13 Facts About Kateryna Serebrianska

Kateryna Serebrianska is the 1996 Olympics gold medalist, the 1995 World All-around champion, the 1996 European All-around champion, and three time Grand Prix Final All-around champion.

Kateryna Serebrianska started gymnastics in 1982 at age 4, with her mother Liubov as her coach at the Gratsia club in Simferopol.

Kateryna Serebrianska later moved to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, to train at the Deriugina School.

In 1994, Serebrianska participated at the 1994 Goodwill Games in Saint Petersburg and won gold medals in clubs and ribbon, a silver medal in all-around and bronze medals in hoop and ball.

Kateryna Serebrianska tied Bulgaria's Maria Petrova for the all-round title at the 1995 World Championships in Vienna, Austria.

Kateryna Serebrianska won several individual apparatus titles: rope at the 1993 World Championships in Alicante, Spain; hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon in the 1994 World Championships in Paris, France; ball at the 1995 Worlds in Vienna, Austria; and again in 1996 in Hungary.

Kateryna Serebrianska won the 1996 European all-round title, together with the team gold, and gold on rope, ball and ribbon finals.

Kateryna Serebrianska was ahead of her closest rival, Russia's Yanina Batyrchina by 0.150 points going into the ribbon routine, who competed before her and dropped the ribbon.

At the 1997 European Championships in Greece, Kateryna Serebrianska dropped a club at the end of her all-round clubs routine, but scores of 9.950 on both the rope and ribbon, and a 9.912 on hoop gave her an accumulated score of 29.637 and hence the bronze medal by 0.012 ahead of French competitor, Eva Serrano.

Kateryna Serebrianska did not compete at the 1997 World Championships due to an illness suffered by her mother.

Kateryna Serebrianska won gold in the hoop final and silver in rope.

Kateryna Serebrianska won bronze in the ribbon event, tying with the same score as Evgenia Pavlina of Belarus and Yanina Batyrchina of Russia, but winning the medal due to the new tie-breaker scoring system.

Kateryna Serebrianska placed 6th in the all-round final.