Lyudmila Yegorova

Lyudmila Yegorova

Personal information
Born	24 February 1931 Lomonosov, Russia
Died	21 May 2009 (aged 78) Kaliningrad, Russia
Sport
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Club	SKA Leningrad
Medal record Competitor for the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne Team allround 1956 Melbourne Team portable apparatus

Lyudmila Borisovna Yegorova (Russian: Людмила Борисовна Егорова; 24 February 1931 – 21 May 2009) was a Russian artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics, finishing within top 10 in all artistic gymnastics events, except for uneven bars. She won a team all-around gold medal and a bronze medal in the now-defunct team portable apparatus exercise.

She won four national titles in acrobatics in 1950–1953, and was a runner up in the vault and all-around in 1955 and 1956. She later graduated from the Institute of Physical Education in Saint Petersburg and worked as a gymnastics coach. At the time of her death she headed the Kaliningrad branch of Russian Athletes' Union.^[1][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 1956:  Soviet Union (URS), Polina Astakhova, Lyudmila Yegorova, Lidiya Kalinina, Larisa Latynina, Tamara Manina, Sofia Muratova