In preparation for next months European Championships I am making montages of previous champions on each piece of apparatus. I don’t like this one much because I couldn’t get any music to work with it, but hopefully the other events will be better.
1971 – Ludmilla Tourischeva (USSR)
1973 – Angelika Hellman (GDR) and Ludmilla Tourischeva (USSR)
1975 – Nadia Comaneci (Romania)
1977 – Nelli Kim (USSR)
1979 – Nadia Comaneci (USSR)
1981 – Cristina Grigoras (Romania)
1983 – Olga Bicherova (USSR)
1985 – Elena Shushunova (USSR)
1987 – Elena Shushunova (USSR)
1989 – Svetlana Boginskaya (USSR)
1990 – Svetlana Boginskaya (USSR)
1992 – Tatiana Gutsu (Ukraine)
1994 – Lavinia Milosovici (Romania)
1996 – Simona Amanar (Romania)
1998 – Adrienn Varga (Hungary)
2000 – Simona Amanar (Romania)
2002 – Natalia Ziganshina (Russia – the vault shown is from the all-around)
2004 – Monica Rosu (Romania)
2005 – Francesca Benolli (Italy)
2006 – Anna Grudko (Russia)
2007 – Carlotta Giovannini (Italy)
2008 – Oksana Chusovitina (Germany)
2009 – Ariella Kaeslin (Switzerland)
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The giant leap forward in the sequence was Shushanova. She was revolutionary on Vault. What an athlete!
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