(1965-01-26) 26 January 1965 (age 59) Norilsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Hometown
Russia
Height
155 cm (5 ft 1 in)
Discipline
Artistic gymnastics
Level
Senior Elite Gymnast
Years on national team
1978–86 (URS)
Eponymous skills
Yurchenko, Yurchenko loop
Medal record
Representing Soviet Union
World Championships
1983 Budapest
Team
1983 Budapest
All-Around
1985 Montreal
Team
World Cup Final
1982 Zagreb
All-Around
1982 Zagreb
Vault
1982 Zagreb
Balance Beam
1982 Zagreb
Uneven Bars
Friendship Games
1984 Olomouc
Team
1984 Olomouc
Vault
1984 Olomouc
Uneven Bars
Natalia Vladimirovna Yurchenko (Russian: Наталья Владимировна Юрченко) (born 26 January 1965) is a retired Soviet artistic gymnast, who won the women's all-around gold medal at the 1983 World Championships. Renowned for her innovative and daring gymnastics, she is best known as the originator of the Yurchenko vault family, which is a round-off back handspring entry onto the vault, and then performing a series of twists and flips off.
Natalia Vladimirovna Yurchenko (Russian: Наталья Владимировна Юрченко) (born 26 January 1965) is a retired Soviet artistic gymnast, who won the women's...
named after NataliaYurchenko, who first performed it in 1982. The Yurchenko vault family is named after Natalia Vladimirovna Yurchenko, a gymnast who...
Ukrainian footballer NataliaYurchenko (born 1965), Soviet artistic gymnast Yurchenko (vault), a vault routine in artistic gymnastics Yurchenko loop, a balance...
Rastorotsky, who also trained her compatriots Ludmilla Tourischeva and NataliaYurchenko. She was one of the world's strongest gymnasts in the late 1970s and...
front support position, resting on the hands. It is named after NataliaYurchenko. Yurchenko vault A vault and a family of vaults. It consists of a round-off...
Championships she placed third all around after Olga Mostepanova and NataliaYurchenko. In this event she scored two perfect tens, one on floor and one on...
Coached by Vladislav Rastorotsky (who later trained Natalia Shaposhnikova and NataliaYurchenko), she represented the Soviet Union at the 1968 Summer...
mid-1960s. His most famous pupils were Ludmilla Tourischeva, Natalia Shaposhnikova and NataliaYurchenko. Born in Svoboda, Russian SFSR, Rastorotsky went to Voronezh...
after Yang Bo (China) Yurchenko (vault) – round-off, back-handspring onto the vaulting table, after NataliaYurchenko (USSR) Yurchenko loop (balance beam)...
accident at a 1988 meet in Japan while attempting the difficult-to-master Yurchenko vault. She later died of her injury. Christy Henrich, an American gymnast...
roots of her rebellion". Washington Post. "Bio - Natalia Vladamirovna Yurchenko". NataliaYurchenko. "Красноярский край. Подписана программа совместных...
Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere at a ceremony in Dar es Salaam. Born: NataliaYurchenko, Soviet gymnast, inductee to the International Gymnastics Hall of...
at the USSR national team training camp in 1991. Scherbo (vault) – a Yurchenko-style vault defined by its unique entry, specifically a full twist within...
event finals she retained her vault title with her textbook Yurchenko full and Yurchenko 1.5, beating Romanian Eugenia Golea. She also earned a bronze...
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