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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 ...
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 regrasps the bar.
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 ...
The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast during Competition I and all of the points earned by them in Competition II. Competition III - The apparatus finals, in which those who qualified during Competition I performed an exercise on the individual apparatus on which he or she had qualified.
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 ]
Stephen Nedoroscik is an Olympic gymnast from Worcester who is competing on this season of "Dancing with the Stars." He won two bronze medals at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, including one in the ...
Duquesne's Michela Del Rosso (6) and Sienna Johnson (7) compete in the team's inaugural acrobatics and tumbling meet against Gannon University, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, at the Cooper Fieldhouse on ...
This section lists the female Artistic Gymnasts who have won at least one medal in every event (team final, all-around, Vault, Uneven Bars, Balance Beam, and Floor Exercise) at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. The years listed refer to the World Championships at which the gymnast won her first medal in the event; the dates of any ...