Natalia Godunko
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Full name | Natalia Oleksandrivna Godunko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alternative name(s) | Nataliia Godunko Nataliya Hodunko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | 5 December 1984|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years on national team | 1998–2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Deriugins School | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Albina Deriugina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assistant coach(es) | Irina Deriugina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Natalia Oleksandrivna Godunko (Ukrainian: Наталія Олександрівна Годунко; Russian: Наталья Александровна Годунко, born 5 December 1984) is a Ukrainian former individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2005 European Ribbon champion and the 2004 Grand Prix Final All-around champion.
Personal life[]
Godunko was born in Kyiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (in present-day Ukraine).
Godunko online auctioned her Team All-Around gold medal won in the 2001 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships to support the Ukrainian army who at the time was fighting a war in Donbass.[1][2]
Career[]
Godunko started training in rhythmic gymnastics in 1990 at age six. She trained in Kyiv under the mother/daughter coaching team of Albina and Irina Deriugina. Her coaches did not notice her for a while—she was not tall with long legs, which was preferred by the Deriugins School—but her speed and technique with apparatus and on elements eventually attracted their attention.
In 1998, Godunko became a member of the Ukrainian national team and competed as a junior at the World Youth Games in Moscow, placing sixth.
As a senior, Godunko competed as part of the Ukrainian group for several years, as well as occasionally competing in individual events with little success. She was the third-ranked gymnast in Ukraine for a while. She began her breakthrough at the 2002 Ukrainian Nationals, winning bronze in all-round and all gold medals in the finals. In 2003, she competed in ball at her first Grand Prix, the Deriugina Cup, and then competed in hoop and ribbon at the Holon Grand Prix and in ribbon at the Berlin Grand Prix. She won the bronze all-around medal at the 2003 Grand Prix Final in Innsbruck, Austria.
At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Godunko qualified in fourth with a score of 102.750. In the final, she scored: Ribbon 26.125, Clubs 26.375, Ball 25.800, Hoop 25.500, and finished fifth overall behind Kazakh gymnast Aliya Yussupova.[3] She won the 2004 Grand Prix Final in all-around and won two more gold medals in ball and ribbon.
In 2005, Godunko was a rival to Anna Bessonova for the position of Ukraine's top gymnast. In front of a home audience, Godunko won the Deriugina Cup title. She was the only Ukrainian to win a gold medal, in ribbon, at the 2005 European Championships.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Godunko finished seventh in the All-around finals with an overall score of 68.850 points. She briefly returned to competition in 2010.
Routine music information[]
Year | Apparatus | Music title [4] |
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2010 | Hoop | Smooth Criminal music from Encore! by David Garrett |
Rope | Hot Fuji music from The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift by Brian Tyler | |
Ball | Palladio music from Escala by Escala | |
Ribbon | Grand Guignol music from Mar Dulce by Bojofondo Tango Club | |
2008 | Hoop | Night On Bald Mountain by Modest Moussorgsky |
Rope | Gopak ( Ukrainian Traditional ) | |
Clubs | "L'estate" (Summer) 3. Presto music from The Four Seasons Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315 by Vivaldi | |
Ribbon | Tsiganochka / Gypsy Girl ( Traditional Folk ) | |
2007 | Hoop | Night On Bald Mountain by Modest Moussorgsky |
Rope | Act 1 finale Death of Giselle, Love Scene music from Giselle by Adolphe Adam | |
Clubs | Better Have Some Ky / Dazzle Me / You Can Save Her music from Déjà Vu by Harry Gregson Williams | |
Ribbon | Beirut Taxi music from Syriana by Alexandre Desplat | |
2006 | Ball (second) | Santa Maria (Del Buen Ayre) by Gotan project |
Ball (first) | Attack music from Pearl Arbor by Hans Zimmer | |
Rope | Act 1 finale Death of Giselle, Love Scene music from Giselle by Adolphe Adam | |
Clubs | Gopak ( Ukrainian traditional ) | |
Ribbon | Night Borders / Camel Race / Main Theme music from The Mummy by Jerry Goldsmith | |
2005 | Ball | Taped Evidence / Cat and Mouse music from Paparazzi by Brian Tyler |
Rope | La Goutte D'Or by Saint Germain | |
Clubs | Gopak ( Ukrainian traditional ) | |
Ribbon | Bumble Bee Boogie by Robert Wells | |
2004 | Hoop | Suite No. 2: Entrance of the Merchants – Dance of a Roman Courtesan – General Dance music from Spartacus Suite by Aram Khachaturian |
Ball | Technologicque Park by Orbital | |
Clubs | Tetsujin music from Matrix Revolutions by Juno Reactor & Don Davis | |
Ribbon | Bumble Bee Boogie by Robert Wells | |
2003 | Hoop | Session / Zion / Mona Lisa Overdrive music from Matrix Reloaded by Linkin Park / Fluke / Don Davis & Juno Reactor |
Ball | Ruby Rap / The Diva Dance music from the 5th Element by Éric Serra | |
Clubs | Movement X music from Mythodea by Papathanassiou Vangelis | |
Ribbon | Bumble Bee Boogie by Robert Wells | |
2002 | Hoop | Revisiting The Race, The Race music from The Skulls by Randy Edelman |
Rope | Sing! Sing! Sing! (Part 1) / Sing! Sing! Sing! (Part 2) by Bob Fosse | |
Clubs | Movement X music from Mythodea by Papathanassiou Vangelis | |
Ball | Heat Miser by Massive Attack |
Detailed Olympic results[]
Year | Competition Description | Location | Music | Apparatus | Score-Final | Score-Qualifying |
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2008 | Olympics | Beijing | All-around | 68.850 | 69.400 | |
Night On Bald Mountain by Modest Moussorgsky | Hoop | 17.500 | 17.375 | |||
Hopak – Ukrainian Folk | Rope | 16.700 | 17.500 | |||
"L'estate" (Summer) 3. Presto by Vivaldi | Clubs | 17.525 | 17.650 | |||
Tsiganochka / Gypsy Girl | Ribbon | 17.125 | 16.875 |
Year | Competition Description | Location | Music | Apparatus | Score-Final | Score-Qualifying |
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2004 | Olympics | Athens | All-around | 103.800 | 102.750 | |
Technologicque Park by Orbital | Ball | 25.800 | 25.900 | |||
Spartacus Suite by Aram Khachaturian | Hoop | 25.500 | 25.975 | |||
Tetsujin music from Matrix Revolutions by Juno Reactor & Don Davis |
Clubs | 26.375 | 26.075 | |||
Bumble Bee Boogie by Robert Wells | Ribbon | 26.125 | 24.800 |
References[]
- ^ (in Ukrainian) World Champion sells her "gold" to support the army, Ukrayinska Pravda (3 August 2014)
- ^ Ukraine crisis timeline, BBC News
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Nataliya Hodunko". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2010-10-10.
- ^ "Godunko RG music list". rgforum.
External links[]
- Nataliia Godunko at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Natalia Godunko at the International Olympic Committee
- Nataliya Hodunko at Olympedia
- 1984 births
- Living people
- Ukrainian rhythmic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Deriugins Gymnasts
- Gymnasts from Kyiv
- Olympic gymnasts of Ukraine
- Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships
- Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships
- World Games silver medalists
- World Games bronze medalists
- Universiade medalists in gymnastics
- Competitors at the 2005 World Games
- Universiade gold medalists for Ukraine
- Universiade silver medalists for Ukraine
- Universiade bronze medalists for Ukraine