She was a two-time Olympic captain for the United States' famed "Fierce Five" and "Final Five" squads in 2012 and 2016, leading the way to back-to-back gold medals in team competition. Some, like Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stephenson, Muriel Spark and Tobias Smollett also wrote novels. You can find more information for coaches, gymnasts and parents. He retired from the sport at age 21. Nassar received 40-to-175 years in prison and Maroney was among the victims awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award in 2018. While competing into the late teenage years and early twenties not to mention Uzbekistans Oksana Chusovitina who has competed into her forties is commonplace again today, Korbut marks the beginning of an age of gymnastics dominated for decades by youngsters. William Wallace Patterson had a brief recording career following her retirement from gymnastics and in 2009 had one of her songs feature don the ABC show "Make It Or Break It" about a family of gymnasts trying to make the Olympics. Walters, who specializes in trampoline and tumbling, has taken part in four Trampoline World Championships. An expert in floor and vault, she has already won an Olympic bronze and a European Championship gold. She proved she wasn't a one-time Olympic standout when she followed that up with silver in the uneven bars in 2012. She said: "You can clearly see how I am doing the physical preparation. 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. Khorkinas long legs and lean physique meant she had to think outside the box when putting together her routines. A co-founder of Gymnasts for Change, she also campaigns against abuse. Born: Dec. 9, 1995 (Aliso Viejo, California), Medals: 2 (gold, team all-around/silver, vault). Her father is 1988 Olympic gold medalist Valeri Liukin, and mother is 1987 world clubs champion in rhythmic gymnastics Anna Kotchneva. Szabo is a legend in her native country, where there's an elementary school and a sports museum named after her, but her fame doesn't really extend past those borders. She married strategy consultant Mark Caldwell in 2012, and the couple has three children and live in the Dallas area. In 2009, Jackie was ranked fifth in the 50 greatest Formula One drivers of all time. Born in Singapore, she moved to Britain as a toddler and began training in gymnastics at age 6. Best Gymnasts In The World Right Now! Johnson East won Season 8 of "Dancing With the Stars" in 2009 and married NFL long snapper Andrew East in 2016. Eva Bosakova was one of the top gymnasts for Czechoslovakia throughout their rivalry with the powerhouse Soviet Union and helped lead the way in three different Olympic Games, earning a medal in all three. One could make a case that the Hungarian national gymnastics team during this stretch was the equivalent of the Buffalo Bills in U.S. team sports. Susan went on to sell 14million copies of her debut album worldwide in 2009. Medals: 10 (1952, gold, floor exercise/silver, team all-around/bronze, uneven bars/bronze, team, portable; 1956, gold, uneven bars/gold, balance beam/gold, team, portable/gold, floor exercise/silver, all-around/silver, team all-around). Karin Buttner-Janz turned in one of the greatest performances in an Olympic Games in 1972, when she won five medals, including two gold medals in individual events. This list may not reflect recent changes ( learn more ). The Soviet Unions Nellie Kim also scored two 10.0s in Montreal. Her career was halted by World War II, when her father was killed by the Nazis and her family hid in a "Swedish House.". Kupets was named the head coach at the University of Georgia, her alma mater, in 2017. Miller bounced back with two gold medals at the 1996 Olympics, in balance beam and the team competition with the "Magnificent Seven" squad. Chinese state newspaper Xinhua published a story stating she was 14 years old (not 16 as the national team claimed) in 2008 and therefore ineligible to compete. Keleti, who was also a professional cello player, was granted political asylum in Australia in 1956 after the Soviet Union invaded Hungary. She won gold in one individual event, floor, in 2008, then won gold in a totally different event, vault, in 2012. For her final Olympics in 2016, she was chosen as Romania's flag bearer, which was the first time this honor was bestowed on a gymnast. Courtney Kupets' career is a study in perseverance, determination and toughness. However, he overcame all the hurdles and became the second Irish gymnast to be part of the Olympics. Which isn't necessarily fair. In 2018, Tinkler tore ligaments in her ankle while practicing for the Birmingham World Cup and could not participate in the event. We'll never know because the Romanian government, wanting to keep its thumb on Comaneci, did not allow her to compete. She won both beam and floor and took second on uneven bars. 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. She won gold for the Unified Team in the team competition in 1992, then won silver in the vault for Germany in 2008. Known for her trademark back-flipping and her entry to Madonnas Vogue, she later moved on to modeling and aerobics training. Keleti was an Olympic . One of the most devastating injuries you can suffer in any sport is an Achilles tendon tear, which Izbasa went through in 2010. Apart from winning a team bronze at the 2012 London Olympics, British gymnast Sam Oldham is also a Youth Olympic and Commonwealth champion. Gulyas-Koteles won her lone gold medal in her final Olympic games, in 1956, on the now-shelved team portable apparatus event. Comaneci was part of a group that defected from Romania in 1989. She trains with the East London Gymnastics Club. Which is a major credit to Johnson East's combination of charisma and talent. Ponor was one of the judges announcing the Romanian points on the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest and is engaged to famous Romanian actor/director Bogdan Jianu. Stoic and tough, Gina Gogean was actually only 13 years old when she participated in the 1992 Olympics. The story of Agnes Keleti's path to Olympic glory is unlike any athlete in Olympic history, and probably in all of sports. Mustafina deserves credit for being one of the most durable gymnasts in the history of Olympic competition and definitely one of the gymnasts who defined the 2010s, most notably with her back-to-back gold medals in the uneven bars at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. 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. The world loves women's gymnastics. Silivas moved to the United States and has been a gymnastics coach in the Atlanta area since the early 1990s. [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. In 2021, she won the bronze medal in Uneven Bars at the European Women's Gymnastics Championships. Olympic years: 2008 (Beijing), 2012 (London), Medals: 3 (2008, gold, team all-around/gold, uneven bars; 2012, silver, uneven bars). Szabo led her team to a gold medal in 1987 at the World Championships. Labeled a diva throughout her career, Khorkina was actually tough as nails and a team player. 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. However, she could not participate in many events like the floor exercise, the vault, and the balance beam as she tore her anterior cruciate ligament before the event. Some of the most famous gymnasts from the Philippines include Bea Lucero-Lhuillier and Danica Calapatan. History probably isn't going to be very kind to former U.S. Olympic gymnast Terin Humphrey. 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. In 2005, she missed out on the World title to teammate Chellsie Memmel by .001. 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. Suzanne Cox, also known by her stage name, Vogue, is a 4-time UK competitive aerobics champion. British retired gymnast and Olympian Hannah Whelan has won her country a Commonwealth team gold and a European Championship team silver. Living Gymnasts Go to all Rankings Newly Added Gymnasts (2022) Go to all Rankings After her competitive career was over, Gutsu moved to the United States, where she's been a gymnastics coach in Michigan for the last two decades. Few gymnasts in Olympic history have been able to medal at three Olympic games. Here are some famous Scottish quotes to get you started on Gaelic life along with Mary Queen of Scots quotes. From Olga Korbut to Simone Biles, here are five women who changed the face of artistic gymnastics forever. Biles holds the record for the most decorated American gymnast with a total of 30 Olympic and World Championship medals. 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. Agnes Keleti is Hungary's greatest gymnast.. Category:Scottish gymnasts Pages in category "Scottish gymnasts" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. She also was the last gymnast to win an Olympic all-around title and gold in an individual event until Simone Biles in 2016 and still remains the only gymnast to win an Olympic gold all-around and not medal in the team competition. Korondi stacked medals in other events as well, picking up two silver medals and four bronze medals. It would have been easy for Raducan to become bitter about having her gold medal taken away, but she bounced back and won three gold medals at the 2001 World Championships. Names we never forget. Courtesy of LSU Athletics Dunne is currently the most-followed collegiate athlete across the combined social platforms.. She also loves traveling and sketching in her leisure time. The famous gymnasts he trained include Comneci, Mary Lou Retton, Dominique Moceanu, and Kerri Strug. in gymnastics history. She effectively retired from gymnastics in 2000, but had a brief, unsuccessful return to the sport in 2006. She is also a talented diver and squash player. 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. 2) Simone Biles With an accomplishment of 19 titles including both of the Olympics and world championship events, Simone is perhaps the most garlanded American gymnast. Izbasa eventually backed off her training when she realized there wasn't enough time to prepare her routine to qualify. 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). Douglas had a reality television show, "Douglas Family Gold," that came out in 2016. Shushunova died from complications from pneumonia in 2018, in her native Saint Petersburg, at just 49 years old. Medals: 4 (2008, gold, floor exercise/bronze, team all-around; 2012, gold, vault/bronze, team all-around). That disappointment kept her from competing for an entire year. Oksana Chusovitina had a pretty wild career. 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. The same year, he also won a gold medal at the European Championships in Montpellier. Apart from being a Commonwealth champion and a 2-time European champion, British gymnast Kristian Thomas has also won his country an Olympic bronze. Born: Dec. 31, 1995 (Newport News, Virginia), Medals: 3 (2012, gold, team all-around/ gold, team all-around; 2012, gold, all-around). Commonwealth gold-winning British gymnast and Olympian Lisa Mason retired at 19 but got back in the game in full swing at 31. 20 - A whole lot of American gymnasts. Scotland is wild, both in culture and in nature. Patterson was advised she may have trouble walking if she didn't retire, and formally walked away from the sport. She was 10 months too young to qualify for the 2004 Olympics before she went on to win the all-around gold at the 2008 Olympics, where she also won four other medals. He later served as a physical training instructor, too. Romanian gymnast Simona Amanar has a complicated Olympic legacy, which isn't necessarily her fault. Those who excel on the biggest world stage become household names, international superstars and national heroes. Korbut's life following her Olympic glory has been tinged with sadness, including her revelation that former coach Renald Knysh sexually assaulted her. 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. Membership. Controversy over her career still surrounds He. Amanar was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2007. Starting training at age 3, he eventually made it to the British Olympic squad at the Tokyo 2020 games and helped the team secure the fourth place. She pioneered a back flip off the high bar and was among the first to do a back tuck on beam. From Alicia Sacramone to Betty Okino to Kim Zmeskal to Kristen Maloney to Dorothy Dalton to Marian Barone, the US gymnastics team has a rich history of success at the Olympics from both the individual and team sport. 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. Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896. In 2000, she was the first German gymnast inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan was at the center of one of the biggest Olympic controversies of all time. She also brought a performance value that was mesmerizing both on and off the apparatus. Muratova's two gold medals came in team competition in back-to-back Olympics. Born: Aug. 15, 1978 (Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union), Medals: 3 (gold, all-around/ gold, floor exercise/ silver, balance beam). She's also served as an ambassador for the United Nations on several occasions first on the U.N.'s council for HIV/AIDS awareness, then on the Council of Europe for Sport, Tolerance, and Fair Play, Country: Soviet Union (1988), Unified Team (1992), Belarus (1996), Olympic years: 1988 (Seoul), 1992 (Barcelona), 1996 (Atlanta), Olympic medals: 5 (1988, gold, team all-around/gold, vault/silver, floor exercise/ bronze, all-around; 1992, gold, team all-around). Joe Fraser is an artistic gymnast who became the first and only English gymnast to win gold on Parallel Bars at the world championships when he won the medal at the 2019 World Championships. After a year away from the sport, Biles returned to competition in 2018. Lemhenyi-Tass medaled in three of those Olympics but only won gold once, in the now-shelved team/portable apparatus event in 1956. And one jump on the floor exercise. He has also been part of the Athletes' Commission of the British Olympic Association. Hailing from Farnborough, England, she studied engineering at Stanford University, having secured a scholarship to be part of their NCAA gymnastics team. The British Gymnastics head national coach, however, had to step down while investigations regarding physical mistreatment accusations against her were underway. After the Olympics, Hernandez became the youngest contestant (and winner) on "Dancing with the Stars" in 2016. Ludmilla Tourischeva's focused, understated persona is legendary in the sport. As a stunt performer, Walters received the 2010 Taurus World Stunt Award for the film Ninja Assassin. In 2019, shell need three medals to pass Vitaly Scherbos overall record (23), and has in her locker a set of moves that no other female has ever performed in competition. It was first included in 1978 and, after a gap of two Games, has featured in every Games since Auckland in 1990. Apart from a botched tumor-removal operation at 10, Kieran Behan also faced brain damage following a gymnastics accident at 12. Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas is best known as the first African American to win the individual all-around event. Gain exclusive access to video lessons taught by world champions, including Olympic gold-medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles, World No. Boginskaya famously appeared in a B-52s video in 1992 and moved to the United States following the end of her career, when she married an American and set up a home in Houston. In addition to being a medal-winning gymnast, Bea Lucero-Lhuillier was also a bronze-medalist in taekwondo at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Undeterred, the then 19-year-old Liukin persevered through to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. 12. But although he was crowned in 1306, and won independence for Scotland at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, it wasn't until 1328 that Bruce was finally recognised by the English as King of the Scots. She once publicly appealed to online trolls to cut down on their abusive comments directed toward her just before the Tokyo Olympics. In 2006 and 2007, injuries kept Liukin from full strength at the Worlds, causing some to suggest she stop training in the all-around. Sensing a hot hand, she gave up her spot in the 2000 vault finals to teammate Elena Zamolodchikova, who went on to win the gold medal. She moved to the United States and has run a gymnastics club in Illinois since the 1980s. But Caslavska's real story is that of a political dissident and hero to the people of her native Czechoslovakia. 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. Vera Caslavska is one of just two gymnasts to win Olympic gold in the all-around in consecutive games and tallied an amazing 11 medals over three Olympics. "He bends over and spanks me, I do not know . 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. Born into a family with a footballer father and a cricketer uncle, she was destined to step into sports. Amelie Morgan is an English artistic gymnast who won the bronze medal in the women's artistic team all-around event at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. 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. She is now a successful trainer and a single mother. Edinburgh may be the famous capital city, with its historical castle and picturesque cobbled streets, but Glasgow is the fiesta little sister - sassy and creative. Medals: 5 (1984, gold, team all-around/gold, vault/gold, balance beam/gold, floor/silver, all-around). Born: Jan. 19, 1989 (Belogrod, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1996 (Atlanta), 2000 (Sydney), 2004 (Athens), Medals: 7 (1996, gold, uneven bars/silver, team all-around; 2000, gold, uneven bars/silver, team all-around/silver, floor exercise; 2004, silver, all-around/bronze, team all-around). She was a prodigy, rising rapidly through the U.S. junior ranks. 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. Born: Oct. 10, 1964 (Berlin, East Germany), Medals: 4 (gold, uneven bars/silver, all-around/bronze, team/bronze, floor exercise). Apart from 4 Commonwealth gold medals, British artistic gymnast Claudia Fragapane has also earned 3 European Championship silver medals and two World Championship bronze medals. Natalia Kuchinskaya was the star of the 1968 Olympics, winning gold in the balance beam and team competition for the powerful Soviet Union and claiming bronze medals in two other events. Daniel Purvis is a Scottish former artistic gymnast who won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, representing Great Britain. She was reportedly studying at Beijing Normal University in 2016 and is involved with promoting the 2022 Winter Olympics that will be held in Beijing. She wrote her autobiography "Finding My Shine" in 2015, which was the same year she was the grand marshal for the Indy 500. In 2020, she was the winner of "The Masked Dancer," the spin-off show of "The Masked Singer," performing as Cotton Candy. Tatiana Gutsu dominated at the 1992 Olympics while representing the Unified Team a group of Soviet Bloc countries who competed at the Summer and Winter Olympics together that year. News. Two-time Commonwealth gold-winning gymnast Nile Wilson is also a World Championship silver medalist and an Olympic bronze medalist. Olympic years: 1992 (Barcelona), 1996 (Atlanta), Medals: 2 (1992, gold, vault/silver, floor exercise). Born: Sept. 5, 1976 (Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union), Medals: 4 (gold, team all-around/ gold, all-around/ silver, uneven bars/ bronze, floor exercise). The first British to win a major championship in the horizontal bar category, he announced his retirement from the sport in 2021. You can change your cookie settings at any time by using the . Keleti, the oldest living Olympian, turned 100 years old in January 2021. Comaneci was. Onodi's power was on full display at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona when she won a gold medal in the vault and barely missed the gold in floor exercise. She is known as "Milo" in the gymnastics community, and is one of the Romania's top gymnasts of the decade. Patterson's win was overshadowed by her struggles in the team competition, where the Americans failed to defend their gold medal. Dawes' crowning achievement in Olympic competition as part of the "Magnificent Seven" in 1996, when she led the U.S. to the gold medal in the team competition and was the only gymnast to see her scores in all eight events count toward the final score. Olympic teammate Nastia Liukin, who won gold in the all-around in 2008, is the godmother to her only child. She was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2001. Both made their Olympic debuts in their 20s. Maria Gorokhovskaya set the record with seven medals in a single Olympics in 1952, when she represented the Soviet Union with two golds, including the all-around, and five silver medals. The aspiring ballet dancer turned Olympic star was nicknamed "The Bride of Mexico" and "Mexico's Sweetheart" during the games and there was even a folk song, "Natalie," about her that became popular. Nessie, as the legendary creature is commonly known, is reported to reside in Loch Ness, which is 23 miles (37 kilometres) southwest of Inverness, in the Scottish . 2. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836 - 1908) Born in Glasgow Campbell-Bannerman was Liberal Prime Minister of Britain between 1906 and 1908. Ludivine Furnon, a French gymnast who competed through the 1990s into the early aughts, went from preteen novice to 15-year-old world bronze medalist on floor in about the same amount of time it. Daniela Silivas added her name to the long line of Romanian Olympic standouts in 1988, when she was the only medalist, male or female, to medal in every single event and posted seven perfect 10 scores throughout the competition.
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