Anna Lashchevska
Anna Viktorivna Lashchevska is a Ukrainian artistic gymnast. She is the 2022 Junior European Champion on the balance beam. She represented Ukraine at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Early life
Lashchevska was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, on 20 November 2007.Gymnastics career
Lashchevska swept the gold medals at the 2020 Ukrainian Youth Championships in the espoir division.2022
Lashchevska competed with the German club Lüneburg-Buchholz throughout the 2022 season as a guest. At the 1st Bundesliga, she helped the club finish sixth. She competed with Meaux Gymnastique at the Top 12 Finals in France, helping the club win the bronze medal. At the German Junior Championships, she won gold medals on the uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise. She helped Lüneburg-Buchholz repeat their sixth-place finish at the 2nd Bundesliga.Lashchevska competed at the European Youth Olympic Festival where she helped Ukraine finish fifth as a team. Individually, she won the silver medal on the balance beam behind Romania's Amalia Puflea. Additionally, she competed in the mixed pairs event alongside Radomyr Stelmakh; they finished third behind the Italy pair of Riccardo Villa and Arianna Grillo and the German pair of Jukka Ole Nissinen and Helen Kevric. She then competed at the Junior European Championships where she won gold on balance beam ahead of Grillo and Puflea.
2023
Lashchevska became age-eligible for senior competition in 2023. At the Doha World Cup, she won gold on uneven bars and silver on the balance beam. Then at the Baku World Cup, she won the bronze medal on balance beam. At the European Championships, she finished 32nd in the all-around during the qualification round.Lashchevska won gold medals on the uneven bars and balance beam at the Mersin World Challenge Cup. Then at the Szombathely World Challenge Cup, she won the balance beam gold medal. She then competed at the 2023 World Championships in Antwerp. She finished 38th all-around in qualifications. Although she did not qualify for the all-around final, she qualified as an individual to the 2024 Olympic Games.