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The most decorated Russian females artistic gymnasts are Svetlana Khorkina (1996, 2000, 2004) [6] and Aliya Mustafina (2012, 2016) with seven Olympic medals each. Mustafina was the first Russian gymnast to defend two medals at consecutive games: she won bronze in all-around and gold on uneven bars in 2012 as well as the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Soviet female gymnasts participated in every Olympic Games from 1952 to 1988, except for 1984. [2] A total of 41 female gymnasts represented the Soviet Union. Soviet women won 88 medals at the Olympics – 9 in team all-around, 2 in team portable apparatus, 18 in individual all-around, 15 in balance beam, 17 in floor exercise, 15 in vault, and ...
Svetlana Leonidovna Boginskaya [a] (born February 9, 1973) is a former artistic gymnast for the Soviet Union and Belarus of Belarusian origin. She is a three-time Olympic champion, with an individual gold medal on vault from the 1988 Summer Olympics and team gold medals from the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics.
After retiring from gymnastics, in December 2005 Khorkina was named vice-president of the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation. In 2008, she was a commentator for the Beijing Olympics' gymnastics competition for the Russian TV station NTV+ and released her autobiography entitled, "Somersaults in High Heels" published by Olma-Press [ 36 ] She ...
Name Birthdate and age District represented Olga Astafeva 6 May 2004 (aged 17)Central Federal District Nelli Audi 1 July 2005 (aged 16)Central Federal District Alyona Glotova
Ezhova was a mainstay of the Russian team from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She also represented Russia at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing where she competed only balance beam. She was particularly noted for her work on balance beam where she was a four (4) time world and European medalist, including a gold medal.
PARIS — After winning gold in 2012 and 2016, the United States women’s gymnastics team took silver in the team competition at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Tatiana Felixivna Lysenko (Ukrainian: Тетяна Фелiксiвна Лисенко; born June 23, 1975) is a Soviet and Ukrainian former gymnast, [4] who had her senior competitive career from 1990 to 1994.