Nataliya Aleksandrova

In 2001 Nataliya became a member of the senior group, competing at the European Championships in Geneva where the Belarusian group won bronze in the All-Around and gold with 3 ropes and 2 balls.^[2]

In July 2002 she helped the group win silver in the All-Around and bronze with 3 ropes and 2 balls at the World Championships in New Orleans.^[3]

She then competed in the 2003 European Championships in Riesa, where she won bronze in the 5 ribbons final.^[4] In September of the same year the group won bronze in the All-Around at the World Championships in Budapest and thus qualifying for the following year's Olympics.^[5]

In 2004 the group won 3 silver and 2 bronze medals in the 2003-2004 World Cup circuit. At the Olympic Games in Athens Aleksandrova, Zlatislava Nersesyan, Yenia Burlo, Glafira Martinovich, Galina Nikandrova and Maryia Poplyko took 6th place in the preliminaries and were 4th in the final, being just 0.600 points away from the bronze medal.^[6][7]