«Take risks now, while you’re still little»
Advice Alina Kabaeva gave 13-year-old Evelina Tandalova 🇷🇺
Five months after joining the Sky Grace Academy, she’s already winning international pre-junior competitions.
Too much pressure – or exactly how champions are made? 🤔
Before the current generation of junior stars, there was Uliana Travkina 🇷🇺
As a young gymnast, she went viral in the RG community for her extraordinary flexibility — and her routine still looks unreal 🔥
Do you remember her?
She’s 16. It’s her first senior season.
Akmaral Yerekesheva 🇰🇿 – a two-time junior world champion – is already being tipped as a potential Olympic medallist at LA 2028.
Remember the name 👀
She’s only 10, but the expression is already senior-level 😭
Beatrix Sánchez-Hanton 🇪🇸 made her national-level debut at the 2026 Spanish Team Championships with this freehand routine.
And she definitely knows how to perform ✨
Remember this name: Mariela Alapont 🇪🇸
She’s only 11 — but already a Spanish national champion in the 2014 age category.
In 2026, she took the title with ribbon, winning by just 0.05 points.
One of the youngest names on our radar👀
8th in qualification. 1st in the final🥇
Iana Zaikina barely made the junior European ribbon final with 23.100
Then the 15-year-old came back, added 2.9 points to her score and became European champion in Varna with 26.000 🇷🇺
🇩🇪 Germany may already have its next rhythmic gymnastics star
13-year-old Melissa Diete won European junior silver with ball and bronze with ribbon — Germany’s first junior European medals since 2010.
Could she be the next Darja Varfolomeev? 👀