Polina Astakhova
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Club | Shakhtar Donetsk, Avangard Kyiv, CSKA Kyiv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Polina Ghrighorievna Astakhova (Ukrainian: Поліна Григорівна Астахова; 30 October 1936 – 5 August 2005) was a Soviet and Ukrainian artistic gymnast. She won ten medals at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.[1]
Biography
Astakhova became interested in artistic gymnastics at age 13, after she had watched the gymnastics championships in Donetsk, where their family moved a short time before. She trained in the local gymnastics sports club Shakhtyor under Vladimir Alieksandrovitch Smirnov.
Astakhova earned a nickname The Russian Birch in Western countries for her exceptional grace, and at the 1960 Olympics she was even called Madonna by the Italian journalists. Between 1956 and 1966 Astakhova was on top of many international and national competitions especially on the uneven bars apparatus event. She was a member of the USSR team between 1955 and 1968.
In 1954 Astakhova competed in the USSR Championships for the first time and in a year she made the USSR National team at the
After retiring from competitions, since 1972 Astakhova worked as a national coach in Ukraine. In 2002, she was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.[4] Astakhova spent the last years of her life in Kyiv before her death at age 68 from pneumonia.
Non-Olympic achievements
Year | Event | AA | Team | VT
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FX
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1956 | USSR Championships | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | |||
1957 | USSR Championships | 3rd | |||||
1958 | World Championships |
1st | 3rd | ||||
USSR Championships | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | |||
1959 | European Championships | 1st | 1st | ||||
USSR Championships | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | |||
USSR Cup | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 1st | |||
1960 | USSR Championships | 1st | 2nd | 1st | |||
USSR Cup | 1st | ||||||
1961 | European Championships | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | ||
USSR Championships | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | ||||
USSR Cup | 2nd | 1st | |||||
1962 | World Championships |
1st | |||||
USSR Championships | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | ||||
1963 | USSR Championships | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | |||
USSR Cup | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | ||
1964 | USSR Championships | 2nd | 1st | ||||
1965 | USSR Championships | 2nd | 3rd | ||||
USSR Cup | 1st | ||||||
1966 | World Championships |
2nd | |||||
USSR Championships | 3rd | ||||||
1967 | USSR Championships | 3rd |
See also
- List of multiple Olympic medalists
- List of top Olympic gymnastics medalists
- List of Olympic female gymnasts for the Soviet Union
- List of multiple Summer Olympic medalists
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Polina Astakhova". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
- ^ "Полина Григорьевна Астахова" [Polina Ghrighorievna Astakhova]. Legends of the Soviet sports (in Russian). Retrieved 2 May 2006.
- ^ "Polina Astakhova". International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 18 October 2006. Retrieved 12 May 2007.
External links
- Polina Astakhova at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Polina Astakhova at the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
- Polina Astakhova at Gymn-Forum.net
- Polina Astakhova at Olympics.com
- Polina Astakhova at Olympedia
- Polina Astakhova at Find a Grave
This article contains information from the website http://www.gymnast.ru/, incorporated into the Wikipedia with permission from its author E. V. Avsenev.