Natalia Yurchenko
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Medal record
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Natalia Vladimirovna Yurchenko (
Personal life
Yurchenko was born on 26 January 1965 in
Career
Yurchenko was coached by
Four years later, she won the all-around title at the USSR Championships, USSR Cup, at the prestigious
At the Friendship Games in Olomouc, Yurchenko returned from injury, battled with Olga Mostepanova and managed to win the gold medal on vault and team competition. In 1985, she once again won almost all events at the University Games (except vault and balance beam), and contributed to the team's gold medal at the World Championships.
Yurchenko was awarded the title of Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. She retired from gymnastics in 1986, but made an appearance at the 1991 World Professional Championships in Fairfax, Virginia.
Eponymous skills
The
Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty[a] |
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Vault | Yurchenko |
Round-off flic-flac on - tucked salto backward off | 3.0 |
- ^ Valid for the 2022-2024 Code of Points
Post-competitive career
Yurchenko coached at LVSA, a gymnastics club in Pennsylvania, for almost nine years, at Parkettes National Gymnastics Training Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and at the Lakeshore Academy of Artistic Gymnastics in Chicago.[2] In June 2015, she opened her own gymnastics academy, C.I.T.Y. Club Gymnastics Academy, in Chicago's South Loop.[3]
Achievements
Year | Event | AA | Team | VT
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UB
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BB
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FX
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1982 | World Cup | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | ||
USSR Cup | 1st | 1st | |||||
USSR Championships | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | |||
1983 | |||||||
World Championships | 1st | 1st | |||||
USSR Championships | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | ||
1984 | Friendship Games | 1st | 1st | 2nd | |||
1985 | |||||||
World Championships | — | 1st | |||||
USSR Championships | 3rd |
References
- ^ "2022-2024 Code of Points Women's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation. p. 42, 67, 206. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ^ http://lakeshoreacademy.com/ Lakeshore Academy of Artistic Gymnastics
- ^ "C.I.T.Y. Club Gymnastics Academy".
External links and sources
- Natalia Yurchenko Official Site
- Yurchenko Gymnastics Official Site
- C.I.T.Y. Club Gymnastics Academy Official Site
- Natalia YURTCHENKO at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Natalia Yurchenko at the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
- Natalia Yurchenko at Gymn Forum
- Whatever happened to Natalia Yurchenko?
- Video of Natalia Yurchenko performing Yurchenko vault - 1985 Summer Universiade in Kobe, all-around
This article contains information from the website http://www.gymnast.ru/, incorporated into the Wikipedia with permission from its author E. V. Avsenev.