Tamara Ivanovna Manina
Tamara Ivanovna Manina ( Russian Тама́ра Ива́новна Ма́нина ; born September 16, 1934 in Petrozavodsk ) is a former Russian - Soviet gymnast and popular science author. In 1956 and 1964 she became Olympic champion in the team all-around competition and was five times world champion in team, floor and horse jumping competitions . In addition, Manina won two silver and one bronze medal at the 1956 Olympic Games - the bronze medal in a team competition in an early form of rhythmic gymnastics - and a silver medal in 1964. After retiring from active sports due to injury, she became a competition judge, trainer and professor in Saint Petersburg .
Manina was born on a work-related stay of her family in Petrozavodsk, but grew up in Leningrad , with the exception of the siege of Leningrad , during which she was evacuated to Tashkent . In 1953 she was junior champion of the USSR and in her first participation in adult championships of the USSR 12th, each in all-around. Because of her achievements she was accepted into the national team and nominated in 1954 for the first world title fights in which the Soviet Union took part. With three world titles - with the team, the horse jump and on the floor - she became the most successful gymnast of the championships, which was generally dominated by the USSR.
At the Olympic Games two years later, she was able to repeat victory in the team competition, she was sixth in the all-around competition and thus helped to secure the victory of the USSR in the team, but was able to win in the individual decisions on the balance beam and jumping horse of the two dominant gymnasts Games Ágnes Keleti and Larissa Latynina each pushed to silver. In the gymnastics team competition, she also won bronze.
At the World Championships in 1958 and 1962 she was again team world champion, but she could not defend her individual title, but only win a few individual medals: In the all-around competition, she was third in her favorite discipline, the horse jump with three other Soviet starters with the same number of points, she won her runner-up in 1962 last World Championship medal as third in jump.
After she had to skip the 1960 Olympic Games due to an injury, she returned to the Olympic stage in 1964. Manina was again team Olympic champion, on the balance beam she was able to leave the winner of 1956 Latynina behind, but still only came second.
After the games, Manina had to end her active career for health reasons.She finished her studies in technical optics in 1969 with the degree of a candidate in natural sciences and worked for a few years as a gymnastics trainer, including being the French national trainer for women for some time in the 1970s, before she was appointed professors at the Saint Petersburg State Academy of Applied Arts and Design in 1975.
She has published more than 100 scientific and popular science works.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Manina, Tamara Ivanovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Манина, Тамара Ивановна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Soviet gymnast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Petrozavodsk |