The 16-year-old Victorian, affectionately known as Sasha, has just started her senior international career which has seen her make her Commonwealth Games debut, winning two bronze medals in the team and ball, World Cup debuts and claiming the All-Around Australian Title at the 2018 Australian Gymnastics Championships.
“Now that I get to exhale from it all and I think all these results are starting to sink in,” Kiroi-Bogatyreva said.
“I feel very energised and feeling satisfied with my performances overall.
“I am very excited about the beginning of my Senior International career and can’t wait to see what my coach has got planned for me,” she said.
But the journey started almost 13 years ago when she was three and found the sport of rhythmic gymnastics in a unique way.
When was little her mother had her try various activities so at the age of three, her parents sent me to kinder gym and dance classes, but that was not what they were looking for.
So Kiroi-Bogatyreva ended up at The Prahran Rhythmic Gymnastics Specialist Centre in Windsor, Melbourne’s south, and have ever looked back.
She now has her eyes on…
