Yulia Raskina

Yulia Raskina (; born 9 April 1982) is a Belarusian former rhythmic gymnast and current German coach. She is the 2000 Olympics silver medalist, the 1999 World all-around silver medalist, the two time (2000, 1999) European all-around silver medalist and 1999 Grand Prix Final all-around champion.

Career Raskina was a three-time national champion and won her first senior international medal at the 1997 World Championships in Berlin, where she won the team silver. She became the 1999 World Championships all-around silver medalist and was a two-time European all-around silver medalist in 1999 and 2000. Raskina won the gold medal with the ball at the 2000 European Championships in Zaragosa.

Raskina marked a career high by winning the silver in the all-around competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia, ahead of then Olympic gold favorite Alina Kabaeva, who took the bronze medal. Raskina lost the gold to Yulia Barsukova by 0.084 points. Had her hoop not gone out of bounds by an inch, which was a mandatory 0.1 deduction, she would have won the gold. Raskina competed infrequently following the Sydney Olympics and finally retired from competitive rhythmic gymnastics in 2003.

In 2005 and 2006, Raskina took part in Cirque du Soleil's Corteo alongside former Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast Tamara Yerofeeva. She won the Belarusian TV project "Star Dances" with professional dancer Denis Moryasin and was selected to represent Belarus at the Eurovision Dance Contest.

Coaching career Raskina currently works as a coach for the German national team in rhythmic gymnastics. Her coaching style includes teaching her students to focus on the music to prevent anxiety and building throughout the season to the World Championships: "I’m not asking them to do clean routines in March, April, May, June, or July. I ask for clean maybe only in the last two weeks before the World Championships. I don’t want to stress them so much."

In 2022, she and René Spies were named German Coaches of the Year by the German Olympic Sports Confederation.

Notable trainees include: Darja Varfolomeev - Olympic all-around champion (2024), multiple Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships gold medalist and three-time consecutive World champion Anastasia Simakova - ball silver medallist in the 2025 European Championships and team gold medalist at the 2025 World Championships Lada Pusch - ball silver medallist in the 2023 Junior World Championships

Routine music information

Year Apparatus Music title 2003 Hoop Vas Dis by Wishbone Ash Clubs Dy by Vitas Ball Lautary by Lokyo Ribbon Ave Maria by Vitas 2000 Hoop Manhattan by Anatoly Vekshin Rope Smuglyanochka by Anatoly Vekshin Ball Spain (originally Malagueña) by Anatoly Vekshin Ribbon Underground /Storm / A New Life music from The Truman Show by Burkard Dalwitz 1999 Hoop ? Rope I Will Survive by Anatoly Vekshin (originally Gloria Gainor) Ball ? Ribbon ? 1998 Rope Belarus traditional folk Clubs ? Hoop Latin samba remix Ribbon Otchi Tchornia (Dark Eyes) – Russian traditional music 1997 Hoop ? Clubs Cabaret by John Kander Rope ? Ribbon Otchi Tchornia (Dark Eyes) – Russian traditional music

Detailed Olympic results Year Competition description Location Music Apparatus Score-Final Score-Qualifying 2000 Olympics Sydney All-around 39.548 39.624 Underground/ Storm / A New Life music from The Truman Show Ribbon 9.916 9.908 Spain (Malagueña) by Anatoly Vekshin Ball 9.933 9.908 Manhattan by Anatoly Vekshin Hoop 9.791 9.908 Smuglyanochka by Anatoly Vekshin Rope 9.908 9.900