Darja Varfolomeev

Darja Varfolomeev (Да́рья Дми́триевна Варфоломе́ева; born 4 November 2006) is a German rhythmic gymnast.

She is the 2023 World all-around gold medalist and the 2022 World all-around silver medalist.

Varfolomeev was born in Barnaul, Russia, to father Dmitry and mother Tatiana.

Her grandfather is originally from Germany.

She started rhythmic gymnastics at a young age thanks to her mother, a former rhythmic gymnast.

She also placed 15th in qualifications for the clubs, which was the only apparatus she competed with.

She debuted in the senior category in 2022, at World Cup Tashkent, where she won the bronze medal in the all-around.

She took another bronze medal in the hoop final as well as two silver medals in the ball and ribbon finals, and she placed 4th with clubs.

On May 20–22, she competed at World Challenge Cup Pamplona, where she took 4th place in the all-around.

She also won two gold medals in the ball and ribbon finals and was 4th place in the clubs final.

Varfolomeev continued collecting medals at World Challenge Cup Portimão, where she won silver in the all-around behind Israeli Adi Asya Katz.

She took three more medals in the apparatus finals - two gold with ball and clubs and one silver with hoop.

In June she competed at the European Championships in Tel Aviv, along Kolosov, the senior group and the two juniors Lada Pusch and Anna-Maria Shatokhin; she won two bronze medals in the ball and clubs finals.

In late August she took part in the World Cup in Cluj-Napoca, where she was 6th in the all-around, 4th with ball and 4th with clubs.

Varfolomeev was also selected for the World Championships in Sofia along with Kolosov and the senior group.

There she won gold in the clubs final, silver in the all-around, team category, and ball, as well as bronze with hoop.

In 2023 she showed her clubs routine in the Italian clubs championship' first stage, where she competed for Motto Viareggio.

Due to a foot operation in December 2022, Varfolomeev competed with only two apparatuses in the Fellbach-Schmiden Tournament, where she won gold in both the ball and clubs finals.

She won one medal at the 2023 European Championships, the gold in ribbon.

At the 2023 World Championships, Varfolomeev won every gold medal available in the all-around and the four apparatus finals, making her the only rhythmic gymnast to do so after Evgeniya Kanaeva.

Afterward, she was a co-winner of the Piotr Nurowski Prize awarded by the European Olympic Committees to athletes under 18, along with Turkish swimmer Kuzey Tunçelli.

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

Varfolomeev moved from Russia to Germany in 2019 without her parents, who would follow three years later, to be coached by Olympic silver medalist Yulia Raskina.

At the first Junior World Championships in rhythmic gymnastics in Moscow in 2019, she placed 15th in the team event with Margarita Kolosov.