Galina Jakowlewna Shamrai
| Galina Jakowlewna Schamrai medal table |
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 Soviet Union
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| Olympic Summer Games | ||
| gold | 1952 Helsinki | Team all-around |
| silver | 1952 Helsinki | Group gymnastics |
| World championships in apparatus gymnastics | ||
| gold | 1954 Rome | Individual all-around |
| gold | 1954 Rome | Team all-around |
| silver | 1954 Rome | Uneven bars |
Galina Jakowlewna Schamrai ( Russian Гали́на Я́ковлевна Шамра́й ; born October 5, 1931 in Tashkent ) is a former Soviet gymnast.
Life
Shamrai graduated from the Lenin Pedagogical Institute of the Moscow Region and then worked as a trainer at Spartak Moscow . She married the Spartak player Anatoly Ilyin , who won the gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with the national football team of the Soviet Union. In 1958 their daughter Elena was born.
Sports
Shamrai initially trained at the Iskra Club, but later switched to the Burewestnik Sports Association in Moscow. Her first tournament was the national gymnastics championships in 1950, where she achieved eighth place in the individual all-around. In 1952 she was part of the Soviet team for the Summer Olympics in Helsinki, where she contributed to winning the team all-round competition. She also won a silver medal in group gymnastics. Another highlight of her career was the world gymnastics championships in Rome in 1954 , where she won two gold and one silver medal.
In 1956 Shamrai ended her active career and from 1975 worked as a referee at various gymnastics events. Today she lives in Moscow .
Soviet tournaments
Galina Jakowlewna Shamrai won one gold, two silver and two bronze medals at the national level in four years.
| year | event | Individual all-around | Leap | Uneven bars | Balance beam | Floor exercise | Ring gymnastics |
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| 1952 | championship | silver | |||||
| 1954 | championship | bronze | bronze | ||||
| 1955 | championship | gold | |||||
| 1956 | championship | silver |
Honors
- 1954: Honored Master of Sports of the USSR
- 1957: Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union
Web links
- Galina Jakowlewna Schamrai in the Olympedia.org database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Шамрай (Рудько, Ильина), Галина Яковлевна , infosport.ru (Russian)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Shamrai, Galina Jakowlewna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Шамрай, Галина Яковлевна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet gymnast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tashkent , Soviet Union |