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    Olga Valentinovna Korbut (born 16 May 1955) is a Belarusian retired gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the "Sparrow from Minsk", she...
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  • apparatus. Both were first performed internationally by the Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut. The more spectacular version of the skill used to be performed on the...
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  • Korbut may refer to: Aleksei Korbut (born 1981), Russian football player Ekaterina Korbut (born 1985), Russian chess player, a Woman Grandmaster Olga...
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  • Olga Konkova (born 1969), Norwegian-Russian jazz pianist Olga Korbut (born 1955), Belarusian gymnast Olga Kormukhina (born 1960), Russian singer Olga...
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  • International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Retrieved 8 November 2018. "Olga Korbut". International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Retrieved 8 November 2018. "Ecaterina...
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  • gymnastics' pioneering coaches, he was the coach of Olga Korbut. He was later accused of child rape by Korbut and other gymnasts he coached. He was an Honored...
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  • 2016. "Nelli Kim". sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 1, 2013. "Olga Korbut". sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 1, 2013. "Daniela Silivaş"...
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    watching Nadia Comăneci outshine defending Olympic two-event winner Olga Korbut on television at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, when she herself...
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    performance on the vault. Comăneci took over the media spotlight from gymnast Olga Korbut, who had been the darling of the 1972 Munich Games. Comăneci was the...
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  • Frank Wells of the National Gymnastics Clinic. It had only one member, Olga Korbut, and disbanded in the late 1970s. The current museum was founded in 1986...
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    Ignashov, K1 Superstar Maria Leontyavna Itkina, runner Ekaterina Karsten Olga Korbut Andrei Kostitsyn, ice hockey player Sergei Kostitsyn, ice hockey player...
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    Tourischeva (9), Sofia Muratova (8), Maria Gorokhovskaya (7), Nellie Kim (6), Olga Korbut (6), and Tamara Manina (6). Competing at her only Olympics in 1952, Maria...
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    Woolum, Janet (1998). Outstanding women athletes. Phoenix, United States: The Oryx Press. p. 166. ISBN 1-57356-120-7. Retrieved 2010-09-08. olga korbut....
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    dismounts, and adapting moves from men's horizontal bar. In 1972, Olga Korbut pioneered the Korbut Flip, the first high bar salto release move. Nadia Comăneci...
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    scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on August 31. After the routine of Olga Korbut, for which she received a 9.8, the audience booed in protest believing...
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  • 1971 Lee Trevino Golf Evonne Goolagong Tennis 1972 Mark Spitz Swimming Olga Korbut Gymnastics 1973 O. J. Simpson National Football League Billie Jean King...
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    although Kim also won the 1976 USSR Cup, beating famous compatriots such as Olga Korbut and Ludmilla Tourischeva, they were still considered leaders by the media...
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    AA – and won bronze on vault, only 0.025 behind world vault champion Olga Korbut – but only the top five and one gymnast in ninth place were chosen for...
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    at all and was harsh in her statements about Rockwell. Conger faced Olga Korbut on an episode of Celebrity Boxing which aired on May 22, 2002. Conger...
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    individual Olga Korbut — women's balance beam Olga Korbut — women's floor exercises Tamara Lazakovich, Elvira Saadi, Lyudmila Turishcheva, Lyubov Burda, Olga Korbut...
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    was overshadowed by the sudden popularity of her younger compatriot Olga Korbut. She qualified for all four event finals, and won a silver and a bronze...
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    Stewart won the award. In 2016, Biles became the third gymnast after Olga Korbut and Nadia Comăneci to be named the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of...
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    Balance beam difficulty began to increase dramatically in the 1970s. Olga Korbut and Nadia Comăneci pioneered advanced tumbling combinations and aerial...
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  • Starke Erika Zuchold 1972 Munich details  Soviet Union (URS) Lyubov Burda Olga Korbut Antonina Koshel Tamara Lazakovich Elvira Saadi Ludmilla Tourischeva  East...
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  • of a standing back somersault on the balance beam, by Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut. The final score for each team was determined by combining all of the...
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  • Burda, Olga Karasyova, Natalia Kuchinskaya, Larisa Petrik, Ludmilla Tourischeva, Zinaida Voronina 1972 — gold medal Lyubov Burda, Olga Korbut, Antonina...
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  • annual TDC Lifetime Achievement Award to a selected athlete. 1991 – Olga Korbut, Olympic Gymnastics 1992 – Nadia Comăneci, Olympic Gymnastics 1993 –...
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    for the first time in Louisiana in 1976. The Superdome event featured Olga Korbut, Nelli Kim, Nicolai Andrianov and Alexander Dityatin. At the 1995 U.S...
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  • this competition by unveiling her signature moves: a full-twisting layout Korbut flip on bars; a tucked double back salto dismount on beam (a move that is...
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    Maria Gorokhovskaya Tatiana Gutsu Ágnes Keleti Nellie Kim Jackie Klein Olga Korbut Margit Korondi Steffi Kräker Natalia Kuchinskaya Larisa Latynina Nastia...
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