Oksana Chusovitina

Chusovitina is, to me, less an athlete than a force of nature. A career spanning more than three decades in a sport that usually discards its stars by their early twenties is almost incomprehensible, and her willingness to keep competing well past convention reflects a rare blend of motherly devotion and competitive stubbornness. I admire that she carried three different flags across her life without ever seeming to lose her own identity. Her 2017 Hall of Fame induction feels less like a finish line and more like an acknowledgment that the rest of us simply ran out of patience watching her defy time.

Name (English)

Oksana Chusovitina

Name (Japanese)

オクサナ・チュソビチナ

Reading

おくさな・ちゅそびちな

Born

June 19, 1975 (age 51)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rabbit

Origin

Bukhara, Bukhara Region, Uzbekistan

Height

153 cm

Occupation

artistic gymnast

Awards & achievements

• Silbernes Lorbeerblatt
• Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR
• Order of El-yurt hurmati
• "Mehnat shuhrati" order
• Order of Friendship
• The Pride of Uzbekistan
• Honored Athlete of Uzbekistan
• 2017 International Gymnastics Hall of Fame

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/oksana2016/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oksana%20Chusovitina
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B5%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%82%BD%E3%83%93%E3%83%81%E3%83%8A
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60557

Tags

• Bukhara Region
• artistic gymnast

Last updated

2026-06-21

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