Yelena Shevchenko

Yelena Shevchenko

Personal information
Born	(1971-10-07) 7 October 1971 Moscow, Russia
Height	1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Weight	42 kg (93 lb)
Sport
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Club	CSKA Moscow
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Team

Yelena Nikolayevna Shevchenko (Russian: Елена Николаевна Шевченко; born 7 October 1971) is a retired Russian gymnast. She competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a gold medal with the Soviet team. Individually her best achievement was ninth place in the vault.^[1][2]

She was included to the Olympic team owing to her strong performance at national competitions and the 1986 Goodwill Games. She missed the 1987 world championships due to injury. She retired from competitions in 1989 and since then works as a gymnastics coach and referee; in particular, she worked as a judge at the 2001 World Championships. She married speed skater Vladislav Olenin, and in 1999 gave birth to a son during a stay in England.^[3]

References

Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Team All-Around
1928  Netherlands 1936  Germany 1948  Czechoslovakia 1952  Soviet Union 1956  Soviet Union 1960  Soviet Union 1964  Soviet Union 1968  Soviet Union 1972  Soviet Union 1976  Soviet Union 1980  Soviet Union 1984  Romania 1988  Soviet Union 1992  Unified Team 1996  United States 2000  Romania 2004  Romania 2008  China 2012  United States 2016  United States
1988:  Soviet Union (URS), Svetlana Baitova, Yelena Shevchenko, Olga Strazheva, Natalia Lashchenova, Svetlana Boginskaya, Yelena Shushunova