Medals: 4 (gold, balance beam/silver, team all-around/silver, all-around/silver, floor). In the 2019 European Games, she was the champion on the balance beams and a two-time Belgian national all-around champion . Gnauck was severely injured in 1988 in a freak accident on a waterslide and almost permanently paralyzed, requiring emergency surgery for three plates to fuse her vertebrae. Korondi stacked medals in other events as well, picking up two silver medals and four bronze medals. She also doubles up as a sports model at times and is known for her trademark over-the-top gymnastics attire. To all of the gymnasts around the world who participated in two even three different Olympic games, Hungary's Olga Lemhenyi-Tass would like you to hold her beer. At the Munich 1972 Olympic Games, 17-year-old Olga Korbut captivated the world with her daring acrobatics and her raw displays of emotion. Both men and women compete for medals in the All-Around competition, Individual Apparatus finals and the Team Event. Latynina retired from competition in 1966 and was just as good as a coach, leading the Soviet Union to team gold in 1968, 1972 and 1976, then overseeing the entire 1980 Olympics gymnastics competition in Moscow. That year, she pulled off one of the bigger upsets in Olympic gymnastics history when she defeated Olga Korbut on the uneven bars, an event some thought Korbut was unbeatable in. How would she have done in 1984? While competing into the late teenage years and early twenties not to mention Uzbekistans Oksana Chusovitina who has competed into her forties is commonplace again today, Korbut marks the beginning of an age of gymnastics dominated for decades by youngsters. Simone Biles dominated womens gymnastics in the lead up to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, winning three straight World all-around titles a first by a woman from 2013-2015. She's also served as the president of the Women's Sports Federation and the co-chair for the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. We'll never know because the Romanian government, wanting to keep its thumb on Comaneci, did not allow her to compete. Her career was halted by World War II, when her father was killed by the Nazis and her family hid in a "Swedish House.". Best known for being the first woman to score a perfect 10.0 in Olympic competition, Nadia Comanecis legacy extends beyond making the three digit scoreboards of Montreal 1976 obsolete. Caslavska went into hiding for over a decade after the incident, but returned to help train younger gymnasts in the early 2000s. Ludmilla Tourischeva's focused, understated persona is legendary in the sport. Labeled a diva throughout her career, Khorkina was actually tough as nails and a team player. The story of Agnes Keleti's path to Olympic glory is unlike any athlete in Olympic history, and probably in all of sports. Astakhova died of pneumonia, in 2005, at 68 years old. Scotland's most famous glen combines two essential qualities of the Highlands: dramatic scenery and a deep sense of history. Bosakova's biggest contribution to the sport was also in the balance beam, where she is credited as being the first person to ever complete a cartwheel in the event. Robert the Bruce Robert the Bruce was a nobleman from south-west Scotland. 3. Johanna Quaas, 95, crushed a gymnastics routine in a viral video on Twitter. Sports producer Barbara Slater is also a former gymnast and Olympian. Retired Romanian artistic gymnast Lavinia Corina Miloovici was born on October 21, 1976, and is widely regarded as one of the most prolific female all-around gymnasts of 1990s. She was gracious to the point that Soviet Union teammate Olga Korbut was able to grab part of the spotlight at the 1972 Olympics despite Tourischeva winning gold in the all-around. Sam Langstaff, Scottish Gymnastics head of performance, said: "The 2016 championships are set to be an exciting event, fans will get the opportunity to watch some of Scotland's most talented . Two elements on the balance beam. Famous Scots in History Rob Roy Folk hero, outlaw and member of the MacGregor clan Mary Queen of Scots Find out more about her dramatic and tragic life, as well as her lasting legacy. (Former British Artistic Gymnast and Olympic Bronze Medalist), (Presenter and a former international rhythmic gymnast), (Model most famous for having served as the model for video game heroine Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider series from 2008 to 2010). She has become a sports icon in the Philippines . She was a member of the selection committee that picked the U.S. gymnastics team in 2012 and remained involved with U.S. gymnastics team until 2019, when she was removed from her role after she sent out a tweet that seemed to criticize victims in a highly publicized abuse scandal. She also won silver medals in all-around and floor. He also has a European Games bronze. You can change your cookie settings at any time by using the . He was murdered in the Holocaust. Artistic Gymnastics is a core sport on the Commonwealth Games programme. Following her recovery, Gnauck spent time as a gymnastics coach in Germany and in Switzerland since 2005. Olympic bronze medal-winning British gymnast Alice Kinsella is also a European and Commonwealth champion. Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896. She was named president of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation in 2017 but stepped down in 2020 when both the Romanian men's and women's teams failed to qualify for the Olympics. As of April 2022, 2 new gymnasts have been added to Pantheon including Tania Lamarca and Lorena Gurndez. An expert in floor and vault, she has already won an Olympic bronze and a European Championship gold. From Alicia Sacramone to Betty Okino to Kim Zmeskal to Kristen Maloney to Dorothy Dalton to Marian Barone, the US gymnastics team has a rich history of success at the Olympics from both the individual and team sport. Both made their Olympic debuts in their 20s. She was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1997 and became the first woman inducted into the Houston Sports Hall of Fame in 2020. Gutsu also helped lead her team to the all-around gold that year. Two-time European and Commonwealth Games champion gymnast Becky Downie didnt compete at the Tokyo Olympic trial due to her brothers sudden death. As of April 2022, 9 new gymnasts have been added to Pantheon including Mariana Constantin, Lavinia Agache, and Gabriela Potorac. She also had a guest-starring role on "Hart of Dixie" for six episodes. Olympic medals: 7 (1992, silver, all-around/silver, balance beam/bronze, team all-around/bronze, uneven bars/bronze, floor exercise; 1996, gold, team all-around/gold, balance beam). Born: June 9, 2000 (Old Bridge Township, New Jersey), Medals: 2 (gold, team all-around/silver, balance beam). Dominique Dawes is one of only three American gymnasts to participate in three different Olympic Games, and the first African-American to win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. Age: 30 Birthplace: Alicante, Spain Age: 47 Birthplace: Lleida, Spain Age: 36 Medals: 5 (1984, gold, team all-around/gold, vault/gold, balance beam/gold, floor/silver, all-around). Olivia Dunne is an LSU gymnast and one of the faces of the NIL movement. Those who excel on the biggest world stage become household names, international superstars and national heroes. At Tokyo 2020, billions around the world will tune in to watch the top gymnasts on the planet, including arguably the greatest female of all time, displaying their physical and technical brilliance in pursuit of a gold medal and with a special place in history guaranteed for any athlete who innovates and breaks records on the biggest stage. Her father, Farhat Mustafina, won a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling for the Soviet Union in 1976. Medals: 2 (silver, team/bronze, uneven bars). She won a team gold medal at the world championships in 2003, tore her Achilles tendon that same year and came back to earn her spot on the 2004 U.S. Olympic team. Following her competitive career, Gulyaz-Koteles taught physical education and worked as an administrator for several gymnastics academies. Nellie Kim was the favorite headed into the 1976 Olympics, but was upstaged by a young upstart named Nadia Comaneci from rival Hungary, and that's despite winning three gold medals. In 2019, shell need three medals to pass Vitaly Scherbos overall record (23), and has in her locker a set of moves that no other female has ever performed in competition. Born: Jan. 19, 1989 (Belogrod, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1996 (Atlanta), 2000 (Sydney), 2004 (Athens), Medals: 7 (1996, gold, uneven bars/silver, team all-around; 2000, gold, uneven bars/silver, team all-around/silver, floor exercise; 2004, silver, all-around/bronze, team all-around). Born in Singapore, she moved to Britain as a toddler and began training in gymnastics at age 6. In 1992, Miller's loss by just .012 points to Tatiana Gutsu in the all-around final is still the closest defeat in Olympic history in the competition. Here are five women who have done exactly that in gymnastics. Romanian gymnast Simona Amanar has a complicated Olympic legacy, which isn't necessarily her fault. They don't make 'em like they used to. The incident took place at Dunedin Airport on Monday 27 February at 2pm. The "grandfather" of modern gymnastics, Johann Christoph Friedrich Guts Muths (1759-1839), was a leading teacher at the Philanthropinist school in Schnepfenthal. Membership. About Gymfest Anti-Doping Scottish Gymnastics believes in clean gymnastics. For Liukin, the daughter of Olympic champion Valeri Liukin and rhythmic gymnastics World champion Anna Liukin (nee-Kotchneva), at times Olympic gold seemed like destiny. She married fellow Czech Olympian and distance runner Josef Odlozil in 1968 during the Mexico City Olympics. Raisman was on the hit ABC show "Dancing With the Stars," where she finished fourth in 2013 and made a cameo appearance in the Maroon 5 video "Girls Like You" in 2018. Apart from a botched tumor-removal operation at 10, Kieran Behan also faced brain damage following a gymnastics accident at 12. Coaches & Community. The two divorced in 1987, and in 1993, during a fight with their oldest son, Martin, Josef was punched and fell to the floor, striking his head and causing his death. Raducan was cleared of any wrongdoing, but the gold went to teammate Simona Amanar, and the doctor was suspended for four years. One of our most traditional and famous dishes is haggis, neeps and tatties, which is made up of hearty haggis, of course, neeps (turnips) and tatties (potatoes) and is usually served up with a dram, or two, of Scotch whisky. She was also the host of the first season of "American Ninja Warrior" and wrote a book, "I Got This: To Gold and Beyond" that was on the New York Times bestseller list. Born: Oct. 17, 1921 (Yevpatoria, Soviet Russia), Medals: 7 (1952, gold, team all-around/gold, all-around/silver, team PA/silver, vault/silver, uneven bars/silver, balance beam/silver, floor exercise). She proved she wasn't a one-time Olympic standout when she followed that up with silver in the uneven bars in 2012. Following her retirement from competition, Tourischeva became a coach and one of her proteges, Lillia Podkopayeva, won the Olympic gold medal in the all-around at the 1996 Olympics. He later served as a physical training instructor, too. Though Shannon Miller remains the USAs most decorated Olympic gymnast with seven, Biles needs only to collect three medals in Tokyo to add that superlative to her resume. He has also been part of the Athletes' Commission of the British Olympic Association. Three maneuvers on the uneven bars. Undeterred, the then 19-year-old Liukin persevered through to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. She's made it her mission in life to help other women detect the early signs of the disease and is an advocate for survivors. Five famous female gymnasts who revolutionized the sport From Olga Korbut to Simone Biles, here are five women who changed the face of artistic gymnastics forever 6 min By Scott Bregman Updated on 27 September 2019 00:44 GMT-7 Artistic Gymnastics Tickets to the artistic gymnastics competition are some of the hottest at any Olympic Games. Apart from being an actor and a musician, Viva Seifert is also former rhythmic gymnast who has represented Britain in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. British retired gymnast and Olympian Hannah Whelan has won her country a Commonwealth team gold and a European Championship team silver. The Soviet Unions Nellie Kim also scored two 10.0s in Montreal. Orga Kolbut is one of them. Born: Sept. 16, 1934 (Petrozavodsk, Respublika Kareliya, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1956 (Melbourne), 1964 (Tokyo), Medals: 6 (1956, gold, team all-around/silver, vault/silver, balance beam/bronze, team PA; 1964, gold, team all-around/silver, balance beam). She went on to win medals in three of the four individual apparatus finals. She was an ambassador for the 2014 Olympics and has been involved in politics in her home country since her retirement as well, serving as a deputy for the Russian state Duma in 2009 and 2011. Born: June 19, 1975 (Bukhara, Uzbek SSR, USSR), Country: Unified Team (1992), Uzbekistan (1996, 2000, 2004, 2016), Gerrmany (2008, 2012), Olympic years: 1992 (Barcelona), 1996 (Atlanta), 2000 (Sydney), 2004 (Athens), 2008 (Beijing), 2012 (London), 2016 (Rio de Janeiro), Medals: 2 (1992, gold, team all-around; 2008, silver, vault). Medals: 3* (gold, all-around disqualified/gold, team all-around/silver, vault). Lemhenyi-Tass participated in four different Olympics. After a year away from the sport, Biles returned to competition in 2018. She was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1998. The famous black gymnast Simon Biles has her own emoji which is known as Simoji. "I was told by a nutritionist to provide photo evidence of everything that entered my mouth," she wrote. Even crazier is that Chusovitina's two Olympics medals came 16 years apart. She was inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2016. Not every man really lives." William Wallace. She married Romanian Olympic kayaker Christian Tamas in 1991, and the couple moved to France in 1992, where she's been a coach ever since. She pioneered a back flip off the high bar and was among the first to do a back tuck on beam. Shushunova retired just two months after the 1988 Olympics and returned home to teach and coach gymnastics. Coming in at number-20 are a lot of gymnasts. But Caslavska's real story is that of a political dissident and hero to the people of her native Czechoslovakia. That's right. After earning her first 10.0 on the uneven bars, she went on to score six more before the Games were over. Biles holds the record for the most decorated American gymnast with a total of 30 Olympic and World Championship medals. In four appearances at the Worlds, Biles holds the records for most World gold medals at 14 and is tied for most medals overall by a female gymnast with Khorkina at 20. The son of a London Welsh rugby player, he was destined to pursue sports as a career option. A two-time World Championship bronze medal winner, Ellie Downiealso won a gold medal at the 2017 European Championships, becoming the first Great Britain gymnast to receive a major all-around title. Svetlana Khorkina is one of them. She wrote her autobiography "Finding My Shine" in 2015, which was the same year she was the grand marshal for the Indy 500. In 2018, Tinkler tore ligaments in her ankle while practicing for the Birmingham World Cup and could not participate in the event. Gogean's demeanor and no-frills routine may have cost her a gold medal at some point, but she did end up with five medals overall. Comanecis perfect score opened the flood gates. Alicia Sacramone was an Olympic favorite heading into the 2008 games, but she came up short in the team competition, falling in two events that some said cost the U.S. the gold medal. Jackie Stewart. She also was the last gymnast to win an Olympic all-around title and gold in an individual event until Simone Biles in 2016 and still remains the only gymnast to win an Olympic gold all-around and not medal in the team competition. The famous gymnasts he trained include Comneci, Mary Lou Retton, Dominique Moceanu, and Kerri Strug. Miller bounced back with two gold medals at the 1996 Olympics, in balance beam and the team competition with the "Magnificent Seven" squad. One could make a case that the Hungarian national gymnastics team during this stretch was the equivalent of the Buffalo Bills in U.S. team sports. In the video, Quaas effortlessly nails a handstand, flip, and other impressive moves. Her protests during the Soviet Union's anthem during the 1968 Olympics in response to the Soviet invasion of her country led to her forced retirement from the sport. The story was taken down, and He has always denied her age documents were manipulated. Born: Dec. 9, 1995 (Aliso Viejo, California), Medals: 2 (gold, team all-around/silver, vault). Her father is 1988 Olympic gold medalist Valeri Liukin, and mother is 1987 world clubs champion in rhythmic gymnastics Anna Kotchneva. Hungarian Olympic legend Henrietta Onodi has a move named after her the "Onodi" a half-turn jump into a full walkover on the balance beam. She spent time in Miami working for the World Olympians Association in 2001 and was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2010. Born: May 25, 1994 (Needham, Massachusetts), Olympic years: 2012 (London), 2016 (Rio de Janeiro), Olympic medals: 5 (2012, gold, team all-around/gold, floor exercise/bronze, balance beam; 2016, gold, team all-around/silver, all-around/silver, floor exercise). With his 2008 Beijing Olympic bronze medal, Louis Smith became the second Black male gymnast to have won the medal. The one thing separating Dawes from the upper tier of American gymnasts in history is her performance in individual events, where she's never finished higher than bronze. Living Gymnasts Go to all Rankings Newly Added Gymnasts (2022) Go to all Rankings She's married to Chris Carter, a former gymnast for Great Britain, and the couple have three children together. She also reached the semi-finals of the reality show Strictly Come Dancing at 18, the second-youngest public figure on the show ever. In 2017, Gutsu accused former Soviet Olympic gold medal gymnast Vitaly Scherbo of raping her when she was 15 years old. Mustafina deserves credit for being one of the most durable gymnasts in the history of Olympic competition and definitely one of the gymnasts who defined the 2010s, most notably with her back-to-back gold medals in the uneven bars at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. Kupets also led the University of Georgia to four straight NCAA national championships from 2006 to 2009. She married Dr. Michael Canales, a former Ohio State gymnast, and the couple had three children together. She pulled off the (somewhat surprising) rare feat of winning an all-around world championship one year and being all-around Olympic champion the next. William Wallace 12. Born: Feb. 17, 1952 (Lubben, East Germany), Olympic years: 1968 (Mexico City), 1972 (Munich), Medals: 7 (1968, silver, uneven bars/bronze, team all-around; 1972, gold, vault/gold, uneven bars/silver, all-around/silver, team all-around/bronze, team all-around/bronze, balance beam). She was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2002. Korbut's life following her Olympic glory has been tinged with sadness, including her revelation that former coach Renald Knysh sexually assaulted her. It would have been easy for Raducan to become bitter about having her gold medal taken away, but she bounced back and won three gold medals at the 2001 World Championships. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the British Gymnastics website. Best Gymnasts In The World Right Now! Olympic years: 2008 (Beijing), 2012 (London), Medals: 3 (2008, gold, team all-around/gold, uneven bars; 2012, silver, uneven bars). [2] [3] British women have won four medals at the Olympics: the 1928 team all-around bronze; the 2012 uneven bars bronze, which was won by Beth Tweddle; the 2016 floor exercise bronze, won by Amy Tinkler; and the 2021 team all-around bronze. Before joining gymnastics, Simmons was a schoolteacher. The world loves women's gymnastics. Comaneci was part of a group that defected from Romania in 1989. Alfred Flatow (3 October 1869 - 28 December 1942) was a Jewish German gymnast. Ponor did this all with a congenital heart defect. In 2017, she auctioned off her Olympic medals for close to $340,000 dollars. But despite her early success, a major international all-around title eluded Liukin. Amelie Morgan also had a prolific junior career; she won five medals at the 2018 Junior European Championships. Since 1975, she's been a professor at the Saint Petersburg State Art-Industrial Academy. How influential is Douglas? Amanar had the unfortunate luck of finishing as the silver medalist in the 2000 all-around to Romanian teammate Andreea Raducan, who was stripped of her gold medal just one week after the competition because of a failed drug test. Chusovitina was so popular in Uzbekistan they put her on a stamp. Olympian Brinn Bevan scripted history when he became part of the first World Championship medal-winning British mens gymnastics team, when the team won a silver in 2015. Manina proved her toughness by returning to the Olympics in 1964, where she once again helped lead the Soviets to gold in the team competition along with winning silver in the balance beam. She followed those wins by taking the all-around gold medal in Rio. Onodi's power was on full display at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona when she won a gold medal in the vault and barely missed the gold in floor exercise. Sofia Muratova died in 2006, followed just months later by her husband. Category:Scottish gymnasts Pages in category "Scottish gymnasts" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. At just 14 years old, she wowed the entire world with her performance at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, scoring the first perfect 10 in Olympic history on the way to gold medals in the all-around, uneven bars and balance beam to go with a bronze in floor exercise and silver in team all-around. Silivas moved to the United States and has been a gymnastics coach in the Atlanta area since the early 1990s. Courtesy of LSU Athletics Dunne is currently the most-followed collegiate athlete across the combined social platforms.. He retired in 2017, after earning 14 international medals. Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut became world-famous for her amazing acrobatics at the 1972 Olympics. She had a Barbie doll modeled after her. Ponor was one of the judges announcing the Romanian points on the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest and is engaged to famous Romanian actor/director Bogdan Jianu. Beginning in 1972, Astakhova worked as a national coach for the Ukrainian gymnastics team. 20 - A whole lot of American gymnasts. Two vaults. Born: March 8, 1949 (Leningrad, Soviet Union), Olympic medals: 4 (gold, team all-around/gold, balance beam/bronze, all-around/bronze, floor exercise). She trains with the East London Gymnastics Club. She won World and European medals on all four events and in the all-around. 1 Beth Tweddle (Retired British Artistic Gymnast ) 42 12 Birthdate: April 1, 1985 Sun Sign: Aries Birthplace: Johannesburg, South Africa Known as Britain's most successful gymnast, Beth Tweddle is a 3-time world champion and a 6-time European champion, apart from being an Olympic bronze medalist. In that vein, Gnauck is considered one of the greatest to ever participate on the uneven bars, but missed her chance to add to her Olympic haul in 1984 when East Germany boycotted the Olympics. She's also not the only Olympic medalist in her family. But Comaneci, much like Korbut, was also an innovator acrobatically. You can change your cookie settings at any time by using the . The British Gymnastics head national coach, however, had to step down while investigations regarding physical mistreatment accusations against her were underway. Her mother and sister survived by hiding, but her father was gassed to death in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. John Buchan (1875 - 1940) Born in Perth, Buchan was a Scottish novelist and historian who served as Governor-General of Canada 1935-40. With teammates Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, and Madison Kocian, she helped Team USA win its second-straight team gold medal at the Games. She's qualified for the 2021 Olympics, where she'll be one of the oldest Olympians of all time at 46 years old. Hailing from Farnborough, England, she studied engineering at Stanford University, having secured a scholarship to be part of their NCAA gymnastics team. Holidaymakers saw their trips away delayed this week after a hedgehog on the runway caused a ruckus. The one medal that eluded Astakhova was the gold in all-around. (Comanecis perfect mark was famously displayed as a 1.00 at the Olympic Games in Montreal.). Ellie Downie is a British artistic gymnast who has represented Great Britain in many European Championships and a couple of World Championships. The Romanians doctored her birth certificate and spotted her one year, saying she was born in 1977. Karin Buttner-Janz turned in one of the greatest performances in an Olympic Games in 1972, when she won five medals, including two gold medals in individual events. California native McKayla Maroney, the daughter of former Purdue quarterback Mike Maroney, was the source of one of the greatest internet memes of all time when the picture of her on the medal stand receiving the silver medal in vault at the 2012 Olympics went viral. Gymnasts sometimes fall and when this happens, they should do so gracefully. The way she floated back and forth between the bars heavily influenced the direction of the uneven bars, perhaps most notably in two-time Olympic uneven bars champion and compatriot Aliya Mustafina. The list is in no particular order! Khorkinas long legs and lean physique meant she had to think outside the box when putting together her routines. When Melanie Coleman, a gymnast at Southern Connecticut State University, died after falling off the uneven bars, veterans of the sport were stunned. Mary Lou Retton became an international superstar and one of the most beloved athletes in U.S. history with her performance at the 1984 Olympics. Born: Sept. 30, 1994 (Yegoryevsk, Russia), Medals: 7 (2012, gold, uneven bars/silver, team all-around; 2016, gold uneven bars/silver, team all-around/bronze, all-around/bronze, all-around/bronze, floor exercise). She now heads BBC Sport as its director. Apart from being a 3-time World champion and a 4-time European champion, Max Whitlock has also earned 6 Olympic medals, 3 of them gold. On the flip side, she was past her prime when the 2012 Olympic trials rolled, around and she failed to make the U.S. team. She won four medals at the 1988 Olympics, including helping lead her country to the gold medal in the team competition. Along with her twin sister, gymnast Jennifer Gadirova, British-born Azerbaijani gymnast Jessica Gadirova has created quite a stir in the gymnastics circuit. Natalia Kuchinskaya was the star of the 1968 Olympics, winning gold in the balance beam and team competition for the powerful Soviet Union and claiming bronze medals in two other events. She participated in three Olympics for Romania and had her best showing in 2004, leading her country to the gold medal in the 2004 team competition, gold in the balance beam and gold in the floor exercise. Scottish Gymnastics' Roles and Responsibilities Monitor membership and participation levels in Scotland. As a stunt performer, Walters received the 2010 Taurus World Stunt Award for the film Ninja Assassin. Khorkina won seven Olympic medals, including back-to-back titles on the uneven bars. Former Scottish gymnast Carly Sarah Smith wrote on Instagram that her pockets were checked for food. Edinburgh may be the famous capital city, with its historical castle and picturesque cobbled streets, but Glasgow is the fiesta little sister - sassy and creative. She's also served as an ambassador for the United Nations on several occasions first on the U.N.'s council for HIV/AIDS awareness, then on the Council of Europe for Sport, Tolerance, and Fair Play, Country: Soviet Union (1988), Unified Team (1992), Belarus (1996), Olympic years: 1988 (Seoul), 1992 (Barcelona), 1996 (Atlanta), Olympic medals: 5 (1988, gold, team all-around/gold, vault/silver, floor exercise/ bronze, all-around; 1992, gold, team all-around). Romanian gymnast Sandra Izbasa pulled off a rare feat in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. She won gold for the Unified Team in the team competition in 1992, then won silver in the vault for Germany in 2008. Kim has been instrumental in women's gymnastics since her retirement, including helping create a new scoring system in 2005 following a judging scandal at the 2004 Olympics. Maroney's facial expression the "not impressed" look gained her worldwide fame, but her achievements on the "Fierce Five" shouldn't be overlooked. Gogean began judging international competitions in 2001. Olympic years: 2004 (Athens), 2012 (London), 2016 (Rio de Janeiro), Medals: 5 (2004, gold, team all-around/gold, balance beam/gold, floor exercise; 2012, silver, floor exercise/bronze, team all-around).
