Dina Averina

Personal life Born to parents Ksenia Averina and Alexey Averin, Dina and identical twin sister Arina started gymnastics at four years old. The girls were born on 13 August 1998. Arina was born 20 minutes ahead of Dina, while both have moles on the upper cheekbone (near the right ear), Dina has it on the lower right compared to Arina's upper right. Arina has a scar above her right eye, caused after an accident with a club.

In 2025, she started dating Russian figure skater Dmitri Soloviev. They got married on July 7th, at a private ceremony in Moscow. On June 6, 2026 the couple announced that they are expecting their first child together.

Career Junior The Averinas first trained under their first coach Larisa Belova until they became members of the Russian national team and began training in Olympic Training Center in Moscow where they were coached by Vera Shatalina.

The Averinas began appearing in international competitions in 2011 competing at the 2011 Russian-Chinese Youth Games where Averina won the gold and Arina finishing 5th in the all-around. In 2012, Averina finished 4th at the Russian Junior Championships. Averina and Arina both competed at the Venera Cup in Eilat, Israel where Averina won the all-around gold, she also won gold in hoop and silver medals in ball, clubs and ribbon. She then competed at International MTM Cup in Ljubljana (along with teammates Aleksandra Soldatova and Arina Averina) won the Team gold medal.

In 2013 season, Averina won bronze in all-around at the 2013 Russian Junior Championships behind Soldatova, she competed in Junior division at Happy Caravan Cup in Tashkent and won Team gold with Arina Averina. At the 2013 Russian Spartakiada's 6th Summer Student Games, Averina won the all-around bronze medal.

Senior

2014 In 2014 season, Averina debuted at the 2014 Moscow Grand Prix competing in the senior international tournament division. Averina appeared in her first World Cup competition at the 2014 Lisboa World Cup where she won the all-around bronze medal behind Melitina Staniouta. In the event finals: she won silver in clubs and bronze in ribbon. On 23–27 April, Averina competed in senior nationals at the 2014 Russian Championships where she finished 6th in the all-around.

2015 In 2015 season, Averina started her season at the 2015 Moscow Grand Prix, she then competed at the Corbeil-Essonnes International Rhythmic Gymnastics Tournament where she won the all-around silver medal behind twin sister Arina Averina, she qualified to 4 event finals, taking gold in ribbon (tied with Arina), silver medals in hoop, ball and placed 6th in clubs. On 7–9 August, Averina competed at the MTK Budapest taking gold in the all-around, hoop, ball, clubs and a silver in ribbon. Averina followed another gold medal win in the all-around at the 2015 Dundee International Tournament in Sofia, ahead of twin sister Arina. She won bronze medal at the 2015 Russian Championships behind Yana Kudryavtseva and Arina Averina.

2016 In 2016, Averina began her season competing at the 2016 Grand Prix Moscow finishing 6th in the all-around and qualified to the hoop final. On 26–28 February, Averina competed in the first World Cup of the season at the 2016 Espoo World Cup finishing 6th in the all-around; she won bronze in ball, placed 4th in hoop, clubs and 6th in ribbon. Averina then competed in the senior division at the International tournament in Lisbon where she won the all-around gold and all apparatus finals. At the 30th Thiais Grand Prix event in Paris, Averina finished 9th in the all-around. On 1–3 April, Averina competed at the 2016 Pesaro World Cup where she finished 5th in the all-around with a total of 73.500 points, she qualified in all apparatus after teammate Yana Kudryavtseva withdrew from the event finals, Averina won silver in ball, ribbon and bronze in hoop, clubs. Averina won the all-around bronze at the 2016 Russian Championships held in Sochi. On 6–8 May, Averina competed at the Brno Grand Prix taking bronze in the all-around with a total of 72.850 points; she qualified to 3 apparatus taking silver in hoop, ribbon and placed 4th in clubs. On 13–15 May, Averina won the all-around bronze at the Bucharest Grand Prix with a total of 73.100 points, she qualified to all apparatus finals: taking silver in clubs behind Salome Pazhava, bronze in hoop, ball (tied with Katsiaryna Halkina) and 7th in ribbon. On 27–29 May, Averina finished 5th in the all-around at the 2016 Sofia World Cup with a total of 72.900 points, she qualified in hoop finals placing 4th behind sister Arina Averina. On 1–3 July, Dina competed at the 2016 Berlin World Cup where she won the All-around gold medal with a total of 74.050 points, she qualified to all apparatus taking gold in Ball, Ribbon, placed 4th in Hoop and 8th in Clubs. Averina then participated in the organized Desio-Italia Trophy where she won the All-around and team gold medal (together with Twin Sister Arina). On 10–12 March, Averina became the All-around champion at the 2017 Russian Championships ahead of defending champion Aleksandra Soldatova who finished in 2nd place respectively. Her next event was at the 2017 Tashkent World Cup where Averina won gold in the all-around ahead of sister Arina Averina, she qualified to all the apparatus finals taking gold in clubs, and 3 silver medals in ball, hoop and ribbon. On 19–21 May, at the 2017 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Averina was member of the Golden winning Russian Team (together with senior individuals: twin sister Arina Averina, Aleksandra Soldatova and the junior group) scoring a total of 182.175 points which was more than 11 points ahead of their nearest competitor team Belarus. Averina qualified to 3 apparatus finals taking 2 gold medals in hoop, ribbon and a silver medal in clubs behind Arina Averina. Thus, Russia finished for the first time without a gold medal in the sport since 1996. The results of the competition were controversial, mainly because Ashram had a drop in her ribbon routine. The ROC and the head coach of the Russian team, Irina Viner accused the judges of bias towards Linoy Ashram and called the results an "injustice". They also requested several inquiries during the all-around final.

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) officially launched a complaint to the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) over the all-around rhythmic result at Tokyo 2020, with a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman calling the outcome a "forgery". The FIG responded to this, stating that "Following this process, we can confirm that no bias or irregularities were identified in the judging panels." and that "The FIG has set up strict criteria for objective selection of the most qualified and unbiased judges for the Olympic Games and we are pleased by their work." Ashram was the first non-Russian gymnast to win the gold since Ukraine's Ekaterina Serebrianskaya at Atlanta 1996.

After the Olympic Games Later, the Averina twins returned to competition after the Olympic Games with their new coach Yulia Barsukova, at the international Olympico Cup tournament in Moscow, where Averina launched a new club routine, and her sister a new club and ribbon routine. Averina was champion ahead of Arina Averina and Elzhana Taniyeva. Averina competed in the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, where in the apparatus finals she won gold in hoop, ball and clubs, and in ribbon she won silver, surpassed by Alina Harnasko. In the all-around final, Averina again took the all-around gold and the title of World Champion for the fourth time in a row, becoming the gymnast with the most world titles (Beating the record of Maria Gigova, Maria Petrova, Evgenia Kanaeva, and Yana Kudryatseva). She also achieved team gold with Arina Averina and the Russian Group. She and her sister kept competing (although limited due to the FIG ban on Russian Belarusian athletes due to the Invasion of Ukraine) until 2023.

2024 Retirement from the Sport On February 23, 2024, Averina (like her sister Arina) announced her retirement from sports.

Gymnastics technique Averina is known for her fast routines and dynamic apparatus handling. She has maintained a Difficulty value of 10 which was scored in her clubs routine; the last rhythmic gymnast before Averina to score a 10 in Difficulty was Evgenia Kanaeva.

Routine music information Averina with Arina at the 2017 European Championships podium.

Detailed Olympic results

Competitive highlights (Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)