Thank you’s to Alar from The All-Around forum, and 80sgymfan from WWGym for unearthing these hidden treasures.
Shushunova from the 1982 Youth Games.
Showing a Tsuk 1/1 and a handspring front pike on vault. Interesting that she could pull off 3 different vaults from 3 different families over the course of her career.
Her bars are of particular interest to me because this was just prior to the time they started setting them further apart. It’s interesting to see how her routine changed from ’82 to ’88.
She does a Shaposhnikova to the high bar from a giant. Crazy shit.
Dismounting beam with a FULL-IN (and notice the very little preperation time).
And finally, floor, again dismounting with a full-in. On a floor that looks like little more than a wrestling mat.
Thanks to youtube user, GymnasticsHVMeets for the footage, who also has some rare footage of both Mostepanova and the lovely Natalia Illienko from the same meet
-Bronwyn
December 19th, 2011 at 1:54 am
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May 20th, 2011 at 7:05 am
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May 1st, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Miss you Ladies!
April 20th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
Don’t know if any other Stoi readers are having the same problem, but all the embedded Youtube videos are making it really slow! I’ve had to restart my browser 3 times then find the cached version of the site just so I could read it!
April 19th, 2011 at 9:30 pm
The Yurchenko has destroyed the event for women. Doing different style vaults used to be common. And the Cheng and Amanar style are NOT different (ask the men), they are both damned roundoffs.
April 21st, 2011 at 3:55 am
I agree. It’s racist, really.
April 19th, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Was her number ironed on to her leo? It’s not the typical pinned patch you see these days. Also, if gymnasts were doing full ins as a dismount from beam in the 80s, why do we see so few of them today?