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    Gymnasts

    Many of the world’s greatest gymnasts have come from eastern


    Europe. Larisa Latynina of Ukraine, later the coach of the Soviet
    Union team, is widely considered the greatest female gymnast of all time;
    she was the all-around champion in two Olympics (1956 and 1960) and
    two world championships (1958 and 1962). No other gymnast has
    achieved this distinction. Latynina’s prime rival was Věra Čáslavská of
    Czechoslovakia, who later became the Czech Republic’s Minister of
    Sport. Čáslavská was all-around champion three times, including two
    Olympics (1964 and 1968) and one world championship (1966).

    Nadia Comăneci at the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games

    Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci performing her balance beam routine during the
    gymnastics team event at the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games. Romania won the
    silver medal in the team competition.(more)

    In the 1970s a major change had occurred in women’s gymnastics as


    younger and younger girls began competing in events. Russian
    gymnast Olga Korbut and the Romanian Nadia Comăneci were both
    young teens during their Olympic triumphs. The presence of a
    preponderance of teenage girls in international gymnastics competition
    from the late 1970s and into the 21st century was directly related to the
    Korbut-Comăneci phenomenon. Many of these younger gymnasts,
    especially those who trained long hours for competitions, had
    not yet reached menarche, and some used doping techniques to delay the
    onset of physical maturation and its resulting changes to a gymnast’s
    center of gravity and weight. Coaching these youngsters posed
    difficulties since many were lured from or pushed by their families to
    train in unfamiliar surroundings. By 2000 the age requirement for
    Olympic participants in gymnastics had been raised to 16 to offset some
    of these problems.
    Katō Sawao

    Katō Sawao competing at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.

    In men’s gymnastics the greatest champions were Viktor Chukarin of the


    Soviet team and Katō Sawao of Japan—each two-time Olympic all-around
    champions (Chukarin in 1952 and 1956, Sawao in 1968 and 1972)—along
    with Vitaly Scherbo of Belarus, an Olympic (1992) and world (1993) all-
    around champion.

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