Yelena Naimushina

Yelena Naimushina
Personal information
Born (1964-11-19) 19 November 1964
Askiz, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
Height 1.45 m (4 ft 9 in)
Weight 40 kg (88 lb)
Sport
Sport Artistic gymnastics
Club Dynamo Krasnoyarsk
Medal record
Representing the  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
1980 Moscow Team
World championships
1979 Fort Worth Team

Yelena Arkadyevna Naimushina (Russian: Елена Аркадьевна Наимушина; born 19 November 1964) is a retired Russian gymnast. She competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a gold medal with the Soviet team. Individually her best achievement was fifth place in the floor exercise.[1] She won a silver team medal at the 1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.[2]

She retired in 1981 and married Andris, a Latvian cyclist whom she met in 1980. For 15 years she lived in Latvia where she gave birth to sons Tom and Phillip and daughter Linda-Anna. Between 1990 and 1993 she performed in the sports show All Stars of Dynamo managed by Mikhail Voronin.[2] She later married second time, to gymnastics coach Sergey Grigoryev, and moved to Tula, Russia, where they train children.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Yelena Naimushina. sports-reference.com
  2. 1 2 Elena Naimushina (URS). gymn.ca (21 February 2001)
  3. ↑ Олимпийская чемпионка Елена Наймушина: «Если честно, я тоже «наелась» гимнастикой. Не хо-чу!». gornovosti.ru (14 November 2011)
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