Nickname(s) Appolinaria Years on national team 2015-present Weight 43 kg Discipline Rhythmic gymnastics | Level Junior elite Club Gazprom | |
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Full name Polina Sergeevna Shmatko Hometown Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia | ||
Polina Sergeevna Shmatko (Russian: Полина Сергеевна Шматко, born March 26, 2003 in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2016 European Junior Clubs and Ball champion. At national level she is the 2016 Russian Junior all-around silver medalist.
Junior
Shmatko first came to notice in the novice girls division at Miss Valentine 2012 in Tartu, Estonia. Shmatko later competed at the prestigious Russian rhythmic gymnastics competition at the 2015 Hope of Russia, winning the all-around gold.
In the 2016 season, Shmatko debuted in her first Junior Grand Prix at the Alina Cup, where she won gold for Team Russia with Alina Ermolova. She qualified for one apparatus final, where she won gold in ball. Shmatko competed at the Lisboa Junior World Cup where she won team gold (with Daria Pridannikova), she qualified to all event finals: winning gold in ball, silver in hoop, placed 6th in clubs and 8th in rope. She then won the all-around silver at the 2016 Russian Junior Championships behind Ermolova. She competed at the 2016 Junior Grand Prix Brno where Team Russia won silver, and qualified in two apparatus, winning silver in ball and bronze in clubs. At the Junior World Cup in Sofia, Shmatko won team gold but finished 6th in the ball final after dropping her ball twice. She was selected to compete at the 2016 European Junior Championships where she again won team gold (with Alina Ermolova and Maria Sergeeva). Shmatko also qualified for two apparatus finals, where she won gold in ball (17.100) and clubs (17.200), setting a junior record score under the 20-point CoP judging system.
