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Olga Valentinovna Korbut [a] (born 16 May 1955) is a Belarusian retired gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the " Sparrow from Minsk ", she won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games , in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the Soviet team, [ 1 ] and was the inaugural inductee to the ...
Olga Korbut 1973. The Korbut flip is a gymnastics skill performed on either of two different apparatus. Both were first performed internationally by the Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut. [1] The more spectacular version of the skill used to be performed on the uneven bars, where the gymnast, from a stand on the high bar, performs a back flip and ...
Olga Korbut, who competed at her first Olympics in 1972, was popular with fans and the media for her daring moves. That year, she won four medals, including golds in balance beam and floor exercise. She won two more medals in 1976 and finished her career with six overall. [ 12 ]
In 1999, Olga Korbut stated publicly that she had been physically and sexually abused by Knysh while he trained her, and that he had raped her shortly before the 1972 Olympics, after plying her with cognac. She alleged that the abuse continued for several years, until Knysh moved on to younger girls.
Now a U.S. citizen, the former Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut, who dazzled audiences at the 1972 Munich Games, has sold off her Olympic medals. As rumors swirl that she is "almost destitute," Korbut ...
Conger faced Olga Korbut on an episode of Celebrity Boxing which aired on May 22, 2002. Conger won by unanimous decision. [2] [8]Later, in 2003, she married physician assistant Jim Arellano, [9] with whom she had one son, Cassius.
Darva Conger vs. Olga Korbut: Celebrity Boxing, 22 May 2002: Conger Dustin Diamond vs. Ron Palillo: Diamond Manute Bol vs. William Perry: Bol Joey Buttafuoco vs. Joanie "Chyna" Laurer: Buttafuoco Bob Mortimer vs. Les Dennis [4] Celebrity Boxing for Sport Relief, 13 July 2002: Mortimer Ricky Gervais vs. Grant Bovey: The Fight, 29 December 2002 ...
Olga Korbut Soviet Union: Tamara Lazakovich Soviet Union: Karin Janz East Germany: Floor exercise details: Olga Korbut Soviet Union: Ludmila Tourischeva Soviet Union: Tamara Lazakovich Soviet Union: Uneven bars details: Karin Janz East Germany: Olga Korbut Soviet Union: None awarded (as there was a tie for silver) Erika Zuchold East Germany ...