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Bookmark or Share- Natalia Yurchenko on Simone Biles' feat: "I was dreaming about seeing it"Natalia Yurchenko on Simone Biles' feat: "I was dreaming about seeing it" The 1983 world champion and vault innovator explains how her eponymous element came to be and what Biles' double pike meant to her.
- Natalia Yurchenko - WikipediaNatalia Vladimirovna Yurchenko (Russian: Наталья Владимировна Юрченко) (born 26 January 1965) is a retired Soviet artistic gymnast, who won the women's all-around gold medal at the 1983 World Championships. Renowned for her innovative and daring gymnastics, she is best known as the originator of the Yurchenko vault ...
- How Simone Biles does Yurchenko double pike, the world's hardest vaultA Yurchenko, named for Soviet gymnast Natalia Yurchenko, is any vault in which a gymnast does a roundoff onto the takeoff board followed by a back handspring onto the table. What differentiates...
- Natalia Yurchenko | The International Gymnastics Hall of FamePrior to her triumph in Budapest, Yurchenko had dominated the 1982 World Cup in Zagreb, winning three golds—all-around, vault and balance beam—and the silver on uneven bars. Yurchenko regrets that she did not get to compete in an Olympic Games–the Soviet Union boycotted in 1984–but she won the team and vault golds at the 1984 Alternate ...
- Olympic Gymnastics: What is a Cheng? A Double-Twisting Yurchenko? - The ...The Yurchenko double pike is one of only two vaults in women’s gymnastics that involve two flips; the other is the Produnova (a handspring double front, named after Elena Produnova of Russia and...
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