The Most Famous
GYMNASTS from Tajikistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Tadzhik Gymnasts. The pantheon dataset contains 370 Gymnasts, 1 of which were born in Tajikistan. This makes Tajikistan the birth place of the 29th most number of Gymnasts behind United Kingdom, and Ireland.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Tadzhik Gymnasts of all time. This list of famous Tadzhik Gymnasts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Nellie Kim (b. 1957)
With an HPI of 53.53, Nellie Kim is the most famous Tadzhik Gymnast. Her biography has been translated into 41 different languages on wikipedia.
Nellie Vladimirovna Kim (Russian: Нелли Владимировна Ким; born 29 July 1957) is a retired Soviet and Belarusian gymnast of Sakhalin Korean and Tatar descent who won three gold medals and a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She was the second woman in Olympic history to earn a perfect 10 score and the first woman to score it on the vault and on the floor exercise, rivaling Nadia Comăneci, Ludmilla Tourischeva, and other strong competitors of the 1970s. Kim worked for a long time as a coach, training several national teams, and judged many major international competitions. As president of the Women's Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee, she coordinated the introduction of new rules in women's gymnastics, as provided by the new Code of Points, developed by the FIG in 2004–2005 and in effect since 2006. Her gymnastic appearances are remembered for "her strong feminine, temperamental and charismatic appeal".
2. Rustam Sharipov (b. 1971)
With an HPI of 34.31, Rustam Sharipov is the 2nd most famous Tadzhik Gymnast. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Rustam Sharipov (born 2 June 1971) is a Ukrainian gymnast and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, representing Ukraine, and also a gold medal for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Rustam was born in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR. He became an assistant coach for the Men's Gymnastics team at the University of Oklahoma. In May 2011 he accepted the head coach position at The Ohio State University. He was inducted to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2024 alongside Carly Patterson, Julianne McNamara, and Josef Stalder.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Tadzhik gymnasts born between 1957 and 1971. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Tadzhik gymnasts include Nellie Kim, and Rustam Sharipov. As of April 2024, 1 new Tadzhik gymnasts have been added to Pantheon including Rustam Sharipov.
