
英文简介:
Oksana Aleksandrovna Chusovitina (Russian:Оксана Александровна Чусовитина; born June 19, 1975
in Bukhara, Uzbek SSR, USSR) is an Olympic medalist and World Champion gymnast who has competed for Germany since 2006. She was formerly a citizen of, and a competitor for, the Soviet Union (before 1993) and Uzbekista (1993-2006).
To date, Chusovitina's career in elite gymnastics has spanned almost twenty years. She won the USSR Junior Nationals in 1988 and began competing at the senior international level in 1989, before many of her current rivals were even born. She is the only female gymnast ever to compete in four Olympic Games, and has also competed in ten World Championships, three Asian Games and three Goodwill Games. In addition, Chusovitina holds the record for the most individual World Championships medals on a single event (8, on the vault). She is also one of only a handful of women, along with Cuban Leyanet Gonzalez and Soviet legend Larissa Latynina, to return to high-level gymnastics and international competition after becoming a mother. Chusovitina is remarkable in her ability to remain competitive for so many years, often in the face of great adversity, and has been cited as a role model and an inspiration by many of her peers in the gymnastics community.
Contents
1 Soviet Union
2 Uzbekistan 1993-2006
3 Move to Germany
4 Current status
5 Skills
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Soviet Union
Chusovitina began gymnastics in 1982. In 1988, at the age of 13, she won the all-around title at the USSR National Championships in the junior division.
By 1990 Chusovitina was a vital member of the Soviet team, and was sent to compete in various international meets. She was the vault gold medalist at the 1990 Goodwill Games and nearly swept the 1990 World Sports Fair in Japan, winning the all-around and every event except the uneven bars. The following year she won the floor exercise gold at the 1991 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and placed second on the vault. In 1992 Chusovitina competed at the Olympics with the Unified Team, shared in the team gold medal and placed seventh in the floor final. She also won her second World Championships vault medal, a bronze.
Uzbekistan 1993-2006
After the 1992 Olympics, when the former Soviet gymnasts returned to their home republics, Chusovitina began competing for Uzbekistan and training with UZB head coach Svetlana Kuznetsova. Conditions at the national training facility in Tashkent were a far cry from the Soviet Round Lake training center, and Chusovitina was forced to practice on antiquated, and in some cases, unsafe equipment. In spite of this setback, she was able to consistently produce world-class routines.
Chusovitina represented Uzbekistan from 1993 to 2006 and competed for them at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics, the 1994, 1998 and 2002 Asian Games and the 1994 and 2001 Goodwill Games. During this era she was the strongest gymnast on the Uzbekistan national team, earning over 70 medals in international competitions and qualifying to the Olympics three times.
For her contributions to gymnastics, Chusovitina was granted the title of "Honored Athlete of the Republic of Uzbekistan" by the Uzbekistan Ministry of Cultural and Sports Affairs.
In 2001, she was named as the first WAG representative to the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG)'s Athletes' Commission. In addition, Chusovitina graduated from the Sports University in Tashkent.
In late 1997 Chusovitina married Uzbekistani Olympic wrestler Bakhodir Kurpanov. The couple originally met at the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, where they were both competing.
The couple's son, Alisher, was born in November 1999.
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