Lidiia Anatolyevna Iakovleva (Russian: Лидия Анатольевна Яковлева; born 28 August 2003)[1] is a Russian-born Australian rhythmic gymnast who represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the individual all-around.
She represented Australia at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and won a bronze medal in the mixed multi-discipline team event.
[4] Iakovleva competed at the 2016 Pacific Rim Championships and won the bronze medal in clubs behind Lili Mizuno and Zhao Yating.
[4] At the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, she finished 23rd in the all-around qualification round and won the bronze medal in the mixed multi-discipline team event.
[10][11] After this qualification event, hosting organisations and officials were sanctioned for competition manipulations that lead to Iakovleva going to Tokyo; however, upon review by the International Gymnastics Federation the decision was found to be legitimate.
[18] Iakovleva was selected to represent Australia at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham alongside Kiroi-Bogatyreva and Ashari Gill.
[27] Iakovleva was selected to represent Australia at the 2024 Summer Olympics in group rhythmic gymnastics alongside teammates Saskia Broedelet, Emmanouela Frroku, Phoebe Learmont, and Jessica Weintraub where they finished in 11th place during the qualification with 58.450.