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  Yelena Shushunova - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yelena Shushunova (born May 23, 1969 in Leningrad) is a Russian (former Soviet) gymnast, two times Olympic Champion.
Shushunova was unable to compete at the 1984 Summer Olympics, which were boycotted by the Soviet Union.
Shushunova retired after the Olympics and currently lives in St.
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 The article
Eleven years after their historical triple triumph at the '85 world championships, Yelena Shushunova, Oksana Omelianchik and Yuri Korolyov poke, provoke and evoke favorite memories and fresh perspectives with the sentimentality and sass of the siblings they seem to be.
Shushunova, the St. Petersburg stalwart who went on to win the '88 Olympic all-around gold medal, is rowdy and philosophical as she examines her compulsive commitment to the sport.
Shushunova's St. Petersburg is rallying to host the 2004 Olympics, and she credits much of the American team's success in Atlanta to the influx and influence of Russian coaches.
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 Daniela Silivaş - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She finished behind reigning co-World Champion Yelena Shushunova in the Individual All-Around at the 1986 World Cup and quickly established herself as the leader of the Romanian gymnastics team.
Silivas and Shushunova battled for the Individual All-Around title, with Silivas scoring 10s on the Uneven Bars and Floor Exercises and Shushunova earning perfection on the Floor Exercises, although she did manage to receive one low 9.9 from the Romanian Judge on Floor Exercise, while the other 5 judges gave her a 10.
Shushunova's much powerful vault scored a perfect 10, with 10s from all six vault judges, defeating Silivas by 0.025 points.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daniela_Silivas   (688 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page
Yelena Nikolayevna Baturina (Еле́на Никола́евна Бату́рина) (born March 8, 1963 in Moscow, Russia, USSR) is a Russian businesswoman.
She was born in Mary, Turkmenistan to a family of Gevork Alikhanov, a prominent Armenian communist and a secretary of the Comintern, and Ruth Bonner, a Jewish communist act..
Yelena Victorovna Davydova (born August 7, 1961 in Voronezh) is a Russian (former Soviet) gymnast, winner of the Olympic all-around title in 1980.
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 International GYMNAST Magazine Online: 2004 Women's European Championships
Shushunova competed at the 1982 Junior Europeans in Ankara, but problems on uneven bars and balance beam left her in 15th place all-around.
In the event finals, Shushunova won the gold medal on vault; she also placed fourth on balance beam and seventh on floor exercise.
Shushunova capped her amateur career at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, where she narrowly defeated Silivas to win the all-around gold medal.
www.intlgymnast.com /events/2004/europeans/champions/shushunova.html   (472 words)

  
 Yelena Produnova, retired Russian gymnast
Yelena is always very supportive of other gymnasts in competition, quite often shouting or shrieking when they have done well.
Yelena started with gymnastics at the age of five, in the Army Sports Club, her first trainers were Alla Pechendeva and Ruslan Lavrov.
Yelena's favorite piece of apparatus are the beam and floor exercise, she doesn't like vaulting and the bars.
www.olympic-eurogym.demon.nl /russia/pro/pro.htm   (308 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Yelena Victorovna Davydova (born August 7, 1961 in Voronezh),a city about 400 miles south of Moscow, is a Russian (former Soviet) gymnast, winner of the Olympic all-around title in 1980 Summer Olympics.
Comaneci at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games Nadia Elena Comaneci (originally Comăneci) (born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian-born American gymnast, winner of five Olympic medals, and the first to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event.
Lilia Alexandrovna Podkopayeva (born August 15, 1978 in Donetsk) is a Ukrainian gymnast, and the 1996 Olympic all-around champion.
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 Dominique Moceanu | Official Website | 1996 Olympic Champion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Shushunova first made the Soviet Olympic team in 1984, though she did not compete in Los Angeles due to the boycott.
The following year, Shushunova won the all-around at the European Championships and tied for the all-around title at the world championships with her teammate, Oksana Omelianchik.
Shushunova, who was acclaimed for both her originality and explosive power, won the gold medal on both floor exercise (tie) and vault at the 1987 World Championships.
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 Yelena Shushunova   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Silivaş received a score in her final by many considered to be too low won the title by 0.025 points.
The team won the team event and Shushunova two more medals finishing second in the beam and third in the uneven bars.
Shushunova retired after the Olympics and currently in St.
www.freeglossary.com /Yelena_Shushunova   (564 words)

  
 Gymn Forum: Moscow News - 1983 USSR Cup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Leningrader Yelena Shushunova, 14, won the Cup, but won't be able to go to Budapest because she will not be 15 by the time the world championship starts.
Yelena's "speciality" is, of course, the floor exercises.
But in the Cup competition she was trailing 0.25 behind Moscow schoolgirl Olga Mostepanova, until the final exercise.
www.gymn-forum.com /Articles/MN-83Cup.html   (577 words)

  
 International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
Yelena Shushunova needed a perfect 10 to win the All-Around gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games.
Her Olympic victory was something of a comeback for Shushunova.
Competing in the Junior Europeans in 1982, Shushunova finished in a three-way tie for the gold medal in Floor Exercises, and finished 15th in the All-Around.
www.jewishsports.net /BioPages/YelenaShushunova.htm   (321 words)

  
 Press Releases / The Cup of Pinokkio / Veliky Novgorod   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Elena Shushunova, Oksana Omelianchik and Yuri Korolev were very special guests and competitors in veterans class although they would not have been out of place with the young and the ambitious, class always shows through.
Like Shushunova and Korolyov, she is also a judge.
Jubilantly vocal in victory and tragically tearful in disappointment, Yelena Nikolayevna Grosheva has always illuminated her competitive forebearance with flushes of passion, resilience and beauty.
www.novgorod.ru /eng/sport/pinokkio/press.htm   (3191 words)

  
 Zoom lens bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Yelena Berezhnaya (born October 20 1977 in Nevinnomissk, Russia) is a Russian
Yelena Davydova (born August 7, 1961 in Voronezh) is a Russian (former Soviet) gymnast, winner of the Olympic all-around title in 1980.
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 Yelena Shushunova Interview
The two time Olympic champion Yelena Shushunova is a member of the organizing committee of the 1998 European Championships.
The only detail of her attire that does not fit with the appearance of the member of the organizing committee of the European Championships is shoes.
At that moment someone knocked on the door asking for Yelena and a second later she was gone.
www.geocities.com /Colosseum/Track/7635/shushunova-int.html   (887 words)

  
 Cetate World Gymnastics - European Championships
Yelena Ryzhkova stumbled slightly on floor, being penalized for an incomplete triple twist and loosing connection bonus on her leap series.
Yelena Dologopolova, competing on vault and floor, sat down her double pike dismount and landed her first vault on her back.
(Latynina, Turischeva and Shushunova were in attendance in St. Petersburg.) Whether she wants to join the ranks of Latynina, Cáslavská,Turischeva and Podkopayeva in becoming only the fifth gymnast to be world, Olympic and European champion at the same time remains to be seen.
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 Gymn Forum: 1985 Moscow News Tournament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The main MN prizes were won by Sergei Gusev (USSR) and Yelena Shushunova (USSR).
Shushunova was presented the prize of the Japanese newspaper the Chunichi Shimbun, as the best overall woman gymnast.
The All-Union Voluntary Society of Booklovers gave its prizes to the women gymnasts who covered the greatest distance to Moscow -- to Georgina Garcia and Diana Floresel (both from Mexico); to Naima Elguati (Morocco), the youngest entry to the competition, and to Sylvio Kroll (GDR), the foreign gymnast who took part in six finals.
www.gymn-forum.com /Articles/MN-Comp85.html   (332 words)

  
 Gymn Forum: Moscow News - Before the Montreal Championships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Moscow News, #41, 1985 The USSR Cup and the national gymnastics championships in separate events were the final rehearsal for all the candidates to the USSR team which will go to the world championships in Montreal (Canada) on November 4-10.
Yelena Shushunova, winner of the 1985 USSR Cup, overall European champion, and Mikhail Voronin, 1966 overall world champion, comment here on the results of the competitions held in the Izmailovo Palace of Sport in Moscow.
"At the women's world gymnastics championships we'll be defending our world titles in both the individual and team scoring," Yelena Shushunova said.
www.gymn-forum.com /Articles/MN-PreWorlds.html   (565 words)

  
 International GYMNAST Magazine Online: 2004 Women's European Championships
In Moscow, Silivas and Shushunova continued a rivalry that began at the 1985 World Championships in Montreal, where Shushunova tied for first place all-around and Silivas won balance beam.
Their rivalry concluded at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, where Shushunova narrowly defeated Silivas for the all-around gold medal.
At the 1987 Europeans in Moscow, she scored 10.00 on floor in the all-around competition, which she won by 0.300 - the largest margin of victory from 1987 though 2002.
www.intlgymnast.com /events/2004/europeans/champions/silivas.html   (332 words)

  
 Gymn Forum: Sport in the USSR - Kuchinskaya and Shushunova   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Yelena Shushunova, a student at the Leningrad Institute of Physical Education, 1985 all-round world and European champion, 1986 World Cup winner, 1987 all-round national champion and three-time winner of the USSR Cup: No matter how much people criticize modern gymnastics for its complexity, overabundance of tricks and loss of lyricism, I can't agree with that.
During the 1988 national championships in Chelyabinsk, Zaporozhye schoolgirl Olga Strazheva, after a series of setbacks, once again surprised everyone with the stability and completeness of her routine, managing to outdo me in the overall scoring.
Muscovite Yelena Shevchenko too was lovely, playful and airy, creating charming combinations.
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She won the overall national title the same year she won three World titles, but three years later could only manage a position as alternate on her nation's Olympic team.
She earned a 10.6 on floor and a 10.2 on balance beam en route to her national title.
USSR, 1977 (!), and Maria Filatova & Yelena Mukhina.
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 Nadia Comaneci - PakAF.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
She participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics, placing second in the all-around to Yelena Davydova.
In her book "Letters To A Young Gymnast", Nadia explains her defeat by writing "That Day Yelena just performed better".
Comaneci retained her Olympic title in the balance beam, tied for the gold medal in the floor exercise, and the Romanian team finish second.
www.pakaf.com /read/Nadia_Comaneci   (855 words)

  
 Naples Daily News: Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Together, the all-around triumphs by Hamm and Patterson gave the U.S. a rare Olympic double.
For the first time since 1988, when Vladimir Artemov and Yelena Shushunova won gold for the Soviet Union in Seoul, the men's and women's all-around champions came from the same country.
Not only did Hamm and Patterson win what Karolyi called "the most precious medal in our sport," but they did so in a way America loves.
naplesnews.com /npdn/sports/article/0,2071,NPDN_15000_3126658,00.html   (693 words)

  
 Names in the Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hughes, who won gold for the United States at the 2002 games, is one of four Americans to gain entry this year, joining Chicago sportswriter Jerome Holtzman, swimming champions Dara Torres and Lenny Krayzelburg, and whitewater canoeist Joe Jacobi.
Others elected included Ukrainian gymnast Yelena Shushunova, Israeli windsurfer Gal Fridman, Czechoslovak tennis champion Ladislav Hect, and Sidney Halter, the Canadian Football League's first commissioner.
The induction ceremony is scheduled for July 14, 2005.
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 Yelena Shushunova   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Oksana Omelianchik/Yelena Shushunova/Yuri Korolyov profile; Yelena Grosheva interview; 1997 Reese's Cup; 1997 L.A. Lights Rhythmic competition; Namibia feature; International Gymnastics Hall of Fame grand opening report; 1996 Readers' Picks.
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 International GYMNAST Magazine Online: 2004 Women's European Championships
This year's Europeans take place only a few months prior to the Athens Olympic Games.
European all-around champions who also became Olympic all-around champions include Latynina; Caslavska; Turischeva; Comaneci; Yelena Shushunova (1985 European champion and 1988 Olympic champion); Tatiana Gutsu (1992 European and Olympic champion); and Lilia Podkopayeva (1996 European and Olympic champion).
Look for updates from Amsterdam here in our special event section, and don't miss our complete coverage of the 2004 European Championships in the June/July 2004 issue of International Gymnast Magazine.
www.intlgymnast.com /events/2004/europeans   (330 words)

  
 Yelena Shushunova   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Yelena Shushunova
Yelena Shushunova
article at Free Euro Online Encyclopedia
It uses material from the wikipedia article Yelena Shushunova.
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 International GYMNAST Magazine Online
Five world and Olympic champions will be officially welcomed into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame on Friday, May 7, during the IGHOF's 8th Annual Induction Ceremony in Oklahoma City.
The event will also honor Malaysian professor Dr.
Also travelling from St. Petersburg was world and Olympic champion Yelena Shushunova.
www.intlgymnast.com /news/2004/may.html   (5593 words)

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