Marija Kondratjewna Gorokhovskaya

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Marija Kondratjewna Gorochowskaja medal table

do gymnastics

Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union
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
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

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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