Galina Urbanovich

Galina Napoleonovna Urbanovich (Russian: Галина Наполеоновна Урбанович) (September 5, 1917 – May 8, 2011) was a Soviet Olympic gymnast. She won a gold and silver medal at the 1952 Helsinki games. She was seven times all-around gymnastics champion of the USSR. Her achievements earned her the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR award.[1][2] She was from a Lithuanian family.

Galina Urbanovich
Full nameGalina Napoleonovna Urbanovich
Country represented Soviet Union
Born5 September 1917
Baku, Special Transcaucasian Committee
Died8 May 2011(2011-05-08) (aged 93)
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
Retired1953
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1952 HelsinkiTeam competition
Silver medal – second place1952 HelsinkiTeam, portable apparatus

In 2016, she was elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[3]

References
  1. Urbanovich's death Archived 2012-03-24 at the Wayback Machine at sportgymrus.ru (Russian)
  2. Like A Ballerina 2003 article at sovsport.ru (Russian)
  3. "Galina Urbanovich".


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