fullname retired club birth_place headcoach level natlteam formercoach discipline birth_date gender residence article_title name altname
natalia grigoriyevna kalinina 1995 dynamo kherson kherson , ukrainian ssr , soviet union oleg and nadezhda ostapenko senior international elite 1987-1992 -lrb- ussr -rrb- 1993-1995 -lrb- ukr -rrb- viktor petrushkin and valentina batischeva wag 16 december 1973 f san mateo , california natalia kalinina
 natalia kalinina natasha
natalia kalinina

natalia grigoriyevna kalinina -lrb- , ; born 16 december 1973 in kherson -rrb- is a former artistic gymnast that competed for the soviet union and ukraine .
she was a member of the last soviet world championship team to win a gold medal in 1991 .
she was the 1990 european champion on the uneven bars .
at the 1990 goodwill games , she won a medal on every single event with 4 golds and 2 silvers , including the all-around gold medal .
she was not selected to compete for the unified team at the 1992 summer olympics .
she believes that politics would only allow three gymnasts to come from one republic , and there were already three gymnasts from ukraine selected .
