favourite gymnasts …

One of the themes of the second issue of Couch Gymnast, the magazine is contributors naming their personal favourites.

gymnastics photographer Iris Van den Broek:
Ksenia Semenova
Lilia Podkopayeva

Jennifer Giacobbe-Sutherland, gymnastics coach and needlepoint artist:
Nadia Comanichi
Yelena Mukhina

Readers:
Lilya Podkopayeva
Shannon Miller
Tatiana Lysenko
Ekaterina Labaznyuk
Cheng Fei
Nastia Liukin
Anna Pavlova
Courtney Kupets
Dina Kochetkova
Kate Richardson
Isabelle Severino
Mo Huilan

Chris’ favourite gymnasts who did not compete World’s or Olympics:
Tatiana Groshkova
Yulia Kut
Natalia Frolova
Claudia Rusan
Kristal Uzelac
Jackie Bender
Nadezhda Ivanova
Augustina Badea
Gabriela Gheorghe
Mirela Sidon
Daria Elizarova
Huang Qiushuang

Triplefull368 faves:
Anna Pavlova
Yang Bo
Nadezhda Inanova
Fan Ye
Sabina Cojocar
Natalia Frolova
Kui Yuanyuan
Olesya Dudnik
Olga Mostepanova
Tatiana Groshkova

Triplefull368 points out that with YouTube we can easily watch our favourites of the past. So true. YouTube is the best thing that ever happened for gymnastics fans.

A couple of my own favourites not yet mentioned both coached by “The Bear”, Vladislav Rastorestkiy:

Natalia Yurchenko
Natalia Shaposhnikova

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