Meital Maayan Sumkin
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| Born | 17 April 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gymnastics career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Israel (2023-present) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Hapoel Rishon Lezion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Ayelet Zussman, Julieta Cantaluppi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Natalie Malka, Ira Maidnik | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Meital Maayan Sumkin (Hebrew: מיטל מעיין סומקין; born 17 April 2009) is an Israeli rhythmic gymnast.[1] She is the 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.
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.[2][3][4] 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.[5]
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.[6][7][8] 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[9] 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.[10] She won bronze medal in ball[11] and silver in ribbon final. [12]
In July, she won gold medal in all-around and all apparatus finals at the 2025 Israeli National Championships.[13][14] Then she competed at 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 Cluj-Napoca World Challenge Cup and won her first World Cup medal, a bronze in all-around.[15] She also won gold medal in hoop and bronze in ribbon final.[16]
Routine music information
| Year | Apparatus | Music title |
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| 2025 | Hoop | Hope by NF |
| Ball | Reckoning Song (One Day) by Asaf Avidan, The Mojos | |
| Clubs | Tit For Tat by Power-Haus, Joni Fuller | |
| Ribbon | Tudo bom by Static, Ben El | |
| 2024 | Hoop | Hopeless Violin by Stefan Rodescu & Yannick Kalfayan |
| Ball | My Favourite Things by Kylie Cantrall | |
| Clubs | ||
| Ribbon | Comédie Tragédie by Merwan Rim |
Competitive highlights
(Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)
| International: Senior | |||||||
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| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon |
| 2025 | World Championships | 23rd (Q) | |||||
| World Cup Challenge Cluj-Napoca | 3rd | 1st | 4th | 8th | 3rd | ||
| World Cup Milan | 14th | 20th (Q) | 10th (Q) | 12th (Q) | 18th (Q) | ||
| European Championships | 21st | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 15th (Q) | 2nd | |
| European Cup Burgas | 1st | 1st | 9th | 3rd | 2nd | ||
| World Cup Baku | 8th | 9th (Q) | 4th | 12th (Q) | 10th (Q) | ||
| International: Junior | |||||||
| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon |
| 2024 | European Championships | 2nd | 1st | 8th | |||
| European Cup Baku | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||||
| IT Sofia Cup | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | ||||
| National | |||||||
| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon |
| 2025 | Israeli National Championships | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | |
| Q = Qualifications (Did not advance to Event Final due to the 2 gymnast per country rule, only Top 8 highest score); WR = World Record; WD = Withdrew; NT = No Team Competition; OC = Out of Competition(competed but scores not counted for qualifications/results) | |||||||
References
- ^ "SUMKIN Meital Maayan - FIG Athlete Profile". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
- ^ "Junior Groups All-Around" (PDF). europeangymnastics.
- ^ "Junior 5 Balls Final" (PDF). europeangymnastics.
- ^ "Junior 5 Ropes Final" (PDF). europeangymnastics.
- ^ "2023 Junior World Championships Result Book" (PDF). gym.longinestiming.
- ^ "Junior Teams" (PDF). backend.europeangymnastics.com.
- ^ "Junior Ball Final" (PDF). backend.europeangymnastics.com.
- ^ "Junior Ribbon Final" (PDF). backend.europeangymnastics.com.
- ^ "Rhythmic Olympic champions back in action at Baku World Cup". International Gymnastics Federation. 16 April 2025. Retrieved 2025-04-16.
- ^ "ECh Tallinn 2025 Individual All-Around Final" (PDF). Retrieved 2025-06-08.
- ^ "ECh Tallinn 2025 Ball Final" (PDF). European Gymnastics.
- ^ "ECh Tallinn 2025 Ribbon Final" (PDF).
- ^ "מיטל סומקין זכתה בזהב באליפות ישראל בהתעמלות אמנותית". isport.co.il (in Hebrew). 2025-07-07. Retrieved 2025-07-08.
- ^ "בואו נגיד המון מזל טוב למתעמלות הסניור שלנו שהתחרו היום באליפות ישראל בהתעמלות אמנותית 👏👏👏". Instagram (in Hebrew). 2025-07-07. Retrieved 2025-07-08.
- ^ "Golden sweep for Spanish Rhythmic group". International Gymnastics Federation. 2025-07-28. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
- ^ "World Challenge Cup". rgform.eu. Retrieved 27 July 2025.