Natalia Safonova

Natalia Viktorovna Safonova (Наталья Викторовна Сафонова, born 17 July 1999 in St.Petersburg, Russia) is a Russian Group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2014 Youth Olympic Group all-around champion and the 2013 European Junior Group all-around champion. Was a member of Russian national team from 2011 to 2016

Since 2021, has been working as a head coach of the Turkish rhythmic gymnastics national team in group. The junior gymnastics Turkish national team became finalists at the 2023 Junior World Championships in a five-ball performance. (taking 5th place)

Junior
In 2013, Safonova was member of the Russian Group at the 2013 European Junior Championships with Russia taking the gold medal scoring a total of (33.916) ahead of Belarus (32.700) and Bulgaria (32.532) in the all-around competition. They won another gold medal in 5 hoops final.

On 26–27 August Safonova was a member of the Russian Group (with Daria Anenkova, Daria Dubova, Sofya Skomorokh, Victoria Ilina) that competed at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China where they won gold in Group All-around finals.