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This British export called Gainesville home during her collegiate career, but recently has announced her move to Athens.
Who is Marissa King?
She was a gymnast for the Soviet Union and Belarus. 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.
Who is Svetlana Boginskaya?
She is a Romanian former gymnast best known for medaling in every single event at one Olympics, winning six medals (three gold, two silver, and one bronze) at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul. In doing so, she was the fourth female gymnast to achieve this, after Maria Gorokhovskaya (1952), Larisa Latynina (1960, 1964) and Věra Čáslavská (1968)
Who is Daniela Silivaș?
During her career she won an impressive number of 30 medals at Olympic Games, world championships or continental championships. Her best events were the floor exercise (three-time world champion), the vault (two-time world champion) and the balance beam (1997 world champion). She was also an excellent all around gymnast winning several medals on this event, the European title in 1994, a silver Olympic medal (1996) and a silver medal at the 1993 World Championships. She helped the Romanian team win three consecutive world titles (1994, 1995 and 1997) and two Olympic team medals, a silver and a bronze (1992 and 1996).
Who is Gina Gogean?
Among this gymnast's accomplishments are winning back-to-back All-Around (AA) medals at the World Championships. In 2010 she won four medals in a single World Championships.
Who is Rebecca Bross?
Another British export, this particular gymnast competed for and graduated from the current national champions.
Who is Ruby Harrold?
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, and was the inaugural inductee to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1988.
Who is Olga Korbut?
She was the 2004 Olympic Champion on the uneven bars and was the first female French gymnast to win an Olympic medal in women's artistic gymnastics.
Who is Émilie Le Pennec?
She won a total of 22 international titles between 1959 and 1968 including seven Olympic gold medals, four world titles and eleven European championships. She is the most decorated Czech gymnast in history and is one of only two female gymnasts, along with Soviet Larisa Latynina, to win the all-around gold medal at two consecutive Olympics. She remains the only gymnast, male or female, to have won an Olympic gold medal in each individual event.
Who is Věra Čáslavská?
This gymnast finished 3rd behind Oksana Omelianchik and Elena Shushunova at the 1985 World Championships. She competed in only two major competitions. She won six medals over the course of her career.
Who is Dagmar Kersten?
She is the first, and only, Russian National and World Team Member to compete in The NCAA.
Who is Ira Alexeeva?
She is the winner of the all-around title at the 1992 Summer Olympics. She was renowned for performing some of the most difficult routines in the sport.
Who is Tatiana Gutsu?
She won five medals in Munich, two of them gold (bars and vault) and silver in The All-Around behind Tourischeva by .15. Then, won another two medals in Mexico City.
Who is Karin Büttner-Janz?
She won gold medals in the 1984 Olympics in three individual events (vault, balance beam (tie), and floor exercise), won the all-around silver medal, and contributed to the team gold. With her four gold medals and a silver medal, she was the most successful athlete at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Afterwards, she led her team to the world title at the 1987 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, defeating the USSR in the team competition for only the second time in the history of the competition.
Who is Ecaterina Szabo?
She is the 1997 U.S. national all-around champion, the 1998 Goodwill Games gold medalist on the floor exercise and vault, and a four-time national champion in the individual events of vault, balance beam, and floor exercise. She is also the 1996 junior national all-around and floor champion.
Who is Vanessa Atler?
This Cornhusker is The 2018 Youth Olympic silver medalist on vault, bronze team medalist at the 2020 European Championships, and will represent Hungary at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Who is Csenge Bácskay?
She won three gold medals and a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. She was the second woman in Olympic history to earn a perfect 10 score and the first woman to score it on the vault and on the floor exercise.
Who is Nellie Kim?
She was the first Chinese gymnast, male or female, to win a gold medal at the World Gymnastics Championships and the Olympic Games.
Who is Ma Yanhong?
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. She has tied with Svetlana Khorkina for the most Olympic medals won by a Russian gymnast (not including Soviet Union women's national artistic gymnastics team). She was the ninth gymnast to win medals on every event at the World Championship.
Who is Aliya Mustafina?
At the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, she won three silver medals. She was an alternate on the 2008 Olympic team.
Who is Jana Bieger?
After missing out on The London Olympics, this Canadian gymnast competed for The UCLA bruins, and after scoring two perfect 10.0s to end her career, she helped UCLA win The National Championship in 2018.
Who is Christine "Peng-Peng" Lee?
She was one of five women (alongside Larisa Latynina, Věra Čáslavská, Ludmilla Tourischeva and Lilia Podkopayeva) who have won all-around titles at all major competitions: Olympics, World Championships and European/Continental Championships and one of ten women who medaled on every event at World Championships.
Who is Yelena Shushunova?
Over her four-year senior career, she won Olympic or World Championships medals on every event except the uneven bars and earned three individual World Championships titles, on the floor exercise in 1999 and 2001 and the balance beam in 2001. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where she contributed strongly to the Romanian team's gold medal and won an individual silver medal on the vault. She was also the original winner of the all-around title, but was disqualified and stripped of her gold medal shortly after the competition concluded when it was revealed she tested positive for pseudoephedrine, a banned substance.
Who is Andreea Răducan?
In 1976, at the age of 14, she was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games. At the same Games (1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal), she received six more perfect 10s for events en route to winning three gold medals. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, she won two more gold medals and achieved two more perfect 10s. During her career, she won nine Olympic medals and four World Artistic Gymnastics Championship medals.
Who is Nadia Comăneci?
Best remembered for being WAG’s greatest victim of the 1984 Olympic boycott. She scored twelve Perfect-10s at the 1984 Alternate Olympics. Her performance was further enhanced by the “Perfect-40” where she recorded a Perfect 10 on all four events during All-Around Finals, a feat that has never since been replicated since in Elite.
Who is Olga Mostepanova?