Career
Vera's first big International title competition was the European Championships in Granada in 2002, where she only performed one routine, but was noticed because of her flexibilty, stability and clean performance. The following year 2003 was very successful for her. For some time, she was leading the Grand Prix Cirquit, because she managed to get very stable places.
Vera Sessina won the all-around competition in the 2006 European Championships in Moscow, beating five-times European champion and Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva. In 2006 Season, Mie Prefecture in Japan, Sessina closed a successful season winning three events of the FIG World Cup Finals. She continued to do well in 2007 season, winning the All-around silver medal at World Cup final in Ljubljana.
At the 2007 European Championships in Baku, she won the gold medal in clubs, a silver for rope, a pair of bronze medals for ribbon and hoop for the Individual event finals. She repeated her her success at the 2007 World Championships where she won the All-around silver medal behind Gold medalist Anna Bessonova. She then took the All-around Bronze medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade behind Bessonova and Kapranova.
She competed for a spot at the 2008 Olympics but struggled due to injury and was beaten by compatriots Yevgeniya Kanayeva and Olga Kapranova to represent at the Olympic Games. She then competed again after the Olympics and won a gold in medal in rope and bronze medal in hoop at the 2008 World Cup Final in Benidorm.
She completed her career in 2009, after the 2009 European Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan where she won silver medals in rope, hoop and ribbon.
After her retirement, Vera was elected to the FIG Athletes Commission, where she is representing Rhythmic Gymnastics.
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