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Also Known As the Prince of Gymnastics
Born September 8, 1963 (age 61) • Liuzhou • China
Awards And Honors Olympic Games
Bart Conner
Bart Conner
American gymnast
Nikolai Andrianov
Nikolai Andrianov
Soviet gymnast
Belarusian gymnast Vitaly Scherbo
Vitaly Scherbo
Belarusian athlete
Olympic gymnast Věra Čáslavská
Věra Čáslavská
Czech gymnast
Nadia Comăneci
Nadia Comăneci
Romanian gymnast
Olga Korbut at the Munich 1972 Olympic Games
Olga Korbut
Soviet gymnast
Katō Sawao
Katō Sawao
Japanese gymnast
Dmitri Bilozerchev
Russian athlete
Larisa Latynina at the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games
Larisa Latynina
Soviet athlete
Mary Lou Retton
Mary Lou Retton
American gymnast
“Father of gymnastics”
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
German educator
The most-decorated American gymnast
Simone Biles
American gymnast
Suni Lee on the balance beam at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Suni Lee
American gymnast
Kōhei Uchimura at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
Kōhei Uchimura
Japanese gymnast
Gymnastics champion Viktor Chukarin
Viktor Chukarin
Soviet athlete
Soviet gymnast Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin
Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin
Soviet athlete
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan
American basketball player
Ludmilla Tourischeva
Ludmilla Tourischeva
Soviet gymnast
Shilese Jones
Shilese Jones
American gymnast
Bela Karolyi
Romanian gymnastics coach

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