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Olga Valentinovna Korbut [a] (born 16 May 1955) is a Belarusian retired gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the " Sparrow from Minsk ", she won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games , in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the Soviet team, [ 1 ] and was the inaugural inductee to the ...
Olga Korbut, who competed at her first Olympics in 1972, was popular with fans and the media for her daring moves. That year, she won four medals, including golds in balance beam and floor exercise. She won two more medals in 1976 and finished her career with six overall. [ 12 ]
The early IGHOF was founded in 1972 by Frank Wells of the National Gymnastics Clinic. It had only one member, Olga Korbut, and disbanded in the late 1970s. The current museum was founded in 1986 by Glenn Sundby, publisher of the International Gymnast Magazine. Initially located in Oceanside, California, it was moved into Oklahoma City in 1997.
Now a U.S. citizen, the former Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut, who dazzled audiences at the 1972 Munich Games, has sold off her Olympic medals. As rumors swirl that she is "almost destitute," Korbut ...
She remains the only gymnast, male or female, to have won an Olympic gold medal in each individual event. [9] Nadia Comăneci, who competed for Romania in 1976 and 1980, won nine medals. In 1976, she became the first gymnast to earn a perfect 10 at the Olympic Games and eventually achieved that mark seven times during the Games.
The Korbut flip is a gymnastics skill performed on either of two different apparatus. Both were first performed internationally by the Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut. [1]The more spectacular version of the skill used to be performed on the uneven bars, where the gymnast, from a stand on the high bar, performs a back flip and regrasps the bar.
Eighty-six gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds on July 18 and 19. The six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on July 22. Each country was limited to two competitors in the final. Half of the points earned by each gymnast during both the compulsory and optional rounds carried over to the final.
Gymnast Years Team AA VT UB BB FX Olympic Total World Total Total 1 Larisa Latynina: 1954–1966 1956 1960 1964 1956* 1954 1958 1962 1966: 1956 1960 1964 1958 1962: 1956 1964 1960 1958 1962: 1956 1960 1964 1958 1962: 1964 1960 1958 1962: 1956 1960 1964 1962 1958: 18: 14: 32 2 Ludmilla Tourischeva: 1968–1976 1968 1972 1976 1970 1974: 1972 1976 ...