She moved to Oklahoma to work with American Olympian Bart Conner at his gymnastics school, married him in Romania in 1996 and became an American citizen in 2001. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the British Gymnastics website. Chusovitina was so popular in Uzbekistan they put her on a stamp. Medals: 4 (gold, balance beam/silver, team all-around/silver, all-around/silver, floor). Beyond the central belt and largest cities, lies vast mountain ranges, deep lochs, and dense forests. Among those mentioned, they wrote some of the most famous novels in the English . She was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2001. Her "Korbut Flip" on the uneven bars brought her four gold medals. Stoic and tough, Gina Gogean was actually only 13 years old when she participated in the 1992 Olympics. Born: Sept. 16, 1934 (Petrozavodsk, Respublika Kareliya, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1956 (Melbourne), 1964 (Tokyo), Medals: 6 (1956, gold, team all-around/silver, vault/silver, balance beam/bronze, team PA; 1964, gold, team all-around/silver, balance beam). The list is in no particular order! She followed those wins by taking the all-around gold medal in Rio. She became the first gymnast to be named to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Biles will try to cement her status as the greatest Olympic gymnast of all time in 2021 after winning her seventh U.S. Championship and qualifying for the Olympics by winning the All-Around competition at the Olympic trials. Liukin has been on two seasons of "Dancing With the Stars" since her retirement and was also on "American Ninja Warrior" in 2020. 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. She's qualified for the 2021 Olympics, where she'll be one of the oldest Olympians of all time at 46 years old. Courses. 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. Age: 30 Birthplace: Alicante, Spain Age: 47 Birthplace: Lleida, Spain Age: 36 About Gymfest Anti-Doping Scottish Gymnastics believes in clean gymnastics. 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. Raisman also won gold for her floor routine in 2012 and then an all-around silver medal in 2016. 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. Following her retirement from competition, Tourischeva became a coach and one of her proteges, Lillia Podkopayeva, won the Olympic gold medal in the all-around at the 1996 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. Boginskaya, a former ice skater herself, was inspired by Katarina Witt's comeback at the 1994 Winter Olympics and made her own comeback from retirement to participate in the 1996 Olympics with Belarus, although she did not medal that year. The one thing separating Dawes from the upper tier of American gymnasts in history is her performance in individual events, where she's never finished higher than bronze. She won her last World title on the event in 2003, eight years after winning her first. They traveled through Communist Hungary and Austria, mostly on foot and at night, until they were able to get to a plane to take them to the United States. Buchan was also author, famous for writing "The Thirty-Nine Steps" 36. She doubled down on the Olympic team gold at the 2016 Olympics, and her story was so inspiring it was made into a Lifetime movie. Catalina Ponor is one of the most successful, honored Olympic gymnasts in Romanian history. Larisa Latynina's nine gold medals are the most for any Olympic gymnast and the second-most gold medals for any Olympian, ever. Born into a family with a footballer father and a cricketer uncle, she was destined to step into sports. She was removed from her position on the USA Gymnastics' Athletes' Council after 10 years when she shared a meme backing U.S. coaches and officials in the wake of the wide-ranging Olympic gymnastics scandal. Retton spent the next decade following her gold medal victory as one of the most popular athletes in America. It came in stark contrast to the gymnastics of Vera Caslavska of Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Unions Larisa Latynina, who won the all-around titles at the 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games. "I was told by a nutritionist to provide photo evidence of everything that entered my mouth," she wrote. He retired in 2017, after earning 14 international medals. Raisman was one of the many gymnasts who received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award following their bravery in uncovering the USA Gymnastics sexual abuse scandal. Douglas was also one of the many brave gymnasts who came forward about being abused by former Olympic team doctor Larry Nassar, who was given a life sentence for his crimes in 2017. Izbasa took a brief break from gymnastics in 2013 to obtain her bachelor's degree but returned to the sport briefly in 2015 in hopes of making the Olympic team in 2016. A two-time World Championship bronze medal winner, Ellie Downiealso won a gold medal at the 2017 European Championships, becoming the first Great Britain gymnast to receive a major all-around title. British gymnast and Olympian Rebecca Wing is also a Commonwealth team silver medal winner. Lemhenyi-Tass participated in four different Olympics. She moved to the United States and has run a gymnastics club in Illinois since the 1980s. Biles' performance at the Olympics and in the preceding world championships has been so dominant that she's already considered one of the greatest gymnasts of all time. After earning her first 10.0 on the uneven bars, she went on to score six more before the Games were over. She pulled off the (somewhat surprising) rare feat of winning an all-around world championship one year and being all-around Olympic champion the next. Medals: 6 (1992, gold, vault/gold, floor exercise/silver, team all-around/bronze, all-around; 1996, bronze, team all-around/bronze, all-around). Born: Nov. 20, 1976 (Silver Spring, Maryland), Olympic years: 1992 (Barcelona), 1996 (Atlanta), 2000 (Sydney), Medals: 4 (1992, bronze, team all-around; 1996, gold, team all-around/bronze, floor; 2000, bronze, team all-around). Scottish Gymnastics' Roles and Responsibilities Monitor membership and participation levels in Scotland. Ukrainian gymnast Lilla Podkopayeva's amazing run at the 1996 Olympics can't be undersold. 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. That's right. 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. Before joining gymnastics, Simmons was a schoolteacher. If you're trying to find out the names of famous Spanish gymnasts then this list is the perfect resource for you. In four appearances at the Worlds, Biles holds the records for most World gold medals at 14 and is tied for most medals overall by a female gymnast with Khorkina at 20. Born: Dec. 9, 1995 (Aliso Viejo, California), Medals: 2 (gold, team all-around/silver, vault). After the Olympics, Hernandez became the youngest contestant (and winner) on "Dancing with the Stars" in 2016. 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. Suzanne Dando is an English former gymnast who has represented Great Britain in important events like the 1979 World Gymnastics Championships and the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. Sam Langstaff, Scottish Gymnastics head of performance, said: "The 2016 championships are set to be an exciting event, fans will get the opportunity to watch some of Scotland's most talented . Medals: 2 (silver, team/bronze, uneven bars). when the world's best gymnasts compete for their countries and medals. Olivia Dunne is an LSU gymnast and one of the faces of the NIL movement. 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. Comaneci was. Miller, who lives in Florida, beat ovarian cancer in 2011. Even crazier is that Chusovitina's two Olympics medals came 16 years apart. Born: Dec. 18, 1931 (Miada Boleslav, Czechoslovakia), Died: Nov. 10, 1991 (Prague, Czechoslovakia), Olympic years: 1952 (Helsinki), 1956 (Melbourne), 1960 (Rome), Medals: 4 (1952, bronze, team all-around; 1956, silver, balance beam; 1960, gold, balance beam/silver, team all-around). She won both beam and floor and took second on uneven bars. Raducan was cleared of any wrongdoing, but the gold went to teammate Simona Amanar, and the doctor was suspended for four years. Onodi married U.S. Olympic pentathlete Jimbo Haley and is now a U.S. citizen. There was some controversy over Silivas' score in the vault portion of the all-around she only lost the gold medal by .025 but she's refused to talk about it over the years. Two months later at the World Championships, she walked away with medals in all six categories, unseating teammate Morgan Hurd to win her fourth World all-around title. Injuries hampered Moceanu more than anything in 1996, and she fell flat in her individual events, with the closest she came to winning a medal being a fourth-place finish in floor exercises. Shortly after her Olympic debut, Moceanu accused her parents of manipulation and violence and shocked the world when the then-16-year-old was emancipated.In 2012, she released her memoir, Off . Alicia Sacramone was an Olympic favorite heading into the 2008 games, but she came up short in the team competition, falling in two events that some said cost the U.S. the gold medal. Scottish Gymnastics' major partner and funding agency is sportscotland. She also brought a performance value that was mesmerizing both on and off the apparatus. But Comaneci, much like Korbut, was also an innovator acrobatically. Buttner-Janz's career after gymnastics was fascinating. Patterson's gymnastics career came to an abrupt halt shortly after the 2004 Olympics when doctors diagnosed her with several bulging discs in her back. [1] British female gymnasts have participated in every Summer Olympics since 1928, except for 1932. She has been named an MBE, too. In 2018, Tinkler tore ligaments in her ankle while practicing for the Birmingham World Cup and could not participate in the event. She once publicly appealed to online trolls to cut down on their abusive comments directed toward her just before the Tokyo Olympics. William Wallace He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Latynina retired from competition in 1966 and was just as good as a coach, leading the Soviet Union to team gold in 1968, 1972 and 1976, then overseeing the entire 1980 Olympics gymnastics competition in Moscow. Polina Astakhova won 10 medals for the Soviet Union spread out over three different Olympic games from 1956-1964. American gymnast Carly Patterson's all-around gold medal at the 2004 Olympics was notable for being the first all-around gold won by an American in a non-boycotted Olympics. And it looked like no time had passed. Born: Sept. 30, 1981 (Hollywood, California). Olympic years: 1992 (Barcelona), 1996 (Atlanta), Medals: 2 (1992, gold, vault/silver, floor exercise). [8][9], List of Olympic female artistic gymnasts for Great Britain, Last edited on 5 September 2022, at 18:13, "Great Britain Gymnastics Women's Team All-Around Results", "Great Britain Gymnastics Women's Individual All-Around Results", "Great Britain Gymnastics Women's Uneven Bars Results", "Rio Olympics 2016: Bryony Page wins trampoline silver for Great Britain", "Women's artistic gymnastics team named for Tokyo Olympics", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Olympic_female_artistic_gymnasts_for_Great_Britain&oldid=1108676150, This page was last edited on 5 September 2022, at 18:13. As a stunt performer, Walters received the 2010 Taurus World Stunt Award for the film Ninja Assassin. She also had a guest-starring role on "Hart of Dixie" for six episodes. David Scott (1923-1936) William C Cairns (1936-1949) Robert Laing (1949-1953) James Taylor (1953-1956) Iain M. Clegg (1956-1962) Bill Engelan (1962-1971) Raymond Richards (1971-1974) James Livingstone (1974-1976) Simon Fraser (1976-1978) Jack Milroy (1978-1981) Alex Strachan (1981-1987) David C. Watt (1987-1993) Louise Martin (1994-1999) She won World and European medals on all four events and in the all-around. Nassar received 40-to-175 years in prison and Maroney was among the victims awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award in 2018. Maroney was one of the key witnesses to testify against Dr. Larry Nassar, who worked for Michigan State and sexually abused Maroney and scores of other gymnasts for years. Holidaymakers saw their trips away delayed this week after a hedgehog on the runway caused a ruckus. She trains with the East London Gymnastics Club. Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896. The peace and beauty of this valley today belies the fact that Glen Coe was the scene of a ruthless 17th-century massacre, when the local MacDonalds were murdered by soldiers of the Campbell clan. Here are five women who have done exactly that in gymnastics. 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). Olympic medals: 7 (1992, silver, all-around/silver, balance beam/bronze, team all-around/bronze, uneven bars/bronze, floor exercise; 1996, gold, team all-around/gold, balance beam). Amanar retired in 2000 and married Romanian attorney Cosmin Tabara in 2002. Olympic bronze medal-winning British gymnast Alice Kinsella is also a European and Commonwealth champion. Astakhova died of pneumonia, in 2005, at 68 years old. She won gold in one individual event, floor, in 2008, then won gold in a totally different event, vault, in 2012. She was hurt for the 1952 Olympics and couldn't participate. Olympic years: 1952 (Helsinki), 1956 (Melbourne), Medals: 8 (1952, gold, uneven bars/silver, team exercises/bronze, all-around/bronze, balance beam/bronze, floor exercises/bronze, team apparatus; 1956, gold, team apparatus/silver, team combined). Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages. Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan was at the center of one of the biggest Olympic controversies of all time. 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). In the video, Quaas effortlessly nails a handstand, flip, and other impressive moves. Every four years at the Olympics, millions of fans enjoy the high-flying acrobatics and the drama (the drama!) He Kexin officially retired from gymnastics in 2013 and has lived a relatively low-profile life since then. 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. In 2021, she became the first English female gymnast to win Olympic medals in two or more Games when she won a bronze medal at the delayed 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Hungarian Olympic legend Henrietta Onodi has a move named after her the "Onodi" a half-turn jump into a full walkover on the balance beam. Tickets to the artistic gymnastics competition are some of the hottest at any Olympic Games. She's been the vice president of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation since the mid-2000s. Patterson's win was overshadowed by her struggles in the team competition, where the Americans failed to defend their gold medal. In addition to being a medal-winning gymnast, Bea Lucero-Lhuillier was also a bronze-medalist in taekwondo at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. 2. She now heads BBC Sport as its director. Mustafina was recovering from an injury in a hospital in 2015 when she met her future husband and Russian Olympic bobsledder Alexey Zaitsev. With his 2008 Beijing Olympic bronze medal, Louis Smith became the second Black male gymnast to have won the medal. Mary Lou Retton became an international superstar and one of the most beloved athletes in U.S. history with her performance at the 1984 Olympics. Comaneci was part of a group that defected from Romania in 1989. The famous black gymnast Simon Biles has her own emoji which is known as Simoji. That disappointment kept her from competing for an entire year. 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. It is natural for a person to flinch when they fall or get hurt but gymnasts are expected to do the opposite. She has also been part of the NCAA, for the UCLA Bruins. She married Romanian Olympic kayaker Christian Tamas in 1991, and the couple moved to France in 1992, where she's been a coach ever since. She's also served as the president of the Women's Sports Federation and the co-chair for the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. Scotland is wild, both in culture and in nature. She won gold for the Unified Team in the team competition in 1992, then won silver in the vault for Germany in 2008. Apart from being a Commonwealth champion and a 2-time European champion, British gymnast Kristian Thomas has also won his country an Olympic bronze. The first woman to win the Olympics in the era of the open ended scoring system, Nastia Liukin, proved that artistry and execution could still be combined to achieve success in a set of rules focused on amassing difficulty. 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. Nastia became an American citizen after her parents immigrated to the United States when she was two years old. At Tokyo 2020, billions around the world will tune in to watch the top gymnasts on the planet, including arguably the greatest female of all time, displaying their physical and technical brilliance in pursuit of a gold medal and with a special place in history guaranteed for any athlete who innovates and breaks records on the biggest stage. Her mother was killed as her family fled during the Nazis' siege of Leningrad in 1941. Former Scottish gymnast Carly Sarah Smith wrote on Instagram that her pockets were checked for food. The way she floated back and forth between the bars heavily influenced the direction of the uneven bars, perhaps most notably in two-time Olympic uneven bars champion and compatriot Aliya Mustafina. The Russian's creativity resulted in eight named elements in the code of points. Amanar, who also won a gold medal in vault in 1996, initially refused to accept the medal after it was discovered Raducan's failed test wasn't even her fault, but accepted the medal eventually in order to share it with Romanian fans. Shushunova retired just two months after the 1988 Olympics and returned home to teach and coach gymnastics. One of the members of the fabled "Final Five" team for the United States at the 2016 Olympics, Laurie Hernandez turned her back on competing for the University of Florida and went pro right before the Olympics. Born: Oct. 10, 1964 (Berlin, East Germany), Medals: 4 (gold, uneven bars/silver, all-around/bronze, team/bronze, floor exercise). British gymnast and Olympian Amanda Reddin has had a successful coaching career, too, with star players such as Beth Tweddle and Jennifer Pinches as her trainees. 6 Amazing Black GymnastsThis video features 6 of my favorite black gymnasts who, in many cases, paved the way for other black gymnasts who came later.In ligh. Robert the Bruce Robert the Bruce was a nobleman from south-west Scotland. She pioneered a back flip off the high bar and was among the first to do a back tuck on beam. 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. Jackie Stewart or Sir John Young Stewart OBE, better know as the Flying Scot, was born in Dumbartonshire on June 11, 1939. 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. The Soviet Unions Nellie Kim also scored two 10.0s in Montreal. 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. Two-time European and Commonwealth Games champion gymnast Becky Downie didnt compete at the Tokyo Olympic trial due to her brothers sudden death. 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. The most famous living gymnasts include Nadia Comneci, Ecaterina Szabo, and Daniela Siliva. Gorokhovskaya set the standard by which all other Soviet Union gymnasts would be judged. Ludmilla Tourischeva's focused, understated persona is legendary in the sport. Oksana Chusovitina had a pretty wild career. 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. Olympic years: 1996 (Atlanta), 2000 (Sydney), Medals: 7 (1996, gold, vault/silver, floor exercise/bronze, all-around/bronze, team all-around; 2000, gold, team all-around/gold, all-around/bronze, floor exercise). June 11, 2022 Posted by: grady county, ga zoning map . 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. Born: Oct. 17, 1921 (Yevpatoria, Soviet Russia), Medals: 7 (1952, gold, team all-around/gold, all-around/silver, team PA/silver, vault/silver, uneven bars/silver, balance beam/silver, floor exercise). Bosakova's biggest contribution to the sport was also in the balance beam, where she is credited as being the first person to ever complete a cartwheel in the event. At the Munich 1972 Olympic Games, 17-year-old Olga Korbut captivated the world with her daring acrobatics and her raw displays of emotion. Both have won medals for their performances. Born: Sept. 5, 1976 (Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union), Medals: 4 (gold, team all-around/ gold, all-around/ silver, uneven bars/ bronze, floor exercise). A co-founder of Gymnasts for Change, she also campaigns against abuse. 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. She also won gold medals for the U.S. in the team competitions at the 2012 and. Suzanne Cox, also known by her stage name, Vogue, is a 4-time UK competitive aerobics champion. She soared to fame with the show Gladiators and had a 5-year stint on it. Born: March 8, 1949 (Leningrad, Soviet Union), Olympic medals: 4 (gold, team all-around/gold, balance beam/bronze, all-around/bronze, floor exercise). "He bends over and spanks me, I do not know . The UK's biggest display festival promoting gymnastics for all regardless of age, gender, race and ability. Kim has been instrumental in women's gymnastics since her retirement, including helping create a new scoring system in 2005 following a judging scandal at the 2004 Olympics. She's been a sports journalist for EuroSport television and covered some of the biggest sporting events in Romania. I agree to receive email updates Manina's contributions to sports extend beyond her career on the mat. Right IconThis ranking is based on an algorithm that combines various factors, including the votes of our users and search trends on the internet. Born in Singapore, she moved to Britain as a toddler and began training in gymnastics at age 6. Her gold in the uneven bars in 1996 was especially dramatic because she fell in the same event in the all-around competition just days earlier. Some of the most famous gymnasts from the Philippines include Bea Lucero-Lhuillier and Danica Calapatan. One of his four children grew up to be British actor and singer Jean Simmons. In her trademark pink leotard, Liukin became the third U.S. woman to win the Olympic all-around gold medal. She didn't make her Olympic debut until 1952, at 31 years old, when she won four medals and then came back to win four gold medals at the 1956 Olympics, when she was 35 years old. Though Shannon Miller remains the USAs most decorated Olympic gymnast with seven, Biles needs only to collect three medals in Tokyo to add that superlative to her resume. Those who excel on the biggest world stage become household names, international superstars and national heroes. B Frank Baines (gymnast) C Hamish Carter (gymnast) Adam Cox D Liam Davie F Steve Frew H Rosalie Hutton M Archibald MacLaren She began a career as a singer in 2020, releasing two singles under the stage name "Ghost." She also won an NCAA championship in the uneven bars for the University of Alabama in 2004. He has been named an MBE, too. Her mother and sister survived by hiding, but her father was gassed to death in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. She's made it her mission in life to help other women detect the early signs of the disease and is an advocate for survivors. The KLF legend, best known for burning a million quid, grew up in Corby and went to Kingswood. She was inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2016. Dawes has stayed busy since her gymnastics career ended, including when she earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland in 2002. She's also gained fame as a world-renowned sports scientist and the author of more than 40 books on the subject. Two vaults. In 2020, she was the winner of "The Masked Dancer," the spin-off show of "The Masked Singer," performing as Cotton Candy. Korbut ushered in an era of gymnastics dominated by young, lithe women. Milosovici was banned from any association with the Romanian national team for five years after she performed gymnastics topless for two Japanese DVDs and posed nude in a Japanese magazine. She was a prodigy, rising rapidly through the U.S. junior ranks. Controversy over her career still surrounds He. Khorkina won seven Olympic medals, including back-to-back titles on the uneven bars. She was hurt again for the 1960 Olympics but gutted out a pair of silver medals in the all-around and vault, along with a bronze in the balance beam. Silivas moved to the United States and has been a gymnastics coach in the Atlanta area since the early 1990s. 20 - A whole lot of American gymnasts. His dad was Scottish minister Rev Drummond . She currently represents Jamaica; she participated in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo where she represented Jamaica. The drama was ratcheted up when it was revealed that Retton had knee surgery just five weeks before the Olympics. Born: May 25, 1994 (Needham, Massachusetts), Olympic years: 2012 (London), 2016 (Rio de Janeiro), Olympic medals: 5 (2012, gold, team all-around/gold, floor exercise/bronze, balance beam; 2016, gold, team all-around/silver, all-around/silver, floor exercise). She bounced back during the apparatus finals a few days later, winning the gold medals in the balance beam and floor exercise finals. The true story of her success was in overcoming the tragedy of her childhood. Lavinia Milosovici, known as "Milo," is one of many amazing Romanian gymnasts, and she overcame scarlet fever as a child, then the Romanian Revolution, to become one of the most-decorated Olympic gymnasts in history. Scottish Dictionary Aye Bairn Bampot Belter Blootered Boggin Boke Bonnie/Bonny Canny Clatty Clipe Crabbit Craic Dae Dafty Dinnae Eejit Eh Greet/Greetin Hackit Haud Haver Hoachin Hunners Jake/Jakey Ken Lassy Mad Wae It Minging Mockit Munter Och Patch Peely-wally Randan Scran Scunnered Skelped/Scudded Steamin Stoter Tap Tattie Weapon Wee Whitey Raducan retired from gymnastics in 2002 and has stayed busy ever since. She has become a sports icon in the Philippines . An Air New Zealand flight was forced to stop on the runway after landing due to the creature being seen on the tarmac. Caslavska went into hiding for over a decade after the incident, but returned to help train younger gymnasts in the early 2000s. American gymnast Gabby Douglas is a trailblazer in sports, not just Olympic sports. Commonwealth gold-winning gymnast Georgia-Mae Fenton has also won her country, Britain, as silver in the same contest. Born: Jan. 24, 1968 (Fairmont, West Virginia), Medals: 5 (1984, gold, all-around/silver, team all-around/silver, vault/bronze, uneven bars/bronze, floor exercise). Even though the move originated by Soviet Olga Mostepanoya in 1983, Onodi perfected it. You can change your cookie settings at any time by using the .
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