Jelena Mikhailovna Samolodchikova

Jelena Mikhailovna Samolodchikova medal table
(2001)
Gymnast
Russia
Olympic Summer Games
gold	2000 Sydney	Horse jump
gold	2000 Sydney	ground
silver	2000 Sydney	Team all-around
bronze	2004 Athens	Team all-around
World championships
gold	1999 Tianjin	Horse jump
gold	2002 Debrecen	Horse jump
silver	1999 Tianjin	Team all-around
silver	2001 Ghent	Team all-around
silver	2003 Anaheim	Horse jump
bronze	1999 Tianjin	Individual all-around
bronze	2006 Aarhus	Team all-around

Jelena Michailowna Samolodtschikowa ( Russian Елена Михайловна Замолодчикова ; born September 19, 1982 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian gymnast . She was a two-time Olympic champion .

Life

Samolodchikova started gymnastics at the age of six. Her first international competitions of importance were the 1999 World Gymnastics Championships in Tianjin . There she won the horse jump and was third in the individual all-around. A silver medal resulted in the team all-around competition.

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney Jelena Samolodtschikowa took part in six competitions and won three medals. She won the individual competitions in horse jumping and on the ground and with the Russian team she was second in the team all-around competition. Four years later she won a bronze medal in the team all-around at the Olympic Games in Athens . In the horse jump she placed fourth.

Samolodchikova is also a two-time world champion. After 1999 she was again world champion in horse jumping at the 2002 gymnastics world championships in Debrecen .

Web links

• Jelena Samolodtschikowa in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Jelena Samolodtschikowa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )