She is best known for playing the popular video game character Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: Underworld from 2008 to 2010. [1] British female gymnasts have participated in every Summer Olympics since 1928, except for 1932. The Romanians doctored her birth certificate and spotted her one year, saying she was born in 1977. Buttner-Janz's career after gymnastics was fascinating. Shushunova died from complications from pneumonia in 2018, in her native Saint Petersburg, at just 49 years old. Since 1975, she's been a professor at the Saint Petersburg State Art-Industrial Academy. 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. Apart from winning a team bronze at the 2012 London Olympics, British gymnast Sam Oldham is also a Youth Olympic and Commonwealth champion. Vera Caslavska became the head of the Czech Olympic Committee during the 1990s. 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. Since 2017, Joe Fraser has been an important member of the English Senior team, helping his team win the silver medal at the 2018 European Championships. Korbut ushered in an era of gymnastics dominated by young, lithe women. History probably isn't going to be very kind to former U.S. Olympic gymnast Terin Humphrey. In 2021, she won the bronze medal in Uneven Bars at the European Women's Gymnastics Championships. 1 Beth Tweddle (Retired British Artistic Gymnast ) 42 12 Birthdate: April 1, 1985 Sun Sign: Aries Birthplace: Johannesburg, South Africa Known as Britain's most successful gymnast, Beth Tweddle is a 3-time world champion and a 6-time European champion, apart from being an Olympic bronze medalist. Nadia Comaneci is the greatest Olympic gymnast and one of the greatest Olympians of all time. But Comaneci, much like Korbut, was also an innovator acrobatically. He retired from the sport at age 21. 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). In his seminal work, Gymnastik fr die Jugend (1793; Gymnastics for Youth ), Guts Muths envisioned two main divisions of gymnastics: natural gymnastics and artificial 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. 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. Olympian Brinn Bevan scripted history when he became part of the first World Championship medal-winning British mens gymnastics team, when the team won a silver in 2015. Olivia Dunne is an LSU gymnast and one of the faces of the NIL movement. At the Munich 1972 Olympic Games, 17-year-old Olga Korbut captivated the world with her daring acrobatics and her raw displays of emotion. She won her last World title on the event in 2003, eight years after winning her first. He also has 3 Northern European Championship gold medals in his kitty. Khorkina won seven Olympic medals, including back-to-back titles on the uneven bars. She effectively retired from gymnastics in 2000, but had a brief, unsuccessful return to the sport in 2006. If you're trying to find out the names of famous Spanish gymnasts then this list is the perfect resource for you. 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. Her mother and sister survived by hiding, but her father was gassed to death in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. He Kexin officially retired from gymnastics in 2013 and has lived a relatively low-profile life since then. Born: Dec. 18, 1931 (Miada Boleslav, Czechoslovakia), Died: Nov. 10, 1991 (Prague, Czechoslovakia), Olympic years: 1952 (Helsinki), 1956 (Melbourne), 1960 (Rome), Medals: 4 (1952, bronze, team all-around; 1956, silver, balance beam; 1960, gold, balance beam/silver, team all-around). Shawn Johnson Shawn Machel Johnson East (born January 19, 1992) is an American former artistic 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. Before joining gymnastics, Simmons was a schoolteacher. Which is a major credit to Johnson East's combination of charisma and talent. Chusovitina was so popular in Uzbekistan they put her on a stamp. [8][9], List of Olympic female artistic gymnasts for Great Britain, Last edited on 5 September 2022, at 18:13, "Great Britain Gymnastics Women's Team All-Around Results", "Great Britain Gymnastics Women's Individual All-Around Results", "Great Britain Gymnastics Women's Uneven Bars Results", "Rio Olympics 2016: Bryony Page wins trampoline silver for Great Britain", "Women's artistic gymnastics team named for Tokyo Olympics", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Olympic_female_artistic_gymnasts_for_Great_Britain&oldid=1108676150, This page was last edited on 5 September 2022, at 18:13. Scottish poets are among the most famous poets writing in the English language: Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stephenson, Edwin Muir, Ivor Cutler. The UK's biggest display festival promoting gymnastics for all regardless of age, gender, race and ability. Raisman was one of the many gymnasts who received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award following their bravery in uncovering the USA Gymnastics sexual abuse scandal. She soared to fame with the show Gladiators and had a 5-year stint on it. Lemhenyi-Tass wasn't the only Olympian in her family. She died of pancreatic cancer in 2016, at 74 years old. Bryony Page is a trampoline gymnast who became the first English trampolinist to win a medal at the Olympics when she won a silver medal at the 2016 Olympics. She's even credited with the development of an artificial spine disk known as the Charite Disc. She won both beam and floor and took second on uneven bars. One of his four children grew up to be British actor and singer Jean Simmons. Kuchinskaya coached gymnastics in the USSR, Japan and the United States following her retirement from the sport and married an eye doctor in 1980. .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 You can find more information for coaches, gymnasts and parents. The famous gymnasts he trained include Comneci, Mary Lou Retton, Dominique Moceanu, and Kerri Strug. Injuries kept Sofia Muratova from achieving what might have been next-level Olympic fame. Courses. Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas is best known as the first African American to win the individual all-around event. Her "Korbut Flip" on the uneven bars brought her four gold medals. Keleti, who was also a professional cello player, was granted political asylum in Australia in 1956 after the Soviet Union invaded Hungary. She has two elements named for her, including one a straddled front salto on the uneven bars that still carries an E value under the current set of rules. Retton, a West Virginia native, became the first American to win Olympic gold in the all-around competition with her thrilling defeat of Romanian favorite Ecaterina Szabo with perfect 10s in the last two events, the vault and floor exercise. Both made their Olympic debuts in their 20s. Scottish Gymnastics' major partner and funding agency is sportscotland. She was on a Wheaties box. The daughter of former Irish footballer Mark Kinsella, she grew up in a sports-loving environment. 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 is known as "Milo" in the gymnastics community, and is one of the Romania's top gymnasts of the decade. Sacramone married former NFL quarterback Brady Quinn in 2014, and the couple have three daughters together. How popular was Kuchinskaya in 1968? Gutsu's victory over American Shannon Miller by .012 in the all-around is still the closest margin of victory in Olympic history in that competition. With teammates Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, and Madison Kocian, she helped Team USA win its second-straight team gold medal at the Games. The "grandfather" of modern gymnastics, Johann Christoph Friedrich Guts Muths (1759-1839), was a leading teacher at the Philanthropinist school in Schnepfenthal. The story was taken down, and He has always denied her age documents were manipulated. You can change your cookie settings at any time by using the . American gymnast Shannon Miller didn't let her career become defined by the 1992 Olympics, where she set the record for most medals won in an Olympic games without winning a gold medal, when she brought home three silver medals and two bronze medals. She's also served as the president of the Women's Sports Federation and the co-chair for the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. They excelled on the world's biggest stage. Her two silver medals at the 2004 Olympics were more impressive when we found out afterward she did it with a stress fracture in her hip. She also won gold medals for the U.S. in the team competitions at the 2012 and. Both men and women compete for medals in the All-Around competition, Individual Apparatus finals and the Team Event. Medals: 4 (gold, balance beam/silver, team all-around/silver, all-around/silver, floor). Robert the Bruce Robert the Bruce was a nobleman from south-west Scotland. Before the 2012 Olympic game, gymnast Gabby Douglas almost quit the sport. 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. 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. (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). 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. She's been the vice president of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation since the mid-2000s. 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). The British Gymnastics head national coach, however, had to step down while investigations regarding physical mistreatment accusations against her were underway. 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 was gracious to the point that Soviet Union teammate Olga Korbut was able to grab part of the spotlight at the 1972 Olympics despite Tourischeva winning gold in the all-around. Oksana Chusovitina had a pretty wild career. She's married to Chris Carter, a former gymnast for Great Britain, and the couple have three children together. 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. A professional display gymnast, Alison Carroll has represented the UK in several competitions. 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. In 2009, Jackie was ranked fifth in the 50 greatest Formula One drivers of all time. Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan was at the center of one of the biggest Olympic controversies of all time. The same year, he also won a gold medal at the European Championships in Montpellier. 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. British gymnast and Olympian Rebecca Wing is also a Commonwealth team silver medal winner. In 2017, Gutsu accused former Soviet Olympic gold medal gymnast Vitaly Scherbo of raping her when she was 15 years old. That feat hadnt been accomplished in more than a decade since Dominique Dawes swept the U.S. nationals in 1994. Ludmilla Tourischeva's focused, understated persona is legendary in the sport. At Tokyo 2020, billions around the world will tune in to watch the top gymnasts on the planet, including arguably the greatest female of all time, displaying their physical and technical brilliance in pursuit of a gold medal and with a special place in history guaranteed for any athlete who innovates and breaks records on the biggest stage. 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. It came in stark contrast to the gymnastics of Vera Caslavska of Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Unions Larisa Latynina, who won the all-around titles at the 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games. Simone Biles dominated womens gymnastics in the lead up to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, winning three straight World all-around titles a first by a woman from 2013-2015. With his 2008 Beijing Olympic bronze medal, Louis Smith became the second Black male gymnast to have won the medal. More amazing? Lemhenyi-Tass participated in four different Olympics. Larisa Latynina's nine gold medals are the most for any Olympic gymnast and the second-most gold medals for any Olympian, ever. Artistic Gymnastics is a core sport on the Commonwealth Games programme. In 2000, she was the first German gymnast inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Scottish Gymnastics' Roles and Responsibilities Monitor membership and participation levels in Scotland. 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). In four appearances at the Worlds, Biles holds the records for most World gold medals at 14 and is tied for most medals overall by a female gymnast with Khorkina at 20. She had a Barbie doll modeled after her. From Olga Korbut to Simone Biles, here are five women who changed the face of artistic gymnastics forever. On the flip side, she was past her prime when the 2012 Olympic trials rolled, around and she failed to make the U.S. team. 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. She won World and European medals on all four events and in the all-around. Two elements on the balance beam. [2] [3] British women have won four medals at the Olympics: the 1928 team all-around bronze; the 2012 uneven bars bronze, which was won by Beth Tweddle; the 2016 floor exercise bronze, won by Amy Tinkler; and the 2021 team all-around bronze. After the Olympics, Hernandez became the youngest contestant (and winner) on "Dancing with the Stars" in 2016. British retired gymnast and Olympian Hannah Whelan has won her country a Commonwealth team gold and a European Championship team silver. It's called a triple-double. Amanar retired in 2000 and married Romanian attorney Cosmin Tabara in 2002. 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. Shushunova retired just two months after the 1988 Olympics and returned home to teach and coach gymnastics. 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). All-in-all, she left Rio with four gold medals and a bronze, as well as superstar status. Via: dailyiowan.com. 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. 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. Biles' performance at the Olympics and in the preceding world championships has been so dominant that she's already considered one of the greatest gymnasts of all time. The two divorced in 1987, and in 1993, during a fight with their oldest son, Martin, Josef was punched and fell to the floor, striking his head and causing his death. 1. He later served as a physical training instructor, too. The son of a London Welsh rugby player, he was destined to pursue sports as a career option. These are the greatest women's gymnasts of all time. You can change your cookie settings at any time by using the . Born: June 19, 1975 (Bukhara, Uzbek SSR, USSR), Country: Unified Team (1992), Uzbekistan (1996, 2000, 2004, 2016), Gerrmany (2008, 2012), Olympic years: 1992 (Barcelona), 1996 (Atlanta), 2000 (Sydney), 2004 (Athens), 2008 (Beijing), 2012 (London), 2016 (Rio de Janeiro), Medals: 2 (1992, gold, team all-around; 2008, silver, vault). That means she rotates around an axis going . But Kuchinskaya was burned out of her sport and never competed again after 1968. when the world's best gymnasts compete for their countries and medals. Her 18 medals were the most medals won by any Olympian from 1964 until 2012, and she's still the only woman to win gold in the team, all-around and an individual event in a single Olympics. She was leading through seven of eight events before a slip on the beam cost her the medal. Tourischeva married one of the Soviet Union's greatest Olympians, sprinter Valeriy Borzov, who swept the 100-meter and 200-meter gold medals at the 1972 Olympics. After Korbut spoke out, several more gymnasts who trained under Knysh revealed they'd been sexually assaulted by him as well. 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. She won four medals at the 1988 Olympics, including helping lead her country to the gold medal in the team competition. Few gymnasts in Olympic history have been able to medal at three Olympic games. Standing just 4-foot-10, Yelena Shushunova was a dynamic athlete who was the final all-around gold medalist in the storied history of the Soviet Union's gymnastics team. 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. Olympic teammate Nastia Liukin, who won gold in the all-around in 2008, is the godmother to her only child. Onodi married U.S. Olympic pentathlete Jimbo Haley and is now a U.S. citizen. 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. Romanian gymnast Sandra Izbasa pulled off a rare feat in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. Dominique Moceanu's career represents one of the biggest "what-ifs?" She was the first Hungarian to win an Olympic medal in gymnastics in over 30 years. 2. Johanna Quaas, 95, crushed a gymnastics routine in a viral video on Twitter. She was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2002. [2][3] British women have won four medals at the Olympics: the 1928 team all-around bronze; the 2012 uneven bars bronze, which was won by Beth Tweddle; the 2016 floor exercise bronze, won by Amy Tinkler; and the 2021 team all-around bronze. And it looked like no time had passed. Living Gymnasts Go to all Rankings Newly Added Gymnasts (2022) Go to all Rankings Nastia became an American citizen after her parents immigrated to the United States when she was two years old. Her father is 1988 Olympic gold medalist Valeri Liukin, and mother is 1987 world clubs champion in rhythmic gymnastics Anna Kotchneva. The most famous living gymnasts include Almudena Cid, Gervasio Deferr, and Tania Lamarca. Courtney Kupets' career is a study in perseverance, determination and toughness. She also won silver medals in all-around and floor. She is now a coach working with the Warrington Gymnastics Club. Simone Biles appears to defy the laws of physics with this epic tumbling pass from the 2019 US Gymnastics Championships. 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. She has become a sports icon in the Philippines . Scotland's most famous glen combines two essential qualities of the Highlands: dramatic scenery and a deep sense of history. The first woman to win the Olympics in the era of the open ended scoring system, Nastia Liukin, proved that artistry and execution could still be combined to achieve success in a set of rules focused on amassing difficulty. She went on to win medals in three of the four individual apparatus finals. Gymnasts sometimes fall and when this happens, they should do so gracefully. Tamara Manina won four medals at the 1956 Olympics, including a team gold for the Soviet Union, but had to miss the 1960 Olympics because of injury. The incident took place at Dunedin Airport on Monday 27 February at 2pm. He has been named an MBE, too. They traveled through Communist Hungary and Austria, mostly on foot and at night, until they were able to get to a plane to take them to the United States. Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut became world-famous for her amazing acrobatics at the 1972 Olympics. That's right. Boginskaya, who was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2006, also sells gymnastics apparel online and spent years creating gymnastics camps around Houston. 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. In the storied history of Romanian gymnasts, only Ecaterina Szabo stands behind Nadia Comaneci. John Buchan (1875 - 1940) Born in Perth, Buchan was a Scottish novelist and historian who served as Governor-General of Canada 1935-40. 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. Amelie Morgan also had a prolific junior career; she won five medals at the 2018 Junior European Championships. Milosovici was banned from any association with the Romanian national team for five years after she performed gymnastics topless for two Japanese DVDs and posed nude in a Japanese magazine. She was a prodigy, rising rapidly through the U.S. junior ranks. Nina Derwael. Dawes has stayed busy since her gymnastics career ended, including when she earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland in 2002. He retired in 2017, after earning 14 international medals. The Soviet Unions Nellie Kim also scored two 10.0s in Montreal. Every four years at the Olympics, millions of fans enjoy the high-flying acrobatics and the drama (the drama!) She is the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist and team, all-around and floor exercise silver medalist. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the British Gymnastics website. Apart from a botched tumor-removal operation at 10, Kieran Behan also faced brain damage following a gymnastics accident at 12. Comanecis perfect score opened the flood gates. A 3-time gold medalist in the Youth Olympics, Giarnni Regini-Moran has also earned 5 gold medals in the European Junior Championships. Svetlana Khorkina is one of them. As of April 2022, 9 new gymnasts have been added to Pantheon including Mariana Constantin, Lavinia Agache, and Gabriela Potorac. At just her second competition back, the U.S. Championships, Biles won all five available gold medals. Orga Kolbut is one of them. The 1952 Olympics were the first time the Soviets competed in any international competition. Korondi stacked medals in other events as well, picking up two silver medals and four bronze medals. She's also not the only Olympic medalist in her family. Gorokhovskaya set the standard by which all other Soviet Union gymnasts would be judged. Biles holds the record for the most decorated American gymnast with a total of 30 Olympic and World Championship medals. Jackie Stewart. 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. Maria Gorokhovskaya, who was Jewish, went on to have a lengthy career as an international judge before immigrating to Israel in 1990, where she worked as a gymnastics coach until her death in Tel Aviv in 2001.
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