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yelena volchetskaya at the 1964 olympics sk vs hrodna grodno , belarus 52 kg lb on 1.55 m ftin on artistic gymnastics 4 december 1944 yelena volchetskaya 1964.jpg yelena volchetskaya

yelena volchetskaya

elena vladimirovna volchetskaya -lrb- ; born 4 december 1944 -rrb- is a retired artistic gymnast from belarus .
she competed at the 1964 summer olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a gold medal in the team all around competition .
individually her best results were fifth place in the vault and eighth all around .
during her career she won five national titles : three in the vault -lrb- 1961 , 1962 , 1965 -rrb- and two on the balance beam -lrb- 1963 , 1964 -rrb- .
in 1966 she broke her ankle .
the same year she married , changing her last name to tyunenkova , and next year gave birth to her first daughter , effectively retiring from sport .
in 1965 she graduated from an institute of pedagogy , and for some 30 years trained gymnasts in her native grodno .
she was the first coach of olga korbut , but after one and half years passed her to renald knysh , who previously raised volchetskaya .
between 1998 and 2006 she coached in minneapolis , united states , together with nikolai miligulo and olga gotsmanova .
in 2006 she returned to grodno to her 94-year-old mother and daughters tatyana and irina .
