News. Though too young to compete at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Liukins scores at the 2004 U.S. Championships would have ranked her third in the senior competition. Her "Korbut Flip" on the uneven bars brought her four gold medals. She helped lead that U.S. team to the gold medal and her silver in the vault, despite how she looked, was still impressive. Born: Dec. 31, 1995 (Newport News, Virginia), Medals: 3 (2012, gold, team all-around/ gold, team all-around; 2012, gold, all-around). They excelled on the world's biggest stage. Onodi married U.S. Olympic pentathlete Jimbo Haley and is now a U.S. citizen. Lavinia Milosovici, known as "Milo," is one of many amazing Romanian gymnasts, and she overcame scarlet fever as a child, then the Romanian Revolution, to become one of the most-decorated Olympic gymnasts in history. Tokyo 2020 home. Born: Jan. 19, 1989 (Belogrod, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1996 (Atlanta), 2000 (Sydney), 2004 (Athens), Medals: 7 (1996, gold, uneven bars/silver, team all-around; 2000, gold, uneven bars/silver, team all-around/silver, floor exercise; 2004, silver, all-around/bronze, team all-around). Undeterred, the then 19-year-old Liukin persevered through to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. California native McKayla Maroney, the daughter of former Purdue quarterback Mike Maroney, was the source of one of the greatest internet memes of all time when the picture of her on the medal stand receiving the silver medal in vault at the 2012 Olympics went viral. Injuries kept Sofia Muratova from achieving what might have been next-level Olympic fame. She also reached the semi-finals of the reality show Strictly Come Dancing at 18, the second-youngest public figure on the show ever. Her two silver medals at the 2004 Olympics were more impressive when we found out afterward she did it with a stress fracture in her hip. Olympic years: 1952 (Helsinki), 1956 (Melbourne), Medals: 8 (1952, gold, uneven bars/silver, team exercises/bronze, all-around/bronze, balance beam/bronze, floor exercises/bronze, team apparatus; 1956, gold, team apparatus/silver, team combined). Want to know something else really cool? Retired Romanian artistic gymnast Lavinia Corina Miloovici was born on October 21, 1976, and is widely regarded as one of the most prolific female all-around gymnasts of 1990s. She also has a British Championship silver and a World Challenge Cup silver in her kitty and was part of the European Youth Olympic Festival. Medals: 4 (gold, balance beam/silver, team all-around/silver, all-around/silver, floor). Mustafina was recovering from an injury in a hospital in 2015 when she met her future husband and Russian Olympic bobsledder Alexey Zaitsev. Her career was halted by World War II, when her father was killed by the Nazis and her family hid in a "Swedish House.". Her protests during the Soviet Union's anthem during the 1968 Olympics in response to the Soviet invasion of her country led to her forced retirement from the sport. Following her retirement from competition, Tourischeva became a coach and one of her proteges, Lillia Podkopayeva, won the Olympic gold medal in the all-around at the 1996 Olympics. She doubled down on the Olympic team gold at the 2016 Olympics, and her story was so inspiring it was made into a Lifetime movie. Miller bounced back with two gold medals at the 1996 Olympics, in balance beam and the team competition with the "Magnificent Seven" squad. They traveled through Communist Hungary and Austria, mostly on foot and at night, until they were able to get to a plane to take them to the United States. Born: Dec. 9, 1995 (Aliso Viejo, California), Medals: 2 (gold, team all-around/silver, vault). She's even credited with the development of an artificial spine disk known as the Charite Disc. Born: Sept. 5, 1976 (Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union), Medals: 4 (gold, team all-around/ gold, all-around/ silver, uneven bars/ bronze, floor exercise). Gabby Douglas is the author of two books: 'Raising the Bar' and 'Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith'. The same year, he also won a gold medal at the European Championships in Montpellier. Retton spent the next decade following her gold medal victory as one of the most popular athletes in America. [2][4][5][6][7] Tweddle and Pat Hirst are the only British female gymnasts who have competed in at least three Olympics. Izbasa took a brief break from gymnastics in 2013 to obtain her bachelor's degree but returned to the sport briefly in 2015 in hopes of making the Olympic team in 2016. The gymnast was just 18 when the alleged incident happened Credit: Golders. Equipped with a degree in kinesiology from LSU, she now works as a therapy assistant and is studying to get a degree in physiotherapy. It came in stark contrast to the gymnastics of Vera Caslavska of Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Unions Larisa Latynina, who won the all-around titles at the 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games. Born: Oct. 30, 1989 (Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union), Medals: 5 (2008, gold, all-around/silver, team all-around/silver, uneven bars/silver, balance beam/bronze, floor exercise). Boginskaya famously appeared in a B-52s video in 1992 and moved to the United States following the end of her career, when she married an American and set up a home in Houston. Muratova's two gold medals came in team competition in back-to-back Olympics. How would she have done in 1984? Korondi was part of a huge contingent of Hungarians who immigrated to the United States after the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. He also has 3 Northern European Championship gold medals in his kitty. She once publicly appealed to online trolls to cut down on their abusive comments directed toward her just before the Tokyo Olympics. Manina's contributions to sports extend beyond her career on the mat. Medals: 4 (2008, gold, floor exercise/bronze, team all-around; 2012, gold, vault/bronze, team all-around). Buchan was also author, famous for writing "The Thirty-Nine Steps" 36. American gymnast Shannon Miller didn't let her career become defined by the 1992 Olympics, where she set the record for most medals won in an Olympic games without winning a gold medal, when she brought home three silver medals and two bronze medals. [8][9], List of Olympic female artistic gymnasts for Great Britain, Last edited on 5 September 2022, at 18:13, "Great Britain Gymnastics Women's Team All-Around Results", "Great Britain Gymnastics Women's Individual All-Around Results", "Great Britain Gymnastics Women's Uneven Bars Results", "Rio Olympics 2016: Bryony Page wins trampoline silver for Great Britain", "Women's artistic gymnastics team named for Tokyo Olympics", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Olympic_female_artistic_gymnasts_for_Great_Britain&oldid=1108676150, This page was last edited on 5 September 2022, at 18:13. Gogean retired after the world championships in 1998 and went on to have a career as a commentator and coach in her native Romania and Scotland. Since 2017, Joe Fraser has been an important member of the English Senior team, helping his team win the silver medal at the 2018 European Championships. British gymnast and Olympian Rebecca Wing is also a Commonwealth team silver medal winner. Keleti, who was also a professional cello player, was granted political asylum in Australia in 1956 after the Soviet Union invaded Hungary. She's married to Chris Carter, a former gymnast for Great Britain, and the couple have three children together. Suzanne Cox, also known by her stage name, Vogue, is a 4-time UK competitive aerobics champion. Following the end of her career, Bosakova was a member of the Czechoslovak Song and Dance Ensemble before becoming a gymnastics coach in Czechoslovakia. That's right. Liukin's Olympic career was hampered by her age. Patterson's win was overshadowed by her struggles in the team competition, where the Americans failed to defend their gold medal. Ukrainian gymnast Lilla Podkopayeva's amazing run at the 1996 Olympics can't be undersold. .more #935 of 1,316 The Best Athletes Of All Time #7 of 25 The Best 'Dancing with the Stars' Winners of All-Time #14 of 25 The one medal that eluded Astakhova was the gold in all-around. 1 Beth Tweddle (Retired British Artistic Gymnast ) 42 12 Birthdate: April 1, 1985 Sun Sign: Aries Birthplace: Johannesburg, South Africa Known as Britain's most successful gymnast, Beth Tweddle is a 3-time world champion and a 6-time European champion, apart from being an Olympic bronze medalist. When Melanie Coleman, a gymnast at Southern Connecticut State University, died after falling off the uneven bars, veterans of the sport were stunned. How popular was Kuchinskaya in 1968? The son of a London Welsh rugby player, he was destined to pursue sports as a career option. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836 - 1908) Born in Glasgow Campbell-Bannerman was Liberal Prime Minister of Britain between 1906 and 1908. a set of moves that no other female has ever performed in competition. She moved to the United States and has run a gymnastics club in Illinois since the 1980s. At Tokyo 2020, billions around the world will tune in to watch the top gymnasts on the planet, including arguably the greatest female of all time, displaying their physical and technical brilliance in pursuit of a gold medal and with a special place in history guaranteed for any athlete who innovates and breaks records on the biggest stage. Keleti was an Olympic . Age: 30 Birthplace: Alicante, Spain Age: 47 Birthplace: Lleida, Spain Age: 36 The two divorced in 1987, and in 1993, during a fight with their oldest son, Martin, Josef was punched and fell to the floor, striking his head and causing his death. She was a prodigy, rising rapidly through the U.S. junior ranks. Injuries hampered Moceanu more than anything in 1996, and she fell flat in her individual events, with the closest she came to winning a medal being a fourth-place finish in floor exercises. Her 18 medals were the most medals won by any Olympian from 1964 until 2012, and she's still the only woman to win gold in the team, all-around and an individual event in a single Olympics. Apart from being an actor and a musician, Viva Seifert is also former rhythmic gymnast who has represented Britain in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Born: Oct. 10, 1964 (Berlin, East Germany), Medals: 4 (gold, uneven bars/silver, all-around/bronze, team/bronze, floor exercise). A co-founder of Gymnasts for Change, she also campaigns against abuse. Tickets to the artistic gymnastics competition are some of the hottest at any Olympic Games. British retired gymnast and Olympian Hannah Whelan has won her country a Commonwealth team gold and a European Championship team silver. Though Shannon Miller remains the USAs most decorated Olympic gymnast with seven, Biles needs only to collect three medals in Tokyo to add that superlative to her resume. Those who excel on the biggest world stage become household names, international superstars and national heroes. Equipment used by her at the 2012 Olympics is now in the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Chinese state newspaper Xinhua published a story stating she was 14 years old (not 16 as the national team claimed) in 2008 and therefore ineligible to compete. About Gymfest Anti-Doping Scottish Gymnastics believes in clean gymnastics. You can change your cookie settings at any time by using the . (Comanecis perfect mark was famously displayed as a 1.00 at the Olympic Games in Montreal.). Danusia Francis is a British-born artistic gymnast who has represented the United Kingdom in the past. Jackie Stewart. Born into a family with a footballer father and a cricketer uncle, she was destined to step into sports. All-in-all, she left Rio with four gold medals and a bronze, as well as superstar status. He was murdered in the Holocaust. Anti-Doping Information In four appearances at the Worlds, Biles holds the records for most World gold medals at 14 and is tied for most medals overall by a female gymnast with Khorkina at 20. Living Gymnasts Go to all Rankings Newly Added Gymnasts (2022) Go to all Rankings Humphrey, who won two silver medals at the 2004 Olympics, also was part of the U.S. team that won a world championship in 2003. As of April 2022, 2 new gymnasts have been added to Pantheon including Tania Lamarca and Lorena Gurndez. Miller, who lives in Florida, beat ovarian cancer in 2011. B Frank Baines (gymnast) C Hamish Carter (gymnast) Adam Cox D Liam Davie F Steve Frew H Rosalie Hutton M Archibald MacLaren Born: Dec. 3, 1987 (Boston, Massachusetts). Daniel Purvis is a Scottish former artistic gymnast who won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, representing Great Britain. Born: Jan. 24, 1968 (Fairmont, West Virginia), Medals: 5 (1984, gold, all-around/silver, team all-around/silver, vault/bronze, uneven bars/bronze, floor exercise). The peace and beauty of this valley today belies the fact that Glen Coe was the scene of a ruthless 17th-century massacre, when the local MacDonalds were murdered by soldiers of the Campbell clan. THE LOCH NESS MONSTER. In 2017, she auctioned off her Olympic medals for close to $340,000 dollars. You can find more information for coaches, gymnasts and parents. Nicknamed "The Russian Birch" and "Madonna" for her beauty and grace, Astakhova was an obsession for journalists in the western world during most of her career. Vera Caslavska is one of just two gymnasts to win Olympic gold in the all-around in consecutive games and tallied an amazing 11 medals over three Olympics. American gymnast Carly Patterson's all-around gold medal at the 2004 Olympics was notable for being the first all-around gold won by an American in a non-boycotted Olympics. She is now a coach working with the Warrington Gymnastics Club. Korondi settled in Houston initially, then made her way to the Las Vegas area where she had a long career as a gymnastics coach. She has become a sports icon in the Philippines . With his 2008 Beijing Olympic bronze medal, Louis Smith became the second Black male gymnast to have won the medal. As a stunt performer, Walters received the 2010 Taurus World Stunt Award for the film Ninja Assassin. Stoic and tough, Gina Gogean was actually only 13 years old when she participated in the 1992 Olympics. in gymnastics history. Off the events, Korbuts tears of disappointment after a botched uneven bars routine cost her any chance at the all-around gold medal drew fans in. Gulyaz-Koteles died in 2019, at 94 years old. She's also not the only Olympic medalist in her family. She became the first gymnast to be named to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. She also won gold medals for the U.S. in the team competitions at the 2012 and. Karin Buttner-Janz turned in one of the greatest performances in an Olympic Games in 1972, when she won five medals, including two gold medals in individual events. Shawn Johnson Shawn Machel Johnson East (born January 19, 1992) is an American former artistic gymnast. Starting from the bottom of our list on number 12, we have Nina Derwael from Belgium, a two-time World (2018 & 2019) and European champion (2017 & 2018) on uneven bars. She soared to fame with the show Gladiators and had a 5-year stint on it. They were silver medalists in the team all-around competition in three straight Olympics in 1948, 1952 and 1956. If you're trying to find out the names of famous Spanish gymnasts then this list is the perfect resource for you. The most famous living gymnasts include Nadia Comneci, Ecaterina Szabo, and Daniela Siliva. Johnson East won Season 8 of "Dancing With the Stars" in 2009 and married NFL long snapper Andrew East in 2016. She was the first Hungarian to win an Olympic medal in gymnastics in over 30 years. Between 1965 and 1973 he competed in Formula One winning three World Championships, and 27 race wins. The Romanians doctored her birth certificate and spotted her one year, saying she was born in 1977. Szabo was the favorite headed into the 1984 Olympics and thought to be the next coming of Comaneci, but despite winning four gold medals, Szabo was upstaged by her loss to Mary Lou Retton in the all-around by just .05. Among those mentioned, they wrote some of the most famous novels in the English . Scottish Gymnastics' Roles and Responsibilities Monitor membership and participation levels in Scotland. Right IconThis ranking is based on an algorithm that combines various factors, including the votes of our users and search trends on the internet. Olympic medals: 9 (1976, gold, all-around/gold, uneven bars/gold, balance beam/silver, team all-around/bronze, floor exercise; 1980, gold, balance beam/gold, floor exercise/silver, all-around/silver, team alla-round). when the world's best gymnasts compete for their countries and medals.