Elena Bineva
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| Born |
18 September 1999 Sofia, Bulgaria[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 51 kg (112 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | International Elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Levski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gym | Rakovski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Vesela Dimitrova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Mihaela Maevska | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Margarita Budinova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elena Slavcheva Bineva (Bulgarian: Елена Славчева Бинева) (born 18 September 1999) is a Bulgarian group rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2018 European 2018 World Group 5 Hoops champion, the 2017 World Group All-around silver medalist and the 2014 Youth Olympic Group All-around silver medalist.
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.
Family
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.
Injures
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 WC Pesaro 2017.
References
- ↑ Elena Bineva (in Bulgarian). r-gymmnastics.