CHUSOVITINA Oksana

Artistic Gymnastics

Date of Birth: 19 Jun 1975

Age: 46

Gender: Female

Olympic Scholarship

Height (m/ft): 1.53/5'0''

Place of birth: BUKHARA

Birth Country:

Uzbekistan

Place of residence : TASHKENT

Residence Country:

Uzbekistan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Artistic Gymnastics	Women's Vault

Schedule

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Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	BB	FX	UB	VT	AA	Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	50	-	-	7	-	-
2012	London, GBR	31	-	-	5	-	9
2008	Beijing, CHN	43	30	26	2	9	12
2004	Athens, GRE	-	-	-	23	97	-
2000	Sydney, NSW, AUS	59	25	79	24	45	-
1996	Atlanta, GA, USA	61	34	29	20	10	-
1992	Barcelona, ESP	11	7	77	14	47	1

World Championships

Year	Location	BB	FX	UB	VT	AA	Team
2019	Stuttgart, GER	122	166	145	12	87	-
2018	Doha, QAT	63	-	-	4	-	-
2017	Montreal, QC, CAN	-	-	-	5	-	-
2015	Glasgow, GBR	47	118	120	13	51	-
2013	Antwerp, BEL	-	-	-	5	-	-
2011	Tokyo, JPN	41	-	-	2	190	6
2010	Rotterdam, NED	42	-	-	-	184	14
2007	Stuttgart, GER	59	189	88	6	145	10
2006	Arhus, DEN	28	25	19	3	9	15
2005	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	12	-	22	2	56	-
2003	Anaheim, CA, USA	70	30	27	1	28	-
2002	Debrecen, HUN	8	6	30	3	-	-
2001	Ghent, BEL	12	19	65	2	19	-
1995	Sabae, JPN	17	24	30	6	19	16
1993	Birmingham, GBR	-	-	-	3	-	-
1992	Paris, FRA	-	-	-	3	-	-
1991	Indianapolis, IN, USA	-	1	-	2	-	1

Asian Games

Year	Location	BB	VT
2018	Indonesia	22	2

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017

Year	BB	FX	VT
2019/2020	1 x 8th	-	1 x 1st
2017/2018	1 x 3rd	1 x 8th	5 x 1st

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2019/2020	Vault	Doha, QAT	14.066
1	2017/2018	Vault	Doha, QAT	14.433
1	2017/2018	Vault	Baku, AZE	14.300
1	2017/2018	Vault	Cottbus, GER	14.283
1	2017/2018	Vault	Doha, QAT	14.166
1	2017/2018	Vault	Baku, AZE	14.333
2	2019/2020	Vault	Baku, AZE	14.450
2	2019/2020	Vault	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	14.200
3	2017/2018	Balance Beam	Baku, AZE	12.866
5	2019/2020	Vault	Doha, QAT	13.866
5	2019/2020	Vault	Cottbus, GER	14.279

Legend
BB - Balance Beam, FX - Floor Excercise, UB - Uneven Bars, VT - Vault, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Dogs, riding horses. (gazeta.uz, 11 Jun 2020; Athlete, 22 Sep 2019)

Occupation:

Coaching - Uzbek State University of Physical Education, Chirchiq, UZB

Husband Bakhodir Kurbanov, son Alisher [1999]

Languages spoken:

English, German, Russian

Svetlana Boginskaya [personal], BLR

Sporting relatives:

Her husband Bakhodir Kurbanov represented Uzbekistan in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games. (tokyo2020.org, 21 Feb 2021)

1987 for Soviet Union (sportcentric.com, 06 Oct 2013)

She was suffering from a foot and ankle injury at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Republic of Korea, and decided not to compete in the all-around competition. (ndtv.com, 25 Sep 2014; insidethegames.biz, 24 Sep 2014)

She had an operation on her shoulder in 2008 and required back surgery in January 2009. (gymmedia.de, 17 Jan 2009)

She tore her Achilles tendon at the 2008 Swiss Cup in Zurich, Switzerland. (intlgymnast.com, 02 Nov 2008)

She sustained a leg injury ahead of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, which meant she was only able to compete on vault. (Gymnastica, 27 Oct 2005)

She took up gymnastics at age seven in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. (Athlete, 22 Sep 2019; Asiad Daily, 26 Sep 2014)

She followed her older brother into the sport. "My mother did not want me to do gymnastics, she was worried about me all the time. I wanted to prove to her that I was not doing it in vain, and I think that eventually I succeeded in that." (gazeta.uz, 11 Jun 2020; Athlete, 22 Sep 2019)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (rsport.ria.ru, 12 Oct 2019)

She trains for three hours daily, except on Sunday. (gazeta.uz, 11 Jun 2020)

Philosophy:

"I never look back. Everything that has been has passed. I only live in the present. I like to look only forward." (argumenti.ru, 17 Jun 2020)

In 2020 she was named the Best Athlete of Decade [2011-2020] in Uzbekistan by the public vote held by the National Olympic Committee of Uzbekistan. (olympic.uz, 24 Aug 2020)

She was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in May 2017. (intlgymnast.com, 21 May 2017)

She holds the title of Honoured Athlete in Uzbekistan. (olympic.uz, 24 Aug 2020)

General Interest

General
OLYMPIC AMBITION
She hopes to compete at the Olympic Games for the eighth time at the 2020 Games in Tokyo, by which time she will be age 46. "I am taking it step-by-step to see how far physically my body will take me. Of course I want to do more, otherwise I would not be training." After the Games were moved back a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she vowed to carry on for another year. "I want to compete in Tokyo and retire." (tokyo2020.org, 03 Apr 2020; fig-gymnastics.com, 01 Jun 2017; intlgymnast.com, 21 May 2017)

CAREER
Born in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, she made her international debut for the Soviet Union. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, she represented the Commonwealth of Independent States [CIS] at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and later began competing for Uzbekistan. In 2002 her son Alisher was diagnosed with leukaemia, so her family moved to Germany where he could receive treatment. She obtained German citizenship in 2006, winning a silver medal for her adopted nation at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. She returned to compete for Uzbekistan in 2013, having been given special dispensation by the executive committee of the International Gymnastics Federation [FIG]. (heraldscotland.com, 16 Oct 2015; uznews.net, 06 Mar 2013)

FROM TEAMMATE TO COACH
She and her coach Svetlana Boginskaya were members of the gold medal-winning Unified team at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. (gazeta.uz, 07 Feb 2018; sports-reference.com, 28 Jul 1992)

ATHLETE REPRESENTATIVE
In October 2017 she was elected as the women's artistic gymnastics representative for the International Gymnastics Federation [FIG] Athletes' Commission. (gymnovosti.com, 06 Oct 2017)

Milestones

She became the first gymnast to have appeared at seven editions of the Olympic Games when she competed at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (SportsDeskOnline, 29 Jul 2018; fig-gymnastics.com, 01 Jun 2017; intlgymnast.com, 21 May 2017)

At age 43 years and 65 days she became the oldest athlete to have won a medal in artistic gymnastics at the Asian Games when she claimed silver on vault at the 2018 Games in Indonesia. (SportsDeskOnline, 24 Sep 2019)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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