Olga Korbut

About Olga Korbut

Soviet gymnast who won Olympic gold medals at the 1972 Munich and the 1976 Montreal Olympic games, for the Team, Balance Beam, and Floor Exercise events.

Olga Valentinovna Korbut is a former gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the "Sparrow from Minsk", she won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the Soviet team, and was the inaugural inductee to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1988. While Korbut retired from gymnastics in 1977 at the age of 22, which was considered young for gymnasts of the period, Korbut's influence and legacy in gymnastics was far reaching. Korbut's 1972 Olympic performances are widely credited as redefining gymnastics, changing the sport from emphasising ballet and elegance to acrobatics as well as changing popular opinion of gymnastics from a niche sport to one of the most popular sports in the world.

Retired	1977
Full name	Olga Valentinovna Korbut
Eponymous skills	Korbut flip
Discipline	WAG
Club	Soviet Army Grodno
Nickname(s)	Sparrow from Minsk
Head coach(es)	Renald Knysh
Born	May 16, 1955, Hrodna, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union

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Trivia

She won four gold medals and two silver medals for gymnastics in the Olympics.

Olga Korbut before fame

Elena Volchetskaya, an Olympic gold medallist, was her first coach.

Achievement of Olga Korbut

In the Olympics, she earned four gold medals and two silver medals in gymnastics.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Olga Korbut family life

Richard, her son, was born in 1979. From 1978 to 2000, she was married to Leonid Bortkevich.

Associations of Olga Korbut

She and Amanda Borden are both Olympic gold medalists in gymnastics.

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