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Adi Asia Katz
Adi Asia Katz in 2019
Personal information
Born	(2004-03-31) 31 March 2004 (age 20)
Residence	Tel Aviv
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Rhythmic gymnastics
Country represented	Israel
Level	International Elite
Club	Maccabi Tel Aviv
Head coach(es)	Ella Smolov
Assistant coach(es)	Alona Koshevatskiy
Medal record Representing  Israel Rhythmic Gymnastics Event 1st 2nd 3rd Junior World Championships 0 1 2 European Championships 0 1 3 FIG World Cup 2 6 2 Total 2 8 4 European Championships 2023 Baku Hoop 2022 Tel Aviv Team 2022 Tel Aviv Ribbon 2023 Baku Team Junior World Championships 2019 Moscow Ribbon 2019 Moscow Clubs 2019 Moscow Team

Adi Asia Katz (Hebrew: עדי כץ; born 31 March 2004) is a retired Israeli rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2022 European bronze medallist in Ribbon, and Team Bronze medallist. As a Junior, She was the 2019 Junior World silver medalist with Ribbon and bronze medalist with Clubs.

Rhythmic gymnastics career

Junior

She competed at the 2018 Junior European Championships in Guadalajara, Spain, where she placed 41st in Hoop Qualifications and 8th in Ribbon Qualifications. Next day, she improved her result with Ribbon, when she placed 5th in the final. A year later, she took part in the 2019 Junior World Championships as a part of Israeli team, which won bronze medal in Team ranking. She also won silver medal in Ribbon final and bronze medal in Clubs final.

Senior

She debuted as a senior in 2020, but made her first big international appearance at World Cup Sofia in 2021. She placed 15th in All-around and qualified to Hoop final, where she ended on 8th place. Then she also competed at World Challenge Cup Minsk and placed 9th in All-around. In Clubs final, she took 6th place. On a national level, she became the all-around champion of 2021 in Israel.

She won her first-ever World Cup medal in 2022, at World Cup Baku. It was bronze in Hoop final, behind Italian Sofia Raffaeli and Bulgarian Boryana Kaleyn. Afterwards, she won another medal, silver in Clubs final at World Challenge Cup Pamplona in May. She achieved her first win at World Challenge Cup Portimão, where she won gold medal in All-around in front of Darja Varfolomeev and Eva Brezalieva, becoming the second Israeli rhythmic gymnast to win gold in All-around at FIG World Cup.

She was selected to compete at the 2022 European Championship in her home city, Katz qualified for the All-Around and ribbon finals. On Saturday she finished 11th in the All-Around final with a score of 124.450, on the same day she earned a bronze medal in the team category along with Daria Atamanov and the senior group. The next day, she had earned that bronze medal in the Ribbon competition.

Routine music information

Competitive highlights

(Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)

References

1. "Results for 1st FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics Junior World Championships". longinestiming. 22 July 2019.
2. "Russian rhythmic talent reigns at first junior Worlds". UEG. 22 July 2019.
3. All-Around Results European Gymnastics
4. Team Results European Gymnastics

External links

• Adi Asia Katz at the International Gymnastics Federation
• Adi Asya Katz at The-Sports.org

• 2004 births
• Living people
• Israeli rhythmic gymnasts
• Medalists at the Junior World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
• Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships
• 21st-century Israeli sportswomen