Yulia Lozhechko

Lozhechko competed at the 2004 Junior European Championships where she won a gold medal as part of the Russian Team.

She won a bronze medal in the All Around at the 2005 European Championships behind Marina Debauve of France and fellow Russian Anna Pavlova.

At the World Championships later that year, she qualified to the balance beam final but failed to medal after a fall left her in 7th position.

The highlight so far of Lozhechko's career came at the 2007 European Championships where she won the Gold Medal on the balance beam with a score of 15.675.

Lozhechko and teammate Maxim Devyatovski were banned from the national training center in Round Lake after the 2007 Worlds.

Lozhechko's favourite apparatus is floor and she admires Alexei Nemov, Aleksei Bondarenko and Svetlana Khorkina.