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Oksana Aleksandrovna Chusovitina (Russian: Оксана Александровна Чусовитина; born 19 June 1975) is an eight-time Olympic gymnast who has competed for the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan, and Germany.

Oksana Chusovitina
Оксана Чусовитина
Chusovitina at the Islamic Solidarity Games in 2022
Personal information
Full name	Oksana Aleksandrovna Chusovitina
Country represented	Uzbekistan
Former countries represented	Germany (2006–2012)  Uzbekistan (1993–2006)  Unified Team (1992)  CIS (1992)  Soviet Union (until 1991)
Born	(1975-06-19) 19 June 1975 (age 47) Bukhara, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.53 m (5 ft 0 in)
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Level	Senior international
Years on national team	(URS) 1988–1992 (UZB) 1993–2005 (GER) 2006–2012 (UZB) 2013–present
Club	Turnteam Toyota Köln
Head coach(es)	Svetlana Boguinskaya (personal) Shanna Polyakova
Former coach(es)	Svetlana Kuznetsova
Music	Phantom of the Opera (1996–2000) The Godfather Theme (2007) Pirates of the Caribbean (2006 & 2008)
Eponymous skills	Hop-full pirouette, full out dismount (uneven bars); layout-full out (floor exercise)
World ranking	Vault: 1 (2016)[1] (see archives)
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 1 1 0 World Championships 3 4 4 World Cup Final 1 0 1 Asian Games 2 4 2 Asian Championships 0 3 1 European Championships 1 2 1 Islamic Solidarity Games 2 1 0 Total 10 15 9 Olympic Games Representing  Unified Team 1992 Barcelona Team Representing  Germany 2008 Beijing Vault World Championships Representing the  Soviet Union 1991 Indianapolis Team 1991 Indianapolis Floor exercise 1991 Indianapolis Vault Representing  CIS 1992 Paris Vault Representing  Uzbekistan 2003 Anaheim Vault 2001 Ghent Vault 2005 Melbourne Vault 1993 Birmingham Vault 2002 Debrecen Vault Representing  Germany 2011 Tokyo Vault 2006 Aarhus Vault Goodwill Games Representing the  Soviet Union 1990 Seattle Team 1990 Seattle Vault Representing  Uzbekistan 2001 Brisbane Vault World Cup Final Representing  Uzbekistan 2002 Stuttgart Vault 2002 Stuttgart Balance beam Asian Games Representing  Uzbekistan 2002 Busan Vault 2002 Busan Floor exercise 2002 Busan All-around 2002 Busan Balance beam 2014 Incheon Vault 2018 Jakarta Vault 1994 Hiroshima Vault 1994 Hiroshima Uneven bars Asian Championships Representing  Uzbekistan 1996 Changsha Vault 1996 Changsha Uneven bars 1996 Changsha Floor exercise 1996 Changsha All-around Islamic Solidarity Games Representing  Uzbekistan 2017 Baku Vault 2021 Konya Vault 2021 Konya Team European Championships Representing  Germany 2008 Clermont Vault 2011 Berlin Vault 2012 Brussels Vault 2007 Amsterdam Vault

Chusovitina's career as an elite gymnast has spanned more than a quarter century. She won the USSR Junior Nationals in 1988 and began competing at the international level in 1989, before many of her current rivals were even born. She is the only female gymnast ever to compete in eight Olympic Games, and is one of only two female gymnasts to compete at the Olympics under three different national teams: the Unified Team in 1992; Uzbekistan in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2016 and 2020; and Germany in 2008 and 2012. Chusovitina has also competed in 16 World Championships, four Asian Games and three Goodwill Games. Chusovitina holds the record for the most individual world championships medals on a single event (nine, on the vault). Chusovitina is a part of a small group of gymnasts to return to international competition after becoming a mother.

Soviet Union

Chusovitina began gymnastics in 1982.[2] 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 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

After the 1992 Olympics, when the former Soviet gymnasts returned to their home republics, Chusovitina began competing for Uzbekistan and continued training with Uzbekistan head coach Svetlana Kuznetsova, also her personal coach. 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.[3][4]

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 more than 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.[5] In 2001, she was named as the first WAG representative to the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG)'s Athletes' Commission.[6] In addition, Chusovitina graduated from the Sports University in Tashkent.[7]

In late 1997 Chusovitina married Uzbek Olympic wrestler Bakhodir Kurbanov,[8] whom she first met at the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima.[7] The couple's son, Alisher, was born in November 1999.[2][4]

Germany

In 2002, Alisher was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL).[9] Seeking advanced medical treatment for their son, Chusovitina and her husband accepted an offer of help from Shanna and Peter Brüggemann, head coaches of the Toyota Cologne club, and moved to Germany.[10] With prize money earned from gymnastics competitions, along with the help of the Brüggemanns and members of the international gymnastics community who fundraised and donated to the cause, Chusovitina was able to secure treatment for Alisher at the University of Cologne's hospital. [11][4][12][13] While Alisher underwent treatment in Cologne, Chusovitina trained with the German team.

Uzbekistan released Chusovitina to compete for Germany in 2003. However, due to rules requiring three years of residency, she was unable to gain German citizenship immediately. From 2003 to 2006 she trained in Germany but continued to compete for Uzbekistan, representing her native country at the 2003 and 2005 World Championships and the 2004 Olympics. In 2003, 12 years after her world championships debut, Chusovitina won the gold medal on the vault at that year's world championships in Anaheim.[9]

In 2006, Chusovitina obtained German citizenship.[10] Her first competition for Germany was the 2006 World Championships, where she won a bronze medal on the vault and placed ninth in the all-around.[14]

In July 2007, she won the all-around title at the 2007 German National Championships.[15] At her first European Championships, she placed second on the vault.[16] At the 2007 World Championships in Stuttgart, Chusovitina helped the German squad to a 10th-place finish in the preliminary round, which qualified them to send a full team to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where she was the oldest female competitor in her discipline.[4] She qualified for the vault event final where she finished in 2nd place, thus earning the first individual Olympic medal of her career. Chusovitina competed on three events at the 2008 Women's European Championships in Clermont-Ferrand, France, helping the German team to a seventh-place finish in the team finals. In the vault event final, she defeated reigning European champion Carlotta Giovannini to win the gold medal.[17]

At the 2008 Olympics, the German team placed 12th in the qualifying round of competition. Chusovitina qualified to the individual all-around final, where she placed ninth overall.[18] She also qualified in fourth place for the vault final.[19] In the vault final, she won the silver medal with a score of 15.575.[20]

Despite earlier claims that she would attempt to compete in the London 2012 Summer Olympics, Chusovitina announced in April 2009 that she intended to only participate in the 2009 World Gymnastics Championships in October, and that she would not continue. The championships, she stated, are "enough."[21]

However, she returned to compete in some competitions in 2010 (including the 2010 Houston National Invitational). She won the silver medal on vault at the 2011 European Championships, the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 European Championships.

Chusovitina competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics for Germany.[22] The games were a remarkable sixth Olympics for Chusovitina, who qualified for the vault final where she placed in fifth behind her German teammate, Janine Berger. Afterward Oksana declared she would retire as a gymnast and concentrate on coaching.[23]

However, instead of retiring, Oksana switched back to competing for Uzbekistan. She competed at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics. She has stated her goal is to win an Olympic medal on vault for Uzbekistan, because she’s already won medals for the Unified Team and Germany, but not for her home country.

Recent years

Despite her statements in 2012, Chusovitina ultimately returned the following year and announced plans to continue competing through the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.[24] She went on to qualify an individual place for Uzbekistan at a qualifying event in Rio de Janeiro in April 2016.[25] By competing, she set a record as the oldest gymnast to ever compete at the Olympic Games at the age of 41 and 2 months and the only gymnast ever to compete in seven consecutive Olympiads, surpassing the record of six that she set in 2012 with Yordan Yovchev of Bulgaria. Following those Olympics, Chusovitina announced that she would continue her career with the intention of competing in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo [26]

After competing solely on vault for several years, Chusovitina announced in 2018 that she would begin competing all-around again.[27]

Chusovitina competed at the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in order to qualify for Tokyo. She had a rough turn in qualifications, falling on her second vault and on balance beam,[28] but despite these errors, she ended up ranked just high enough in the all-around standings to secure one of the last all-around berths to the Olympics from that event.[29] She was selected as a flag bearer for Uzbekistan at the 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, but was then replaced just few hours before the ceremony.[30] Her final day of competition on 25 July 2021 in Tokyo saw her fail to qualify for the finals in Vault.

Despite stating that she would retire following the delayed 2020 Olympic Games, she later stated that she would return to training for the 2022 Asian Games, which ended up being postponed indefinitely due to the pandemic. She then won a gold medal on vault at Doha World Cup Event in 2022, and won the vault again at the 2022 Uzbekistan National Championships. When asked how the postponement of the Asian games would influence her training plans, she stated that her goal now is to continue training and compete in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France. This would be her 9th Summer Olympic Games. Chusovitina competed at the postponed Islamic Solidarity Games in 2022 alongside Dildora Aripova and Ominakhon Khalilova. They finished second as a team behind Turkey. Individually Chusovitina won gold on vault.

Eponymous skills

Chusovitina has five eponymous skills in the Code of Points.[31]

Apparatus	Name	Description	Difficulty[lower-alpha 1]
Vault	Chusovitina	Handspring forward on - piked salto forward with 1/1 turn (360°) off	4.4
Vault	Chusovitina[lower-alpha 2]	Handspring forward on - stretched salto forward with 1½ turn (540°) off	5.4
Uneven Bars	Chusovitina	Giant circle backward to handstand with hop 1/1 turn (360°) in handstand phase	D
Uneven Bars	Chusovitina	Swing forward to double salto backward tucked with 1/1 turn (360°) in second salto	D
Floor Exercise	Chusovitina-Touzhikova	Double salto backward stretched with 1/1 turn (360°)	H

Competitive history

Year	Event	Team	AA	VT	UB	BB	FX
1988	USSR Championships (junior)
1989	Cottbus International		9
1990	Goodwill Games
	World Sports Fair
	USSR Cup
	USSR Championships		6
1991
	World Championships
	Chunichi Cup		8
	USSR Championships		4
	Blume Memorial		8
1992	World Stars		15
	World Championships						7
	Olympic Games						7
1993	DTB Cup			4
	Kosice International
	Massilia Gym Cup
	World Championships		18		8
1994	Swiss Cup				6		5
	Goodwill Games		5	5	5		4
	Asian Games		4			4
1995	Cottbus International			5		5	5
	DTB Cup			4		5	4
	World Championships		19	6
	Arthur Gander Memorial
	Swiss Cup
1996	American Cup
	International Mixed Pairs
	Cottbus International			4	5	7
	DTB Cup				4	4
	Arthur Gander Memorial
	Swiss Cup
	Olympic Games		10
1997	American Cup		4
	World Stars						6
	Cottbus International
1998
	Asian Games	4		8			6
	Arthur Gander Memorial
2000	DTB Cup			4			4
	Olympic Games		45	25
2001	World Stars
	Cottbus World Cup						5
	DTB Cup				7	4
	Arthur Gander Memorial
	Goodwill Games		4
	World Championships		19
2002	American Cup		4
	WOGA Classic
	Cottbus World Cup				5		6
	Arthur Gander Memorial
	Asian Games	5			4
	World Championships					8	6
	World Cup Final				5		4
2003	Cottbus World Cup				4	4	5
	DTB Cup					6	6
	Arthur Gander Memorial
	Swiss Cup
	World Championships
2004	Cottbus World Cup						6
	Olympic Games			23
2005	Glasgow World Cup				7	6
	Sao Paolo World Cup				7	5
	World Championships	—
2006	Arthur Gander Memorial
	Stuttgart World Cup
	Moscow World Cup
	Ghent World Cup				4	5
	Cottbus World Cup
	World Championships		9
	Swiss Cup
2007
	European Championships		6				6
	German Championships
	World Championships			6
	Stuttgart World Cup
	Moscow World Cup
	Cottbus World Cup
	Swiss Cup
2008
	European Championships	7					6
	German Championships
	Doha World Cup						6
	Cottbus World Cup
	Olympic Games		9
2010	Cottbus World Cup
	Moscow World Cup
	European Championships			12
	SUI-GER-ROU Friendly
	World Championships
2011	Cottbus World Cup
	SUI-GER-ROU Friendly
	European Championships
	World Championships	6
2012	German Championships		16
	European Championships	8
	Olympic Games			5
	Stuttgart World Cup
	Toyota International			4		6	4
	GER-GBR-ROU Friendly
2013	Internationaux de France
	La Roche-sur-Yon World Cup
	Cottbus World Cup
	Gym Festival Trnava
	Anadia World Cup
	World Championships	—		5
	Mexican Open
2014
	Asian Games	5
	Joaquin Blume Memorial		5
	Mexican Open				8	4	4
2015	Houston National Invitational
	Cottbus World Cup
	Ljubljana World Cup
	Varna World Cup				8	4
	World Championships			13
	Toyota International			7	5	6
2016	Houston National Invitational
	WOGA Classic
	Baku World Challenge Cup					8
	Cottbus World Challenge Cup				6	4
	Olympic Test Event		45
	Mersin World Challenge Cup				4
	Olympic Games			7
	2nd Bundesliga (3rd League)				5
	Mexican Open
2017	International Gymnix					6
	Baku World Cup
	Doha World Cup						8
	Islamic Solidarity Games						5
	Szombathely Challenge Cup			6
	Paris Challenge Cup			4
	World Championships	—		5
	2nd Bundesliga (2rd League)
	Cottbus World Cup
	Voronin Cup
2018	Houston National Invitational
	Baku World Cup
	Doha World Cup
	Osijek Challenge Cup
	Asian Games
	Paris Challenge Cup
	World Championships			4
	Arthur Gander Memorial						8
	Swiss Cup	5
	Cottbus World Cup			5
2019	Melbourne World Cup					8
	Baku World Cup
	Doha World Cup			5
	Zhaoqing Challenge Cup
	Korea Cup					4
	Paris Challenge Cup
	World Championships			12
2021	Varna Challenge Cup
	Doha World Cup
	Olympic Games			14
2022	Doha World Cup
	Cairo World Cup
	Baku World Cup
	Asian Championships	6		5
	Islamic Solidarity Games

Chusovitina also won the 1994 Goodwill Games Mixed Pairs Silver Medal with Yevgeny Shabayev, Aleksei Voropayev and Elena Grosheva.

Year-end world rankings

Vault

2010: #9[32]
2011: #1[33]
2013: #1[34]
2015: #1[35]

Beam

2010: #28
2013: #24
2015: #45

Floor

2015: #7

See also

• List of top medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• List of Olympic female artistic gymnasts for Uzbekistan
• List of Olympic female artistic gymnasts for Germany
• List of female artistic gymnasts with the most appearances at Olympic Games
• List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games

References

External links

• Oxana Chusovitina at the International Gymnastics Federation
• List of competitive results
• Chusovitina (Floor Exercise skills)

На других языках

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- [en] Oksana Chusovitina

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[it] Oksana Čusovitina

Oksana Aleksandrovna Čusovitina (in russo: Оксана Александровна Чусовитина?; Bukhara, 19 giugno 1975) è una ginnasta uzbeka.

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[ru] Чусовитина, Оксана Александровна

Окса́на Алекса́ндровна Чусови́тина (род. 19 июня 1975[1], Бухара) — гимнастка, на протяжении карьеры выступавшая за СССР, Узбекистан и Германию, олимпийская чемпионка 1992 года в командном первенстве, трёхкратная чемпионка мира, чемпионка Европы, чемпионка Азиатских игр. Единственный человек в истории гимнастики, выступавший на восьми летних Олимпийских играх (1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020). Заслуженный мастер спорта СССР (1991).

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