Nina Antonovna Bocharova

Nina Antonovna Botscharowa medal table
do gymnastics
Soviet Union Soviet Union
Olympic games
gold	1952 Helsinki	Team all-around
gold	1952 Helsinki	Balance beam
silver	1952 Helsinki	Individual all-around
silver	1952 Helsinki	Leap
silver	1952 Helsinki	Group gymnastics
World championships in apparatus gymnastics
gold	1954 Rome	Team all-around

Nina Antonovna Botscharowa ( Russian: Нина Антоновна Бочарова ; born September 24, 1924 in Supruniwka , Poltava Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Soviet gymnast. She joined the Stroitel Kiev club and made her national debut in 1948. The high point of her career was in the early 1950s. At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , she won two gold and three silver medals. She was able to repeat the all-round victory with the team at the world championships in apparatus gymnastics in Rome two years later . After the tournament, she ended her active sports career after only six years.

When the Olympic torch relay for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens ran through the Ukraine , Botscharova was one of the many torchbearers there. In May 2015 she became an honorary citizen of the city of Kiev.

Web links

Nina Antonovna Botscharowa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Nina Antonovna Botscharowa becomes an honorary citizen of Kiev on the website of the Kiev City Council; Retrieved September 19, 2016

personal data
SURNAME	Bocharova, Nina Antonovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Бочарова, Нина Антоновна (Russian); Бочарова, Ніна Антонівна (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	soviet gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH	September 24, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Suprunivka , Poltava Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union

[1] Nina Antonovna Botscharowa becomes an honorary citizen of Kiev on the website of the Kiev City Council; Retrieved September 19, 2016