Natalia Kononenko

Natalia Alexeyevna Kononenko is a Ukrainian former artistic gymnast who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is a two-time European bronze medalist on the uneven bars.

Gymnastics career

Kononenko competed at the 2008 Junior European Championships and helped the Ukrainian team finish seventh. She qualified for the uneven bars and balance beam event finals where she finished eighth and fourth respectively. She also competed at the 2009 Gymnasiade in Doha where the Ukrainian team won the bronze medal behind Russia and Italy. Individually, Kononenko finished seventh in the all-around. In the event finals, she won the silver medal on the uneven bars behind Aliya Mustafina and finished eighth on the balance beam.

At the 2010 European Championships in Birmingham, Kononenko contributed scores of 14.625 on uneven bars and 12.600 on balance beam towards Ukraine's eighth-place finish. She won the bronze medal on the uneven bars with a score of 14.750 behind Beth Tweddle and Aliya Mustafina.
At the 2012 London Prepares series, Kononenko placed eighth on the uneven bars. This qualified her a spot for the 2012 Olympics. Then at the 2012 European Championships in Brussels, she finished tenth with her team. She also won a bronze medal on the uneven bars with a score of 15.133 behind Russians Viktoria Komova and Anastasia Grishina. Kononenko was Ukraine's only representative for women's artistic gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics. In Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer [Olympics – Women's artistic qualification|the qualification round], she finished 44th in the all-around, and did not qualify into any event finals.

Kononenko has one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points.

Apparatus	Name	Description	Difficulty	Added to the Code of Points
Uneven bars	Kononenko	Tkatchev with ½ turn	D	2011 World Championships