The Most Famous
GYMNASTS from Tajikistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Tadzhik Gymnasts. The pantheon dataset contains 183 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 1
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 (1957 - )
With an HPI of 52.27, Nellie Kim is the most famous Tadzhik Gymnast. Her biography has been translated into 37 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".
Pantheon has 1 people classified as gymnasts born between 1957 and 1957. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living gymnasts include Nellie Kim.
