Olga Bicherova

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Olga Anatolyevna Bicherova (Russian: Ольга Анатольевна Бичерова) (born October 26, 1967 or October 26, 1966 in Moscow, Russian SFSR) was a Soviet gymnast, who won women's all around gold medal at the 1981 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

She began gymnastics at age 7, initially training at the CSKA Moscow sports school and later representing 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 Worlds, starting a series of the major international successes, which included the all around title at the 1982 World Cup and at the 1983 European Championships. Bicherova, however, hadn't won any Olympic medals. She didn't compete at the boycotted 1984 Summer Olympics and also missed the Friendship Games, organized by socialist states at the same time. Due to the elbow injury she retired from the sport in 1988 and worked as a coach for some time.

Olga Bicherova was the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. She married another famous Soviet gymnast Valentin Mogilny.

[edit] External links

• Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique profile for Olga Bicherova
• List of competitive results
• Whatever happened to Olga Bicherova?