Alina Harnasko ({{lang-be|Аліна Гарнаско}}; {{lang-ru|Алина Горносько}}; born 9 August 2001 in Minsk) is a Belarusian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2016 European Junior Hoop silver medalist.

Career

Junior

Harnasko has won numerous medals in the Junior World Cup and Junior Grand Prix series. She briefly competed as a member of the Belarusian Group that competed at the 2015 European Junior Championships where Belarus won Group silver in the All-around and gold in 5 Balls.

In 2016, Harnasko returned competing in individuals. At the 2016 Junior Grand Prix Moscow, she won gold in clubs and rope.^[2] At the 2016 European Junior Championships in Holon, Harnasko won 2 silver medals in team (together with Yulja Isachanka, Julia Evchik) and individual hoop final(tied with Israel's Nicol Zelikman).^[3] On September 9–11, Harnasko together with senior teammates Katsiaryna Halkina and Hanna Bazhko represented team Dinamo at the annual 2016 Aeon Cup in Tokyo, where they won the team silver and with Harnasko taking silver in the junior all-around.

Senior

In 2017 season, Harnasko made her senior international debut competing at the L.A. Lights. She then competed at the Senior International tournament in Moscow, the Alina Cup where she finished 4th in the all-around behind Israel's Nicol Zelikman. At the 2017 Grand Prix Kiev she finished 10th in the all-around. She finished 5th in the all-around at the 2017 Grand Prix Thiais, she qualified to 3 apparatus finals and won a bronze in clubs. From March 31 – April 2, Harnasko competed at the Grand Prix Marbella finishing 9th in the all-around and qualified 2 event finals, where she won bronze in ribbon. She competed in her first World Cup meet at the Pesaro World Cup where she finished 8th in the all-around behind Israel's Victoria Veinberg Filanovsky, she qualified to 2 apparatus finals^[1][2] finishing 5th in clubs and 7th in hoop.^[6] At the 2017 Baku World Cup, she finished 4th in the all-around finals, behind Bulgaria's Neviana Vladinova, and also won a bronze in the ribbon and hoop in the apparatus finals.^[3] On May 5–7, Harnasko competed at the 2017 Sofia World Cup again finishing 4th in the all-around, she qualified in 3 apparatus finals and won gold in clubs ahead of hometown girl Neviana Vladinova, bronze in ball and placed 7th in ribbon. On May 19–21, Harnasko along with teammate Katsiaryna Halkina represented the individual seniors for Belarus at the 2017 European Championships, she qualified in all apparatus finals taking bronze in ball, finished 4th in clubs, 5th in ribbon and 7th in hoop. Harnasko's next event was at the 2017 World Challenge Cup Guadalajara where she won bronze in the all-around behind Ekaterina Selezneva, she qualified in 3 apparatus finals: taking silver in hoop, bronze in ball and placed 7th in clubs. On July 7–9, Harnasko finished 16th in the all-around at the 2017 Berlin World Challenge Cup, she qualified in ribbon final. Harnasko competed at the quadrennial held 2017 World Games in Wrocław, Poland from July 20–30, she qualified in 2 apparatus finals finishing 4th in hoop and ball. On August 4–6, Harnasko competed at the 2017 Minsk World Challenge Cup winning silver in the all-around behind Aleksandra Soldatova, she qualified in all 4 apparatus finals taking 2 silver medals in ball and ribbon, a bronze in clubs and finished 7th in hoop. On August 11–13, Harnasko competed at the 2017 Kazan World Challenge Cup finishing 9th in the all-around, she qualified in the hoop final and finished in 5th. On August 30 - September 3, Harnasko and Katsiaryna Halkina represented in the individual competitions for Belarus at the 2017 World Championships in Pesaro, Italy; she qualified in the clubs final and finished in 7th place. Harnasko finished 13th in the all-around final behind Japan's Sumire Kita^[4] On September 29-October 1, Harnasko was scheduled to compete at the annual World Club Cup the "Aeon Cup" in Tokyo, Japan; however she withdrew before the start of competition because of injury.

In 2018, Harnasko sat out from most competitions recovering from a knee surgery. She competed at Grand Prix Marbella, Spain from October 26-28, where she finished 2nd in all-around behind Ukraine's Vlada Nikolchenko. She qualified to all apparatus finals and placed 5th with hoop, 3rd in ball, 7th in clubs and ribbon.

In 2019, Harnasko started the season at L.A. Lights, where she won gold in all-around and clubs, placed 3rd with hoop and ball and 5th with ribbon. She scored 22,200 points with clubs, which is her personal best.

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