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Nellie Kim

1957 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nellie Kim has received more than 775,570 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Nellie Kim is the 17th most popular gymnast, the 13th most popular biography from Tajikistan (down from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Tadzhik Gymnast.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Nellie Kim ranks 17 out of 370Before her are Boris Shakhlin, Nikolai Andrianov, Leon Štukelj, Axel Ljung, Louis Zutter, and Paavo Aaltonen. After her are Takashi Ono, Mitsuo Tsukahara, Alfred Schwarzmann, Akinori Nakayama, Viktor Chukarin, and Yukio Endo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Nellie Kim ranks 111Before her are Goodluck Jonathan, Kenji Kawai, Hansi Müller, John Lee Ka-chiu, María Conchita Alonso, and Steve Lukather. After her are Peter Høeg, Glenn Hoddle, Irvine Welsh, Stephen Dillane, Oliver Hirschbiegel, and Nery Pumpido.

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In Tajikistan

Among people born in Tajikistan, Nellie Kim ranks 13 out of 35Before her are Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin (800), Oqil Oqilov (1944), Kokhir Rasulzoda (1959), Viktor Bout (1967), Qahhor Mahkamov (1932), and Vladimir Voinovich (1932). After her are Gulnazar Keldi (1945), Yuri Maslyukov (1937), Henri Weber (1944), Oleh Skrypka (1964), Iskandar Khatloni (1954), and Svetlana Kitova (1960).

Among GYMNASTS In Tajikistan

Among gymnasts born in Tajikistan, Nellie Kim ranks 1After her are Rustam Sharipov (1971).