Elwira Saadi

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Elvira Saadi Fuadowna ( Russian Эльвира Фуадовна Саади ; * 2. January 1952 in Tashkent , Uzbek SSR ) is a former Soviet gymnast who for Dynamo Tashkent and Moscow Dynamo started. She won two Olympic gold medals with the Soviet squad.

Career

Elwira Saadi won the all- around competition at the Spartakiade for schoolgirls in 1967 . In 1970 she was fourth in the all-around Soviet championships.

She was part of the Soviet squad at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Lyubow Burda , Olga Korbut , Antanina Koschal , Tamara Lasakowitsch , Elwira Saadi and Lyudmila Turishcheva won the team standings with 380.50 points ahead of the squad from the GDR with 376.55 points. In the individual ranking, Saadi took eighth place with 75.075 points, but was only the fifth best gymnast from the Soviet Union. In the floor exercise and in the horse jump Saadi took ninth place in the qualification, in the apparatus finals only the best six gymnasts per apparatus came.

At the Soviet championships in 1973 she won the all-around, on the balance beam and on the ground . Also in 1973 she won the team title at the Universiade in Moscow, in the individual ranking she took third place.

In 1974 the gymnastics world championships took place in Varna. The Soviet squad with Nina Dronowa , Nelli Kim , Olga Korbut, Elwira Saadi, Rusudan Sicharulidze and Lyudmila Turishcheva won against the squads from the GDR and Hungary. In the individual classification, Saadi took fourth place. In the floor exercise, Turishcheva won ahead of Korbut, behind which Saadi and Sicharulidze each received a bronze medal with the same number of points.

In 1976, at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, the Soviet squad with Marija Filatowa , Swetlana Grosdowa , Nelli Kim, Olga Korbut, Elwira Saadi and Lyudmila Turishcheva won with 390.35 points ahead of the Romanians with 387.15 points and the squad from the GDR with 385.10 points. According to the team ranking, Saadi was the fourth-best female gymnast in her class and finished in seventh place, but only the best three gymnasts per class were admitted to the final in the individual classifications. As fifth on the balance beam and sixth on the floor, Saadi would have qualified for two apparatus finals, but in contrast to 1972, only the best two gymnasts of each group were allowed. Kim and Turishcheva reached three device finals, Korbut two.

Saadi's active career ended in 1976 when she became a coach at Dynamo Moscow. In 1979 and 1980 Elwira Saadi's daughters were born. In 1991 Elwira Saadi accepted an offer from Canada and trained Canadian gymnasts for many years, including several Olympic athletes. In 2009 Elwira Saadi was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. pp. 313f
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. pp. 534f
  3. ↑ Entry in the Hall of Fame (English) accessed on November 1, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Saadi, Elwira
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Саади, Эльвира Фуадовна (Russian); Saadi, Elwira Fuadowna; Saadi Elvira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Tashkent