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]