Olga Strazheva
Soviet artistic gymnast
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| Born | (1972-11-12) 12 November 1972 (age 51) Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR, USSR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 40 kg (88 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Trud Zaporizhia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Olga Vladimirovna Strazheva (Russian: Ольга Владимировна Стражева; Ukrainian: Ольга Володимирівна Стражева; born 12 November 1972) is a retired gymnast from Ukraine who won world and Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union.[1]
She competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics. In the optional team final, she suffered a torn ACL on the balance beam and therefore was unable to compete on the final event, floor exercise, or attend the gold medal ceremony.[2][3]
She won another gold with the Soviet team at the 1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, along with two individual bronze medals. The same year she collected two more individual medals at the European championships.[2] She is the first female gymnast to perform a double frontal salto on the floor.[3]
She retired in 1990 due to injuries and later joined a circus company in Germany, where she performed together with her daughter Anna, a rhythmic gymnast.[2] She married twice, second time in 2008 to Ivan Vanyuk, a colleague from the university where she teaches physical education.[4]
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Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Women's Team All-Around
- 1928
Netherlands - 1936
Germany - 1948
Czechoslovakia - 1952
Soviet Union - 1956
Soviet Union - 1960 Soviet Union
- 1964 Soviet Union
- 1968 Soviet Union
- 1972 Soviet Union
- 1976 Soviet Union
- 1980 Soviet Union
- 1984
Romania - 1988 Soviet Union
- 1992
Unified Team - 1996
United States - 2000
Romania - 2004 Romania
- 2008
China - 2012 United States
- 2016 United States
- 2020
ROC
1988: Soviet Union (URS), Svetlana Baitova, Yelena Shevchenko, Olga Strazheva, Natalia Lashchenova, Svetlana Boginskaya, Yelena Shushunova
Soviet Union (URS), Svetlana Baitova, Yelena Shevchenko, Olga Strazheva, Natalia Lashchenova, Svetlana Boginskaya, Yelena Shushunova
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