Galina Minaicheva

Galina Minaicheva

Personal information
Born	(1928-10-17) 17 October 1928 Moscow, Russia
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Club	Dynamo Moscow; Dynamo Tbilisi
Medal record Competitor for the  Soviet Union Olympic Games Gold 1952 Helsinki Team Silver 1952 Helsinki Team PA Bronze 1952 Helsinki Vault World Championships Gold 1954 Rome Team

Galina Yakovlevna Minaicheva (Russian: Галина Яковлевна Минаичева; born 17 October 1928) is a Russian former artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics, finishing within the first 10 in all artistic gymnastics events, and winning one gold, one silver and one bronze medal.^[1]

Minaicheva married a Georgian man and moved to Tbilisi, changing her last name to Sharabidze (Russian: Шарабидзе).^[1] Under this name she won a team gold medal at the 1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.^[2] In 1957 she graduated from the Institute of Physical Education in Tbilisi and worked as a gymnastics coach.^[3][4]

References

Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Team All-Around     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 1952:  Soviet Union (URS), Nina Bocharova, Pelageya Danilova, Maria Gorokhovskaya, Ekaterina Kalinchuk, Galina Minaicheva, Galina Shamrai, Galina Urbanovich, Medeya Jugeli

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 1954:  Soviet Union (URS), Nina Bocharova, Pelageya Danilova, Maria Gorokhovskaya, Larisa Latynina, Tamara Manina, Sofia Muratova, Galina Rudko, Galina Sharabidze