Nelli Vladimirovna Kim

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nelli Vladimirovna Kim
medal table
Nelli Vladimirovna Kim (2018)
Nelli Vladimirovna Kim (2018)

Gymnast

Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union
Olympic Summer Games
gold 1976 Montreal Horse jump
gold 1976 Montreal ground
gold 1976 Montreal Team all-around
gold 1980 Moscow ground
gold 1980 Moscow Team all-around
silver 1976 Montreal Individual all-around

Nelli Vladimirovna Kim ( Russian : Нелли Владимировна Ким ; born July 29, 1957 in Shurab , Tajik SSR ) is a former Soviet gymnast . She was a five-time Olympic champion .

Life

Nelli Vladimirovna Kim at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow

Kim is the daughter of a Korean father ( Korjo-Saram ) and a Russian mother. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal , she took part in six competitions and won four medals. She won the individual competitions in the horse jump and on the ground, plus the silver medal in the individual all-around. With the Soviet team, she also won the team all-around competition. As the first gymnast in Olympic history, she received a rating of 10.0 in the horse jump and on the floor.

Four years later at the Summer Olympics in Moscow she again won the competition on the ground (together with the Romanian Nadia Comăneci ) and the team all-around competition.

Kim was also a five-time world champion. She won a total of eleven medals at gymnastics world championships between 1974 and 1979 .

She has lived in the United States since 1996 . In 1999 Kim was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame .

Web links

Commons : Nellie Kim  - Collection of Images
personal data
SURNAME Kim, Nelli Vladimirovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ким, Нелли Владимировна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Shurob , Tajik SSR , Soviet Union