Octavian Bellu, Daniela Șofronie, Monica Roşu, Cătălina Ponor, Daniela Silivaș, Claudia Presăcan, Răducan herself, Corina Ungureanu, Loredana Boboc, Gina Gogean, Diana Bulimar, Nadia Comăneci, Sandra Izbaşa and Mariana Bitang.
Category: history
Women’s Gymnastics 1928
Lauren Hopkins believes this is the oldest footage online of any female doing Gymnastics. Leave a comment if you know of anything older.
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most decorated Chinese individual gymnasts
most decorated Russian individual gymnasts
Nikolai Andrianov remembered
Nikolai Andrianov (14 October 1952 – 21 March 2011) was a Soviet/Russian gymnast. He held the record for men for the most Olympic medals at 15 (7 gold medals, 5 silver medals, 3 bronze medals) until Michael Phelps surpassed him at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Andrianov is the third athlete (male or female) in cumulative Olympic medals after Phelps’s 28 and Larisa Latynina, who earned 18. …
In his final years, Andrianov developed the degenerative neurological disordermultiple system atrophy and in his final months was unable to move his arms or legs or talk. Andrianov died on 21 March 2011 at the age of 58 in his hometown of Vladimir. …
The city of Vladimir has just erected a statue to honour his memory.
via papaliukin
FLOTUS and Simone
Simone Biles had the cutest stan moment over Michelle Obama
related – The ‘Final Five’ gymnasts won USA Team of the Year.
Female Athlete of the Rio Games was swimmer Katie Ledecky
Lauren Mitchell retires
Read the official announcement along with a recap of her fantastic career.
watch Nadia’s “Perfect 10s”
Uchimura 2012 vs 2016 Olympics
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Sergey Diomidov
Sergey Viktorovich Diomidov (Russian: Сергей Викторович Диомидов; born 9 July 1943) is an Uzbekistan former gymnast who competed in 1964 and 1968 Olympics. He won team silver medals at both Games and a bronze on the vault in 1968. …
Click PLAY or watch his eponymous skill on YouTube.
You can watch Sergey himself training it in this edit of him and coach Konstantin Karakashyants before and during the 1966 World Championships. Click PLAY or watch him on YouTube.
I’ve often seen his name spelled “Diamadov”. Or “Diamadov”. The Code of Points uses Diamidov though I don’t trust Code spelling in general. Of course you can use Sergey or Sergei.
When in doubt I usually use the wikipedia translation which has (hopefully) been widely crowdsourced. @papaliukin likes Diomidov.
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