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Alina Alexandrovna Gornosko (belor. Alina Alyaksandrayna Garnasko; b. August 9, 2001, Minsk) is a Belarusian rhythmic gymnast. Bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in Tokyo (2020) , world champion in the ribbon exercise (2021) and multiple medalist of the World Championships, silver medalist of the European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships (2020) (ukr.) rus.in the individual all-around and multiple medalist of the European Championships.
Master of Sports of international class.
Career
She started doing rhythmic gymnastics at the age of three in Minsk on the initiative of her parents. The first coach is Irina Aleksandrovna Starosvetskaya (Nekhoroshkova).
At the age of ten, she took part in the tournament for the prizes of M. Lobach, where she won the Miss Hope Cup. After Irina Nekhoroshkova moved to France, Marina Lobach began to train Alina.
Junior career
In 2015, at the European Junior Championships, she took 1st place in group exercises. After this performance, she continued her career in the individual championship. In October, Alina took part in the International Tart Cup tournament, where she won a bronze medal in the all-around among juniors (59,500), losing to Anna Sokolova and Maria Sergeeva.
She started the 2016 season in Hungary at the Gracia Fair Cup international tournament, where she won a gold medal in the all-around among juniors. At the Alina Cup International Tournament in Moscow, she won gold in the mace and rope exercises, bronze in the hoop and silver in the team competitions. Alina also participated in the Baltic Hoop International Tournament in Riga, winning a silver medal in the all-around. At the 2016 European Junior Championships in Holon, Gornosko won two silver medals in the team (together with Yulia Isachenko, Yulia Evchik) and individual finals, sharing the podium with Israeli Nicole Zelikman. At the beginning of September, Alina, together with Ekaterina Galkina and Anna Bozhko, represented the BFSO Dynamo team at the Aeon Cup in Tokyo, where they won team silver, and Gornosko won a silver medal in the junior all-around.
Adult career
In the 2017 season, Alina made her international debut, performing at the L.A. Lights tournament. Then she took part in the Alina Cup in Moscow, where she took 4th place in the all-around, losing to Israeli Nicole Zelikman. At the end of April, for the first time, she became the winner of the World Cup stage. The gymnast won two bronze medals in exercises with a hoop and a ribbon. At the end of May, together with Ekaterina Galkina, she represented Belarus at the European Junior Championships, where she won bronze in ball exercises. Gornosko took part in the 2017 World Games in Poland, where she took 4th place in hoop and ball exercises. In August-September, Alina represented Belarus in individual competitions at the World Championships in Pesaro, Italy. Having qualified in the mace exercises, she took 7th place in the final. Gornosko finished 13th in the all-around final, losing five hundredths to Japanese Sumire Kita, who took 12th place. Subsequently, Alina planned to perform at the Aeon Cup, but was forced to withdraw before the start of the competition due to injury. On November 8, the gymnast underwent knee surgery at the Emil von Behring Clinic in Berlin.
She started the 2018 season with the Baltic Hoop tournament, where she took 9th place in the all-around and won a silver medal in the final in ball exercises. Then she won a silver medal in the all-around at the Deriguina Cup international tournament in Kiev. Later it became known that Alina would not take part in the competition until the end of the season due to an earlier ankle operation. In addition, the gymnast was worried about a back injury.
In 2019, she started the season at the L.A. Lights tournament, where she won gold in the all-around and in the exercises with clubs, took 3rd place in the exercises with a hoop and a ball. In May, she took part in the European Championship in Baku. Alina won a silver medal in the team competition. In September, she represented Belarus in individual competitions at the World Championships in Baku and won a bronze medal in team competitions. In October, Alina participated in the Aeon Cup together with Ekaterina Galkina and Daria Tkacheva. The gymnasts won the bronze medal in the team competition, losing to Russia and Ukraine.
In 2020, she took part in the Grand Prix in Brno, where she won the gold medal in the all-around, ahead of Ukrainian Kristina Pogranichnaya and Bulgarian Boryana Kalein with a total of 89,950. She also participated in the Marina Lobach International Tournament and won a gold medal in the all-around (105,850). She won two more gold medals in the ball and clubs exercises and two silver medals in the hoop and ribbon exercises. In November, she competed at the European Championships in Kiev, where she won a silver medal in the all-around, scoring the same amount of points with Lina Ashram (100,900), who took gold.
In 2021, as part of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, she brought Belarus a bronze medal in the individual all-around. In October 2021, she won a set of awards at the World Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan. She took the third place in the rating of the best athletes of Belarus in 2021 according to Parimatch.
Personal life
He is studying at the Belarusian State University of Physical Culture in the correspondence department.
