Olga Bicherova
Olga Anatolyevna Bicherova (born 26 October 1967 or 26 October 1966 in Moscow, Russian SFSR) is a retired Soviet gymnast, who won the women's all-around gold medal at the 1981 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
Bicherova began gymnastics at age 7, initially training at the CSKA Moscow sports school and later representing the Armed Forces sports society. Her first major success was at the 1980 Junior Friendship Tournament, where she won the team gold, all-around title and placed first on the vault. A year later, Bicherova won the team gold and all-around gold at the 1981 World Championships, starting a series of major international successes, which included the all-around title at both the 1982 World Cup and the 1983 European Championships. She didn't compete at the boycotted 1984 Summer Olympics and also missed the Friendship 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 an Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. Due to an elbow injury, she retired from gymnastics in 1988 and worked as a coach for some time. She married fellow Soviet gymnast Valentin Mogilny.
Competitive history
| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| Junior | |||||||
| 1978 | Junior Prague-Moscow Dual Meet | ||||||
| 1979 | Junior Friendship Tournament | 9 | 5 | ||||
| Junior GDR-USSR Dual Meet | |||||||
| Junior USSR Championships | |||||||
| Junior USSR Cup | 5 | ||||||
| 1980 | Junior Friendship Tournament | ||||||
| Junior GDR-USSR Dual Meet | 7 | ||||||
| Junior USSR Championships | |||||||
| TBS Cup | |||||||
| Senior | |||||||
| 1981 | Chunichi Cup | ||||||
| European Championships | 23 | 4 | |||||
| Junior Friendship Tournament | |||||||
| Moscow Championships | |||||||
| Schoolchildren's Spartakiade | 6 | ||||||
| Tokyo Cup | |||||||
| USSR Championships | 4 | 4 | |||||
| World Championships | 8 | ||||||
| 1982 | Budapest Invitational | ||||||
| World Cup Final | |||||||
| USA-USSR Dual Meet | 7 | ||||||
| 1983 | |||||||
| European Championships | |||||||
| USSR Cup | 18 | ||||||
| World Championships | 5 | ||||||
| 1985 | Summer Universiade | ||||||
| USSR Championships | 9 | ||||||
| USSR Cup | 10 | ||||||
| 1986 | Leningrad International | 6 | |||||
| USSR Championships | 5 | 4 | 6 | ||||
| USSR Cup | 5 | ||||||
| USSR Spartakiade | 4 | 6 | |||||
| 1987 | USA-USSR Dual Meet | 8 | |||||
| 1988 | Champions All | 10 | |||||
References
- "Olga Bicherova (URS)". Gymnastics Greates. Archived from the original on 2010-05-27.
- "Olga Bicherova (USSR)". Gymn Forum. 19 August 2019. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
External links
- Olga Bicherova at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Olga Bicherova at Gymn-Forum.net
- Whatever happened to... Olga Bicherova (gymn.ca) at the Wayback Machine (archived May 27, 2010)