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In late 1997, Chusovitina married Uzbek Olympic wrestler Bakhodir Kurbanov, [9] whom she first met at the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima. [8] The couple's son, Alisher, was born in November 1999. [3] [5]
Kurbanov is the youngest of five brothers, all wrestlers. In December 1997 he married Oksana Chusovitina, an Olympic gymnast from Uzbekistan whom he met at the 1994 Asian Games in Japan. The marriage was opposed by Chusovitina's Orthodox Christian parents because Kurbanov is a Muslim. [4]
Uzbekistan gymnast Oksana Chusovitina had been aiming to compete at her ninth consecutive Olympic Games later this year, but the 48-year-old’s hopes of securing a spot in Paris have been dashed ...
The Olympics never fail to produce amazing stories, but at the top of that list might be the amazing story of gymnast Oksana Chusovitina.
Record-breaking 48-year-old gymnast Oksana Chusovitina says an injury has ended her attempt to qualify for what would have been her ninth Olympics. Chusovitina said in a statement on Instagram ...
Olga Tass (married name Lemhényi; 29 March 1929 – 10 July 2020) [1] was a Hungarian gymnast who competed at the 1948, 1952, 1956, and 1960 Summer Olympics. She was born in Pécs . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The competition was starting Friday, and Chusovitina said she would be there to support the rest of the Uzbekistan team. Chusovitina's long career is all the more striking in gymnastics, a sport where medalists are often in their teens and elite-level careers rarely last long. She has previously competed alongside gymnasts a third of her age.
Five years before Simone Biles was born, Oksana Chusovitina was already an Olympic gold medallist in a sport whose brightest stars often fade early, their bodies battered by years of gruelling ...