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Place of Birth: Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia
About Svetlana Grozdova
- Svetlana Khristoforovna Grozdova (Russian: ???????? ????????????? ????????, born January 29, 1959 in Rostov on Don) is a retired Soviet Russian gymnast. She started training in gymnastics at age 8 and was coached by Russian gymnastics coach Ruslan Lavrov in a gym in Rostov-on-Don.
- She was a member of the Soviet Union's 1976 Olympics Gold medal-winning gymnastics team alongside Maria Filatova, Nellie Kim, Elvira Saadi, Ludmilla Tourischeva and Olga Korbut. In 1974 and 1976, she was the Moscow News All Around champion.
- She was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1976.
- In 1980 she left the world of competitive gymnastics and took up sports acrobatics and was competing in it by the mid-1980s. Her best event was the balance beam.
- Despite not winning any Olympic medals in this event, she was a pro at wowing the crowds at USSR gymnastics exhibitions around the world with her tremendous flexibility and mesmerising balance on her hands.
- She had an unusually flexible, rubber-like spine which allowed her to perform walkovers along the 4" (10 cm) width of the balance beam, and to do a split handstand at the very end of the beam and touching the beam with her foot behind her head.
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