Category: history

Hamm, Liukin, Raducan to IG Hall of Fame

Olympic Champions all. 😊

Paul Hamm and fellow American Nastia Liukin will be inducted along with Romanian Andreea Raducan.

Alexei Nemov entered the Hall of Fame last year, but could not travel at the last minute. He plans come this year, however. …

International Gymnast Magazine

Yelena Shushunova – history

UPDATE – Tom points out that Lilia Podkopayeva also won AA at worlds (1995), Olympics (1996), and European champs (1996).

Yelena Shushunova (Elena Shushunova) … born 23 April 1969 … is a Russian (former Soviet) gymnast, World, European, and Olympic Champion. Shushunova is one of only two women (Ludmilla Tourischeva being the other) who has won the grand slam of All-Around titles: Olympics, World Championships, European/Continental Championships.

Height 1.47 m (4 ft 10 in)
Weight 41 kg (90 lb)

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Shushunova currently lives in her hometown of Saint Petersburg.

In 2005, she was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

Black Gymnasts in History

The Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation has been profiling black gymnasts on their blog.

Corrinne Wright to Simone Biles.

Check it out.

first World Cup medal for India

Bronze on Vault in Melbourne.

For someone who always saw herself as a reluctant gymnast, Aruna Reddy made history on Saturday when she became India’s first World Cup medal winner with a bronze in Melbourne. …

Narayan Reddy, her sports-mad accountant father had other plans in mind. He got her enrolled in an academy in Hyderabad as an eight-year old, but is not around to bask in his daughter’s success today, having passed away in 2010. …

“Every medal I will win is dedicated to my father,” she said. …

Times of India

She trains with Dipa.

One of her coaches, Brij Kishore, is ill.

Andreea Răducan montage

Our 2000 Olympic Champion*.

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related – Currently the Romanian President, she’s cut off funding to Drăgulescu who was out of the country filming a TV show.