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Olga Korbut

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Olga Valentinovna Korbut (born 16 May 1955) is a Belarusian retired gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the "Sparrow from Minsk", she won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the Soviet team, and was the inaugural inductee to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1988. Korbut retired from gymnastics in 1977 at the age of 22, considered young for gymnasts of the period, but her influence and legacy in gymnastics were far-reaching. Korbut's 1972 Olympic performances are widely credited as redefining gymnastics, changing the sport from emphasising ballet and elegance to acrobatics, as well as changing gymnastics from a niche sport to one of the most popular sports in the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Olga Korbut is the 4th most popular gymnast (down from 3rd in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 14th in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Gymnast.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Olga Korbut ranks 4 out of 370. Before her are Nadia Comăneci, Ágnes Keleti, and Larisa Latynina. After her are Věra Čáslavská, Carl Schuhmann, Akinori Nakayama, Sawao Kato, Hermann Weingärtner, Alfred Flatow, Louis Zutter, and Leon Štukelj.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Olga Korbut ranks 32. Before her are Donatella Versace, Whoopi Goldberg, Katalin Karikó, Liu Xiaobo, Angus Young, and John Hinckley Jr.. After her are Guillermo Lasso, Mariano Rajoy, Nina Hagen, Svante Pääbo, Chow Yun-fat, and Denis Mukwege.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Olga Korbut ranks 15 out of 368. Before her are Andrei Gromyko (1909), Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Simon Kuznets (1901), Chaim Soutine (1893), Meyer Lansky (1902), and Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978). After her are Stanisław Moniuszko (1819), Ryszard Kapuściński (1932), Zalman Shazar (1889), Yanka Kupala (1882), Léon Bakst (1866), and Ossip Zadkine (1888).

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Among GYMNASTS In Belarus

Among gymnasts born in Belarus, Olga Korbut ranks 1. After her are Vitaly Scherbo (1972), Svetlana Boginskaya (1973), Marina Lobatch (1970), Ivan Litvinovich (2001), Alina Harnasko (2001), Melitina Staniouta (1993), Uladzislau Hancharou (1995), Karyna Yarmolenka (2000), Anastasiya Rybakova (2000), Hanna Haidukevich (2001), and Anastasiya Malakanava (2003).

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