Svetlana Khorkina is a gymnast who has competed for Russia. She competed at the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympic Games.
Khorkina is widely regarded as one of the most successful female gymnasts of all-time. She won a total of seven medals throughout her Olympic career, including two prestigious titles on the uneven bars.
Khorkina arrived at her first Olympics in 1996 as a top medal favorite in the women's artistic gymnastics. She contributed a combined compulsory and optional score of 77.648 to help the Russian women secure a runner-up spot behind their American rivals in the team all-around final. She fell on the uneven bars in the final rotation that plummeted her to fifteenth overall in the individual all-around final. Three days later, she redeemed from her all-around flop to capture her first uneven bars title.
Four years later in Sydney, Khorkina entered the individual all-around final with a top-seeded score but an unforeseen fall on the uneven bars and a denial to re-execute the vault routine relegated her to tenth overall. She also helped the Russians repeat a runner-up feat from Atlanta in the team all-around final. She finished second behind her teammate Elena Zamolodchikova on the floor exercise and successfully defended her title in the uneven bars, becoming the second gymnast in the event's history to attain the feat since Polina Astakhova in 1964. Khorkina also qualified for the vault final but relinquished her place to the eventual champion Zamolodchikova.
Khorkina served as the captain of the Russian women's gymnastics team when she returned to her third Olympics in 2004. She won a silver medal in the individual all-around, succumbing the title to the American teenager Carly Patterson by a tenth of a point. She contributed the highest mark across all four rotations to secure a bronze for the Russian women in the team all-around final. Khorkina sought her bid for a historic three-peat on the uneven bars after posting a top score from the prelims but she suddenly fell to last among the eight registered gymnasts after turning late on a pirouette and coming off the apparatus.
Shortly after the Olympics, Khorkina officially retired from competitive gymnastics.
Olympic Results[]
Year | Event | Result |
---|---|---|
1996 | Women's individual all-around | 15th |
Women's team | ||
Women's floor | 23rd | |
Women's vault | 16th | |
Women's uneven bars | ||
Women's balance beam | Q6 | |
2000 | Women's individual all-around | 10th |
Women's team | ||
Women's floor | ||
Women's vault | Q3 | |
Women's uneven bars | ||
Women's balance beam | 12th | |
2004 | Women's individual all-around | |
Women's team | ||
Women's floor | 15th | |
Women's vault | Q3 | |
Women's uneven bars | 8th | |
Women's balance beam | 27th |
1996[]
Discipline | Stage | Score |
---|---|---|
Individual all-around | Qualification | 77.648 |
Final | 38.455 | |
Team | Final | 388.404 (77.648) |
Floor | Qualification | 19.324 |
Final | Did not advance | |
Vault | Qualification | 19.350 |
Final | Did not advance | |
Uneven bars | Qualification | 19.662 |
Final | 9.850 | |
Balance beam | Qualification | 19.312 |
Final | Did not advance |
2000[]
Discipline | Stage | Score |
---|---|---|
Individual all-around | Qualification | 39.005 |
Final | 37.929 | |
Team | Qualification | 154.874 (39.005) |
Final | 154.403 (38.261) | |
Floor | Qualification | 9.762 |
Final | 9.812 | |
Vault | Qualification 1 | 9.712 |
Qualification 2 | 9.750 | |
Final 1 | Withdrew | |
Final 2 | ||
Uneven bars | Qualification | 9.850 |
Final | 9.862 | |
Balance beam | Qualification | 9.662 |
Final | Did not advance |
2004[]
Discipline | Stage | Score |
---|---|---|
Individual all-around | Qualification | 37.836 |
Final | 38.211 | |
Team | Qualification | 149.420 (37.836) |
Final | 113.235 (38.062) | |
Floor | Qualification | 9.437 |
Final | Did not advance | |
Vault | Qualification 1 | 9.512 |
Qualification 2 | 8.700 | |
Final 1 | Did not advance | |
Final 2 | ||
Uneven bars | Qualification | 9.750 |
Final | 8.925 | |
Balance beam | Qualification | 9.137 |
Final | Did not advance |