Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva

She won five bronze medals at the 2022 Maccabiah Games and has competed at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships five times (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023).

Kiroi-Bogatyreva won the all-around title at the 2024 Oceania Championships and thus qualified to represent Australia at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva was born on 4 March 2002 in Wellington, New Zealand,[4] and raised in Melbourne, Australia.

[9] She first competed internationally in 2013, marking her debut with an all-around gold medal at the Vitri Cup in Spain.

[9] Kiroi-Bogatyreva delayed the start of her 2016 season due to an injury, but she returned to competition at the AEON Cup in Tokyo, Japan, and placed 11th with the hoop.

[9] In December 2017, she competed at the Luxembourg Cup in the open division, winning the all-around title despite still being a junior.

[20] After the Commonwealth Games, Kiroi-Bogatyreva made her FIG World Cup debut in Baku,[21] placing 29th in the all-around.

[25] She also won gold medals with the Victorian state team and with the hoop, ball, and ribbon.

[28] At the end of August, Kiroi-Bogatyreva competed at the Kazan World Challenge Cup and finished 42nd in the all-around.

[36] The 2020 season was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in March, and Kiroi-Bogatyreva spent nearly a year training in her house.

The FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics Technical Commission requested a re-judging of the competition based on the video footage, but the results upheld the placements of Iakovleva first and Kiroi-Bogatyreva second.

[42][43] After missing the Olympic spot, Kiroi-Bogatyreva moved to Baku, Azerbaijan, to train at the National Gymnastics Arena.

[8][39][44] Early in October, she returned to competition at the Cluj-Napoca World Challenge Cup and placed 14th in the all-around.

[45] She was then selected to compete World Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, and Kiroi-Bogatyreva finished 36th in the all-around during the qualification round.

[50] After successfully qualifying for the World Games in 2019, Kiroi-Bogatyreva took part in the event, hosted in Birmingham, Alabama.

[14] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2022 Commonwealth Games alongside Lidiia Iakovleva and Ashari Gill.

[53] Individually, Kiroi-Bogatyreva qualified for the all-around final and won the bronze medal behind England's Marfa Ekimova and Cypriot Anna Sokolova.

Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva at 2019 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships. Photo: Alex Bogatyrev
Kiroi-Bogatyreva at the 2019 World Championships
Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva with a ball
Kiroi-Bogatryreva performs a side balance with her ball at the 2022 Oceania Championships