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Yelena Naimushina
Yelena Arkadyevna Naimushina (Russian: Елена Аркадьевна Наимушина; 19 November 1964 – 14 March 2017[1]) was a Soviet gymnast. CareerShe competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal with the Soviet team.[2] She won a silver team medal at the 1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.[3] Naimushina retired in 1981 and married Andris, a Latvian cyclist whom she met in 1980. For 15 years she lived in Latvia where she gave birth to sons Tom and Phillip and daughter Linda-Anna. They later divorced and Naimushina returned to Russia. Between 1990 and 1993 she performed in the sports show All Stars of Dynamo managed by Mikhail Voronin.[3] She later married a second time, to gymnastics coach Sergey Grigoryev, and moved to Tula, Russia, where they trained children.[4] Naimushina died on March 14, 2017. Her former coach Valentin Shevchuk said the death was unexpected.[5] References
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