Svetlana Nikolayevna Baitova (Russian: Светлана Николаевна Баитова; born 3 September 1972) is a retired Belarusian 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 seventh place in the balance beam.[1] In 1988 she has not yet recovered from a hand fracture she received in 1987. Nevertheless, she was included to the team owing to her strong performance at the Olympic trials.[2]
She won another gold and a silver medal in the team competitions at the world championships in 1987 and 1989;[3] in 1987 she finished fourth in all individual events.[4]
She retired in 1990 and since 1991 works as gymnastics coach in Mogilev. In 1990 she married and gave birth to son Alex, but remarried later.[2][4] In 2002 she was invited for coaching in Qatar on a five-year contract, but returned after 11 month because she could not stand hot weather.[2]
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Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Team All-Around |
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Baitova, Svetlana |
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Artistic gymnast |
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3 September 1972 |
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Mogilev, Belarus |
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