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Svetlana Khorkina has competed for Russia Svetlana Khorkina has won 2 gold medals at the Olympic Games Svetlana Khorkina has won 4 silver medals at the Olympic Games Svetlana Khorkina has won 1 bronze medal at the Olympic Games

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 Silver
Women's floor 23rd
Women's vault 16th
Women's uneven bars Gold
Women's balance beam Q6
2000 Women's individual all-around 10th
Women's team Silver
Women's floor Silver
Women's vault Q3
Women's uneven bars Gold
Women's balance beam 12th
2004 Women's individual all-around Silver
Women's team Bronze
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
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