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Yelena Shushunova

1969 - 2018

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Yelena Lvovna Shushunova (Russian: Елена Львовна Шушунова; sometimes spelled Elena Shushunova; 23 May 1969 – 16 August 2018) was a Soviet Russian gymnast. Shushunova was one of five women (alongside Larisa Latynina, Věra Čáslavská, Ludmilla Tourischeva and Lilia Podkopayeva) who have won all-around titles at all major competitions: Olympics, World Championships and European/Continental Championships and one of eleven women who medaled on every event at World Championships. Shushunova was renowned for pioneering complex skills as well as her explosive and dynamic tumbling and high consistency. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yelena Shushunova is the 74th most popular gymnast (up from 91st in 2019), the 1,897th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,103rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Gymnast.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Yelena Shushunova ranks 74 out of 370Before her are Guido Romano, Marie Kovářová, Hugo Jahnke, Paolo Salvi, Adolf Spinnler, and Haakon Sörvik. After her are Aleksanteri Saarvala, Georges Miez, Herman Glass, Hjalmar Cedercrona, Haruhiro Yamashita, and Georg Brustad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Yelena Shushunova ranks 248Before her are Chandra Wilson, Teresa Ribera, Robert Maillet, Jay Kay, Jintara Poonlarp, and Silas Weir Mitchell. After her are Jimmy Morales, Angélica Rivera, Helmut Lotti, Andrea Elson, Christy Turlington, and Lexington Steele. Among people deceased in 2018, Yelena Shushunova ranks 365Before her are Yurik Vardanyan, Lucho Gatica, Leo Falcam, Glenn Branca, Daša Drndić, and Theo-Ben Gurirab. After her are Arthur Barnard, Gennadi Gagulia, Albin Vidović, David Douglas Duncan, D. J. Fontana, and Kedarnath Singh.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yelena Shushunova ranks 1,897 out of 3,761Before her are Yekaterina Gradova (1946), Lyubov Polishchuk (1949), Nikolay Latyshev (1913), Vladimir Voevodsky (1966), Irina Privalova (1968), and Waldemar Rosenberger (1848). After her are Zhanna Bichevskaya (1944), Aleksey Pleshcheyev (1825), Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov (1806), Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy (1790), Aleksanteri Saarvala (1913), and Artur Beterbiev (1985).

Among GYMNASTS In Russia

Among gymnasts born in Russia, Yelena Shushunova ranks 6Before her are Nikolai Andrianov (1952), Boris Shakhlin (1932), Veikko Huhtanen (1919), Mikhail Voronin (1945), and Valentin Muratov (1928). After her are Aleksanteri Saarvala (1913), Margarita Nikolaeva (1935), Larisa Petrik (1949), Yuri Titov (1935), Viktor Klimenko (1949), and Yelena Davydova (1961).