Galina Jakowlewna Minaitschewa

Galina Jakowlewna Minaitschewa , later Galina Jakowlewna Sarabidze , ( Russian Галина Яковлевна Минаичева-Шарабидзе ; born October 17, 1928 in Moscow ) is a former Soviet gymnast who won three Olympic medals in 1952.

Galina Minaitschewa, who started for Dynamo Moscow , was part of the first Soviet Olympic team at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki . The Soviet squad with Marija Gorochowskaja , Nina Botscharowa , Galina Minaitschewa, Galina Urbanowitsch , Pelageja Danilowa , Galina Schamrai , Medea Jugeli and Jekaterina Kalintschuk won with 527 points ahead of the Hungarians with almost 521 points and the team from Czechoslovakia with 503 points. In the all-around individual competition, Minaitschewa took fourth place behind Gorochowskaya, Botscharowa and the Hungarian Margit Korondi . In the floor exercise she finished sixth at the balance beam she reached the tenth place on uneven bars eighth. In jump six Soviet gymnasts took the top six places. Minaitschewa won the bronze medal behind Ekaterina Kalinchuk and Marija Gorochowskaja. Group gymnastics was also part of the Olympic program, in this competition the Swedes won ahead of the Soviet squad and the Hungarians.

Galina Minaitschewa married a Georgian after the Olympic Games and, as Galina Sarabidze, belongs to the gymnastics team of Dinamo Tbilisi . At the 1954 World Championships in Rome , the Soviet squad won with Nina Botscharowa, Pelageja Danilowa, Marija Gorochowskaja, Larissa Latyina , Tamara Manina , Sofja Muratowa , Galina Rudko (-Shamrai) and Galina Sarabidze.

After her active career, Sarabidze was a gymnastics teacher in Tbilisi.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Web links

• Galina Jakowlewna Minaitschewa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• World championships in gymnastics on sport-komplett.de