Tamara Manina

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Tamara Manina
Burevestnik, Leningrad[1]
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1956 Melbourne Team
Gold medal – first place 1964 Tokyo Team
Silver medal – second place 1956 Melbourne Vault
Silver medal – second place 1956 Melbourne Balance beam
Silver medal – second place 1964 Tokyo Balance Beam
Bronze medal – third place 1956 Melbourne Team PA
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1954 Rome Team
Gold medal – first place 1954 Rome Vault
Gold medal – first place 1954 Rome Floor exercise
Gold medal – first place 1958 Moscow Team
Gold medal – first place 1962 Prague Team
Silver medal – second place 1958 Moscow Vault
Bronze medal – third place 1958 Moscow All-around
Bronze medal – third place 1962 Prague Vault
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 1957 Bucharest Vault
Silver medal – second place 1959 Krakow Floor exercise
Bronze medal – third place 1957 Bucharest Balance beam

Tamara Ivanovna Manina (Russian: Тама́ра Ива́новна Ма́нина; born 16 September 1934) is a retired Soviet Olympic gymnast and a sports scientist.

Biography

Her family lived in

Young Pioneer Palace in the same year. She was called "Monia the Bird" by groupmates for her graceful and light vaults.[2][3]

Competing as a junior, she won the all-around title at the USSR Nationals in 1953, and became a candidate for the

USSR team. In the same year Manina debuted at the senior USSR Championships, placing 12th in the all-around. Between 1953 and 1964 Manina successfully competed in many national and international events.[2][3]

One of Manina's most successful performances took place at the

USSR team won more gold medals than any other country at that year's Olympics. In one of her interviews Manina said, that the team had a warm welcome everywhere in the USSR: on their way by train from Vladivostok to Moscow they were met with flowers on each small station, people organized solemn meetings and made other arrangements to honor their visit.[2]

Although in the event finals of the 1958 Worlds Manina, apart from the gold in the team competition, won a gold on the balance beam,[4] and won a silver medal on vault, she placed 3rd in the all-around to Latynina and Eva Bosáková. She missed the 1960 Summer Olympics due to an injury, but competed in the 1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, contributing to the team's gold and winning the bronze on vault. At age 30 she went to the 1964 Summer Olympics and won the team's gold and silver on the balance beam. Finishing her competitive career, Manina seriously injured her ankle during the display competition in Vienna and was not able to continue training afterward. She coached the French national team in 1975 and has been an international judge since 1971.[2][3]

Manina is also known for her scientific activities. Starting in 1958, she studied at

Candidate of Science degree at the Lesgaft State Institute of Physical Culture in 1969 and taught at the gymnastics department of the institute until 1973. Since 1975 she has been a professor at the Saint Petersburg State Art-Industrial Academy. She has published more than 40 scientific, methodical and popular science books.[2][3]

Tamara Manina lives and works in Saint Petersburg. She is married to Valery Lutkov, a sports medicine doctor, and has a son, also named Valery Lutkov, an international tennis official.[2][3]

See also

  • List of top Olympic gymnastics medalists
  • List of top medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
  • List of Olympic female gymnasts for the Soviet Union

References

  1. ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Tamara Manina". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f (in Russian) Tamara Manina. Peoples.ru
  3. ^ a b c d e Tamara Manina (USSR). List of competitive results at Gymn Forum
  4. ^ https://sportgymrus.ru/competitions/xiv-chempionat-mira-1958.html

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