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Svetlana Nikolayevna Baitova (Belarusian: Святлана Мікалаеўна Баітава; Russian: Светлана Николаевна Баитова; born 3 September 1972) is a retired Belarusian gymnast. She won a gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games as a member of the Soviet team and finished fourth in the all-around final at the 1987 World Championships.

Svetlana Baitova

Personal information
Born	(1972-09-03) 3 September 1972 (age 50) Mogilev, Soviet Union
Height	1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Weight	39 kg (86 lb)
Sport
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Club	Spartak Mogilev
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Team World championships 1989 Stuttgart Team 1987 Rotterdam Team

Career

Baitova competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal with the Soviet team. Individually, she finished 13th in the team competition but did not qualify for the all-around final (top 36) as she was the fourth ranked Soviet and the limit was three gymnasts per nation. Her best Individual result was seventh on the balance beam, but again she did not advance to the apparatus final (top 8), as she was the third Soviet (two gymnasts per nation was the limit for the apparatus finals). Her other results were ninth (uneven bars), 14th (vault) and 31st (floor).[1] In 1988, she had not yet recovered from a hand fracture she received in 1987. Nevertheless, she was included on the team owing to her strong performance at the Olympic trials.[2]

Baitova won a team silver medal and finished fourth in the all-around final at the 1987 World Championships. She also finished fourth in three of the four event finals; vault, uneven bars and floor exercise. She won a team gold medal the 1989 World Championships;[3][4]

Eponymous skills

Baitova was the first gymnast to compete the double-twisting Yurchenko (DTY) vault, so it is named after her in the Code of Points. She also has an eponymous balance beam mount.[5]

Apparatus	Name	Description	Difficulty[lower-alpha 1]
Vault	Baitova	Round-off flic-flac on - stretched salto backward with 2/1 turn (720°) off	5.0
Balance beam	Baitova	Two flank circles followed by leg "Flair"	D

Retirement

She retired in 1990 and since 1991 works as gymnastics coach in Mogilev. In 1990 she married and gave birth to son Alex, but remarried later.[2][4] In 2002, she was invited for coaching in Qatar on a five-year contract, but returned after 11 months because she could not tolerate the hot climate.[2]

References

На других языках

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- [en] Svetlana Baitova

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[ru] Баитова, Светлана Николаевна

Светла́на Никола́евна Баи́това (белор. Святлана Мікалаеўна Баітава; 3 сентября 1972 (1972-09-03), Могилёв, Белорусская ССР) — советская и белорусская гимнастка, олимпийская чемпионка 1988 года в командном первенстве, чемпионка мира, неоднократная чемпионка СССР. Заслуженный мастер спорта СССР (1988). Выступала за ВДФСО профсоюзов (Могилёв, Белоруссия). Именные элементы Светланы Баитовой: два круга ноги вместе — один круг Деласала на бревне продольно, а также круги Деласала на вольных упражнениях, которые она исполнила раньше известной канадской гимнастки Леа Хомма.

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