Elvira Krasnobaeva

Elvira Krasnobaeva (Bulgarian: Елвира Краснобаева; born 10 March 2008) is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2024 European bronze medalist with ribbon and team champion, the 2022 junior European hoop champion and 2023 junior World ball champion. At national level she is the 2024 Senior all-around silver medalist. She is also the 2022 and 2023 Junior national champion, as well as the 2021 Junior all-around silver medalist.

Personal life
Elvira Krasnobaeva was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. At the age of six, she moved with her family to Varna, Bulgaria. There she entered the National School of Arts "Dobri Hristov" as part of the ballet department and continued to train rhythmic gymnastics as a member of the club "Gracia". In 2021 she was given Bulgarian citizenship. Her dream is to compete at Olympics.

2021
In 2021 Krasnobaeva was included in the Bulgarian national team ahead of the junior European and World Championships in 2022/2023 season. She then went on to became national champion ahead of Nikol Todorova and Zhana Pencheva. She was the silver medalist at the Julieta Shismanova tournament in Burgas.

2022
Krasnobaeva won the first two junior-level internal competitions of 2022. In March she competed at the Aphrodite Cup in Greece, where she was eighth with clubs. At the Andalusia Cup in Spain, she won gold in all-around, gold with ball and ribbon, and bronze with clubs. She next won the all-around silver in the junior portion of the Sofia Cup. Krasnobaeva also retained her national champion title for the second time in a row.

In June, she was selected to represent Bulgaria, along with Dara Stoyanova, at the 2022 European Championships in Tel Aviv, where she won bronze in team, silver with ball and gold with hoop.

2023
Elvira started the 2023 season at the Miss Valentine Tournament in Tartu, along with teammates Nikol Todorova, Dara Stoyanova and Dara Malinova. In the junior team event, she won silver with the rest of the Bulgarian team behind Ukraine and above Kazakhstan. She also qualified for the hoop and ball finals, winning gold in both. At the second Junior World Championships, Krasnobaeva won two gold medals. One was in the team competition, where she contributed to the team score along with the Bulgarian group and Nikol Todorova. She also won an individual gold in the ball final.

2024
In 2024, she made her senior debut at Miss Valentine, winning silver in the all-around, silver in the hoop final and bronze in the ribbon final. On March 23, she won gold in the all-around at her first World Cup in Athens. In the apparatus finals, she won gold with hoop, and silver with clubs and ribbon. At her next World Cup in Baku, she won the silver medal in the all-around and was one of only two gymnasts to qualify for every event final. She won another silver in the ribbon final. In May, she competed at the 2024 European Championships with her teammates Stiliana Nikolova and Boryana Kaleyn, with whom she won gold medal in the Team event. She took 7th place in Clubs and won bronze medal in Ribbon final. On June 15-16, she competed at Brno Grand Prix in Czech republic and won gold medal in All-around, Ribbon and Ball, bronze in Hoop and silver in Clubs final.

Competitive highlights
(Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)