Yuval Filo

Yuval Filo
— Gymnast ♀ —
Country represented  Israel
Born (1998-03-03) 3 March 1998
Residence Tel Aviv, Israel
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Weight 47 kg (104 lb)[2]
Discipline Rhythmic gymnastics
Level Senior International Elite
Years on national team 2014-present
Club Maccabi Tel Aviv[3]
Head coach(es) Lena Zelikman, Ira Vigdorchik, Raya Irgo, Ela Samofalov, and choreographer Ayelet Zysman.[4]
Medal record
Representing  Israel
Group Rhythmic Gymnastics
World Championships
2014 Izmir 10 Clubs
European Games
2015 Baku Group All-Around
2015 Baku 6 Clubs/2 Hoops
2015 Baku 5 Ribbons
European Championships
2016 Holon 6 Clubs/2 Hoops
2016 Holon 5 Ribbons
2016 Holon Group All-around
2014 Baku Group All-around

Yuval Filo (Hebrew: יובל פילו‎‎; born 3 March 1998) is an Israeli Olympic group rhythmic gymnast. She represented Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Personal life

Filo lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.[5] She attends Golda High School in Petah Tikva, Israel.[6]

Rhythmic gymnastics career

Filo represents Israel at international competitions. She started practicing gymnastics at age six, and started competing in 2008.[7] Her club is Maccabi Tel Aviv.[8] Her coaches are Lena Zelikman, Ira Vigdorchik, Raya Irgo, Ela Samofalov, and choreographer Ayelet Zysman.[9][10]

In 2013, she came in fourth in group at the European Junior Championships.[11]

She competed at the 2014 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Izmir, Turkey, where she won the silver medal in the group 10 clubs event.[12][13][14] She won a bronze medal in the all-around at the 2014 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.[15]

Representing Israel at the 2015 European Games in Baku in gymnastics, she won silver medals in the group all-around and group clubs and hoops event, and a bronze medal in the group ribbons event.[16]

In 2016 at the International Federation of Gymnastics World Cup in Baku she won the group gold medal in the ribbon exercise, and the group silver medal in the all-around competition.[17] At the 2016 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships in Holon, Israel, on the Mediterranean coast south of Tel Aviv, she and the Israeli team won a group gold in the clubs and hoops category, a group silver in the ribbon routine, and a bronze in the all-around competition.[18][19]

She epresented Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[20] She and the Israeli team finished 6th in the final of the group all-around.[21]

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  12. ↑ "2014 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships athletes - Yuval Filo". Longinestiming.com. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
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  21. ↑ "Rio 2016". Rio 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-22.


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