Galina Urbanovich
Soviet gymnast
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Full name | Galina Napoleonovna Urbanovich | |||||||||||
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Born | 5 September 1917 Baku, Special Transcaucasian Committee | |||||||||||
Died | 8 May 2011(2011-05-08) (aged 93) | |||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||
Retired | 1953 | |||||||||||
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Galina Napoleonovna Urbanovich (Russian: Галина Наполеоновна Урбанович) (September 5, 1917 – May 8, 2011) was a Soviet Olympic gymnast. She won a gold and silver medal at the 1952 Helsinki games. She was seven times all-around gymnastics champion of the USSR. Her achievements earned her the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR award.[1][2] She was from a Lithuanian family.
In 2016, she was elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[3]
References
External links
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Galina Urbanovich". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05.
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Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Women's Team All-Around
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Netherlands
- 1936
Germany
- 1948
Czechoslovakia
- 1952
Soviet Union
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Romania
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Soviet Union
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Unified Team
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United States
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Romania
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China
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United States
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ROC
1952:
Soviet Union (URS), Nina Bocharova, Pelageya Danilova, Maria Gorokhovskaya, Ekaterina Kalinchuk, Galina Minaicheva, Galina Shamrai, Galina Urbanovich, Medea Jugeli
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