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See Gymnasium (ancient Greece) for the origin of the word ''gymnast''.

FAMOUS GYMNASTS

Female artistic

Australia

Monette Russo (b. 1988)

Allana Slater (b. 1984)

Lisa Skinner (b. 1981)

Belarus

Svetlana Boguinskaya ( USSR / Belarus , b. 1973)

Olga Korbut ( USSR / Belarus , b. 1955)

Brazil

Daniele Hypolito (b. 1984)

Luisa Parente (b. 1973)

Daiane Dos Santos (b. 1983)

Canada

Karen Kelsall (b. 1962)

Elfi Schlegel (b. 1964)

Czechoslovakia

Věra Čáslavská (b. 1942)

China

Cheng Fei (b. 1988)

Fan Ye (b. 1988)

Ma Yanhong (b. 1964)

Li Li (b. ?)

Liu Xuan (b. 1979)

Lu Li (b. 1976)

Mo Huilan (b. 1979)

Sang Lan (b. 1981)

Zhang Nan (b. 1986)

France

Ludivine Furnon (b. 1980)

Émilie Lepennec (b. 1987)

Elvire Teza (b. 1981)

Germany

Maxi Gnauck (b. 1964)

Karin Janz (b. 1952)

Great Britain

Lisa Mason (b. 1982)

Annika Reeder (b. 1979)

Beth Tweddle (b. 1985)

Hungary

Ágnes Keleti (b. 1921)

Henrietta Onodi (b. 1974)

Mexico

Brenda Magaña (b. 1977)

Laura Del Carmen Moreno (b. 1978)

Iyérida Mogollón (b.1985)

North Korea

Kim Gwang Suk (b. circa 1976-78)

Romania

Simona Amânar (b. 1979)

Oana Ban (b. 1986)

Nadia Comaneci (b. 1961)

Sabina Cojocar (b. 1985)

Aurelia Dobre (b. 1972)

Emilia Eberle (b. 1964)

Gina Gogean (b. 1978)

Alexandra Marinescu (b. 1982)

Lavinia Milosovici (b. 1976)

Aura Andreea Munteanu (b. 1988)

Maria Olaru (b. 1982)

Catalina Ponor (b. 1987)

Andreea Raducan (b. 1983)

Daniela Silivas (b. 1972)

Ecaterina Szabo (b. 1967)

Corina Ungureanu (b. 1980)

Teodora Ungureanu (b. 1960)

Russia

Yelena Davydova ( USSR / Russia , b. 1961)

Elena Dolgopolova (b. 1980)

Rozalia Galiyeva ( USSR / Russia / Uzbekistan , b. 1977)

Ksenia Kekkonen (b. 1983)

Svetlana Khorkina (b. 1979)

Anastasia Kolesnikova (b. 1984)

Dina Kotchetkova (b. 1977)

Anna Kovalyova (b. 1983)

Natalia Kuchinskaya ( USSR / Russia , b. 1949)

Yekaterina Lobazyuk (b. 1983)

Sofia Muratova ( USSR / Russia , b. 1929)

Anna Pavlova (b. 1987)

Natalia Shaposhnikova ( USSR / Russia , b. 1961)

Elena Zamolodchikova (b. 1982)

Spain

Patricia Moreno (b. 1988)

Sara Moro (b. 1984)

Ukraine

Polina Astakhova ( USSR / Ukraine , 1936 - 2005 )

Maria Gorokhovskaya ( USSR / Ukraine , 1921 - 2001 )

Tatyana Gutsu ( USSR / Ukraine , b. 1976)

Larissa Latynina ( USSR / Ukraine , b. 1934)

Tatiana Lysenko ( USSR / Ukraine , b. 1975)

Lilia Podkopayeva (b. 1978)

Ludmilla Tourischeva ( USSR / Ukraine , b. 1952)

Oksana Omelianchik ( USSR / Ukraine , b, 1969 or 1970)

USA

Vanessa Atler (b. 1982)

Kendall Beck (b. 1981)

Alyssa Beckerman (b. 1981)

Mohini Bhardwaj (b. 1978)

Jana Bieger (b. 1989)

Amanda Borden (b. 1977)

Amy Chow (b. 1978)

Jamie Dantzscher (b. 1982)

Dominique Dawes (b. 1976)

Julissa Gomez (b. 1972 - d. 1991)

Hilary Grivich (b. 1977 - d. 1997)

Katie Heenan (b. 1985)

Christy Henrich (b. 1972 - d. 1994)

Terin Humphrey (b. 1986)

Carly Janiga (b. 1988)

Courtney Kupets (b. 1986)

Nastia Liukin (b. 1989)

Kristen Maloney (b. 1981)

Julianne McNamara (b. 1965)

Chellsie Memmel (b. 1988)

Shannon Miller (b. 1977)

Phoebe Mills (b. 1972)

Dominique Moceanu (b. 1981)

Betty Okino (b. 1975)

Carly Patterson (b. 1988)

Jaycie Phelps (b. 1979)

Elise Ray (b. 1982)

Mary Lou Retton (b. 1968)

Cathy Rigby (b. 1952)

Tasha Schwikert (b. 1984)

Kerri Strug (b. 1977)

Kim Zmeskal (b. 1976)

U.S.S.R.

Polina Astakhova ( USSR / Ukraine , b. 1936 - d. 2005)

Olga Bicherova (b. 1966 or 1967)

Svetlana Boguinskaya ( USSR / Belarus , b. 1973)

Oksana Chusovitina ( USSR / Uzbekistan , b. 1975)

Yelena Davydova ( USSR / Russia , b. 1961)

Maria Filatova (b. 1961)

Maria Gorokhovskaya ( USSR / Ukraine , b. 1921 - d. 2001)

Natalia Ilienko (b. 1967)

Nellie Kim (b. 1957)

Natalia Kuchinskaya ( USSR / Russia , b. 1949)

Larissa Latynina ( USSR / Ukraine , b. 1934)

Olga Mostepanova (b. 1970)

Elena Mukhina (b. 1960)

Sofia Muratova (b. 1929)

Oksana Omelianchik ( USSR / Ukraine , b. 1969 or 1970)

Galina Shamrai (b. 1931)

Natalia Shaposhnikova ( USSR / Russia , b. 1961)

Elena Shushunova (b. 1969)

Ludmilla Tourischeva ( USSR / Ukraine , b. 1952)

Natalia Yurchenko (b. 1965)

Uzbekistan

Oksana Chusovitina ( USSR / Uzbekistan , b. 1975)

Male artistic

Australia

Philippe Rizzo (b. 1981)

Joshua Jefferis (b. 1985)

Damian Istria (b. 1982)

Belarus

Ivan Ivankov (b. 1975)

Vitaly Scherbo (b. 1972)

Brazil

Diego Hypolito (b. 1986)

Mosiah Rodrigues (b. 1981)

Bulgaria

Jordan Jovtchev (b. 1973)

Canada

R. Tait McKenzie (b. 1885)

Gilbert Larose (b. ?)

Andre Simard (b. 1967)

Jean Gagnon (b. 1970)

Jean Choquette (b. 1972)

Philip Chartrand (b. 1976)

Kyle Shewfelt (b. 1982)

China

Li Ning (b. 1963)

Yang Wei (b. 1980)

Li Xiaopeng (b. 1981)

Finland

Heikki Savolainen (b. 1907, d. 1998)

Germany

Sylvio Kroll (b. ?)

Sven Tippelt (b. 1965)

Andreas Wecker (b. 1970)

Greece

Vlasios Maras (b. 1983)

Hungary

Szilveszter Csollányi (b. 1970)

Zoltán Supola (b. 1970)

Italy

Igor Cassina (b. 1977)

Yuri Chechi (b. 1969)

Japan

Yoshihiro Saito (b. 1976)

Mitsuo Tsukahara (b. 1947)

Naoya Tsukahara (b. 1977)

Hiroyuki Tomita (b. 1980)

Latvia

Evgeni Sapronenko (b. 1978)

Netherlands

Yuri Van Gelder (b. 1983)

Jeffrey Wammes (b. 1987)

Puerto Rico

Luis Rivera (b. 1986)

Romania

Marian Dragulescu (b. 1980)

Ioan Silviu Suciu (b. 1977)

Marius Urzica (b. 1975)

Nicolae Vieru (b. 1932)

Russia

Nikolai Andrianov ( USSR / Russia , b. 1952)

Dmitry Bilozerchev ( USSR / Russia , b. 1966)

Alexei Bondarenko (b. 1978)

Nikolai Krukov (b. 1978)

Yevgeny Krylov (b. 1977)

Alexei Nemov (b. 1976)

Valeri Liukin ( USSR / Russia , b. 1969)

Boris Shakhlin ( USSR / Russia , b. 1932)

Yuri Titov ( USSR / Russia , b. 1935)

Alexander Tkachev ( USSR / Russia , b. 1957)

Mikhail Voronin ( USSR / Russia , b. 1945 - d. 2004)

Slovenia

Miro Cerar (b. 1939)

Leon Štukelj (b. 1898 - d. 1999)

Spain

Joaquín Blume (b. 1959)

Ukraine

Alexander Beresch (b. 1977)

Roman Zozulya (b. 1979)

Valeri Goncharov (b. 1977)

USA

Bart Conner (b. 1958)

Tim Daggett (b. 1965)

Mitch Gaylord (b. 1961)

Morgan Hamm (b. 1982)

Paul Hamm (b. 1982)

Peter Vidmar (b. 1961)

Blaine Wilson (b. 1974)

U.S.S.R.

Nikolai Andrianov ( USSR / Russia , b. 1952)

Dmitry Bilozerchev ( USSR / Russia , b. 1966)

Boris Shakhlin ( USSR / Russia , b. 1932)

Valeri Liukin ( USSR / Russia , b. 1969)

Yuri Titov ( USSR / Russia , b. 1935)

Alexander Tkachev ( USSR / Russia , b. 1957)

Mikhail Voronin ( USSR / Russia , b. 1945 - d. 2004)

Female rhythmic

Australia

Kimberly Mason (b. 1989)

Penelope Blackmore (b. 1984)

Danielle LeRay (b. 1982)

Kasumi Takahashi (b. 1980)

Belarus

Larissa Loukianenko (b. 1973)

Yulia Raskina (b. 1982)

Inna Zhukova (b. 1986)

Bulgaria

Teodora Alexandrova (b. 1981)

Neshka Robeva (b. 1946)

Maria Gigova (b. 1947)

Bianka Panova (b. 1970)

Maria Petrova (b. 1975)

Simona Peycheva (b. 1985)

Canada

Lori Fung (b. 1963)

Alexandra Orlando (b. 1987)

Mary Sanders (b. 1985)

China

Ling Zhong (b. 1983)

France

Eva Serrano (b. 1978)

Germany

Lisa Ingildeeva (b. 1988)

Greece

Eleni Andriola (b. 1986)

Israel

Katia Pisetsky (b. 1986)

Kazakhstan

Aliya Yussupova (b. 1984)

Poland

Aleksandra Szutenberg (b. 1988)

Romania

Irina Deleanu (b. 1975)

Russia

Yulia Barsukova (b. 1978)

Alina Kabaeva (b. 1983)

Irina Tchachina (b. 1982)

Vera Sessina (b. 1986)

Spain

Marta Bobo

Carolina Pascual (b. 1976)

Almudena Cid (b. 1980)

Jennifer Colino

Ukraine

Anna Bessonova (b. 1984)

Natalia Godunko (b. 1984)

Ekaterina Serebrianskaya (b. 1977)

Oxana Skaldina ( USSR / Ukraine , b. 1972)

Alexandra Timoshenko ( USSR / Ukraine , b. 1972)

Elena Vitrichenko (b. 1976)

Tamara Yerofeeva (b. 1982)

USA

Mary Sanders (b. 1985)

U.S.S.R.

Irina Deriugina (b. 1958)

Marina Lobatch (b. 1970)

Galina Shugurova (b. 1955)

Oxana Skaldina ( USSR / Ukraine , b. 1972)

Alexandra Timoshenko ( USSR / Ukraine , b. 1972)

Yugoslavia

Milena Reljin (b. 1967)

Male rhythmic

Spain

Ruben Orihuela ( Spain , ? - )

SEE ALSO

International Gymnastics Hall Of Fame

Olympic Medalists In Artistic Gymnastics (men)

Olympic Medalists In Artistic Gymnastics (women)

REFERENCES

World Ranking (1952-2005)

Summary of Canadian Gymnastic Record

University of Michigan gymnasts