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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.
Aliya Farkhatovna Mustafina (Russian: Алия Фархатовна Мустафина; born 30 September 1994) is a Russian former artistic gymnast. She was the 2010 all-around world champion, the 2013 European all around champion, the 2012 and 2016 Olympic uneven bars champion and a seven-time Olympic medalist.
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 [ 37 ] She ...
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.
Russia first competed at the 1993 World Championships, after the fall of the Soviet Union. [1] The Russian women won their first team gold in 2010 [2] and the men won their first team gold in 2019. [3] In 2021 Russian athletes competed as the Russian Gymnastics Federation (RGF) due to sanctions in place against Russian sports. [4]
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 ...
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.
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