Anna Pavlova

Standing just 5'0" tall and weighing 95 lbs, Anna Pavlova has a compact, athletic frame that suited her gymnastics career. She was born in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, a town near Moscow, in the Russian Federation. Her nationality is Russian, and her ethnicity is Caucasian.

Anna began gymnastics around the age of 12, and she competed professionally from 2000 to 2015, a span of 15 years. That means she spent most of her youth in the sport, from her early teens into her late twenties. She retired from competition in 2015, bringing an end to a lengthy career as a gymnast. Now 38, she looks back on a career that started when she was just a child.