Ekaterina Kurbatova


Ekaterina Vladimirovna Kurbatova is a Russian gymnast.

Career

Kurbatova competed in the 2009 Glasgow Grand Prix in May winning vault and placing 3rd on the uneven bars.
She also went to the world championships that year in London where she qualified for the all-around and placed 9th on uneven bars behind Italy's Serena Lichetta.
In the all-around competition she fell on balance beam taking her out of the medals.
In 2010, Kurbatova competed at the European Championships where she won the gold medal with her team and on vault. At the 2010 Moscow World Cup, she made both vault and floor finals, and finished on 4th and 1st respectively.
She was also part of the 2010 World Championship team and was mostly taken along due to her vaulting, when it became clear that the Russian team was in desperate need for a third vaulter in team finals. The team went on to become the first Russian gymnastics team ever to win a team gold medal in a World Championship or Olympic Games.
Kurbatova is remarkable for her unique style: a "kick-in" on vault with sometimes questionable leg form, interesting choreography on floor exercise and a compact and efficient composition on the uneven bars where she is one of the very few Russian gymnasts ever having performed a one-armed pirouette which is more typical for the Chinese style on the uneven bars.

Competitive history

YearCompetition DescriptionLocationApparatusRank-FinalScore-FinalRank-QualifyingScore-Qualifying
2009World ChampionshipsLondonAll-Around1055.475655.950
2009World ChampionshipsLondonVault414.337514.225
2009World ChampionshipsLondonUneven Bars914.200
2009World ChampionshipsLondonBalance Beam1913.750
2009World ChampionshipsLondonFloor Exercise1313.475
2010European ChampionshipsBirminghamTeam1169.7001168.325
2010European ChampionshipsBirminghamVault114.287414.075
2010European ChampionshipsBirminghamUneven Bars5711.425
2010World ChampionshipsRotterdamTeam1175.3971234.521
2010World ChampionshipsRotterdamVaultWD414.633
2010World ChampionshipsRotterdamUneven Bars1314.300