Our current heroine is Oksana Chusovitina
The National Olympic Committee continues the project "They will defend the honor of the country in Tokyo". This time we will tell you about the legend of Uzbek and world sports Oksana Chusovitina.
Oksana Alexandrovna Chusovitina was born on June 19, 1975 in Bukhara. The only gymnast in the history of gymnastics who took part in 7 Summer Olympics (1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016).
Gold medalist of the 1992 Olympic Games (Barcelona), silver medalist of the 2008 Olympic Games (Beijing), three-time world champion.
Since the age of eight, he has been engaged in sports. For many years, she was a student of Svetlana Kuznetsova and studied the secrets and subtleties of gymnastics. Since 1990, he has been a member of the national team of Uzbekistan.
The author of several complex elements on the support jump and on the free exercises of gymnastics. The winner of the Asian Games and the Asian Championship. She is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the only participant of seven Olympic Games in the history of gymnastics and the first active athlete in history to be inducted into the international "Hall of Fame" of gymnastics.
In October 2019, she won a license for the Olympic Games in Tokyo, taking part in the World Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart (Germany). The Tokyo Olympics will be the eighth for Oksana Chusovitina.
Oksana Alexandrovna was awarded the following state awards and titles during her activity:
1991: Honored Athlete of the former Soviet Union
1992: Honored Athlete of the Republic of Uzbekistan
State awards:
1996: the Order of " Dustlik”
2001: Order of "Mehnat Shukhrati"
2017: order of " El-yurt khurmati”
2020: honorary title of "Uzbekistan Iftikhori"
