Tamara Yerofeeva
Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast
Tamara Anatoliyivna Yerofeyeva (Ukrainian: Тамара Анатоліївна Єрофеєва, Russian: Тамара Анатольевна Ерофеева; born 4 March 1982) also written Tamara Yerofeeva, is a former Ukrainian individual rhythmic gymnast. She was all-around World Champion, multiple-time World Cup winner, World Universiade winner, and an Olympic Games finalist. Yerofeyeva was a member of the national team from 1996 to 2004 and won more than 300 medals for Ukraine at various competitions.
She currently lives in Las Vegas, USA. She performed her solo hoops act at different shows, including Cirque Du Soleil, Spiegelworld, and David Saxe Productions, and now she organizes series of rhythmic gymnastics agg competitions “Tamara Cup” and works as the head coach at a rhythmic gymnastics club “Rhythmic Gymnastics of Las Vegas”.
Career
Yerofeeva started rhythmic gymnastics at the age of 6 in Kyiv, Ukraine. When she was 12, she was invited to the Deriugina School and soon thereafter joined the national team.
In 1998, Yerofeyeva participated at the 1998 World Youth Games in Moscow and won gold medal in ribbon, silver with hoop and rope and a bronze in clubs in senior competition. In 2001, when Yerofeyeva was 19, she became a leader of the Ukrainian National Olympic Team. She was a four-time World champion, four-time World Cup winner, seven-time silver medalist at the European Championships, four-time gold medalist at the 2001 World Universiade, and placed sixth in the all-around final at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
She retired from competition in 2004, right before Olympic Games in Athens.
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