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Yelena Davydova
Russian-Canadian gymnast and gymnastics coach / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yelena Viktorovna Davydova (Russian: Еле́на Ви́кторовна Давы́дова; born 7 August 1961) is a Russian-Canadian gymnastics coach and judge who competed for the former Soviet Union. She was the women's artistic individual all-around champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She's the owner and head coach at Gemini Gymnastics, a gymnastics club in Oshawa, Ontario. In July 2012, Davydova was one of the coaches of the Canadian Women's Artistic Gymnastics Team. In 2016 Davydova was head floor judge at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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Alternative name(s) | Elena Davydova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1961-08-07) 7 August 1961 (age 63) Voronezh, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Saint Petersburg, Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residence | Oshawa, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior Elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In October 2016, she was elected a member of the International Gymnastics Federation's Women Technical Committee.[1]