Yulia Raskina

Yulia Raskina
Yulia Raskina at 1999 European Championships
Personal information
Full name	Yulia Raskina
Born	(1982-04-09) 9 April 1982 Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Rhythmic gymnastics
Country represented	Belarus
Head coach	Irina Leparskaya
Medal record Rhythmic Gymnastics Representing Belarus Olympic Games 2000 Sydney All-Around World Championships 1997 Berlin Team 1999 Osaka All-around 1999 Osaka Ball 1999 Osaka Ribbon 1999 Osaka Team European Championships 1998 Porto Team 2000 Zaragoza Ball 1999 Budapest All-around 1999 Budapest Hoop 2000 Zaragoza All-around 2000 Zaragoza Team 1998 Porto Clubs 1999 Budapest Ribbon 2000 Zaragoza Ribbon Junior European Championships 1995 Prague Team 1995 Prague Clubs World Cup Final 2000 Glasgow Hoop 2000 Glasgow Ribbon 2000 Glasgow Ball Grand Prix Final 1999 Korneuburg All-around 2000 Deventer Hoop 1999 Korneuburg Hoop 1999 Korneuburg Ball 2000 Deventer Ball 1999 Korneuburg Ribbon 1998 Linz All-around 2000 Deventer Rope 2000 Deventer Ribbon

Yulia Raskina (Russian: Юлия Раскина; born 9 April 1982) is a Belarusian former rhythmic gymnast and coach. She is the 2000 Olympics silver medalist, the 1999 World all-around silver medalist, the two time (2000, 1999) European all-around silver medalist and 1999 Grand Prix Final all-around champion.

Career

Raskina was a three-time national champion and won her first senior international medal at the 1997 World Championships in Berlin, where she won the team silver. She became the 1999 World Championships all-around silver medalist and was a two-time European all-around silver medalist in 1999 and 2000. Raskina won the gold medal with the ball at the 2000 European Championships in Zaragosa.

Raskina marked a career high by winning the silver in the all-around competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia, ahead of then Olympic gold favorite Alina Kabaeva, who took the bronze medal. Raskina lost the gold to Yulia Barsukova by 0.084 points. Had her hoop not gone out of bounds by an inch, which was a mandatory 0.1 deduction, she would have won the gold. Raskina competed infrequently following the Sydney Olympics and finally retired from competitive rhythmic gymnastics in 2003.

In 2005 and 2006, Raskina took part in Cirque du Soleil's Corteo alongside former Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast Tamara Yerofeeva. She won the Belarusian TV project "Star Dances" with professional dancer Denis Moryasin and was selected to represent Belarus at the Eurovision Dance Contest.

Raskina currently works as a coach for the German national team in rhythmic gymnastics and has contributed to the rising success of German rhythmic gymnasts since 2022.

Notable trainees include:

• Darja Varfolomeev - Olympic all-around champion (2024), multiple Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships gold medalist and 11 times world champion at the 2023 World Championships and at the 2025 World Championships
• Margarita Kolosov - finalist at the World Championships and European Championships, medallist at the World Cups, and 4th place at the 2024 Olympic Games
• Anastasia Simakova - ball silver medallist in the 2025 European Championships and Team Gold medalist at the 2025 World Championships
• Lada Pusch - ball silver medallist in the 2023 Junior World Championships

Routine music information

Year	Apparatus	Music title
2003	Hoop	Vas Dis by Wishbone Ash
	Clubs	Dy by Vitas
	Ball	Lautary by Lokyo
	Ribbon	Ave Maria by Vitas
2000	Hoop	Manhattan by Anatoly Vekshin
	Rope	Smuglyanochka by Anatoly Vekshin
	Ball	Spain (originally Malagueña) by Anatoly Vekshin
	Ribbon	Underground /Storm / A New Life music from The Truman Show by Burkard Dalwitz
1999	Hoop	?
	Rope	I Will Survive by Anatoly Vekshin (originally Gloria Gainor)
	Ball	?
	Ribbon	?
1998	Rope	Belarus traditional folk
	Clubs	?
	Hoop	Latin samba remix
	Ribbon	Otchi Tchornia (Dark Eyes) – Russian traditional music
1997	Hoop	?
	Clubs	Cabaret by John Kander
	Rope	?
	Ribbon	Otchi Tchornia (Dark Eyes) – Russian traditional music

Detailed Olympic results

Year	Competition description	Location	Music	Apparatus	Score-Final	Score-Qualifying
2000	Olympics	Sydney		All-around	39.548	39.624
			Underground/ Storm / A New Life music from The Truman Show	Ribbon	9.916	9.908
			Spain (Malagueña) by Anatoly Vekshin	Ball	9.933	9.908
			Manhattan by Anatoly Vekshin	Hoop	9.791	9.908
			Smuglyanochka by Anatoly Vekshin	Rope	9.908	9.900

See also

• List of select Jewish gymnasts

External links

• Yuliya Raskina at World Gymnastics
• Yuliya Raskina at Olympedia
• Yulia Raskina at Olympics.com
• Yulia Raskina at Olympic.org (archived)