Galina Napoleonovna Urbanovich (Russian: Галина Наполеоновна Урбанович) (September 5, 1917 – May 8, 2011) was a Soviet Olympic gymnast. She won a gold and silver medal at the 1952 Helsinki games. She was seven times all-around gymnastics champion of the USSR. Her achievements earned her the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR award.[1][2] She was from a Lithuanian family.
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Full name | Galina Napoleonovna Urbanovich | ||||||||||
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Born | 5 September 1917 Baku, Special Transcaucasian Committee | ||||||||||
Died | 8 May 2011(2011-05-08) (aged 93) | ||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||
Retired | 1953 | ||||||||||
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In 2016, she was elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[3]
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