Meital Maayan Sumkin (; born 17 April 2009) is an Israeli rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2025 European silver medalist in ribbon and bronze medalist in ball and team, the 2024 European Junior champion in ball and team silver medalist, the 2024 European Cup junior ball and ribbon gold medalist and the 2025 European Cup Cross-Battle Champion.
On national level, Sumkin is the 2025 Israel All-around champion and the 2024 Israeli Junior All-around champion.
Personal life Sumkin has Ukrainian roots, as her father, Serhiy, comes from Poltava, Ukraine. She has one younger sister Mishel, who is a ballroom and latin dancer.
Career Junior 2023 Meital Sumkin was a member of the national junior group in 2023, competing at the European Championships in Baku where Meital, along Shelly Elguy, Elinor Gerts, Kseniya Kulyk, Yuval Schulman and Anat Shnaider, won gold in the All-Around and silver with 5 ball and 5 ropes. In July the group won silver in the All-Around, behind Bulgaria, and won gold in the two event finals at the 2nd Junior World Championships in Cluj-Napoca.
2024 In 2024 Sumkin switched to the individual modality, taking part in the 1st European Cup in Baku, winning gold in teams and with ball and ribon. She competed at the 2024 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, and won the silver medal with her partner Alona Tal Franco in junior teams, gold medal in the ball final and also came eighth in the ribbon final.
Senior 2025 Sumkin turned senior in 2025. On April 18–20, she made her world cup debut in Baku and took 8th place in all-around. On May 15–18, she competed at European Cup in Burgas, Bulgaria. She won gold medal in Hoop, silver in Ribbon and bronze in Clubs and took 9th place in Ball. She beat Stiliana Nikolova in the final of Cross Battles and won gold medal.
Sumkin was selected to represent Israel together with teammates Daniela Munits and Lian Rona at the 2025 European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. They won bronze medal in team competition together with senior group. She took 7th place in all-around qualifications and qualified to three apparatus finals. In the all-around final, she finished in 21st place, after multiple errors and serious mistakes in her hoop exercise. She won bronze medal in ball and silver in ribbon final.
In July, Sumkin won gold medal in all-around and all apparatus finals at the 2025 Israeli National Championships. Then she competed at Milan World Cup, where she took 14th place in all-around and did not advance into any apparatus finals due to many mistakes in her routines. On July 25–27, she competed at Cluj-Napoca World Challenge Cup and won her first World Cup medal, a bronze in all-around. She also won gold medal in hoop and bronze in ribbon final.
In August Sumkin made her senior World Championships debut in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she took 9th place in the all-around qualifications, and advanced to the all-around final where she finished on 10th place, due to a big mistake in clubs. She qualified to ball final only, finishing 7th. Together with Daniela Munits and senior group they took 5th place in team competition.
2026 Sumkin started the international season in the end of March competing at Sofia World Cup. She took 5th place in all-around and won bronze medal in ribbon final. On April 17-19, she took 7th place in all-around at Baku World Cup and qualified to two apparatus finals, finishing 5th in ball and 4th in ribbon. She did not compete at the 2026 European Championships in Varna, Bulgaria due to an injury.
In August she was chosen to represent Israel at the 2026 World Championships in Frankfurt.
Routine music information YearApparatusMusic title2026Hoop Adagio in G (Battlefield Version) by Imagine Music BallLa canzone dei vecchi amanti by Delia BuglisiClubsFreestyler (alternative radio edit) by Bomfunk MC'sRibbonRevenge of the Orchestra by Apashe & Magugu2025HoopHope by NFBallReckoning Song (One Day) by Asaf Avidan, The MojosClubsTit For Tat by Power-Haus, Joni FullerRibbonTudo bom by Static, Ben El2024HoopHopeless Violin by Stefan Rodescu & Yannick KalfayanBallMy Favourite Things by Kylie CantrallClubsRibbonComédie Tragédie by Merwan Rim
Competitive highlights (Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)
International: Senior Year EventAATeamHoopBallClubsRibbon 2026World Cup Baku7th15th (Q)5th16th (Q)4thWorld Cup Sofia5th7th14th (Q)8th3rd2025 World Championships10th5th23rd (Q)7th11th (Q)29th (Q) World Cup Challenge Cluj-Napoca3rd1st4th8th3rdWorld Cup Milan14th20th (Q)10th (Q)12th (Q)18th (Q)European Championships21st3rd4th3rd15th (Q)2ndEuropean Cup Burgas1st1st9th3rd2ndWorld Cup Baku8th9th (Q)4th12th (Q)10th (Q) International: Junior Year EventAATeamHoopBallClubsRibbon2024European Championships2nd1st8thEuropean Cup Baku1st1st1stIT Sofia Cup1st2nd3rd National Year EventAATeamHoopBallClubsRibbon2025Israeli National Championships 1st1st1st1st1st Q = Qualifications (Did not advance to Event Final due to the 2 gymnast per country rule, only Top 8 highest score); WR = World Record; WD = Withdrew; NT = No Team Competition; OC = Out of Competition(competed but scores not counted for qualifications/results)
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