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Yelena Shushunova. Yelena Lvovna Shushunova ( Russian: Елена Львовна Шушунова; sometimes spelled Elena Shushunova; 23 May 1969 – 16 August 2018) was a Soviet Russian gymnast. [1] [2] [3] Shushunova was one of five women (alongside Larisa Latynina, Věra Čáslavská, Ludmilla Tourischeva and Lilia Podkopayeva) who have won ...
Yelena Shushunova, 49, passed away on Thursday in a Saint Petersburg hospital due to complications from pneumonia, according to Elena Mikhaylova, a representative of the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation. Shushunova helped lead the Soviet team to gold at the 1988 Olympic Games before claiming the individual title in the all-around final ...
Aug 16, 2018 · Getty Images. Yelena Shushunova, the 1988 Olympic all-around champion, died Thursday at age 49, according to Russia’s gymnastics federation. Shushunova died of complications from pneumonia, a Russia gymnastics federation official said, according to TASS. Shushunova earned two golds, a silver and a bronze at the Seoul 1988 Games at age 19.
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At 14 years of age, at her first world championships, the 1985 Worlds in Montreal, Yelena Shushunova, along with her teammate, Oksana Omeliantchik—both last minute substitutes into the lineup of the all-around competition—found themselves in one of the most compelling all-around battles in gymnastics history. The two diminutive Soviet ...
Yelena Shushunova needed a perfect 10 to win the All-Around gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games. And, she nailed it! The 19-year old Russian medaled four times at the Seoul Olympics––gold in the All-Around and Team events, a silver medal in Balance Beam, and a bronze on the Uneven Bars. She also placed seventh in Floor Exercises and eighth on Vault.
Yelena Lvovna Shushunova ( Russian: Елена Львовна Шушунова; sometimes spelled Elena Shushunova; 23 May 1969 – 16 August 2018) was a Soviet Russian gymnast. Shushunova was one of five women (alongside Larisa Latynina, Věra Čáslavská, Ludmilla Tourischeva and Lilia Podkopayeva) who have won all-around titles at all major competitions: Olympics, World Championships and ...
Biography. Yelena Shushunova and Lyudmila Turishcheva are the only two female gymnasts who have won the grand slam of all-around titles – Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup and European Championships. Shushunova took up gymnastics at the age of six and made the Soviet national team in 1984, just in time for the 1984 Olympics.
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