caption death_date death_place club birth_place weight height discipline birth_date image article_title name retired
zinaida voronina in 1967 17 march 2001 balashikha , moskva , russia dynamo moscow yoshkar-ola , russia 53 kg lb on 1.64 m ftin on wag 10 december 1947 zinaida voronina 1967.jpg zinaida voronina
 zinaida voronina 1972
zinaida voronina

zinaida voronina , born zinaida borisovna druzhinina -lrb- also druginina -rrb- , -lrb- ; 10 december 1947 in yoshkar-ola , mari assr -- 17 march 2001 -rrb- was a soviet gymnast who competed at the european , world , and olympic level from the mid-1960s to early 1970s .
voronina 's major debut came at the 1966 world championships in dortmund , germany .
there she won a bronze medal on the floor exercise , receiving the highest individual score of any gymnast at those games -lrb- 9.933 -rrb- .
she went on to win several individual medals over the next four years , most notably at the 1968 summer olympics where she won the individual all-around silver behind věra Čáslavská .
around the time of the 1968 games , she married olympic gymnast mikhail voronin .
shortly thereafter she gave birth to a son , dmitry , and came back to further successes at the 1970 world championships , among other games .
she attempted to make the soviet team for the 1972 olympics , but faced a strong competition and only placed 10th in the individual all-around at the national championships .
the same year she retired and started working as a gymnastics coach together with her husband .
saddled with her professional life and a difficult childhood -lrb- alcoholic mother , father she never met -rrb- she struggled with alcoholism .
in 1980 , she was divorced from her husband , who received custody of their son -lrb- he later became a competitive gymnast -rrb- .
she spent the remainder of her years working in a factory in balashikha , russia , dying in march 2001 at the age of 53 .
in 1969 , she was awarded the `` order of the badge of honor '' .
