Svetlana Khorkina is one of them. History probably isn't going to be very kind to former U.S. Olympic gymnast Terin Humphrey. Born: June 9, 2000 (Old Bridge Township, New Jersey), Medals: 2 (gold, team all-around/silver, balance beam). Walters, who specializes in trampoline and tumbling, has taken part in four Trampoline World Championships. Which isn't necessarily fair. The two divorced in 1987, and in 1993, during a fight with their oldest son, Martin, Josef was punched and fell to the floor, striking his head and causing his death. About Gymfest Anti-Doping Scottish Gymnastics believes in clean gymnastics. In January 2020, she announced her retirement from gymnastics, at the age of21. She died of pancreatic cancer in 2016, at 74 years old. She said: "You can clearly see how I am doing the physical preparation. As a stunt performer, Walters received the 2010 Taurus World Stunt Award for the film Ninja Assassin. Born: Dec. 31, 1995 (Newport News, Virginia), Medals: 3 (2012, gold, team all-around/ gold, team all-around; 2012, gold, all-around). "Every man dies. But Kuchinskaya was burned out of her sport and never competed again after 1968. 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). At the Munich 1972 Olympic Games, 17-year-old Olga Korbut captivated the world with her daring acrobatics and her raw displays of emotion. 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. She won both beam and floor and took second on uneven bars. Starting from the bottom of our list on number 12, we have Nina Derwael from Belgium, a two-time World (2018 & 2019) and European champion (2017 & 2018) on uneven bars. With teammates Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, and Madison Kocian, she helped Team USA win its second-straight team gold medal at the Games. Moceanu, the last 14-year-old Olympic gymnast, seemed poised for superstardom at multiple Olympic games because of her age and talent, but came away with just one gold medal in the team competition in 1996. 2. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836 - 1908) Born in Glasgow Campbell-Bannerman was Liberal Prime Minister of Britain between 1906 and 1908. Kupets was named the head coach at the University of Georgia, her alma mater, in 2017. 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. In 2021, she won the bronze medal in Uneven Bars at the European Women's Gymnastics Championships. Born: Oct. 7, 1952 (Grozny, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1968 (Mexico City), 1972 (Munich), 1976 (Montreal), Medals: 9 (1968, gold, team all-around; 1972, gold, team all-around/gold, all-around/gold, team all-around/silver, floor exercise/bronze, vault; 1976, silver, vault/silver, floor exercise/bronze, all-around). Known for her trademark back-flipping and her entry to Madonnas Vogue, she later moved on to modeling and aerobics training. 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. Kupets also led the University of Georgia to four straight NCAA national championships from 2006 to 2009. Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan was at the center of one of the biggest Olympic controversies of all time. 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. Gorokhovskaya set the standard by which all other Soviet Union gymnasts would be judged. The same year, he also won a gold medal at the European Championships in Montpellier. A professional display gymnast, Alison Carroll has represented the UK in several competitions. Scottish Gymnastics' Roles and Responsibilities Monitor membership and participation levels in Scotland. [1] British female gymnasts have participated in every Summer Olympics since 1928, except for 1932. He also has a European Games bronze. However, he overcame all the hurdles and became the second Irish gymnast to be part of the Olympics. She married fellow Czech Olympian and distance runner Josef Odlozil in 1968 during the Mexico City Olympics. Amanar had the unfortunate luck of finishing as the silver medalist in the 2000 all-around to Romanian teammate Andreea Raducan, who was stripped of her gold medal just one week after the competition because of a failed drug test. Even though the move originated by Soviet Olga Mostepanoya in 1983, Onodi perfected it. She and her sister had taken up gymnastics at age 6. 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. She was inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2016. She is also a talented diver and squash player. 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. Beginning in 1972, Astakhova worked as a national coach for the Ukrainian gymnastics team. She had a Barbie doll modeled after her. She's even credited with the development of an artificial spine disk known as the Charite Disc. The Soviet Unions Nellie Kim also scored two 10.0s in Montreal. Agnes Keleti is Hungary's greatest gymnast.. Equipped with a degree in kinesiology from LSU, she now works as a therapy assistant and is studying to get a degree in physiotherapy. Her protests during the Soviet Union's anthem during the 1968 Olympics in response to the Soviet invasion of her country led to her forced retirement from the sport. In his seminal work, Gymnastik fr die Jugend (1793; Gymnastics for Youth ), Guts Muths envisioned two main divisions of gymnastics: natural gymnastics and artificial gymnastics. In the storied history of Romanian gymnasts, only Ecaterina Szabo stands behind Nadia Comaneci. Olympic bronze medal-winning British gymnast Alice Kinsella is also a European and Commonwealth champion. Age: 30 Birthplace: Alicante, Spain Age: 47 Birthplace: Lleida, Spain Age: 36 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). Amanar was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2007. Quaas holds the Guinness Book of. In that vein, Gnauck is considered one of the greatest to ever participate on the uneven bars, but missed her chance to add to her Olympic haul in 1984 when East Germany boycotted the Olympics. She won World and European medals on all four events and in the all-around. Margit Korondi burst onto the international stage with six medals at the 1952 Olympics, including gold in the uneven bars. Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896. Medals: 4 (gold, balance beam/silver, team all-around/silver, all-around/silver, floor). Tourischeva crafted one of the most dominating Olympic runs in the history of gymnastics nine total medals over three Olympic games. Here are some famous Scottish quotes to get you started on Gaelic life along with Mary Queen of Scots quotes. 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). Scottish poets are among the most famous poets writing in the English language: Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stephenson, Edwin Muir, Ivor Cutler. Though too young to compete at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Liukins scores at the 2004 U.S. Championships would have ranked her third in the senior competition. Caslavska went into hiding for over a decade after the incident, but returned to help train younger gymnasts in the early 2000s. Raducan was the winner of the gold medal in the all-around at the 2000 Olympics an instant, international superstar and the first Romanian to win all-around gold since Nadia Comaneci in 1976. 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 . 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. 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. She was a prodigy, rising rapidly through the U.S. junior ranks. 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. The UK's biggest display festival promoting gymnastics for all regardless of age, gender, race and ability. Sacramone married former NFL quarterback Brady Quinn in 2014, and the couple have three daughters together. Scottish Gymnastics' major partner and funding agency is sportscotland. Nadia Elena Comaneci was born on November 12, 1961, in Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Romania, in the Carpathian Mountains, to parents Stefania-Alexandrina and Gheorghe, an auto mechanic. Here are five women who have done exactly that in gymnastics. Living Gymnasts Go to all Rankings Newly Added Gymnasts (2022) Go to all Rankings Nastia became an American citizen after her parents immigrated to the United States when she was two years old. She emigrated to Israel in 1957 and spent the next four decades working as a physical education instructor and gymnastics coach. Danusia Francis is a British-born artistic gymnast who has represented the United Kingdom in the past. 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. Olympic years: 1992 (Barcelona), 1996 (Atlanta), Medals: 2 (1992, gold, vault/silver, floor exercise). The Romanians doctored her birth certificate and spotted her one year, saying she was born in 1977. She won a Game Award for her role in the video game Her Story and has performed as part of Bikini Atoll and Joe Gideon & the Shark. 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. Orga Kolbut is one of them. Commonwealth gold-winning gymnast Georgia-Mae Fenton has also won her country, Britain, as silver in the same contest. These are the greatest women's gymnasts of all time. Born: Dec. 3, 1987 (Boston, Massachusetts). 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. That's right. when the world's best gymnasts compete for their countries and medals. One week after her win, she was stripped of her gold medal because of a failed drug test, courtesy of a banned substance in a cough medicine given to her by the team doctor. These gymnasts are among the most prominent in their field, and information about each well-known gymnast from Spain is included when available. Aliya Mustafina is tied with Svetlana Khorkina for the most Olympic medals won by a Russian gymnast with seven. She is best known for playing the popular video game character Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: Underworld from 2008 to 2010. She's been the vice president of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation since the mid-2000s. 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. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages. 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. The most famous living gymnasts include Nadia Comneci, Ecaterina Szabo, and Daniela Siliva. The first African-American to win all-around gold at the Olympics, she also was the first American to win all-around gold and team gold in 2012. Born: Sept. 9, 1978 (Campuri, Vrancea, Romania), Medals: 5 (1992, silver, team all-around; 1996, silver, all-around/bronze, team all-around/bronze, balance beam/bronze, vault). 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). She also reached the semi-finals of the reality show Strictly Come Dancing at 18, the second-youngest public figure on the show ever. Born in Singapore, she moved to Britain as a toddler and began training in gymnastics at age 6. Tokyo 2020 home. Scotland's most famous glen combines two essential qualities of the Highlands: dramatic scenery and a deep sense of history. She added another gold medal in 1956 in the now-defunct team apparatus event. B Frank Baines (gymnast) C Hamish Carter (gymnast) Adam Cox D Liam Davie F Steve Frew H Rosalie Hutton M Archibald MacLaren Susan went on to sell 14million copies of her debut album worldwide in 2009. He has also been part of the Athletes' Commission of the British Olympic Association. Beyond the central belt and largest cities, lies vast mountain ranges, deep lochs, and dense forests. Her back flip and Korbut flip on the balance beam were daring at the time and are elements still used in womens gymnastics today. More amazing? At just 14 years old, she wowed the entire world with her performance at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, scoring the first perfect 10 in Olympic history on the way to gold medals in the all-around, uneven bars and balance beam to go with a bronze in floor exercise and silver in team all-around. Chusovitina was so popular in Uzbekistan they put her on a stamp. She also loves traveling and sketching in her leisure time. 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. Amy Tinkler is a British retired artistic gymnast who won the bronze medal for the Floor Exercise event in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 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. You can change your cookie settings at any time by using the . Nastia Liukin was born in Moscow to a pair of famed Russian gymnasts. The famous black gymnast Simon Biles has her own emoji which is known as Simoji. She followed those wins by taking the all-around gold medal in Rio. 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). Olympic teammate Nastia Liukin, who won gold in the all-around in 2008, is the godmother to her only child. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the British Gymnastics website. 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). Born: Oct. 30, 1936 (Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1956 (Melbourne), 1960 (Rome), 1964 (Tokyo), Medals: 10 (1956, gold, team all-around/bronze, team/apparatus; 1960, gold, team all-around/gold, uneven bars/silver, floor exercise/bronze, all-around 1964, gold, team all-around/gold, uneven bars/silver, floor exercise/bronze, all-around). Raducan was cleared of any wrongdoing, but the gold went to teammate Simona Amanar, and the doctor was suspended for four years. That means she rotates around an axis going . 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. Boginskaya, who was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2006, also sells gymnastics apparel online and spent years creating gymnastics camps around Houston. Stoic and tough, Gina Gogean was actually only 13 years old when she participated in the 1992 Olympics. Born: Oct. 30, 1989 (Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union), Medals: 5 (2008, gold, all-around/silver, team all-around/silver, uneven bars/silver, balance beam/bronze, floor exercise). Since 1975, she's been a professor at the Saint Petersburg State Art-Industrial Academy. Try some of our classes Enter your email and we'll send you some samples of our favorite classes. (Comanecis perfect mark was famously displayed as a 1.00 at the Olympic Games in Montreal.). Robert the Bruce Robert the Bruce was a nobleman from south-west Scotland. An Air New Zealand flight was forced to stop on the runway after landing due to the creature being seen on the tarmac. Keleti, who is Jewish, fled her home in Nazi-occupied Hungary to live in the countryside as a maid, using forged documents that identified her as a Christian. Born: Dec. 27, 1934 (Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union), Medals: 18 (1956, gold, team all-around/gold, all-around/gold, vault/gold, floor exercise/silver, uneven bars/bronze, team/apparatus; 1960, gold, team all-around/gold, all-around/gold, floor exercise/silver, uneven bars/silver, balance beam/bronze, vault; 1964, gold, team all-around/gold, floor exercise/silver, all-around/silver, vault/bronze, uneven bars/bronze, balance beam). [2][4][5][6][7] Tweddle and Pat Hirst are the only British female gymnasts who have competed in at least three Olympics. She became one of the most respected orthopedic surgeons in the world. Lemhenyi-Tass participated in four different Olympics. William Wallace 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. She won gold in one individual event, floor, in 2008, then won gold in a totally different event, vault, in 2012. He later served as a physical training instructor, too. Gutsu also helped lead her team to the all-around gold 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. Between 1965 and 1973 he competed in Formula One winning three World Championships, and 27 race wins. Olympian Brinn Bevan scripted history when he became part of the first World Championship medal-winning British mens gymnastics team, when the team won a silver in 2015. 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. While the selections were delayed to ensure a fair judgement, she, nevertheless, failed to make the cut, for speaking against the culture of abuse in British gymnastics. Two vaults. Hailing from Farnborough, England, she studied engineering at Stanford University, having secured a scholarship to be part of their NCAA gymnastics team. 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. British gymnast and Olympian Rebecca Wing is also a Commonwealth team silver medal winner. 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. 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) Suzanne Dando announced her retirement from gymnastics after the 1980 Olympics and then went on to work as a TV broadcaster for many channels, including Sky Sports, BBC One, and Channel 4. In 2018, Tinkler tore ligaments in her ankle while practicing for the Birmingham World Cup and could not participate in the event. The famous gymnasts he trained include Comneci, Mary Lou Retton, Dominique Moceanu, and Kerri Strug. In her trademark pink leotard, Liukin became the third U.S. woman to win the Olympic all-around gold medal. She also won an NCAA championship in the uneven bars for the University of Alabama in 2004.