | 3rd | 19th (Q) |
| 2019 | World Cup Cluj-Napoca | 9th | | 8th | 12th (Q) | 21st (Q) | 9th (Q) |
| 2019 | World Cup Minsk | 8th | | 8th | 11th (Q) | 19th (Q) | 8th |
| 2019 | European Championships | | 2nd | | 5th | 5th | 4th |
| 2019 | World Cup Baku | 8th | | 7th | 8th | 25th (Q) | 1st |
| 2019 | World Cup Sofia | 10th | | 14th (Q) | 18th (Q) | 17th (Q) | 5th |
| 2018 | World Championships | 10th | 6th | 26th (Q) | 16th (Q) | 11th (Q) | 5th |
| 2018 | European Championships | 10th | | | | | |
| 2018 | World Cup Minsk | 7th | | 9th | 2nd | 3rd | 8th |
| 2018 | World Cup Guadalajara | 6th | | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 9th (Q) |
| 2018 | World Cup Baku | 3rd | | 6th | 5th | 7th | 7th |
| 2018 | World Cup Pesaro | 6th | | 4th | 3rd | 8th | 8th |
| 2018 | World Cup Sofia | 5th | | 4th | 8th | 6th | 6th |
| National ||||||||
| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon |
| 2020 | Belarusian Championships | 1st | | 1st | | 2nd | 1st |
| 2019 | Belarusian Championships | 1st | | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd |
| Q = Qualifications (Did not advance to Event Final due to the 2 gymnast per country rule, only Top 8 highest score); WR = World Record; WD = Withdrew; NT = No Team Competition; DNS = Did Not Start ||||||||