Aliya Mustafina

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Aliya Mustafina is a Russian former artistic gymnast who competed for Russia from 2007 to 2021. She is one of the country’s most successful gymnasts, winning many Olympic and world medals and earning notable all‑around titles. She retired on June 8, 2021 and later began coaching, working with Russia’s junior national team.

Key achievements
- Olympic medals: Mustafina won 7 Olympic medals in total. In London 2012 she helped Russia win team silver and earned all-around bronze, uneven bars gold, and floor bronze. In Rio 2016 she helped Russia win team silver, plus all-around bronze and uneven bars gold.
- World and European titles: She was the 2010 World All-Around champion and the 2013 European All-Around champion. She also won the 2013 World Beam title, and earned multiple medals on other events at World Championships.
- World Championship record: She is the ninth gymnast to win medals on every event at the World Championships and tied Svetlana Khorkina for the most Olympic medals won by a Russian gymnast (not counting the Soviet era).

Personal life
Mustafina was born on September 30, 1994, in Yegoryevsk, Russia. Her father, Farhat Mustafin, won an Olympic bronze in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1976, and her mother, Yelena Kuznetsova, is a physics teacher. She married bobsledder Alexey Zaitsev in 2016; they separated in 2018, and their daughter Alisa was born in 2017. After retiring from competition, she started coaching and became a coach for Russia’s junior national team, serving as acting head coach in 2021. She has two eponymous skills listed in gymnastics’ Code of Points: a 1½-twist double back dismount on uneven bars and a 3/1 turn with the leg held high in a 180-degree split on floor.