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Olga Strazheva
Born	(1972-11-12) 12 November 1972 (age 52) Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Height	1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Weight	40 kg (88 lb)
Gymnastics career
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 Goodwill Games 1986 Moscow Team

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.

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.

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. She is the first female gymnast to perform a double frontal salto on the floor.

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. She married twice, second time in 2008 to Ivan Vanyuk, a colleague from the university where she teaches physical education.

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

v t e Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Women's Team All-Around
Summary
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 2020:  ROC 2024:  United States
1988:  Soviet Union (URS), Svetlana Baitova, Yelena Shevchenko, Olga Strazheva, Natalia Lashchenova, Svetlana Boginskaya, Yelena Shushunova

v t e World Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Women's Team Competition
1934:  Czechoslovakia 1938:  Czechoslovakia 1950:  Sweden 1954:  Soviet Union 1958:  Soviet Union 1962:  Soviet Union 1966:  Czechoslovakia 1970:  Soviet Union 1974:  Soviet Union 1978:  Soviet Union 1979:  Romania 1981:  Soviet Union 1983:  Soviet Union 1985:  Soviet Union 1987:  Romania 1989:  Soviet Union 1991:  Soviet Union 1994:  Romania 1995:  Romania 1997:  Romania 1999:  Romania 2001:  Romania 2003:  United States 2006:  China 2007:  United States 2010:  Russia 2011:  United States 2014:  United States 2015:  United States 2018:  United States 2019:  United States 2022:  United States 2023:  United States
1989:  Soviet Union (URS), Svetlana Baitova, Svetlana Boginskaya, Olesya Dudnik, Natalia Lashchenova, Elena Sazonenkova, Olga Strazheva

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