Elena Viktorovna Davydova

Jelena Viktorovna Davydova medal table
Gymnast
Soviet Union
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1980 Moscow	Individual all-around
gold	1980 Moscow	Team all-around
silver	1980 Moscow	Balance beam

Jelena Viktorovna Dawydowa ( Russian Елена Викторовна Давыдова ; born August 7, 1961 in Voronezh , Soviet Union) is a former Soviet gymnast . She was a two-time Olympic champion .

At the age of 18, Davydova won two gold medals in the individual all-around competition and with the Soviet team in the team all-around competition at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . She was also able to win a silver medal on the balance beam. She came fourth in the jump. A year later at the Gymnastics World Championships in 1981 , which also took place in Moscow, she was world champion in the all- around with the Soviet team. In the individual competitions she won a silver medal on the floor and twice bronze in the individual all-around and on the uneven bars.

Awards

• 1981: World team of the year in the Gazzetta dello Sport election with the Soviet women's gymnastics squad around Olga Bitscherowa , Natalja Ilijenko , Marija Filatowa , Stella Sacharowa and Elena Polewaja
• 2007: Induction into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame

Web links

• Jelena Dawydowa in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Jelena Dawydowa in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame (English)
• Jelena Dawydowa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )