Angelina Shkatova

Angelina Anatolyevna Shkatova is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2021 [Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships|2021 European] Group All-around champion and the 2015 European Junior Group All-around champion.

Career

She was part of Russian group from St. Petersburg that took three gold medals at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples, Italy.
In 2020, she was invited to join the main Russian national group. Her first major competition with the new squad was Grand Prix Moscow in February. They won gold medal in Group All-around in front of Belarus and Israel.
In 2021, she started the season at Grand Prix Moscow, where they took gold medal in Group All-around in front of Belarus and Uzbekistan. In the end of May, she competed at the 2021 FIG [Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup series|2021 Pesaro World Cup], where she won gold medal in Group All-around and two silver medals in Apparatus finals. On July 5, 2021, the Russian Federation announced that Shkatova was selected to represent Russia at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, as a member of the Russian group formed by Anastasia Tatareva, Anastasia Bliznyuk, Anastasia Maksimova and Alisa Tishchenko. In 2021 Moscow World Challenge Cup, the Russian group took gold in all aspects ahead of Japan and all possible golds in the apparatus finals ahead of Uzbekistan.