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Birth name | Yelena Arkadyevna Naimushina | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Askiz, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Soviet Union | 19 November 1964|||||||||||||||||
Died | 14 March 2017 | (aged 52)|||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.45 m (4 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 40 kg (88 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Dynamo Krasnoyarsk | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yelena Arkadyevna Naimushina ( Russian: Елена Аркадьевна Наимушина; 19 November 1964 – 14 March 2017 [1]) was a Soviet gymnast.
She competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal with the Soviet team. [2] She won a silver team medal at the 1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. [3]
Naimushina retired in 1981 and married Andris, a Latvian cyclist whom she met in 1980. For 15 years she lived in Latvia where she gave birth to sons Tom and Phillip and daughter Linda-Anna. They later divorced and Naimushina returned to Russia. Between 1990 and 1993 she performed in the sports show All Stars of Dynamo managed by Mikhail Voronin. [3] She later married a second time, to gymnastics coach Sergey Grigoryev, and moved to Tula, Russia, where they trained children. [4]
Naimushina died on March 14, 2017. Her former coach Valentin Shevchuk said the death was unexpected. [5]
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
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Birth name | Yelena Arkadyevna Naimushina | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Askiz, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Soviet Union | 19 November 1964|||||||||||||||||
Died | 14 March 2017 | (aged 52)|||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.45 m (4 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 40 kg (88 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Dynamo Krasnoyarsk | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yelena Arkadyevna Naimushina ( Russian: Елена Аркадьевна Наимушина; 19 November 1964 – 14 March 2017 [1]) was a Soviet gymnast.
She competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal with the Soviet team. [2] She won a silver team medal at the 1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. [3]
Naimushina retired in 1981 and married Andris, a Latvian cyclist whom she met in 1980. For 15 years she lived in Latvia where she gave birth to sons Tom and Phillip and daughter Linda-Anna. They later divorced and Naimushina returned to Russia. Between 1990 and 1993 she performed in the sports show All Stars of Dynamo managed by Mikhail Voronin. [3] She later married a second time, to gymnastics coach Sergey Grigoryev, and moved to Tula, Russia, where they trained children. [4]
Naimushina died on March 14, 2017. Her former coach Valentin Shevchuk said the death was unexpected. [5]