Meital Maayan Sumkin
Meital Maayan Sumkin is an Israeli rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2025 [Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships|2025 European] silver medalist in ribbon and bronze medalist in ball and team, the 2024 European Junior champion in ball and team silver medalist, the 2024 European Cup junior ball and ribbon gold medalist and the 2025 European Cup Cross-Battle Champion.
On national level, she is the 2025 Israel All-around champion and the 2024 Israeli Junior All-around champion.
Personal life
She has Ukrainian roots, as her father, Sergei, comes from Poltava, Ukraine. She has one younger sister Mishel, who is a ballroom and latin dancer.Career
Junior
2023
She was a member of the national junior group in 2023, competing at the European Championships in Baku where Meital, along Shelly Elguy, Elinor Gerts, Kseniya Kulyk, Yuval Schulman and Anat Shnaider, won gold in the All-Around and silver with 5 ball and 5 ropes. In July the group won silver in the All-Around, behind Bulgaria, and won gold in the two event finals at the 2nd Junior World Championships in Cluj-Napoca.2024
In 2024 she switched to the individual modality, taking part in the 1st European Cup in Baku, winning gold in teams and with ball and ribon. She competed at the 2024 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, and won the silver medal with her partner Alona Tal Franco in junior teams, gold medal in the ball final and also came eighth in the ribbon final.Senior
2025
Meital turned senior in 2025. On April 18–20, she made her world cup debut in Baku and took 8th place in all-around. On May 15–18, she competed at European Cup in Burgas, Bulgaria. She won gold medal in Hoop, silver in Ribbon and bronze in Clubs and took 9th place in Ball. She beat Stiliana Nikolova in the final of Cross Battles and won gold medal.She was selected to represent Israel together with teammates Daniela Munits and Lian Rona at the 2025 European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. They won bronze medal in team competition together with senior group. She took 7th place in all-around qualifications and qualified to three apparatus finals. In the all-around final, she finished in 21st place, after multiple errors and serious mistakes in her hoop exercise. She won bronze medal in ball and silver in ribbon final.
In July, she won gold medal in all-around and all apparatus finals at the 2025 Israeli National Championships. Then she competed at 2025 FIG [Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup series|Milan World Cup], where she took 14th place in all-around and did not advance into any apparatus finals due to many mistakes in her routines. On July 25–27, she competed at 2025 FIG Rhythmic [Gymnastics World Cup series|Cluj-Napoca World Challenge Cup] and won her first World Cup medal, a bronze in all-around. She also won gold medal in hoop and bronze in ribbon final.
In August she made her senior World Championships debut in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she took 9th place in the all-around qualifications, and advanced to the all-around final where she finished on 10th place, due to a big mistake in clubs. She qualified to ball final only, finishing 7th. Together with Daniela Munits and senior group they took 5th place in team competition.