She married Dr. Michael Canales, a former Ohio State gymnast, and the couple had three children together. Ukrainian gymnast Lilla Podkopayeva's amazing run at the 1996 Olympics can't be undersold. 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. Boginskaya, a former ice skater herself, was inspired by Katarina Witt's comeback at the 1994 Winter Olympics and made her own comeback from retirement to participate in the 1996 Olympics with Belarus, although she did not medal that year. Born: July 13, 1929 (Leningrand, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1956 (Melbourne), 1960 (Rome), Medals: 8 (1956, gold, team all-around/bronze, team PA/bronze, all-around/bronze, uneven bars; 1960, gold, team all-around/silver, all-around/silver, vault/bronze, balance beam). Sensing a hot hand, she gave up her spot in the 2000 vault finals to teammate Elena Zamolodchikova, who went on to win the gold medal. The one medal that eluded Astakhova was the gold in all-around. Her performance at the 1972 Olympics redefined gymnastics from the sport it had been, with older, less mobile athletes to younger, more acrobatic athletes. His dad was Scottish minister Rev Drummond . Caslavska went into hiding for over a decade after the incident, but returned to help train younger gymnasts in the early 2000s. The Romanians doctored her birth certificate and spotted her one year, saying she was born in 1977. Jackie Stewart. Membership. Before the 2012 Olympic game, gymnast Gabby Douglas almost quit the sport. British female gymnasts have participated in every Summer Olympics since 1928, except for 1932. He was murdered in the Holocaust. Most people would agree that he was Scotland's most successful monarch. Even though the move originated by Soviet Olga Mostepanoya in 1983, Onodi perfected it. 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). 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. Even crazier is that Chusovitina's two Olympics medals came 16 years apart. 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. 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. Not every man really lives." William Wallace. Names we never forget. He retired from the sport at age 21. Among those mentioned, they wrote some of the most famous novels in the English . That means she rotates around an axis going . The story was taken down, and He has always denied her age documents were manipulated. Her "Korbut Flip" on the uneven bars brought her four gold medals. Bosakova's biggest contribution to the sport was also in the balance beam, where she is credited as being the first person to ever complete a cartwheel in the event. Margit Korondi burst onto the international stage with six medals at the 1952 Olympics, including gold in the uneven bars. That year, she pulled off one of the bigger upsets in Olympic gymnastics history when she defeated Olga Korbut on the uneven bars, an event some thought Korbut was unbeatable in. I agree to receive email updates Born: Oct. 17, 1921 (Yevpatoria, Soviet Russia), Medals: 7 (1952, gold, team all-around/gold, all-around/silver, team PA/silver, vault/silver, uneven bars/silver, balance beam/silver, floor exercise). She is best known for playing the popular video game character Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: Underworld from 2008 to 2010. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the British Gymnastics website. Amelie Morgan also had a prolific junior career; she won five medals at the 2018 Junior European Championships. They were married in 2016, had a daughter together in 2017 and divorced in 2018. She won her last World title on the event in 2003, eight years after winning her first. Kim was also the second gymnast to score a perfect 10 in Olympic competition (after Comaneci) and returned to win another gold medal in the floor exercise at the 1980 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. Anti-Doping Information In 2002, she became the youngest gymnast ever inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. He also scripted history by becoming the first British artistic gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal. Sam Langstaff, Scottish Gymnastics head of performance, said: "The 2016 championships are set to be an exciting event, fans will get the opportunity to watch some of Scotland's most talented . One of the most devastating injuries you can suffer in any sport is an Achilles tendon tear, which Izbasa went through in 2010. We'll never know because the Romanian government, wanting to keep its thumb on Comaneci, did not allow her to compete. Korbut's life following her Olympic glory has been tinged with sadness, including her revelation that former coach Renald Knysh sexually assaulted her. And it looked like no time had passed. Biles holds the record for the most decorated American gymnast with a total of 30 Olympic and World Championship medals. Apart from being a Commonwealth champion and a 2-time European champion, British gymnast Kristian Thomas has also won his country an Olympic bronze. For her final Olympics in 2016, she was chosen as Romania's flag bearer, which was the first time this honor was bestowed on a gymnast. She participated in three Olympics for Romania and had her best showing in 2004, leading her country to the gold medal in the 2004 team competition, gold in the balance beam and gold in the floor exercise. Known for her trademark back-flipping and her entry to Madonnas Vogue, she later moved on to modeling and aerobics training. For Liukin, the daughter of Olympic champion Valeri Liukin and rhythmic gymnastics World champion Anna Liukin (nee-Kotchneva), at times Olympic gold seemed like destiny. A two-time World Championship bronze medal winner, Ellie Downiealso won a gold medal at the 2017 European Championships, becoming the first Great Britain gymnast to receive a major all-around title. Born: Sept. 30, 1981 (Hollywood, California). After retiring in 2005, Khorkina was named vice president of the Russian Gymnastics Federation. Having won a combined total of 30 World Championship and Olympic medals, Biles is the world's third-most decorated gymnast and the most decorated in America. Her career was halted by World War II, when her father was killed by the Nazis and her family hid in a "Swedish House.". He Kexin officially retired from gymnastics in 2013 and has lived a relatively low-profile life since then. The true story of her success was in overcoming the tragedy of her childhood. Orga Kolbut is one of them. Miller bounced back with two gold medals at the 1996 Olympics, in balance beam and the team competition with the "Magnificent Seven" squad. A co-founder of Gymnasts for Change, she also campaigns against abuse. The famous gymnasts he trained include Comneci, Mary Lou Retton, Dominique Moceanu, and Kerri Strug. She married Romanian Olympic kayaker Christian Tamas in 1991, and the couple moved to France in 1992, where she's been a coach ever since. How would she have done in 1984? Born: Dec. 31, 1995 (Newport News, Virginia), Medals: 3 (2012, gold, team all-around/ gold, team all-around; 2012, gold, all-around). As a stunt performer, Walters received the 2010 Taurus World Stunt Award for the film Ninja Assassin. The list is in no particular order! British retired gymnast and Olympian Hannah Whelan has won her country a Commonwealth team gold and a European Championship team silver. Born: Sept. 16, 1934 (Petrozavodsk, Respublika Kareliya, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1956 (Melbourne), 1964 (Tokyo), Medals: 6 (1956, gold, team all-around/silver, vault/silver, balance beam/bronze, team PA; 1964, gold, team all-around/silver, balance beam). The son of a London Welsh rugby player, he was destined to pursue sports as a career option. One week after her win, she was stripped of her gold medal because of a failed drug test, courtesy of a banned substance in a cough medicine given to her by the team doctor. She was also the host of the first season of "American Ninja Warrior" and wrote a book, "I Got This: To Gold and Beyond" that was on the New York Times bestseller list. Two vaults. "Every man dies. Try some of our classes Enter your email and we'll send you some samples of our favorite classes. She currently represents Jamaica; she participated in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo where she represented Jamaica. Her unique style on the uneven bars helped her dominate the event for nearly a decade. Buttner-Janz's career after gymnastics was fascinating. Retired Romanian artistic gymnast Lavinia Corina Miloovici was born on October 21, 1976, and is widely regarded as one of the most prolific female all-around gymnasts of 1990s. 1. Age: 30 Birthplace: Alicante, Spain Age: 47 Birthplace: Lleida, Spain Age: 36 Kuchinskaya coached gymnastics in the USSR, Japan and the United States following her retirement from the sport and married an eye doctor in 1980. 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. And she did it twice. He later served as a physical training instructor, too. Lemhenyi-Tass participated in four different Olympics. .more #935 of 1,316 The Best Athletes Of All Time #7 of 25 The Best 'Dancing with the Stars' Winners of All-Time #14 of 25 Oksana Chusovitina had a pretty wild career. The most famous Scottish contestant became the face of BGT without even winning - she was runner-up in 2009. 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. Dawes pursued a career in acting for a while, including a role in the "Grease" Broadway musical in the early 2000s. In 2015, Daniel Purvis and his team won a silver medal at the World Championships, becoming the first British men's team to do so. Karin Buttner-Janz turned in one of the greatest performances in an Olympic Games in 1972, when she won five medals, including two gold medals in individual events. Born: May 25, 1994 (Needham, Massachusetts), Olympic years: 2012 (London), 2016 (Rio de Janeiro), Olympic medals: 5 (2012, gold, team all-around/gold, floor exercise/bronze, balance beam; 2016, gold, team all-around/silver, all-around/silver, floor exercise). 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. Korbut ushered in an era of gymnastics dominated by young, lithe women. 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. 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. She effectively retired from gymnastics in 2000, but had a brief, unsuccessful return to the sport in 2006. Her specialty was the balance beam, where she won a gold medal in 1960 after taking silver in 1956. American gymnast Gabby Douglas is a trailblazer in sports, not just Olympic sports. Her mother was killed as her family fled during the Nazis' siege of Leningrad in 1941. She is known as "Milo" in the gymnastics community, and is one of the Romania's top gymnasts of the decade. In 2021, she became the first English female gymnast to win Olympic medals in two or more Games when she won a bronze medal at the delayed 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. From Olga Korbut to Simone Biles, here are five women who changed the face of artistic gymnastics forever. 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. She followed those wins by taking the all-around gold medal in Rio. Kupets was named the head coach at the University of Georgia, her alma mater, in 2017. (Comanecis perfect mark was famously displayed as a 1.00 at the Olympic Games in Montreal.). She won back-to-back gold medals in the uneven bars in 1996 and 2000, part of her seven total medals in Olympic competitions. Jackie Stewart or Sir John Young Stewart OBE, better know as the Flying Scot, was born in Dumbartonshire on June 11, 1939. Keleti, the oldest living Olympian, turned 100 years old in January 2021. Born: Feb. 17, 1952 (Lubben, East Germany), Olympic years: 1968 (Mexico City), 1972 (Munich), Medals: 7 (1968, silver, uneven bars/bronze, team all-around; 1972, gold, vault/gold, uneven bars/silver, all-around/silver, team all-around/bronze, team all-around/bronze, balance beam). Apart from being a 3-time World champion and a 4-time European champion, Max Whitlock has also earned 6 Olympic medals, 3 of them gold. Born in Singapore, she moved to Britain as a toddler and began training in gymnastics at age 6. 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. Nellie Kim was the favorite headed into the 1976 Olympics, but was upstaged by a young upstart named Nadia Comaneci from rival Hungary, and that's despite winning three gold medals. She is the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist and team, all-around and floor exercise silver medalist. Though too young to compete at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Liukins scores at the 2004 U.S. Championships would have ranked her third in the senior competition. The Soviet Unions Nellie Kim also scored two 10.0s in Montreal. Coming in at number-20 are a lot of gymnasts. Moceanu, the last 14-year-old Olympic gymnast, seemed poised for superstardom at multiple Olympic games because of her age and talent, but came away with just one gold medal in the team competition in 1996. Between 1965 and 1973 he competed in Formula One winning three World Championships, and 27 race wins. She's made it her mission in life to help other women detect the early signs of the disease and is an advocate for survivors. These are the greatest women's gymnasts of all time. Famous Scots in History Rob Roy Folk hero, outlaw and member of the MacGregor clan Mary Queen of Scots Find out more about her dramatic and tragic life, as well as her lasting legacy. Johnson East won Season 8 of "Dancing With the Stars" in 2009 and married NFL long snapper Andrew East in 2016. Every four years at the Olympics, millions of fans enjoy the high-flying acrobatics and the drama (the drama!) Korondi settled in Houston initially, then made her way to the Las Vegas area where she had a long career as a gymnastics coach. 20 - A whole lot of American gymnasts. She also won an NCAA championship in the uneven bars for the University of Alabama in 2004. 6 A Gymnast Must Maintain A Brave Face Even When They Mess A Performance Or Fall. 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). Gymnasts sometimes fall and when this happens, they should do so gracefully. Tickets to the artistic gymnastics competition are some of the hottest at any Olympic Games. British Gymnastics. Raisman also won gold for her floor routine in 2012 and then an all-around silver medal in 2016. 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. Starting training at age 3, he eventually made it to the British Olympic squad at the Tokyo 2020 games and helped the team secure the fourth place. Three maneuvers on the uneven bars. Few gymnasts in Olympic history have been able to medal at three Olympic games. In 2006 and 2007, injuries kept Liukin from full strength at the Worlds, causing some to suggest she stop training in the all-around. History probably isn't going to be very kind to former U.S. Olympic gymnast Terin Humphrey. Greatest Women's Gymnasts of All Time By Tony Adame, updated on May 3, 2022 Julio Cortez / AP Photo The world loves women's gymnastics. It was first included in 1978 and, after a gap of two Games, has featured in every Games since Auckland in 1990. 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). Coaches & Community. Olympic medals: 9 (1976, gold, all-around/gold, uneven bars/gold, balance beam/silver, team all-around/bronze, floor exercise; 1980, gold, balance beam/gold, floor exercise/silver, all-around/silver, team alla-round). She was an ambassador for the 2014 Olympics and has been involved in politics in her home country since her retirement as well, serving as a deputy for the Russian state Duma in 2009 and 2011. But Kuchinskaya was burned out of her sport and never competed again after 1968. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. 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. 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 was a member of the selection committee that picked the U.S. gymnastics team in 2012 and remained involved with U.S. gymnastics team until 2019, when she was removed from her role after she sent out a tweet that seemed to criticize victims in a highly publicized abuse scandal. Two elements on the balance beam. Natalia Kuchinskaya was the star of the 1968 Olympics, winning gold in the balance beam and team competition for the powerful Soviet Union and claiming bronze medals in two other events. Sports producer Barbara Slater is also a former gymnast and Olympian. She won World and European medals on all four events and in the all-around. Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas is best known as the first African American to win the individual all-around event. Apart from winning a team bronze at the 2012 London Olympics, British gymnast Sam Oldham is also a Youth Olympic and Commonwealth champion. The incident took place at Dunedin Airport on Monday 27 February at 2pm. However, she could not participate in many events like the floor exercise, the vault, and the balance beam as she tore her anterior cruciate ligament before the event. 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. Her father, Farhat Mustafina, won a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling for the Soviet Union in 1976. 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 pioneered a back flip off the high bar and was among the first to do a back tuck on beam. Liukin's Olympic career was hampered by her age. The 1952 Olympics were the first time the Soviets competed in any international competition. With his 2008 Beijing Olympic bronze medal, Louis Smith became the second Black male gymnast to have won the medal. Hernandez was a huge contributor to the U.S. team gold medal with big showings in vault, beam and floor exercise and followed that up one week later with a silver medal in the balance beam. She has been named an MBE, too. 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. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages. In 2018, Tinkler tore ligaments in her ankle while practicing for the Birmingham World Cup and could not participate in the event. After Korbut spoke out, several more gymnasts who trained under Knysh revealed they'd been sexually assaulted by him as well. Living Gymnasts Go to all Rankings Newly Added Gymnasts (2022) Go to all Rankings More amazing? In 2017, she auctioned off her Olympic medals for close to $340,000 dollars. Ellie Downie is a British artistic gymnast who has represented Great Britain in many European Championships and a couple of World Championships. She won both beam and floor and took second on uneven bars. 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. 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. Born: Jan. 24, 1968 (Fairmont, West Virginia), Medals: 5 (1984, gold, all-around/silver, team all-around/silver, vault/bronze, uneven bars/bronze, floor exercise). In a fairytale competition, Liukin delivered her best when it counted most, holding off American rival and reigning World champion Shawn Johnson. Quaas holds the Guinness Book of. Maroney's facial expression the "not impressed" look gained her worldwide fame, but her achievements on the "Fierce Five" shouldn't be overlooked. 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. She and her sister had taken up gymnastics at age 6. Nessie, as the legendary creature is commonly known, is reported to reside in Loch Ness, which is 23 miles (37 kilometres) southwest of Inverness, in the Scottish . Some, like Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stephenson, Muriel Spark and Tobias Smollett also wrote novels. Scotland's most famous glen combines two essential qualities of the Highlands: dramatic scenery and a deep sense of history. Her protests during the Soviet Union's anthem during the 1968 Olympics in response to the Soviet invasion of her country led to her forced retirement from the sport. 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. Her gold in the uneven bars in 1996 was especially dramatic because she fell in the same event in the all-around competition just days earlier. Astakhova died of pneumonia, in 2005, at 68 years old. This list may not reflect recent changes ( learn more ). Scottish Gymnastics' major partner and funding agency is sportscotland. California native McKayla Maroney, the daughter of former Purdue quarterback Mike Maroney, was the source of one of the greatest internet memes of all time when the picture of her on the medal stand receiving the silver medal in vault at the 2012 Olympics went viral. 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. But Caslavska's real story is that of a political dissident and hero to the people of her native Czechoslovakia. Labeled a diva throughout her career, Khorkina was actually tough as nails and a team player. At just her second competition back, the U.S. Championships, Biles won all five available gold medals. She was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1998. Medals: 3* (gold, all-around disqualified/gold, team all-around/silver, vault). Born: June 9, 2000 (Old Bridge Township, New Jersey), Medals: 2 (gold, team all-around/silver, balance beam). The British Gymnastics head national coach, however, had to step down while investigations regarding physical mistreatment accusations against her were underway. 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. She also won silver medals in all-around and floor. Two-time European and Commonwealth Games champion gymnast Becky Downie didnt compete at the Tokyo Olympic trial due to her brothers sudden death. Chinese state newspaper Xinhua published a story stating she was 14 years old (not 16 as the national team claimed) in 2008 and therefore ineligible to compete. That feat hadnt been accomplished in more than a decade since Dominique Dawes swept the U.S. nationals in 1994. Retton spent the next decade following her gold medal victory as one of the most popular athletes in America. She became the first gymnast to be named to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. She was on a Wheaties box. She also had a guest-starring role on "Hart of Dixie" for six episodes. Both men and women compete for medals in the All-Around competition, Individual Apparatus finals and the Team Event. 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. She moved to the United States and has run a gymnastics club in Illinois since the 1980s. David Scott (1923-1936) William C Cairns (1936-1949) Robert Laing (1949-1953) James Taylor (1953-1956) Iain M. Clegg (1956-1962) Bill Engelan (1962-1971) Raymond Richards (1971-1974) James Livingstone (1974-1976) Simon Fraser (1976-1978) Jack Milroy (1978-1981) Alex Strachan (1981-1987) David C. Watt (1987-1993) Louise Martin (1994-1999) Courtesy of LSU Athletics Dunne is currently the most-followed collegiate athlete across the combined social platforms.. Helena Rakoczy ( 1921 - 2014) With an HPI of 48.94, Helena Rakoczy is the 2nd most famous Polish Gymnast. Medals: 6 (1988, gold, uneven bars/gold, balance beam/gold, floor exercise/silver, team all-around/silver, all-around/bronze, vault). Those who excel on the biggest world stage become household names, international superstars and national heroes. 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. Equipped with a degree in kinesiology from LSU, she now works as a therapy assistant and is studying to get a degree in physiotherapy. She helped lead that U.S. team to the gold medal and her silver in the vault, despite how she looked, was still impressive. Born: Oct. 7, 1952 (Grozny, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1968 (Mexico City), 1972 (Munich), 1976 (Montreal), Medals: 9 (1968, gold, team all-around; 1972, gold, team all-around/gold, all-around/gold, team all-around/silver, floor exercise/bronze, vault; 1976, silver, vault/silver, floor exercise/bronze, all-around). News. She became one of the most respected orthopedic surgeons in the world. She was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1997 and became the first woman inducted into the Houston Sports Hall of Fame in 2020.
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