Only one gymnast managed to cross the 30-point mark. And it wasn’t the tournament favorite. <\/p>\n
Ukrainian grace Taisia Onofriychuk became the best in the individual all-around at the opening stage of the World Cup in Bulgaria. The athlete demonstrated incredible consistency and outperformed the leaders of the world rankings.<\/p>\n
RBC-Ukraine reports this, citing the results of the competition.<\/p>\n
Also read:<\/strong> Ukrainian wins World Cup in rhythmic gymnastics for the first time in history: she is only 17 years old The competition in Sofia opened the international season of the elite series of tournaments. The fate of the medals in the all-around was determined by the sum of four disciplines: hoop, ball, clubs, and ribbon.<\/p>\n Onofriychuk took the lead on the first day, becoming the only gymnast to receive a score over 30 points for one routine (30.250).<\/p>\n Her performance with the hoop earned the Ukrainian 29.650 points. In the following events, Taisia solidified her success: her ball routine was scored at 28.500 points, while her ribbon performance brought in 28.200 points.<\/p>\n In both of the last two disciplines, the Ukrainian achieved the second-best result in qualification, allowing her to maintain the top position in the overall standings.<\/p>\n Competition with Bulgarian and Italian stars<\/p>\n In the final protocol, Onofriychuk scored 116.600 points, surpassing her closest competitor – Bulgarian Stilyana Nikolova (116.200) – by 0.4 points.<\/p>\n The podium was completed by the decorated Italian Sofia Raffaelli, whose score was 115.700 points.<\/p>\n Another representative from Ukraine, Polina Karika, finished the competition in 15th place (106.950 points). Her best performance was recorded in the hoop routine, for which she received 28.450 points.<\/p>\n World Cup results (Sofia). All-around:<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n Historical context and plans for the finals<\/p>\n For Onofriychuk, this is her second “gold” in her career at the World Cup stages in individual competitions. Notably, her debut triumph also took place in Sofia in 2025.<\/p>\n After that success, she became a medalist at stages in Baku and Milan, earning “silver” and “bronze”.<\/p>\n Ukrainian fans can expect to see more medals added to the collection as early as tomorrow.<\/p>\n Based on her performances, Taisia Onofriychuk qualified for all four finals in individual events.<\/p>\n Polina Karika is currently the first reserve for the hoop final. The decisive performances will take place on Monday, March 30.<\/p>\n Earlier, we reported on the transfer of European champion Radomir Stelmakh to the German national team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Only one gymnast managed to cross the 30-point mark. And it was not the tournament favorite. Ukrainian grace Taissia Onofriychuk emerged as the best in the individual all-around at the opening stage of the World Cup in Bulgaria. The athlete demonstrated incredible consistency and outperformed the leaders of the world ranking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"magazine_newspaper_sidebar_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
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