Polina Grigorjevna ASTAKHOVA

(Поліна Григорівна Астахова)

Soviet Union (URS)

Date of birth

30 October 1936

Hometown

Kiev

Place of birth

Ukraine

Profession

 

Height

 

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Children

 

Weight

 

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Start gymnastics

1949

Gender

Female

Club

 

Nickname

 

Head coach

 

Spouse name

 

Favourite apparatus

 

 

World class in

 1958

First competition

 1956

Last competition

1967

 

Polina was born on October 30, 1936 in the Ukranian SSR.  During World War II. the family had to move several times, and ended up in the polar town of Severouralske.  There Polina was diagnosed with a form of tuberculosis.  Doctors recommended that she move to a warmer climate, and the family went to Donetsk.   At age 13, Polina began gymnastics.  She competed in three Olympic Games, and became a coach of the USSR women's team.  She lives in Kiev, in a small three-room apartment the Soviet government awarded her in 1960.

 

Year

Competition

Team

AA

Vault

Uneven Bars

Beam

Floor

1954

USSR Championships

-

28

-

-

-

-

1955

USSR Championships

-

20

-

-

-

-

1956

16. Olympic Games
USSR Championships 

1
-

17
3

-
-

-
3

-
-

-
3

1957

USSR Championships

-

13

-

-

-

-

1958

14. World Championships
USSR Championships 

1
-

7
3

-
3

3
2

-
4

-
3

1959

2. European Championships
USSR Championships 
USSR Cup

-
-
 

7
1
2

-
-
-

1
1
1

-
2
3

1
1
1

1960

17. Olympic Games
USSR Championships 
USSR Cup

1
-
-

3
4
1

6
-
-

1
1
-

-
2
-

2
1
-

1961

3. European Championships
USA-USSR Dual Meet 
USSR Championships 
USSR Cup

-
1
-
-

2
1
2
5

-
-
5
-

1
-
2
2

1
-
1
1

2
-
2
-

1962

15. World Championships
USSR Championships 
USSR Cup

1
-
-

8
3
4

-
-
-

4
2
-

-
5
-

4
3
-

1963

USSR Championships
USSR Cup

-
-

3
1

-
2

1
1

4
2

2
1

1964

18. Olympic Games
SWE-USSR Dual Meet 
USSR Championships 
USSR Cup

1
1
-
-

3
2
-
5

-
-
-
-

1
-
2
-

4
-
-
-

2
-
1
-

1965

USSR Championships
USSR Cup

-
-

2
1

-
-

-
-

3
-

-
-

1966

Tiflis Invitational
USSR Championships
USSR Cup 
USSR World Trials 
16. World Championships

-
-
-
-
2

3
3
8
3
13

-
-
-
-
-

-
-
-
-
5

-
6
-
-
-

-
4
-
-
-

1967

USSR Spartakiade
USSR Championships 

-
-

4
4

-
-

-
3

-
4

-
-

 

 Olympic Games 1960. Olympic Games 1964 UB podium: Makrai, Astakhova, Latinina

Video:

URS-JPN Dual Meet 1962

  

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