She twisted her ankle as she was getting into a car in December The injury, which reoccured two more times over the next three years, required multiple surgeries and took her out of international competition until when she made a comeback at the European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan.
During this time she also suffered from back pain and had to undergo an operation to remove a cyst in her upper jaw. She spent almost two months in hospital without any physical exercise and still experiences occasional headaches.
She took up the sport at age five in Voronezh, Russia. Her mother Vera Kolesnikova was her first coach. Her parents, who were competitive artistic gymnasts, introduced her to the sport. All four gymnasts finished with a score of It was the first time that four gymnasts had tied for a gold medal at the world championships.
Although their own partnership was broken, Elfimov called the national team coach Andrey Rodionenko and got her called up to train with the Russian squad in Moscow, effectively preventing her retirement. Following on from her success in the national championships, Komova then competed in the junior competition at the European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships where she achieved enormous success by contributing to the Russian's cleansweep. She won the all-around competition over teammate Grishina.
She also won Gold with the Russian team and on the beam and vault, and finished second on the uneven bars. Komova then competited at the Youth Olympics in Singapore where her performances have led many to make her amongst the favorites for Gold at the Summer Olympics. Komova won the all-round competition with what was, at the time, the highest score in international, FIG-sanctioned competition at the time, a She also won on the vault and on the uneven bars, and was third in the floor exercise.
Komova's performances at the Youth Olympics and throughout lead Lee Ann Gschwind of Universal Sports to state: "With her fluidity, form, and old school Soviet style, Komova has drawn comparisons to a young Nastia Liukin. And while she's not yet as polished as Liukin was when she won Olympic all-around gold in Beijing, Komova - with two years to go until London - is already more powerful Komova has more power than her slight frame suggests.
She throws an Amanar on vault and displays explosive tumbling to complement her elegant dance on floor. On balance beam, Komova's layout step-outs seem to float above the apparatus. And she carries an impressive 6. Komova's win in Singapore was her second major international title of This spring, she won the junior all-around at the European Championships, where she outshined the senior-level competitors [ On the 13th November , Komova competed in the "Freddy Cup" Italian Grand Prix in which the women competed on beam and uneven bars where she finished second to Mustafina in the balance beam competition.
However, she won on the uneven bars. Komova was originally scheduled to compete at the Toyota Cup in Japan in December where she would have again competed with Mustafina in what is now regarded as the main rivalry in Russian women's gymnastics, ahead of what International Gymnast Magazine is calling the "anticipated all-around showdown between the two stars However, this was changed and she was switched to compete at the Voronin Memorial event from the 16—18 December instead.
However, just before the event was scheduled to start, she had to withdraw after suffering a fractured ankle from tripping up whilst reportedly walking through the gym. Komova began the new season by competing in Russian Nationals, but was still struggling with her ankle injury. Despite the injury, however, she still managed to help her team win the team competition and she finished third on the uneven bars.
She also finished fourth on the beam. Due to her persistent ankle injury, Komova was withdrawn from the European Championships.
In withdrawing her, her coach, Andrei Rodienenko, emphasised the need to protect Komova's health in the long term. He stated: "It is no great drama, we have the Olympics. On the 15th May , Komova travelled to the sporthopaedicum Munich at the ATOS Private Clinic in Munich with her mother, the same clinic where Aliya Mustafina had recently undergone knee surgery, to have her ankle injury evaluated as she was not recovering from the injury in the manner that had been expected.
Mustafina also travelled with Komova as she was scheduled to undergo post operative evaluation re her knee injury at the same time. The clinic determined that Komova's ankle required surgery due to interior damage to the joint and she duly underwent arthroscopic surgery on the 18th May She returned to Russia on the 30th May She then returned to the ATOS Clinic in Munich on the 15th June for post operative evaluation to ensure that her recovery was on track. The results of the evaluation were that her recovery was going very well and she will return to Russia on the 22nd June where she will begin light training.
On the 1st July , it was reported in Full Twist that Komova will be returning to full training in mid-July and that Komova has actually had 2 surgeries on her ankle. Surgery was apparently required as a result of two separate injuries to the ankle, one causing a lay off of 6 weeks, and the second resulting in her being unable to train for 2 months.
I got the first injury jumping off bars and the second one on floor exercise. It knocked my ankle out of place. I wanted to test things…I wanted it and my coach wanted it and it looks like we just went too fast.
It was also reported by Full Twist in the same article that Komova had grown 11 centimetres over the last 18 months, but that she feels that this had not adversely impacted on her training.
On the 17th August , Komova made a return to competitive gymnastics in the Russian Cup in Yekaterinburg. Whilst she was only able to perform watered down versions of her floor and vault routines whilst she continues to recover from injury, she was able to perform her full uneven bars and beam routines. She won Gold with her team and finished second in the all-around behind European all-around champion, Anna Dementyeva, scoring Komova also won Gold in both the beam On the 23rd August , it was announced that Komova had been included in the Russian team for the World Championships which will be taking place in Tokyo from the October Komova next competed at the Ghent Challenger Cup in Belgium from the September , but competed only on the beam and the uneven bars.
She won the Gold on the uneven bars with a score of In her final competition prior to the World Championships in October , Komova competed at the 7th Dinamo International in Penza from the September Komova won the all-around with a score of Komova also won Gold medals on the beam She also finished fifth in the floor final with a score of Komova travelled to Tokyo for the World Artistic Gymnastics Competition, were she competed in the qualifying round over the weekend.
She competed a DTY on vault, and also qualified first to beam and bars event finals, and fifth to floor exercise finals. The competition started off on vault, where Komova performed a clean DTY and placed in fourth position.
However, on beam she struggled with several connections and a double turn that the judges downgraded because she didn't finish the twist. Komova had another chance to secure a gold medal by winning the women's individual uneven bars competition on Monday. She came in as the favorite after winning the event at the World Championships. Komova's performance once again ended with disappointment as she failed to earn a medal. Even after those two crushing defeats, Komova entered this morning's balance beam competition with yet another opportunity to salvage her experience in London.
She was determined to win at least one gold in these Games, but she was unsuccessful a third time, failing to reach the podium for the second straight event. The balance beam is not her strongest event and she had never won an individual medal in two previous attempts—at this year's European Championships and at the World Championships. But the year-old seemed intent on atoning for her mistakes in the all-round competition and on the uneven bars.
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