BOGUINSKAIA (USSR-BLR)
Born 1973 in Minsk, Belarus
At age 6, after a time period in ice skating, started gymnastics with coach Liubov Miromanova, sometimes coaching on the USSR nationwide coaching centre in Moscow, Lake Krugloye. Her ambition was boundless. She was decided to coach a triple dismount off uneven bars. She wished to be the primary to compete the double twisting Tsukuhara (Boguinskaia’s Tsukuhara).
Soviet nationwide coach of the junior staff, Anatoly Kozeev, supported Miromanova and Boguinskaia, and her first main worldwide assignments adopted on the age of 12.
The Worldwide Junior Cup in Japan, 1985, was one among her first abroad competitions, and in 1986 she
turned Junior European Champion.
By 1987 she was profitable medals on the World Championships.
And by 1988 was hanging Olympic gold in her medal cupboard.
Nice disappointment overcame Svetlana and her family members when her coach, Liubov Miromanova, dedicated suicide within the days instantly following the 1988 Olympics. Svetlana considered retirement; however gymnastics was her life.
1989 noticed Svetlana take European and World AA gold medals.
Svetlana by no means discovered a single substitute for Miromanova, who had been like a mom to her. Coaches who helped her alongside the way in which embrace Liudmilla Popcovich from her dwelling gymnasium in Minsk, Alexander Alexandrov, head coach of the USSR WAG staff from 1989 (Svetlana named her son Brandon Alexander after him), head coach of the USSR junior staff Anatoly Kozeev, Oleg Ostapenko (private coach to staff mates Lysenko and Kalinina and tumbling coach to the nationwide staff), Yuri Kozyrev (private coach to Elena Sazonenkova). A lot later, within the second section of her profession within the mid Nineties, she educated once more with Alexandrov, and briefly with Bela Karolyi.
1990 – 5 gold medals on the Europeans in Athens, and a gold on ground with a merely chic presentation that few tv commentators may discover the phrases to explain (to talk over this might be to defile it).
Within the 1991 Worlds she took the silver AA after which dominated the BB.
By 1992, youthful gymnasts had been shifting up the Soviet ladder, youthful women with better problem of their routines. However Boguinskaia nonetheless dominated for her grace and the issue of her dance. To at the present time, no
one can match her.
Because the 1992 Olympics drew to a detailed, so did the period of nice Soviet champions. Because the Soviet Union dismantled, Svetlana’s staff had competed collectively in Barcelona because the Commonwealth of Unbiased States. After the Video games, particular person gymnasts adopted their very own paths.
Svetlana caught the creativeness of musicians B52s, and appeared in a video of their tune, Revolution Earth, together with fellow Belarussian and USSR staff mate, Vitaly Scherbo. The quiet thriller of the Soviet gymnasts turned a part of the West’s extrovert commercialism.
Boguinskaia’s period wasn’t fairly over as she ready for the 1996 Olympics and gained extra medals on the way in which. However the sample of her sporting life mirrored that of her international locations, Belarus and the Soviet Union. She was and stays a cultural icon.
