Svetlana Baitova

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Svetlana Baitova
Personal information
Born (1972-09-03) 3 September 1972 (age 51)
Mogilev, Soviet Union
Height 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Weight 39 kg (86 lb)
Sport
Sport Artistic gymnastics
Club Spartak Mogilev

Svetlana Nikolayevna Baitova (Russian: Светлана Николаевна Баитова; born 3 September 1972) is a retired Belarusian gymnast.

Career

Baitova competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a gold medal with the Soviet team. Individually, her best achievement was seventh place in the balance beam.[1] In 1988, she had not yet recovered from a hand fracture she received in 1987. Nevertheless, she was included to the team owing to her strong performance at the Olympic trials.[2]

She won another gold and a silver medal in the team competitions at the 1987 and 1989 World Championships;[3] in 1987, she finished fourth in the vault, uneven bars, and floor exercise event finals.[4]

Eponymous Skills

Vault: Round-off entry to a double twisting laid out salto (5.8); commonly referred to as a double-twisting Yurchenko (DTY)

Retirement

She retired in 1990 and since 1991 works as gymnastics coach in Mogilev. In 1990 she married and gave birth to son Alex, but remarried later.[2][4] In 2002 she was invited for coaching in Qatar on a five-year contract, but returned after 11 month because she could not stand hot weather.[2]

References

  1. Svetlana Baitova. sports-reference.com
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Бриллиантовая рука. Belarus Segodnya, №23 (24160), 6 February 2013
  3. БАИТОВА Светлана Николаевна (гимнатика спортивная). Belarusian Olympic Committee
  4. 4.0 4.1 Svetlana Baitova (URS). gymn.ca