Marija Kondratjewna Gorokhovskaya
Marija Kondratjewna Gorochowskaja medal table |
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Olympic Summer Games | ||
gold | 1952 Helsinki | Team all-around |
gold | 1952 Helsinki | Individual all-around |
silver | 1952 Helsinki | Group gymnastics |
silver | 1952 Helsinki | Leap |
silver | 1952 Helsinki | Uneven bars |
silver | 1952 Helsinki | Balance beam |
silver | 1952 Helsinki | Floor exercise |
World championships in apparatus gymnastics | ||
gold | 1954 Rome | Team all-around |
bronze | 1954 Rome | Floor exercise |
Marija Kondratjewna Gorochowskaja ( Russian Мария Кондратьевна Гороховская ; born October 17, 1921 in Evpatorija ; † July 22, 2001 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa ) was a Soviet gymnast. She joined the Stroitjel Charkow club and won a total of seven medals at the 1952 Olympic Summer Games in Helsinki ; No woman before or after her could achieve this success at an Olympiad. Gorochowskaja achieved five second places with silver medals, so that she could decide the individual all-around for herself in the total, since none of her competitors could show a similar consistency on the gymnastics equipment. She also won the team all-around with the Soviet team.
Marija Gorochowskaja had her second and last major international appearance at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rome in 1954 , where she again won the team all-around competition and won the bronze medal in floor gymnastics .
Then she ended her active career and worked as a referee at international gymnastics events and as a lecturer. In 1990 she emigrated to Israel .
Soviet tournaments
Marija Gorokhovskaya won ten gold, seven silver and seven bronze medals at the national level within eight years.
year | event | Individual all-around | Leap | Uneven bars | Balance beam | Floor exercise | Ring gymnastics | Horizontal bar |
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1947 | championship | silver | ||||||
1948 | championship | silver | gold | |||||
1949 | championship | bronze | bronze | silver | gold | |||
1950 | championship | silver | bronze | bronze | bronze | gold | ||
1951 | championship | gold | bronze | silver | gold | |||
1952 | championship | gold | bronze | gold | silver | gold | ||
1953 | championship | gold | ||||||
1954 | championship | silver | gold |
Web links
- Marija Kondratjewna Gorochowskaja in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gorokhovskaya, Marija Kondratjewna |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gorokhovskaya, Maria; Гороховская, Мария Кондратьевна (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet gymnast |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1921 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Yevpatoria |
DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 2001 |
Place of death | Tel Aviv-Jaffa |