page_title: Yana Kudryavtseva
section_title: 2015 season
hierarchical_section_title: Yana Kudryavtseva / Career / Senior / 2015 season
caption_attribution_description: English: Yana Kudruavsteva of Russia competes during the rhythmic gymnastics all around final at the 1st European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, June 19, 2015.
context_page_description: Yana Alexeyevna Kudryavtseva Kugrysheva is a retired Russian individual rhythmic gymnast.
  She is the 2016 Olympic All-around silver medalist, three-time World Champion in the All-around, the 2015 European Games All-around champion, two-time European Championships All-around champion, the 2012 European Junior ball champion. In national level, she is a two-time Russian National All-around champion and three time Russian Junior National all-around champion.
  She holds the record as the youngest rhythmic gymnast to win the World Championships in the All-around at 15 years of age. She broke another record at the 2014 World Championships becoming the youngest to win back-to-back All-around World titles at 16. Kudryavtseva was one of the finalist for the 2015 SportAccord Awards in category of the Sportswoman of the Year 2014. At the 2015 World Championships, Kudryavtseva for the first time became the youngest to win three World All-around titles at 17 years of age, she won with a total of 75.632 surpassing her previous score at Worlds. She is a former record holder under the 20-point judging system in the all-around with a total of 76.450 points.
context_section_description: Kudryavtseva started her season at the 2015 Moscow Grand Prix where she won silver in the all-around behind Margarita Mamun. She qualified to 3 event finals, taking silver in clubs, ribbon and finished 8th in hoop. Her next competition, on 27–29 March, Kudryavtseva continued to struggle at the 2015 Lisboa World Cup taking bronze in the all-around behind teammates Aleksandra Soldatova(gold) and Margarita Mamun(silver). she qualified 2 event finals, silver in clubs and 5th in ribbon. In her next event, after a slower-than-usual start to her competitive season, Kudryavtseva roared back to sweep the gold medals at the 2015 Bucharest World Cup in the all-around with a score of (75.950 a new PB) and all event finals. In 10–12 April, Kudryavtseva competed at the 2015 Pesaro World Cup and won the all-around silver medal behind Margarita Mamun, she qualified to 3 event finals and won gold in clubs, ribbon and silver in hoop. At the 2015 European Championships in Minsk, Kudryavtseva took 4 gold medals in ball, clubs, ribbon and team. In May, 15–16, Kudryavtseva won the all-around gold at the 2015 Holon Grand Prix, she won 3 gold medals in apparatus finals (ball, hoop, clubs). In 12–18 June, at the inaugural 2015 European Games, Kudryavtseva won its first ever all-around title with a total of 76.100 points (the highest all-around mark scored under the 20-point judging system). Due to a quota of 1 per country in apparatus finals in the European Games for gymnastics, Kudryavtseva only qualified in 3 out of 4 apparatus finals as she placed only 2nd in hoop qualifications behind teammate Margarita Mamun. Nevertheless, Kudryavtseva won gold in ball, clubs and ribbon. She has commented on her success: "I can’t judge myself, only the audience and judges can. Today, I did everything precisely, so I got consistent scores." In August, Kudryavtseva won gold in all-around at the 2015 Budapest World Cup, she qualified to 3 apparatus finals, taking gold in hoop, ball and finished 4th in clubs after a drop from her routine. Her next competition at the 2015 Sofia World Cup, Kudryavtseva repeated her gold medal sweep winning the all-around and all the apparatus finals (hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon). At the 2015 World Cup series in Kazan, Kudryavtseva won the all-around silver medal behind teammate Margarita Mamun, a drop from Kudryavtseva's clubs and not completing a risk element scored her 17.800 in Clubs, costing her the 1st-place finish overall. She qualified to 3 apparatus finals (hoop, ball, ribbon) but withdrew from the events, after suffering an ankle inflammation sustained in her clubs routine. Her vacated qualified apparatus finals, was given to the third ranked Russian gymnast in qualifying scores, Aleksandra Soldatova.
  In 9–13 September, Kudryavtseva returned to competition at the 2015 World Championships in Stuttgart, (together with teammates Margarita Mamun and Aleksandra Soldatova) represented Russia where they won the Team gold. Kudryavtseva; still nursing a slight inflammation on her left ankle, opted not to compete for the World title with the Hoop, which in her absence was won by Mamun. Kudryavtseva also modified a few of her signature moves, to avoid putting pressure on her left ankle, which was wrapped. However; She competed in the remaining 3 apparatus and was able to win the gold medals in Ball, Clubs and Ribbon. In the All-around finals, Kudryavtseva started well in her first routine in Clubs but a slight error with the Ribbon allowed Mamun to move into the lead, which she held heading into the final rotation however Mamun dropped the Ribbon in a risk element, Kudryavtseva took full advantage and kept a clean routine posting the highest score of the competition (19.116) with the Ball to bounce back and take the gold with a total of 75.632 points. Commenting after her 3rd consecutive All-around title, Kudryavtseva has said "I didn't know that I had won, but it was kind of emotional because everything was finished, and I did everything quite well, so I was glad, It was an emotional moment."  After Worlds, Kudryavtseva underwent tr
caption: Kudryavtseva at the 2015 European Games
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