Olga Korbut

Olga Korbut did not just win medals, she changed what gymnastics could be. At 152 centimeters, the Sparrow from Minsk soared over Munich in 1972 and rewired how the world watched the sport, taking four golds and two silvers across two Games and becoming the inaugural inductee into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1988. People talk about the difficulty of her moves, but what fascinates me is the expressiveness, the way she could seize a crowd in an instant. Half a century on, the legend has not dimmed, and I find that staying power deeply moving.

Name (English)

Olga Korbut

Name (Japanese)

オルガ・コルブト

Reading

おるが・こるぶと

Born

May 16, 1955 (age 71)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Goat

Origin

Horadnia, Horadnia Region, Belarus

Height

152 cm

Occupation

artistic gymnast / actor

University

Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

Awards & achievements

• Order of the Badge of Honour
• Order of Friendship of Peoples
• Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR
• 1972 Associated Press Athlete of the Year
• honorary citizen of Grodno
• 1988 International Gymnastics Hall of Fame

• Official sitehttp://www.olgakorbut.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/OlgaKorbut1
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Korbut
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%96%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221575

Tags

• Horadnia Region
• artistic gymnast
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-18

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