Olga Bicherova
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| Full name | Russian:Ольга Анатольевна Бичерова | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 October 1967 Moscow,Russian SFSR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Olga Anatolyevna Bicherova(born 26 October 1967 or 26 October 1966 inMoscow,Russian SFSR) is a retiredSovietgymnast,who won the women's all-aroundgold medalat the1981 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Career
[edit]Bicherova began gymnastics at age 7, initially training at theCSKA Moscowsports school and later representing theArmed Forces sports society.Her first major success was at the 1980Junior Friendship Tournament,where she won the team gold, all-around title and placed first on thevault.A year later, Bicherova won the team gold and all-around gold at the 1981World Championships,starting a series of major international successes, which included the all-around title at both the 1982World Cupand the 1983European Championships.She didn't compete at theboycotted1984 Summer Olympicsand also missed theFriendship Games.Olga's youthful appearance at the 1981 Gymnastics Championship caused many to question her age (supposedly 15), and hence her eligibility to compete.[1]
Bicherova was anHonoured Master of Sports of the USSR.Due to an elbow injury, she retired from gymnastics in 1988 and worked as acoachfor some time. She married fellow Soviet gymnastValentin Mogilny.
Competitive history
[edit]| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| 1978 | Junior Prague-Moscow Dual Meet |  |
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| 1979 | Junior Friendship Tournament | |
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| Junior USSR Cup | 5 | |
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| 1980 | Junior Friendship Tournament | |
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| Junior GDR-USSR Dual Meet | 7 | ||||||
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| 1981 | Chunichi Cup | |
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| European Championships | 23 | 4 | |||||
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| Moscow Championships | |
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| Schoolchildren's Spartakiade | |
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| Tokyo Cup | |
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| USSR Championships | 4 | |
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| World Championships | |
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| 1982 | Budapest Invitational | |
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| USA-USSR Dual Meet | 7 | ||||||
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| USSR Cup | 18 | |
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| World Championships | |
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| 1985 | Summer Universiade | |
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| USSR Championships | 9 | ||||||
| USSR Cup | 10 | ||||||
| 1986 | Leningrad International | 6 | |
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| USSR Championships | 5 | 4 | 6 | ||||
| USSR Cup | 5 | ||||||
| USSR Spartakiade | 4 | 6 | |||||
| 1987 | USA-USSR Dual Meet | |
8 | ||||
| 1988 | Champions All | 10 | |||||
References
[edit]- ^"Olga Bicherova (URS)".Gymnastics Greats.Archived fromthe originalon 2010-05-27.
- ^"Olga Bicherova (USSR)".Gymn Forum.19 August 2019.Retrieved30 July2022.
External links
[edit]- Olga Bicherovaat theInternational Gymnastics Federation
- Olga Bicherovaat Gymn-Forum.net
- Whatever happened to... Olga Bicherova (gymn.ca)at theWayback Machine(archived May 27, 2010)
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