Natalia Vitalievna Shaposhnikova

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Natalja Witaljewna Schaposchnikowa ( Russian: Наталья Витальевна Шапошникова ; born June 24, 1961 in Rostov-on-Don , Soviet Union ) is a former Soviet gymnast who won four medals at the 1980 Olympic Games , including two gold medals.

Career

Shaposhnikova won the 1977 Gymnastics World Cup in the jumping competition . Their first major international championship was the 1978 World Championships in Strasbourg . The Soviet squad won the team competition. In the individual all- around event , all medals went to Soviet gymnasts: Jelena Muchina won gold ahead of Nelli Kim and Natalja Schaposhnikova. Shaposhnikova also reached two device finals, in the jump she took sixth place, on the balance beam she was eighth.

The following year, Shaposhnikova won the silver medal behind the Romanians with the Soviet squad at the World Championships in Fort Worth . At the European Championships in Copenhagen in 1979 , Nadia Comăneci won the all- around match before Emilia Eberle , and Shaposhnikova received the bronze medal as the best-placed Soviet gymnast. Schaposhnikova won the title on the balance beam, in floor exercise Nadia Comăneci won ahead of the tied Muchina and Schaposhnikova. Shaposhnikova won her fourth medal with bronze in the jump, on the uneven bars she took sixth place.

The highlight of the season in 1980 was the Olympic Games in Moscow . In front of their home crowd, the Soviet squad won the team competition made up of Jelena Dawydowa , Natalja Shaposhnikova, Nelli Kim, Marija Filatowa , Stella Sacharowa and Jelena Naimuschina . In the individual all-around event, Shaposhnikova just missed a medal in fourth place. Except for the uneven bars, she was qualified in all device finals. She won gold in the vault and bronze on both the balance beam and the ground.

Shaposhnikova ended her career after the Olympic Games and later married the 1981 world gymnastics champion Pavel Sut . The two initially worked as a gymnastics teacher in Minsk, since the mid-1990s they have run a gymnastics studio in Little Falls , New Jersey.

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SURNAME Shaposhnikova, Natalja Vitalievna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Шапошникова, Наталья Витальевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostov on Don