Elena Lvovna Shushunova

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Jelena Lvovna Shushunova medal table
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Gymnast

Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union
Olympic Summer Games
gold 1988 Seoul Individual all-around
gold 1988 Seoul Team all-around
silver 1988 Seoul Balance beam
bronze 1988 Seoul Uneven bars

Jelena Lvovna Schuschunowa ( Russian Елена Львовна Шушунова ; born May 23, 1969 in Leningrad ; † August 16, 2018 in Saint Petersburg , Russia ) was a Soviet gymnast . She was a two-time Olympic champion .

At the Summer Olympics in Seoul in 1988 Shushunova won the all-around with the Soviet team. In addition, she was also Olympic champion in the individual all-around competition. She won further medals on the balance beam (silver) and on the uneven bars (bronze).

Shushunova won a total of eleven medals at gymnastics world championships . At the 1985 World Gymnastics Championships in Montreal , she was world champion in horse jumping , individual all-around and team all-around . In 1987 in Rotterdam she won two more world championship titles in horse jumping and on the ground .

She died on August 15, 2018 as a result of pneumonia in her hometown of St. Petersburg. On the website of the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame , where she was admitted in 2004, it is noted: "Shushunova will forever be known as one of the most explosive, dynamic and original performers in the history of gymnastics."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Умерла двукратная олимпийская чемпионка по спортивной гимнастике Елена Шушунова on August 16, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Shuschunowa, Jelena Lvovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Елена Львовна Шушунова
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 2018
Place of death Saint Petersburg , Russia