Svetlana Baitova

Svetlana Baitova

Personal information
Born	(1972-09-03) 3 September 1972 Mogilev, Soviet Union
Height	1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Weight	39 kg (86 lb)
Sport
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Club	Spartak Mogilev
Medal record Competitor for the  Soviet Union Olympic Games Gold 1988 Seoul Team World championships Silver 1987 Rotterdam Team Gold 1989 Stuttgart Team

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]

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 1988:  Soviet Union (URS), Svetlana Baitova, Elena Shevchenko, Olga Strazheva, Natalia Lashchenova, Svetlana Boginskaya, Yelena Shushunova

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 1989:  Soviet Union (URS), Svetlana Baitova, Svetlana Boginskaya, Olesya Dudnik, Natalia Lashchenova, Elena Sazonenkova, Olga Strazheva