Olga Strazheva

Olga Strazheva
— Gymnast —
Born	12 November 1972 Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Height	1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Weight	40 kg (88 lb)
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Club	Trud Zaporizhia
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Team World Championships 1989 Stuttgart Team 1989 Stuttgart All-around 1989 Stuttgart Uneven bars European Championships 1989 Brussels Uneven bars 1989 Brussels All-around

Olga Vladimirovna Strazheva (Russian: Ольга Владимировна Стражева; Ukrainian: Ольга Володимирівна Стражева; born 12 November 1972) is a retired gymnast from Ukraine who won world and Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union.^[1]

She competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics. In the optional team final, she suffered a torn ACL on the balance beam and therefore was unable to compete on the final event, floor exercise, or attend the gold medal ceremony.^[2][3]

She won another gold with the Soviet team at the 1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, along with two individual bronze medals. The same year she collected two more individual medals at the European championships.^[2] She is the first female gymnast to perform a double frontal salto on the floor.^[3]

She retired in 1990 due to injuries and later joined a circus company in Germany, where she performed together with her daughter Anna, a rhythmic gymnast.^[2] She married twice, second time in 2008 to Ivan Vanyuk, a colleague from the university where she teaches physical education.^[4]

References

1. Olha Strazheva. sports-reference.com
2. Olga Strazheva (URS). gymn.ca (29 April 1999)
3. Olga Strazheva Olga Strazheva. gymn-stands.com
4. John Crumlish (9 July 2009) Strazheva: 'Return Glory to Ukrainian Gymnastics!' International Gymnast Magazine