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Larisa Leonidovna Petrik (Russian: Лариса Леонидовна Петрик; born 28 August 1949) is a former Russian gymnast and Olympic champion. Petrik competed at the 1966 World Championships where she shared the team silver medal (gold went to the Czechoslovaks) and earned an individual bronze medal on the beam.
Dec 5, 2022 · The victory of the 15-year-old Vitebsk schoolgirl Larisa Petrik at last year’s USSR Gymnastics Championship amazed the whole world. Our gymnastics authorities tried to tamp down this sensational news with cautious comments.
- Reminder
- What Are The Facts?
- The Meet Officials’ Big Mistake
- Bart Conner’s Voiceover: The Origin of A Myth
- Were Politics Involved?
- Back to The 1966 World Championships
- P.S. But What About The Book Women’s Gymnastics: A History?
Before we dive into the archives, here’s a quick reminder about how event finals worked in 1968. Only six gymnasts qualified for event finals. Qualification for finals was based on the compulsory *and* optional scores on each event. Your final score was the average of your compulsory and optional scores + the score for your routine during event fin...
On October 25, 1968, the Swiss newspaper L’Expressprinted the qualifiers for event finals with their scores. As did the Swiss newspaper L’Impartial. Heading into finals, Čáslavskáand Petrik were tied behind Kuchinskaya. 1. Natalia Kuchinskaya (URS) 19.60 (9.800 average) 2. Věra Čáslavská (TCH) and Larisa Petrik (URS) 19.55 (9.775 average) Adding th...
Let’s rewatch the footage from Gymnastics’ Greatest Stars. As we do, ignore Bart Conner’s voiceover for now. Listen, instead, to the original broadcast commentary so that we can get an idea of what was happening at the time — not the retrospective interpretation that Conner offered. Scores were circulated Before floor finals, the event organizers c...
Okay, now listen to the segment from Gymnastics’ Greatest Starswith Conner’s voiceover. Decades later, Bart Conner’s voiceover script injected sinister undertones Conner’s voiceover — “Politics would enter the Games for the second time” — makes it sound as if there were Soviet shenanigans afoot — as if the judges altered Petrik’s scores from prelim...
Not in the way that Conner’s voiceover script implies. I have yet to find a 1968 newspaper article that posits that the judges altered the prelim scores to boost Petrik to the top of the podium. That narrative was invented after the fact. That said, the Dutch newspaper Trouwsuggested that Čáslavská should have received a 10.0. (A 10.0 would have gi...
That’s all for now. We’ll eventually get to the 1968 Olympics in its entirety, but I felt compelled to dispel the myth about Petrik’s floor scores sooner rather than later. For some reason, that myth has cropped up a lot in recent days. And look, I am sure that I propagated this myth at various points in my life because I simply regurgitated what I...
I’m putting this as a P.S. because we are heading deep into the weeds here. That said, I know that some gym nerd out there is going to bring this up. According to Minot Simons’s book, Petrik scored a 9.50 on floor during the optionals portion of the competition. That would mean that Petrik scored a 10.05 on her compulsory routine to reach a 19.550 ...
Larisa Petrik (URS) - Floor Exercise - YouTube. Gymgold07. 7.22K subscribers. Subscribed. 166. 7.4K views 5 years ago. Exquisite floor exercise routine by Larisa Petrik of the Soviet Union....
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Larissa Petrik is not a widely known figure in WAG history, but she did as much to change the sport as Nadia Comaneci, Olga Korbut, and Natalia Yurchenko. Larissa Petrik famously defeated Larissa Latynina at the 1964 USSR Championships when she was only 15 years old.
Dec 4, 2022 · Larisa Petrik became the absolute champion of the country with the best total score in the all-around (37.55). The silver medal went to the gymnast from Kyiv Larisa Latynina (37.5), while the bronze went to Elena Tyazhelova from Moscow (37.45).
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Larisa Leonidovna Petrik (Russian: Лариса Леонидовна Петрик; born 28 August 1949) is a former Russian gymnast and Olympic champion. Petrik competed at the 1966 World Championships where she shared the team silver medal (gold went to the Czechoslovaks) and earned an individual bronze medal on the beam.
