International Gymnastics Hall of Fame

The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum for those involved in gymnastics in Oklahoma City .

history

The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame was founded in 1972 by Frank Wells. Wells was a member of the National Gymnastics Clinic , a year in the United States held Congress for gymnastic athletes, parents and gymnastics coach. As the first member, Olga Korbut was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. When the National Gymnastics Clinic dissolved in the late 1970s , this also meant the temporary end of the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Only years later was the idea taken up again by Glenn Sundby, editor of the gymnastics magazine International Gymnast . Sundby founded the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1986 in the building of his publishing house in Oceanside in the form as it exists to this day. In 1988, Olga Korbut was again accepted as the first member. After Sundby sold its International Gymnast magazine in 1996 , the museum closed briefly and moved to Oklahoma City in early 1997 .

Admission of new members

Athletes as well as officials or coaches can be admitted to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Nominations can be submitted annually by member associations of the World Gymnastics Federation, Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique , or made directly by the board of the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. The board also decides who will be accepted from the nominees. In the summer of each year, four to six new members are honored or accepted.

Category gymnast

To be inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame, an athlete must have won at least one Olympic medal in an individual competition. In addition, he must have played an active role in promoting and developing gymnastics on a national or international level for a period of at least 10 years.

Lifetime Achievement category

In this category, non-athletes such as trainers or officials can also be honored. The prerequisite is that you have had a significant influence on the development of gymnastics in your home country and on its international participation over a period of 20 years.

In the "International Gymnastics Hall of Fame" were inducted

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• Name: gives the name of the athlete.
• Country: states the country for which the athlete is starting. In the case of athletes whose nationality has changed in the course of their career, the country for which the athlete last started is given.
• born: Indicates the year of birth of the athlete.
• Year: Year of induction into the Hall of Fame.
• OS: Indicates the number of gold, silver and bronze medals at the Summer Olympics (individual and team). (Status: 2006)
• WM: Indicates the number of gold, silver and bronze medals at gymnastics world championships (individual and team). (Status: 2007)
• KM: Indicates the number of gold, silver and bronze medals in continental championships (individual and team). This includes the medals won at the European Gymnastics Championships for European gymnasts, at the Pan American Games for North American gymnasts and at the Asian Games for Asian gymnasts. (Status: 2007)
• Notes: Indicates a special feature of the member

Women

Surname	country	born	year	OS	WM	KM	annotation
Simona Amânar	Romania	1979	2007	3 - 1 - 3	6 - 4 - 0	5 - 3 - 3
Polina Astakhova	Soviet Union	1936	2002	5 - 2 - 3	2 - 1 - 1	3 - 2 - 0
Svetlana Boginskaya	Belarus	1973	2005	3 - 1 - 1	5 - 4 - 0	9 - 1 - 0
Lyubov Burda	Soviet Union	1953	2001	2 - 0 - 0	0 - 1 - 1	0 - 0 - 0
Věra Čáslavská	Czechoslovakia	1942	1998	7 - 4 - 0	4 - 5 - 1	11 - 1 - 1
Nadia Comăneci	Romania	1961	1993	5 - 3 - 1	2 - 2 - 0	9 - 1 - 2
Dominique Dawes	United States	1976	2009	1 - 0 - 2	0 - 2 - 1	0 - 0 - 0	first dark-skinned gold medalist in Olympic gymnastics competitions
Elena Davydova	Soviet Union	1961	2007	2 - 1 - 0	1 - 1 - 2	0 - 0 - 0
Aurelia Dobre	Romania	1972	2016
Maxi Gnauck	German Democratic Republic	1964	2000	1 - 1 - 3	5 - 1 - 3	5 - 3 - 1
Gina Gogean	Romania	1977	2013
Keiko Ikeda	Japan	1933	2002	0 - 0 - 1	1 - 1 - 6	0 - 0 - 0	most successful Japanese gymnast, board member of the Japanese Gymnastics Federation
Karin Janz	German Democratic Republic	1952	2003	2 - 3 - 2	1 - 2 - 0	4 - 2 - 1	Inventor of the Janz Salto (uneven bars)
Ágnes Keleti	Hungary	1921	2002	5 - 3 - 2	1 - 1 - 1	0 - 0 - 0
Nelli Kim	Soviet Union	1957	1999	5 - 1 - 0	5 - 4 - 2	2 - 3 - 4
Olga Korbut	Soviet Union	1955	1988	4 - 2 - 0	2 - 3 - 0	0 - 1 - 0
Steffi Kraker	German Democratic Republic	1960	2011	0 - 1 - 3	0 - 0 - 6	0 - 0 - 1
Natalia Kuchinskaya	Soviet Union	1949	2006	2 - 2 - 0	3 - 2 - 1	0 - 2 - 0
Larissa Latynina	Soviet Union	1934	1998	9 - 5 - 4	10 - 3 - 1	7 - 6 - 1	most successful gymnast worldwide
Shannon Miller	United States	1977	2006	2 - 2 - 3	5 - 3 - 1	4 - 1 - 0
Lavinia Miloșovici	Romania	1976	2011	2 - 1 - 3	5 - 3 - 5	4 - 1 - 2
Henrietta Ónodi	Hungary	1974	2010	1 - 1 - 0	1 - 2 - 0	1 - 0 - 3
Lilia Podkopaeva	Ukraine	1978	2008	2 - 1 - 0	2 - 3 - 0	4 - 1 - 4
Helena Rakoczy	Poland	1921	2004	0 - 0 - 0	4 - 0 - 3	0 - 0 - 0	most successful Polish gymnast
Mary Lou Retton	United States	1968	1997	1 - 2 - 2	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	first American gymnastics Olympic champion
Cathy Rigby	United States	1952	1998	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 1 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	first US medalist at world gymnastics championships
Elwira Saadi	Soviet Union	1952	2009	2 - 0 - 0	1 - 1 - 0	0 - 0 - 0
Natalia Shaposhnikova	Soviet Union	1961	2012
Elena Shushunova	Soviet Union	1969	2004	2 - 1 - 1	5 - 4 - 2	5 - 0 - 2
Daniela Silivaș	Romania	1972	2002	3 - 2 - 1	7 - 1 - 2	6 - 5 - 2
Ecaterina Szabó	Romania	1968	2000	4 - 1 - 0	2 - 5 - 2	2 - 2 - 1
Lyudmila Turishcheva	Soviet Union	1952	1998	4 - 3 - 2	7 - 2 - 2	8 - 2 - 4
Teodora Ungureanu	Romania	1960	2001	0 - 2 - 1	0 - 1 - 0	0 - 0 - 0
Berthe Villancher	France	1908	2002	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	President of the FIG Women's Technical Committee (1956–72)
Ma Yanhong	People's Republic of China	1964	2008	1 - 0 - 1	1 - 2 - 0	2 - 0 - 0
Kim Zmeskal	United States	1976	2012
Erika Zuchold	German Democratic Republic	1947	2005	0 - 4 - 1	2 - 4 - 0	0 - 5 - 2

Men

Surname	country	born	year	OS	WM	KM	annotation
Nikolai Andrianov	Soviet Union	1952	2001	7 - 5 - 3	4 - 8 - 0	10 - 6 - 2
Leonid Arkayev	Russia	1940	2011	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	Member of the UEG Executive Committee, former President of the Russian Gymnastics Federation, 30 years Soviet / Russian head coach for men's and women's gymnastics
Vladimir Artyomov	Soviet Union	1964	2006	4 - 1 - 0	6 - 6 - 2	0 - 0 - 0
Max Bangerter	Switzerland	1911	2003	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	FIG General Secretary (1966–1988)
Frank Bare	United States		1999	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	Managing Director of the American Gymnastics Federation (1963–1980), Vice President of the FIG (1976–1980)
Valery Belenki	Germany Soviet Union	1969	2015	1 - 0 - 1	4 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0
Octavian Bellu	Romania	1951	2009	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	Romanian national coach (1988-2005), most successful coach in the world (15 Olympic gold medals)
Dmitri Bilozertchev	Soviet Union	1966	2003	3 - 0 - 1	8 - 4 - 0	10 - 0 - 0
Miroslav Cerar	Yugoslavia	1939	1999	2 - 0 - 1	3 - 0 - 2	9 - 3 - 3
Bart Conner	United States	1958	1997	2 - 0 - 0	1 - 0 - 2	0 - 0 - 2
Stoyan Delchev	Bulgaria	1959	2008	1 - 0 - 1	0 - 0 - 2	3 - 1 - 1	Inventor of the deltschew somersault (horizontal bar)
Alexander Ditjatin	Soviet Union	1957	2004	3 - 6 - 1	7 - 2 - 3	2 - 2 - 2
Yukio Endo	Japan	1937	1999	5 - 2 - 0	3 - 5 - 2	0 - 0 - 0
Arthur Gander	Switzerland		1997	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	President of the FIG (1966-76)
Eberhard Gienger	BR Germany	1951	2007	0 - 0 - 1	1 - 3 - 0	3 - 2 - 2
Bruno Grandi	Italy	1934	2001	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	Acting President of the FIG since 1996
Savino Guglielmetti	Italy	1911	1998	2 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0
Jack Günthard	Switzerland	1920	1997	1 - 1 - 0	0 - 0 - 1	2 - 0 - 0
Takuji Hayata	Japan	1940	2004	2 - 0 - 0	1 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0
Béla Károlyi	Romania	1942	1997	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	trained 9 Olympic champions, 15 world champions, 16 European champions in Romania and the USA
Shigeru Kasamatsu	Japan	1947	2007	1 - 1 - 2	5 - 2 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	Inventor of the Kasamatsu jump
Sawao Kato	Japan	1946	2001	8 - 3 - 1	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0	most successful Japanese Olympian
Eizō Kenmotsu	Japan	1948	2006	3 - 3 - 3	7 - 4 - 3	0 - 0 - 0
Yuri Korolev	Soviet Union	1952	2010	0 - 0 - 0	9 - 3 - 1	7 - 5 - 1
Valery Lyukin	Soviet Union	1966	2005	2 - 2 - 0	2 - 0 - 1	4 - 1 - 1
Eugene Mack	Switzerland	1907	1999	2 - 4 - 2	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0
Zoltán Magyar	Hungary	1953	2012
Franco Menichelli	Italy	1941	2003	1 - 1 - 3	0 - 0 - 3	6 - 4 - 4
Akinori Nakayama	Japan	1943	2005	6 - 2 - 2	7 - 2 - 3	0 - 0 - 0
Li Ning	People's Republic of China	1963	2000	3 - 2 - 1	2 - 5 - 4	7 - 3 - 0
Takashi Ono	Japan	1931	1998	5 - 4 - 4	2 - 5 - 1	0 - 0 - 0	President of the FIG Women's Technical Committee (1956–72)
Heikki Savolainen	Finland	1907	2004	2 - 1 - 6	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0
Boris Schachlin	Soviet Union	1932	2002	7 - 4 - 2	6 - 6 - 2	6 - 2 - 1
Vital Shcherba	Belarus	1972	2009	6 - 0 - 4	12 - 7 - 4	9 - 5 - 2	the only male gymnast to become world champion in all disciplines
Leon Štukelj	Yugoslavia	1898	1997	3 - 2 - 1	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0
Masao Takemoto	Japan	1919	1997	1 - 3 - 3	2 - 3 - 2	0 - 0 - 0
Kurt Thomas	United States	1956	2003	0 - 0 - 0	3 - 3 - 1	0 - 2 - 2
William Thoresson	Sweden	1932	2001	1 - 0 - 1	0 - 1 - 0	0 - 0 - 0
Yuri Titov	Soviet Union	1935	1999	1 - 5 - 3	4 - 2 - 4	7 - 4 - 2	President of the FIG (1976–1996)
Alexander Tkachev	Soviet Union	1957	2011	2 - 1 - 0	3 - 3 - 3	4 - 4 - 2
Viktor Chukarin	Soviet Union	1921	2009	7 - 3 - 1	3 - 0 - 1	0 - 0 - 0	most successful athlete at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics
Shūji Tsurumi	Japan	1938	2008	2 - 3 - 1	2 - 1 - 0	0 - 0 - 0
Peter Vidmar	United States	1961	1998	2 - 1 - 0	0 - 0 - 1	0 - 0 - 0
Mikhail Voronin	Soviet Union	1945	2010	2 - 6 - 1	0 - 0 - 0	0 - 0 - 0
Haruhiro Yamashita	Japan	1938	2000	2 - 0 - 0	1 - 1 - 0	0 - 0 - 0

Web links

• International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
• USA Gymnastics Online: Hall of Fame Has a Good Beginning ... Again

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EARLY GYMNASTICS IN AMERICA ( Memento from August 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) - nawgjwa.com