Svetlana Khorkina
Svetlana Vasilievna Khorkina (Russian: Светлана Васильевна Хоркина, born January 19 1979) is Russia's most successful female gymnast; winner of several world championship events and Olympic medals. With 1,65 m height, she is unusually tall for her sport. The uneven bars are her specialty apparatus. She has also posed naked for Playboy magazine.
2004 Summer Olympics Khorkina won the silver medal in the Women's Individual All-Around competition. Her final score was 38.211 with a 9.562 in floor exercises, a 9.462 on the vault, a 9.725 on the uneven bars and a 9.462 on the balance beam.
Major achievements - Gold medal, uneven bars, 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta
- Gold medal, uneven bars, 2000 Summer Olympics, Sydney
- Silver medal, team all-round, 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta
- Silver medal, team all-round, 2000 Summer Olympics, Sydney
- Silver medal, floor, 2000 Summer Olympics, Sydney
- Silver medal, all-round, 2004 Summer Olympics, Athens
- Bronze medal, team all-round, 2004 Summer Olympics, Athens
- From 1994 to 2004 she won 6-time in a row the uneven bars (1994, 1996, 1998,2000,2002,2004-record)in European Championship. Won 3-time in a row the all around gold (1998, 2000, 2002-record tie with Nadia Comaneci). she collects 20 medals, 13 golds,5 silvers,2 bronzes, both wins and medals are all time records.
- Svetlana is 9-time world champion. She won 5 uneven bars title (1995,1996,1997,1999,2001) , won the all-around 3-times(1997,2001,2003 no male or female gymnast made it before)
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