tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327028885417240312.post2417927085493923679..comments2024-02-23T01:45:36.309-08:00Comments on Peter G. Shilston's Blog: Gymnastics: the Golden AgePeter G. Shilstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14738298407725174339noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327028885417240312.post-89731928387255880542012-05-29T06:20:38.850-07:002012-05-29T06:20:38.850-07:00Correcting my previous entry above, the blond woma...Correcting my previous entry above, the blond woman is choreographer Lidia Sokolova.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327028885417240312.post-17717438945502204262012-05-22T06:22:51.981-07:002012-05-22T06:22:51.981-07:00The blonde woman is one of the Soviet FX choreogra...The blonde woman is one of the Soviet FX choreographers...maybe Galina Savarina?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327028885417240312.post-29849905746449838892012-05-22T04:54:46.133-07:002012-05-22T04:54:46.133-07:00What lovely pictures - thank you so much for posti...What lovely pictures - thank you so much for posting them.<br />I think I can provide at least partial information for most of the gymnasts pictured, although others may be able to add more detail. <br /><br />From left to right :<br /><br />Natalia Shaposhnika - just inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame - coaches with her husband (ex Soviet gymnast) Pavel Sut in the USA.<br /><br />Tatiana Arzhannikova - I believe she is coaching in Israel<br /><br />Elena Davydova - coaching elite women in Canada and regularly seen at international competitions with the Canadian delegation<br /><br />Nelli Kim - head of the WTC of the FIG - I believe she lives in Minneapolis<br /><br />Natalia Ilienko - now married to a UK citizen and works as a coach or choreographer in the UK under her married name of Jarvis.<br /><br />Maria Filatova - married and coaching in Rochester, New York - has her own gym club, Kour Gymnastics (Kour is a contraction of her married name, Kourbatova)<br /><br />Behind Maria is Elena Naimushuna - I think Elena is still in Russia but I'm not sure<br /><br />Stella Zakharova still lives and works in Ukraine and has a competition named after her - she seems to be quite famous out there.<br /><br />I'm unsure who the lady is with them.<br /><br />It's sad in a way how many of them have had to leave their home countries to be able to make a living - it's also wonderful to see them all doing so well.<br /><br />Thank you again.Queen Elizabethhttp://www.rewritingrussiangymnastics.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com