Galina Urbanovich Explained

Galina Urbanovich
Fullname:Galina Napoleonovna Urbanovich
Birth Date:5 September 1917
Birth Place:Baku, Special Transcaucasian Committee
Discipline:WAG
Retired:1953

Galina Napoleonovna Urbanovich (Russian: Галина Наполеоновна Урбанович) (September 5, 1917 – May 8, 2011) was a Soviet Olympic gymnast. She won a gold and silver medal at the 1952 Helsinki games. She was seven times all-around gymnastics champion of the USSR. Her achievements earned her the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR award.[1] [2] She was from a Lithuanian family.

In 2016, she was elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.sportgymrus.ru/press/news/6035/default.aspx Urbanovich's death
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20170921051430/http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/109715 Like A Ballerina
  3. Web site: Galina Urbanovich .