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Olga Korbut Biography

Olga Korbut is one of the most popular and richest Gymnast who was born on May 16, 1955 in Grodno, Hrodna, Belarus. Soviet gymnast who took home Olympic gold medals in 1972 Munich and 1976 Montreal Olympic games, in the Team as well as the Balance Beam and Floor Exercise events.

She as well as She and Amanda Borden are both gymnasts who went on to win Olympic gold medals. are both gymnasts who went on be the recipients of Olympic silver medals.

Korbut was born in Grodno to Valentin and Valentina Korbut. After World War II, the family moved to Grodno from Dubniaki (small town near Kalinkavichy). She started training at age 8, and entered a Belarusian sports school headed by coach Renald Knysh at age 9. There, Korbut’s first trainer was Elena Volchetskaya, an Olympic gold medalist (1964), but she was moved to Knysh’s group a year later. Initially he found her “lazy and capricious” but he also saw potential in her great talent, unusually supple spine, and charisma. With him, she learned a difficult backward somersault on the balance beam. She debuted this at a competition in the USSR in 1969. The same year, Korbut completed a backflip-to-catch on the uneven bars; this was the first backward release move ever performed by a woman on bars.

She finished fifth at her first competition in the 1969 USSR championships, where she was allowed to compete as a 15-year-old. The next year, she won a gold medal in the vault. Due to illness and injury, she was unable to compete in many of the competitions before the 1972 Summer Olympics.

The son of her, Richard, was born in 1979. Her husband was Leonid Bortkevich between 1978 and 2000.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Korbut’s acrobatics and open high-level gymnastics brought her much fame. To this day, the back tuck and Korbut Flip are still very popular (2003 world beam champion Fan Ye performed both in her routine).

Olga Korbut Net Worth

Olga Korbut is one of the richest Gymnast from Belarus. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Olga Korbut's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Her first trainer was Olympic Gold medallist Elena Volchetskaya.

She was awarded four gold and two silver medals in gymnastics at the Olympics.

Olga Valentinovna Korbut (born 16 May 1955) is a former 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.

In a Peanuts comic strip published on May 15, 1973, the character Snoopy is seen doing balance beam positions with flawless precision on top of his doghouse for three panels until coming to a rest in the fourth one saying: “Olga Korbut has been bugging me for lessons!”

Korbut is most famous for her uneven bars and balance beam routines, as well as her charismatic performances that captivated audiences. Her Olympic achievement earned her ABC’s Wide World of Sports title of Athlete of the Year. In 1973, she won the Russian and World Student (i.e., University) Games, and a silver medal in the all-around at the European Championships.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Olga Korbut height 4 ft 11 in Olga weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Korbut, who has won four Olympic gold medals, is best known for her move, the “Korbut flip”, a backflip performed on the uneven parallel bars, starting from a standing position on the high bar and then catching the same bar from below on the under swing. She was also achieved the flip on the 4″ balance bar onto the straddle position and later the flip landing on her feet. Named after Korbut since she was the first to perform the skill at an international competition in 1972, the move has since been made illegal in the Olympic Code of Points. After the 1972 Olympic competition, she also met United States President Richard Nixon at the White House. About the meeting, Korbut said: “He told me that my performance in Munich did more for reducing the political tension during the Cold War between our two countries than the embassies were able to do in five years.” In addition to greatly publicizing gymnastics worldwide, she also contributed to a marked change in the tenor of the sport itself. Prior to 1972, the athletes were generally older and the focus was on elegance rather than acrobatics. In the decade after Korbut’s Olympic debut, the emphasis was reversed. Korbut, in her 1972, gold-medal Olympics, at 4 ft 11 in (1.50 m) and 82 pounds (37 kg), exemplified the deliberate and purposeful trend toward smaller women in the sport.

Korbut graduated from the Grodno Pedagogical Institute in 1977, became a teacher, and retired from gymnastic competition thereafter. She married Leonid Bortkevich, who was a member of Belarusian folk band Pesniary. The couple had a son, Richard, born in 1979. In 1988 Korbut was the first gymnast to be inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.

Who is Olga Korbut Dating?

According to our records, Olga Korbut married to Leonid Bortkevich , Alex Voinich. As of December 1, 2023, Olga Korbut’s is not dating anyone.

At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Soviet coaches and officials had designated Korbut as the woman who could beat the Romanian prodigy, Nadia Comăneci, but Korbut was injured and her performances in the games were sub-par. She was overshadowed not only by Comăneci, but also by her own teammate Nellie Kim. She did collect a team gold medal, and an individual silver medal for the balance beam.

Facts & Trivia

Olga Ranked on the list of most popular Gymnast. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Belarus. Olga Korbut celebrates birthday on May 16 of every year.

While Korbut retired from gymnastics in 1977 at the age of 22, which was considered young for gymnasts of the period, Korbut’s influence and legacy in gymnastics was 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 popular opinion of gymnastics from a niche sport to one of the most popular sports in the world.

What happened to gymnast Olga Korbut?

Korbut lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. She now works with private gymnastics pupils and does motivational speaking.

Did Olga Korbut get a 10?

Olga Korbut never scored a Perfect 10 in her career. Olga Korbut is best known for the 1972 Olympics, Nadia is best known for the 1976 Olympics. Both gymnasts achieved incredible levels of fame, but they were famous in very different ways.

Why is Korbut flip forbidden?

Korbut Flip Standing on the bar is now banned in the Code of Points because it disrupts the flow of the routine, but Korbut performed this skill many times before the ban, including in the 1972 Olympics.

What is Olga Korbut known for?

At the meet she became the first gymnast to perform a backward aerial somersault on the balance beam and the first to do a backward release on the uneven parallel bars; the moves became known as the Korbut salto and the Korbut flip, respectively. In the 1970 meet she won a gold medal in the vault.

What is Nadia Comaneci doing now?

Comaneci lives in Norman, Oklahoma with her husband Bart Conner. The couple own and operate the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy, which trains more than 1,000 students. Comaneci has also opened a gymnastics school in Romania.

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