26 Facts About Oksana Chusovitina

Oksana Aleksandrovna Chusovitina is an Uzbek artistic gymnast.

Oksana Chusovitina 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.

Oksana Chusovitina is the only 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.

Oksana Chusovitina is one of the 18 Olympians and 6 female Olympians to participate in 8 different Olympics.

Oksana Chusovitina has competed in 16 World Championships, four Asian Games, and three Goodwill Games.

Oksana Chusovitina holds the record for the most individual world championship medals in a single event.

Oksana Chusovitina is one of the few female gymnasts to return to international competitions after becoming a mother.

Oksana Chusovitina 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.

In 1992 Oksana Chusovitina competed at the Olympics with the Unified Team, shared in the team gold medal and placed seventh in the floor final.

Oksana Chusovitina won her second World Championships vault medal, a bronze.

Conditions at the national training facility in Tashkent were far worse than the Soviet Round Lake training center, so Oksana Chusovitina practiced on antiquated, and in some cases, unsafe equipment.

Oksana 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.

In late 1997, Oksana Chusovitina married Uzbek Olympic wrestler Bakhodir Kurbanov, whom she first met at the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima.

In 2003,12 years after her world championships debut, Oksana Chusovitina won the gold medal on the vault at that year's world championships in Anaheim.

At the 2007 World Championships in Stuttgart, Oksana 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.

Oksana 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.

Oksana Chusovitina won the silver medal on vault at the 2011 European Championships, the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 European Championships.

However, instead of retiring, Oksana Chusovitina switched back to competing for Uzbekistan.

Oksana Chusovitina 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.

Oksana Chusovitina became the first and only gymnast to compete in seven consecutive Olympiads, surpassing the record of six she set in 2012 with Yordan Yovchev of Bulgaria.

Oksana Chusovitina competed at the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in order to qualify for Tokyo.

Oksana Chusovitina was selected as a flag bearer for Uzbekistan at the 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, but was replaced just few hours before the ceremony.

Oksana Chusovitina then went on to compete in the vault finals, though she didn't place.

Oksana Chusovitina then won a gold medal on vault at 2022 Doha World Cup Event and the 2022 Uzbekistan National Championships.

Oksana Chusovitina competed at the postponed Islamic Solidarity Games in 2022 alongside Dildora Aripova and Ominakhon Khalilova.

Oksana Chusovitina has five eponymous skills in the Code of Points.