But despite her early success, a major international all-around title eluded Liukin. Anti-Doping Information She is now a coach working with the Warrington Gymnastics Club. She also won gold medals for the U.S. in the team competitions at the 2012 and. Amy Tinkler is a British retired artistic gymnast who won the bronze medal for the Floor Exercise event in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Suzanne Dando is an English former gymnast who has represented Great Britain in important events like the 1979 World Gymnastics Championships and the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. Orga Kolbut is one of them. Alicia Sacramone was an Olympic favorite heading into the 2008 games, but she came up short in the team competition, falling in two events that some said cost the U.S. the gold medal. Oksana Chusovitina had a pretty wild career. She married strategy consultant Mark Caldwell in 2012, and the couple has three children and live in the Dallas area. Known for her trademark back-flipping and her entry to Madonnas Vogue, she later moved on to modeling and aerobics training. How popular was Kuchinskaya in 1968? That feat hadnt been accomplished in more than a decade since Dominique Dawes swept the U.S. nationals in 1994. Olympic years: 2004 (Athens), 2012 (London), 2016 (Rio de Janeiro), Medals: 5 (2004, gold, team all-around/gold, balance beam/gold, floor exercise; 2012, silver, floor exercise/bronze, team all-around). She doubled down on the Olympic team gold at the 2016 Olympics, and her story was so inspiring it was made into a Lifetime movie. Born: Jan. 19, 1989 (Belogrod, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1996 (Atlanta), 2000 (Sydney), 2004 (Athens), Medals: 7 (1996, gold, uneven bars/silver, team all-around; 2000, gold, uneven bars/silver, team all-around/silver, floor exercise; 2004, silver, all-around/bronze, team all-around). Caslavska went into hiding for over a decade after the incident, but returned to help train younger gymnasts in the early 2000s. Her amazing record includes two gold (2015,2019) and one silver (2013) from the FIG World Cup, two gold (2016) from the Pacific Rim Championships. It is one of the agencies responsible for overseeing the implementation of Reaching Higher - the Scottish Executive's national strategy for sport in Scotland. In 2021, she won the bronze medal in Uneven Bars at the European Women's Gymnastics Championships. Suzanne Cox, also known by her stage name, Vogue, is a 4-time UK competitive aerobics champion. Three maneuvers on the uneven bars. Medals: 4 (gold, balance beam/silver, team all-around/silver, all-around/silver, floor). Miller, who lives in Florida, beat ovarian cancer in 2011. Mary Lou Retton became an international superstar and one of the most beloved athletes in U.S. history with her performance at the 1984 Olympics. Svetlana Khorkina is one of them. Hailing from Farnborough, England, she studied engineering at Stanford University, having secured a scholarship to be part of their NCAA gymnastics team. Most people would agree that he was Scotland's most successful monarch. Olympic years: 1992 (Barcelona), 1996 (Atlanta), Medals: 2 (1992, gold, vault/silver, floor exercise). Though she had a short stint as a gymnast, Jennifer Pinches has already represented Britain in the Olympics, helping them gain the sixth position in the 2012 London games. Age: 30 Birthplace: Alicante, Spain Age: 47 Birthplace: Lleida, Spain Age: 36 Sacramone shouldered the blame for the team's failings in 2008, but experts pointed out the team was at a huge disadvantage going into Sacramone's events due to a big points deficit to China. She became the first gymnast to be named to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Her back flip and Korbut flip on the balance beam were daring at the time and are elements still used in womens gymnastics today. Sports producer Barbara Slater is also a former gymnast and Olympian. Apart from being a Commonwealth champion and a 2-time European champion, British gymnast Kristian Thomas has also won his country an Olympic bronze. Sacramone married former NFL quarterback Brady Quinn in 2014, and the couple have three daughters together. However, he overcame all the hurdles and became the second Irish gymnast to be part of the Olympics. He Kexin, the most successful Chinese female gymnast in Olympic history, became a national hero in 2008 when she won gold in the uneven bars and helped lead China to gold in the team competition. Though Shannon Miller remains the USAs most decorated Olympic gymnast with seven, Biles needs only to collect three medals in Tokyo to add that superlative to her resume. It would have been easy for Raducan to become bitter about having her gold medal taken away, but she bounced back and won three gold medals at the 2001 World Championships. The one medal that eluded Astakhova was the gold in all-around. Ukrainian gymnast Lilla Podkopayeva's amazing run at the 1996 Olympics can't be undersold. She wrote her autobiography "Finding My Shine" in 2015, which was the same year she was the grand marshal for the Indy 500. Hungarian Olympic legend Henrietta Onodi has a move named after her the "Onodi" a half-turn jump into a full walkover on the balance beam. Former Scottish gymnast Carly Sarah Smith wrote on Instagram that her pockets were checked for food. You can change your cookie settings at any time by using the . She also won silver medals in all-around and floor. Coaches & Community. She was a two-time Olympic captain for the United States' famed "Fierce Five" and "Final Five" squads in 2012 and 2016, leading the way to back-to-back gold medals in team competition. It was first included in 1978 and, after a gap of two Games, has featured in every Games since Auckland in 1990. Both have won medals for their performances. Kupets was named the head coach at the University of Georgia, her alma mater, in 2017. She's the only female gymnast to ever participate in seven different Olympic games and one of only two female gymnasts to compete for three different countries. A professional display gymnast, Alison Carroll has represented the UK in several competitions. He also has a European Games bronze. She's also served as an ambassador for the United Nations on several occasions first on the U.N.'s council for HIV/AIDS awareness, then on the Council of Europe for Sport, Tolerance, and Fair Play, Country: Soviet Union (1988), Unified Team (1992), Belarus (1996), Olympic years: 1988 (Seoul), 1992 (Barcelona), 1996 (Atlanta), Olympic medals: 5 (1988, gold, team all-around/gold, vault/silver, floor exercise/ bronze, all-around; 1992, gold, team all-around). She also had a guest-starring role on "Hart of Dixie" for six episodes. Raisman was on the hit ABC show "Dancing With the Stars," where she finished fourth in 2013 and made a cameo appearance in the Maroon 5 video "Girls Like You" in 2018. She's been the vice president of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation since the mid-2000s. After a year away from the sport, Biles returned to competition in 2018. She also brought a performance value that was mesmerizing both on and off the apparatus. Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896. She was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2001. Born: Nov. 20, 1976 (Silver Spring, Maryland), Olympic years: 1992 (Barcelona), 1996 (Atlanta), 2000 (Sydney), Medals: 4 (1992, bronze, team all-around; 1996, gold, team all-around/bronze, floor; 2000, bronze, team all-around). "Every man dies. Kim has been instrumental in women's gymnastics since her retirement, including helping create a new scoring system in 2005 following a judging scandal at the 2004 Olympics. Born: Oct. 10, 1964 (Berlin, East Germany), Medals: 4 (gold, uneven bars/silver, all-around/bronze, team/bronze, floor exercise). Silivas moved to the United States and has been a gymnastics coach in the Atlanta area since the early 1990s. Alfred Flatow (3 October 1869 - 28 December 1942) was a Jewish German gymnast. To all of the gymnasts around the world who participated in two even three different Olympic games, Hungary's Olga Lemhenyi-Tass would like you to hold her beer. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836 - 1908) Born in Glasgow Campbell-Bannerman was Liberal Prime Minister of Britain between 1906 and 1908. when the world's best gymnasts compete for their countries and medals. The world loves women's gymnastics. Humphrey was a police officer for almost five years in Missouri following her gymnastics career, then left the police department and continued coaching gymnastics in the area. Kuchinskaya coached gymnastics in the USSR, Japan and the United States following her retirement from the sport and married an eye doctor in 1980. The KLF legend, best known for burning a million quid, grew up in Corby and went to Kingswood. There was some controversy over Silivas' score in the vault portion of the all-around she only lost the gold medal by .025 but she's refused to talk about it over the years. Injuries kept Sofia Muratova from achieving what might have been next-level Olympic fame. Johanna Quaas, 95, crushed a gymnastics routine in a viral video on Twitter. Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut became world-famous for her amazing acrobatics at the 1972 Olympics. In 1992, Miller's loss by just .012 points to Tatiana Gutsu in the all-around final is still the closest defeat in Olympic history in the competition. Robert the Bruce Robert the Bruce was a nobleman from south-west Scotland. Living Gymnasts Go to all Rankings Newly Added Gymnasts (2022) Go to all Rankings Tatiana Gutsu dominated at the 1992 Olympics while representing the Unified Team a group of Soviet Bloc countries who competed at the Summer and Winter Olympics together that year. Susan went on to sell 14million copies of her debut album worldwide in 2009. Born: May 3, 1942 (Prague, Czechoslovakia), Died: Aug. 30, 2016 (Prague, Czech Republic), Olympic years: 1960 (Rome), 1964 (Tokyo), 1968 (Mexico City), Medals: 11 (1960, silver, team all-around; 1964, gold, all-around/gold, vault/gold, balance beam/silver, team all-around; 1968, gold, all-around/gold, vault/gold, uneven bars/gold, floor exercise/silver, team all-around/silver, balance beam). Lemhenyi-Tass participated in four different Olympics. Szabo led her team to a gold medal in 1987 at the World Championships. Courses. Olympic years: 1952 (Helsinki), 1956 (Melbourne), Medals: 8 (1952, gold, uneven bars/silver, team exercises/bronze, all-around/bronze, balance beam/bronze, floor exercises/bronze, team apparatus; 1956, gold, team apparatus/silver, team combined). Which is a major credit to Johnson East's combination of charisma and talent. Joe Fraser is an artistic gymnast who became the first and only English gymnast to win gold on Parallel Bars at the world championships when he won the medal at the 2019 World Championships. Born: Sept. 30, 1994 (Yegoryevsk, Russia), Medals: 7 (2012, gold, uneven bars/silver, team all-around; 2016, gold uneven bars/silver, team all-around/bronze, all-around/bronze, all-around/bronze, floor exercise). She trains with the East London Gymnastics Club. Amelie Morgan also had a prolific junior career; she won five medals at the 2018 Junior European Championships. In 2019, shell need three medals to pass Vitaly Scherbos overall record (23), and has in her locker a set of moves that no other female has ever performed in competition. '. Shawn Johnson Shawn Machel Johnson East (born January 19, 1992) is an American former artistic gymnast. Kerri Strug Vaulted to Gold with an Injured Ankle in the 1996 Olympics The 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta not only celebrated the centennial of the international sports competition, but also became part of sports record books when the . Simone Biles appears to defy the laws of physics with this epic tumbling pass from the 2019 US Gymnastics Championships. Her father, Farhat Mustafina, won a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling for the Soviet Union in 1976. She added another gold medal in 1956 in the now-defunct team apparatus event. Dominique Dawes is one of only three American gymnasts to participate in three different Olympic Games, and the first African-American to win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. 12. The daughter of former Irish footballer Mark Kinsella, she grew up in a sports-loving environment. Every four years at the Olympics, millions of fans enjoy the high-flying acrobatics and the drama (the drama!) Patterson had a brief recording career following her retirement from gymnastics and in 2009 had one of her songs feature don the ABC show "Make It Or Break It" about a family of gymnasts trying to make the Olympics. Manina's contributions to sports extend beyond her career on the mat. Keleti, who is Jewish, fled her home in Nazi-occupied Hungary to live in the countryside as a maid, using forged documents that identified her as a Christian. She effectively retired from gymnastics in 2000, but had a brief, unsuccessful return to the sport in 2006. Suzanne Dando announced her retirement from gymnastics after the 1980 Olympics and then went on to work as a TV broadcaster for many channels, including Sky Sports, BBC One, and Channel 4. Part of the last Olympic gymnastics team for the Soviet Union, Svetlana Boginskaya won a pair of gold medals in 1988, then returned to win another gold medal in 1992 as part of the Unified Team, but this time in the team competition. Miller bounced back with two gold medals at the 1996 Olympics, in balance beam and the team competition with the "Magnificent Seven" squad. Injuries hampered Moceanu more than anything in 1996, and she fell flat in her individual events, with the closest she came to winning a medal being a fourth-place finish in floor exercises. Catalina Ponor is one of the most successful, honored Olympic gymnasts in Romanian history. Born: Aug. 15, 1978 (Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union), Medals: 3 (gold, all-around/ gold, floor exercise/ silver, balance beam). The gymnast was just 18 when the alleged incident happened Credit: Golders. She pulled off the (somewhat surprising) rare feat of winning an all-around world championship one year and being all-around Olympic champion the next. His dad was Scottish minister Rev Drummond . She is best known for playing the popular video game character Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: Underworld from 2008 to 2010. Ponor did this all with a congenital heart defect. Milo's crowning achievement was the 1992 Olympics, where she won gold in the vault and floor exercise, bronze in the all-around and helped lead Romania to silver in the team competition. Podkopayeva cracked two ribs earlier in the year, recovered from that and dominated at the Olympics, winning gold in the all-around and floor exercise, along with silver in the balance beam. She helped lead that U.S. team to the gold medal and her silver in the vault, despite how she looked, was still impressive. Eva Bosakova was one of the top gymnasts for Czechoslovakia throughout their rivalry with the powerhouse Soviet Union and helped lead the way in three different Olympic Games, earning a medal in all three. Artistic gymnast and Olympian Ruby Harrold has won Britain a Commonwealth team gold, apart from 2 European Championship silver medals and a World Championship gold. Both made their Olympic debuts in their 20s. Korbut was also arrested for shoplifting in Arizona in 2002. 2) Simone Biles With an accomplishment of 19 titles including both of the Olympics and world championship events, Simone is perhaps the most garlanded American gymnast. Even though the move originated by Soviet Olga Mostepanoya in 1983, Onodi perfected it. Among those mentioned, they wrote some of the most famous novels in the English . Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan was at the center of one of the biggest Olympic controversies of all time. Born: Sept. 9, 1978 (Campuri, Vrancea, Romania), Medals: 5 (1992, silver, team all-around; 1996, silver, all-around/bronze, team all-around/bronze, balance beam/bronze, vault). She is now a successful trainer and a single mother. The famous gymnasts he trained include Comneci, Mary Lou Retton, Dominique Moceanu, and Kerri Strug. After her competitive career was over, Gutsu moved to the United States, where she's been a gymnastics coach in Michigan for the last two decades. Polina Astakhova won 10 medals for the Soviet Union spread out over three different Olympic games from 1956-1964. Apart from a botched tumor-removal operation at 10, Kieran Behan also faced brain damage following a gymnastics accident at 12. Nastia Liukin was born in Moscow to a pair of famed Russian gymnasts. She also loves traveling and sketching in her leisure time. In January 2020, she announced her retirement from gymnastics, at the age of21. Controversy over her career still surrounds He. Born: Dec. 31, 1995 (Newport News, Virginia), Medals: 3 (2012, gold, team all-around/ gold, team all-around; 2012, gold, all-around). Ellie Downie wrote in her joint statement with Becky that she was consistently told she was too heavy from around age 14. Muratova's two gold medals came in team competition in back-to-back Olympics. Labeled a diva throughout her career, Khorkina was actually tough as nails and a team player. 3. Five famous female gymnasts who revolutionized the sport From Olga Korbut to Simone Biles, here are five women who changed the face of artistic gymnastics forever 6 min By Scott Bregman Updated on 27 September 2019 00:44 GMT-7 Artistic Gymnastics Tickets to the artistic gymnastics competition are some of the hottest at any Olympic Games. In 2017, she auctioned off her Olympic medals for close to $340,000 dollars. He was murdered in the Holocaust. Best Gymnasts In The World Right Now! Maroney's facial expression the "not impressed" look gained her worldwide fame, but her achievements on the "Fierce Five" shouldn't be overlooked. She became one of the most respected orthopedic surgeons in the world. Medals: 6 (1992, gold, vault/gold, floor exercise/silver, team all-around/bronze, all-around; 1996, bronze, team all-around/bronze, all-around). Dominique Moceanu's career represents one of the biggest "what-ifs?" Scottish Dictionary Aye Bairn Bampot Belter Blootered Boggin Boke Bonnie/Bonny Canny Clatty Clipe Crabbit Craic Dae Dafty Dinnae Eejit Eh Greet/Greetin Hackit Haud Haver Hoachin Hunners Jake/Jakey Ken Lassy Mad Wae It Minging Mockit Munter Och Patch Peely-wally Randan Scran Scunnered Skelped/Scudded Steamin Stoter Tap Tattie Weapon Wee Whitey In addition to being a medal-winning gymnast, Bea Lucero-Lhuillier was also a bronze-medalist in taekwondo at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Her specialty was the balance beam, where she won a gold medal in 1960 after taking silver in 1956. Holidaymakers saw their trips away delayed this week after a hedgehog on the runway caused a ruckus. Born: Oct. 30, 1936 (Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1956 (Melbourne), 1960 (Rome), 1964 (Tokyo), Medals: 10 (1956, gold, team all-around/bronze, team/apparatus; 1960, gold, team all-around/gold, uneven bars/silver, floor exercise/bronze, all-around 1964, gold, team all-around/gold, uneven bars/silver, floor exercise/bronze, all-around). He had ADHD as a child and later also won a choral scholarship but chose to focus on gymnastics instead. (Former British Artistic Gymnast and Olympic Bronze Medalist), (Presenter and a former international rhythmic gymnast), (Model most famous for having served as the model for video game heroine Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider series from 2008 to 2010). We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Born: Feb. 4, 1988 (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), Olympic medals: 3 (2004, gold, all-around; 2004, silver, team all-around; 2004, silver, balance beam). Edinburgh may be the famous capital city, with its historical castle and picturesque cobbled streets, but Glasgow is the fiesta little sister - sassy and creative. Her husband, Dezso, played for the Hungarian national water polo team and won a silver medal in 1948 and gold medal in 1952. With his 2008 Beijing Olympic bronze medal, Louis Smith became the second Black male gymnast to have won the medal. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Gnauck was severely injured in 1988 in a freak accident on a waterslide and almost permanently paralyzed, requiring emergency surgery for three plates to fuse her vertebrae. Raducan was cleared of any wrongdoing, but the gold went to teammate Simona Amanar, and the doctor was suspended for four years. Liukin has been on two seasons of "Dancing With the Stars" since her retirement and was also on "American Ninja Warrior" in 2020. The Loch Ness Monster is one of the most famous mythical monsters in the world and, even to this day, remains one of Scotland's most enduring mysteries. She is also a talented diver and squash player. Medals: 10 (1952, gold, floor exercise/silver, team all-around/bronze, uneven bars/bronze, team, portable; 1956, gold, uneven bars/gold, balance beam/gold, team, portable/gold, floor exercise/silver, all-around/silver, team all-around). History probably isn't going to be very kind to former U.S. Olympic gymnast Terin Humphrey. Nicknamed "The Russian Birch" and "Madonna" for her beauty and grace, Astakhova was an obsession for journalists in the western world during most of her career. Mustafina was recovering from an injury in a hospital in 2015 when she met her future husband and Russian Olympic bobsledder Alexey Zaitsev. She moved to the United States and has run a gymnastics club in Illinois since the 1980s. He also scripted history by becoming the first British artistic gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal. Undeterred, the then 19-year-old Liukin persevered through to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The most famous living gymnasts include Almudena Cid, Gervasio Deferr, and Tania Lamarca. Following her retirement from competition, Tourischeva became a coach and one of her proteges, Lillia Podkopayeva, won the Olympic gold medal in the all-around at the 1996 Olympics. June 11, 2022 Posted by: grady county, ga zoning map . Patterson's gymnastics career came to an abrupt halt shortly after the 2004 Olympics when doctors diagnosed her with several bulging discs in her back. The first German inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame, Maxi Gnauck grabbed four medals at the 1980 Olympics, including a gold in the uneven bars. She bounced back during the apparatus finals a few days later, winning the gold medals in the balance beam and floor exercise finals.
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