Oksana Chusovitina
Oksana Aleksandrovna Chusovitina (Russian Оксана Александровна Чусовитина / Oksana Alexandrovna Chusovitina; born June 19, 1975 in Bukhara) is a German - Uzbek gymnast. She was Olympic champion in 1992 and multiple world and European champion.
Life and career
Chusovitina began her career already during the time of the Soviet Union, started for their home in Uzbekistan, since their naturalization in the summer of 2006 in Germany and since 2013 for Uzbekistan later. In their specialist discipline, the jump, she won a total of eight medals in nine World Cup participations. This is the record for a single discipline in gymnastics. In addition, it is with six appearances (1992-2012) record participant in the Olympic gymnastics competitions.
Even as a child she was in 1988 in the all around and on the ground Soviet champion, European champion in 1990 for the first time with the team and Vice European Champion in the all around. However biggest success before the dissolution of the USSR were the profit at the world championships with the team and on the ground in 1991 and the Olympic gold medal in 1992 with the crew of the United team.
Chusovitina stepped back from active competition in 1998 and had a son. She decided to make a comeback for the 2000 Olympics, but different than the 45 qualification. Subsequently, however, she was again successful especially in the jump. After 2002 her son fell ill with leukemia, she moved for the purpose of treatment at the clinic of the University of Cologne to the Rhine, where they continued to live because of better training conditions even after the healing of her son, she launched since then to Turn Team Toyota Cologne. By mid-2006, it launched on for Uzbekistan, but received shortly before the 2006 World Championships German citizenship in the competition, she won with a third place in the jump the first medal for the German Gymnastics Federation. At the 2008 European Championships in Clermont- Ferrand Chusovitina won the vaulting table. This makes it the oldest title holder so far and also the first German European Champion since Maxi Gnaucks gold medal win on the uneven bars in 1985.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Chusovitina won her first individual medal at the Olympic Games. You could take the silver medal on vault to take home. This makes it the oldest medalist in Olympic gymnastics competitions. She was also the first German gymnast on the podium since the Olympic Games in 1988. Dagmar Kersten Back then won silver on the uneven bars.
After an Achilles tendon surgery in November 2008 Chusovitina could not start at the European Championships 2009. The world championships in the same year should be the last big competition of her career. However, in September suffered in training demolition of the biceps tendon in his right arm prevented participation in the World Championships in London. After this injury was healed, Chusovitina got back into training and qualified for the 2010 World Championships in Rotterdam. In 2012 she took part in her sixth London Olympic Games and reached the jump to fifth place. Since 2013, it starts again for their home country Uzbekistan.
Chusovitina is a qualified PE teacher and married to the Uzbek wrestler and Olympic athletes Bahodir Qurbonov. The couple has a son.
Achievements
Results at international championships
* With the Soviet team ** With the German team *** With the combined team
Elements
In the Code of Points in 2007, there are five elements that Oksana Chusovitina has shown as first and were therefore named after her:
- Jump: rollover forward - forward somersault piked full-twisting in the 2nd flight phase
- Jump: rollover forward - salto forward stretched with 1 ½ turn in 2nd flight phase
- Uneven Bars: Handstand on the upper member - Giant wheel backward to handstand with full cracked rotation in the handstand phase
- Uneven Bars: down swinging between two Holmen preswing - double salto backward tucked with full turn in the second somersault
- Floor: double salto backward stretched full-twisting