Oksana Chusovitina

Oksana Chusovitina
Personal information
Surname:	Oksana Aleksandrovna Chusovitina
Nationality:	Uzbekistan (since 2013), Germany (2006–2012), before that Uzbekistan , CIS and the Soviet Union
discipline	Apparatus gymnastics
Special device / s:	Leap
Birthday:	June 19, 1975
Place of birth:	Bukhara
Size:	153 cm
Weight:	44 kg
Medals
Olympic games gold 1992 Barcelona team silver 2008 Beijing Leap  World championships gold 1991 Indianapolis ground gold 1991 Indianapolis team silver 1991 Indianapolis Leap bronze 1992 Paris Leap bronze 1993 Birmingham Leap silver 2001 Ghent Leap bronze 2002 Debrecen Leap gold 2003 Anaheim Leap silver 2005 Melbourne Leap bronze 2006 Aarhus Leap silver 2011 Tokyo Leap  European championships gold 1990 Athens team silver 1990 Athens All-around silver 2007 Amsterdam Leap gold 2008 Clermont-Ferrand Leap silver 2011 Berlin Leap silver 2012 Brussels Leap Asian Championships silver 1996 Changsha Uneven bars silver 1996 Changsha Leap silver 1996 Changsha ground bronze 1996 Changsha All-around  Asian Games bronze 1994 Hiroshima Leap bronze 1994 Hiroshima Uneven bars gold 2002 Busan ground gold 2002 Busan Leap silver 2002 Busan All-around silver 2002 Busan Balance beam silver 2014 Incheon Leap

Oksana Aleksandrowna Chusovitina ( Russian Оксана Александровна Чусовитина / Oxana Alexandrowna Tschussowitina; born June 19, 1975 in Bukhara ) is a German - Uzbek gymnast . She was Olympic champion in 1992 and multiple world and European champion.

life and career

Chusovitina began her career already during the time of the Soviet Union, later started for her home country Uzbekistan, since her naturalization in summer 2006 for Germany and since 2013 again for Uzbekistan. In her specialty, the jump , she won a total of eight medals in nine world championships. This is the record for an individual discipline in apparatus gymnastics. She is also a record participant in Olympic gymnastics competitions with seven participations (1992-2016).

As a child, she became Soviet champion in all-around competitions and on the ground in 1988, and in 1990 she was European champion with the team for the first time and vice-European champion in all-around competitions. The greatest success before the dissolution of the USSR, however, was winning the World Championships with the team and on the ground in 1991, as well as the 1992 Olympic victory with the team of the United Team .

Chusovitina retired from active sports in 1998 and had a son. She decided to make a comeback for the 2000 Olympic Games , but dropped out as the 45th qualifier. As a result, however, she was again particularly successful in jumping. After her son fell ill with leukemia in 2002 , she moved to the Rhine for treatment at the Cologne University clinic , where she stayed after her son was cured because of the better training conditions. She then started for the Toyota Cologne gymnastics team . She continued to work for Uzbekistan on an international level until mid-2006, but received German citizenship shortly before the 2006 World Cup . In the competition she won the first medal for the German Gymnastics Federation with a third place in the jump . At the 2008 European Championships in Clermont-Ferrand , Chusovitina won the vaulting table. This makes her the oldest female title holder to date and also the first German European champion since Maxi Gnauck won a gold medal on the uneven bars in 1985.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , Chusovitina won her first individual medal at the Olympics. She was able to take home the silver medal at the jump. This makes her the oldest medalist in Olympic gymnastics competitions. She was also the first German gymnast on the podium since the 1988 Olympic Games . Back then, Dagmar Kersten won silver on the uneven bars .

After an Achilles tendon operation in November 2008, Chusovitina could not start at the 2009 European Championships . The world championships in the same year should be the last major competition of her career. However, a rupture of the biceps tendon in his right arm suffered in training in September prevented participation in the World Championships in London. After this injury had healed, Chusovitina got back into training and qualified for the 2010 World Championships in Rotterdam. In 2012 she took part in her sixth Olympic Games in London and reached fifth place in the jump. From 2013 she started again for her home country Uzbekistan. At her seventh Olympic Games , she finished seventh in the horse vault in 2016. Despite her announcement that she would end her career after the Games, she also took part in the World Championships in Montreal in 2017 . She again reached the final on vault and was fifth, just 0.1 points behind the bronze medal.

Chusovitina is a qualified sports teacher and married to the Uzbek wrestler and Olympic athlete Bahodir Qurbonov . The couple has a son.

successes

Results at international championships

European championships
	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
team	1.*						-		-		-	-	-	-	7. **
All-around	2.						-		-		-	-	-	11.	44.
Leap	-						-		-		-	-	-	2.	1.
Uneven bars	-						-		-		-	-	-	24.	-
bar	-						-		-		-	-	-	9.	10.
ground	-						-		-		-	-	-	6th	6th
World championships
	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
team		1.*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	16. **	10. **
All-around		-	-	-	-	-	-	19th	-	16.		56.	9.	-
Leap		2.	3.	3.	-	6th	-	2.	3.	1.		2.	3.	6th
Uneven bars		-	-	8th.	-	-	-	-	-	-		23.	19th	89.
bar		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8th.	-		12.	28.	59.
ground		1.	7th	-	-	-	-	-	6th	-		-	25th	-
Olympic games
	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
team			1.***				-				-				12. **
All-around			-				10.				97.				9.
Leap			-				-				-				2.
Uneven bars			-				-				-				-
bar			-				-				-				-
ground			7th				-				-				-

* with the Soviet team
** with the German team
*** with the united team

elements

In the 2007 Code de Pointage there are five elements that Oksana Chusovitina was the first to show and which are therefore named after her:

• Jump: flip forward - somersault forward bent with a full turn in the 2nd flight phase
• Jump: flip forward - somersault forwards with 1 ½ turn in the 2nd flight phase
• Uneven bars: Handstand on the upper stile - giant rim backwards into the handstand with a full jump rotation in the handstand phase
• Uneven bars: Swing down between the two bars - forward swing - double back flip tucked with a full turn in the second salto
• Floor: Double backflip with full turn

Web links

Commons : Oksana Chusovitina  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Oksana Chusovitina in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Oksana Chusovitina in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile on the website of the German Gymnastics Federation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oksana Chusovitina is allowed to do gymnastics again for Uzbekistan ( memento of the original from May 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , DOSB February 20, 2013
2. ↑ NBColympics.com: Speaking with Oksana Chusovitina . Retrieved October 16, 2009
3. ↑ FinancialTimesDeutschland.de: Tschussowitina wins first women's gold for DTB ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Retrieved April 6, 2008
4. ↑ SpiegelOnline: Gymnast Chusovitina jumps to silver . Retrieved August 18, 2008
5. ↑ Sport1.de: World Cup out for Chusovitina . Retrieved October 16, 2009
6. ↑ GYMmedia.de: What is actually ... Oksana Chusovitina, the indestructible one? . Retrieved February 9, 2010
7. ↑ Jörg Strohschein: "She is a talent of the century" - Oksana Chusovitina before the World Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam . WDR (www.sportschau.de). October 14, 2010. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
8. ↑ Oksana Chusovitina is allowed to do gymnastics again for Uzbekistan ( memento of the original from May 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , DOSB February 20, 2013
9. ↑ Chusovitina ends her career after the Olympics Sport1.de, August 4, 2016.