Elena Slavcheva Bineva (Bulgarian: Елена Славчева Бинева) (born 18 September 1999) is a retired Bulgarian group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2018 European and 2018 World Group 5 Hoops champion, the 2017 World Group All-around silver medalist and the 2014 Youth Olympic Group All-around silver medalist.

Elena Bineva
Country represented Bulgaria
Born (1999-09-18) 18 September 1999 (age 25)
Sofia, Bulgaria[1]
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight51 kg (112 lb)
DisciplineRhythmic gymnastics
LevelInternational Elite
Years on national team2017-2018
ClubLevski
GymRakovski
Head coach(es)Vesela Dimitrova
Assistant coach(es)Mihaela Maevska
ChoreographerMargarita Budinova
Medal record
Representing  Bulgaria
Group Rhythmic Gymnastics
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Sofia 5 Hoops
Silver medal – second place 2017 Pesaro Group All-around
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Pesaro 3 Balls + 2 Ropes
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Sofia Group All-around
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Guadalajara 3 Balls + 2 Ropes
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Guadalajara Team
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Guadalajara Group All-around
Youth Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2014 Nanjing Group All-around
Junior European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Vienna Group All-around

Career

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She started rhythmic gymnastics at the age of three in club "Levski Iliana". At the age of six she moved to club "Levski", where her coach was Branimira Markova. Bineva became Vice Olympic Champion of the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing 2014. Later she became part of the new ensemble with Madlen Radukanova, Simona Dyankova, Laura Traets and Teodora Aleksandrova in 2016. Her hobbies are reading, going to the cinema and walking in the park.

She was later integrated in the Bulgarian group in 2017 and 2018. In February 2017 she suffered a right ankle injury at an event in Moscow, the trauma was extensible ligaments, swelling in the bone and a broken piece that is 6 years old on her right leg and could not compete at the Rumi and Albena international tournament in Varna, Bulgaria. In April 2017 she broke bone in her hand at training when she and one of the other gymnasts hit really bad and bone on her right wrist broke, that is why she performed with linguists at the 2017 World Championships. She kept competing in 2018 despite those injuries and became European and World Champion.

In 2019, she decided to retire to keep the cohesion of the Bulgarian group safe a year before the Olympic Games and to avoid the danger of having to train a new gymnast in a terrible rush a few months before Tokyo if her injury was too painful again.

Personal life

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Eli has 3 sisters (Miroslava, Viki and Martina Bineva) and one brother (Kaloyan Binev). Her father Slavcho Binev won gold at the 1992 European Championships in taekwondo and became a well-known Bulgarian businessman and politician after the end of his sports career and her mother is Maria Bineva.

References

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  1. ^ "Elena Bineva" (in Bulgarian). r-gymmnastics.
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