Galina Minaicheva
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Born | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 17 October 1929||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Dynamo Moscow; Dynamo Tbilisi | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Galina Yakovlevna Minaicheva (Russian: Галина Яковлевна Минаичева; born 17 October 1929) was a Russian artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics, finishing within the first 10 in all artistic gymnastics events, and winning one gold, one silver and one bronze medal.[1]
Minaicheva married a Georgian man and moved to Tbilisi, changing her last name to Sharabidze (Russian: Шарабидзе).[1] Under this name she won a team gold medal at the 1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.[2] In 1957 she graduated from the Institute of Physical Education in Tbilisi and worked as a gymnastics coach.[3][4]
References[]
- ^ a b Galina Minaicheva Archived December 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
- ^ 1954 World Championships. gymn-forum.net
- ^ Минаичева Галина Яковлевна. Great Soviet Encyclopedia
- ^ Е. А. Школьников (2003). Динамо. Энциклопедия. ОЛМА Медиа Групп. p. 111. ISBN 978-5-224-04399-6.
External links[]
- Biography of Galina Minaicheva (in Russian)
Categories:
- 1929 births
- Living people
- People from Moscow Governorate
- Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts of the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Soviet female artistic gymnasts
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
- Russian artistic gymnast stubs