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Gymnastics At The 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's Uneven Bars
The women's uneven bars was a gymnastics event contested as part of the Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. Results Preliminary Each gymnast competed in both compulsory and optional exercises. The score for each was determined by a panel of five judges, with the top and bottom scores being dropped before the remaining three were averaged (and truncated to three decimal places). The two average scores were then summed. This score was also used in calculating both Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Women's individual all-around, individual all-around and Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Women's team competition, team scores. The top 6 advanced to the final for the apparatus, keeping half of their preliminary score to be added to their final score. Final References Sources * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Women's uneven bars Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics 1964 in wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polina Astakhova
Polina Ghrighorievna Astakhova (Полина Григорьевна Астахова, 30 October 1936 – 5 August 2005) was a Soviet and Ukrainian artistic gymnast. She won ten medals at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics. Biography Astakhova became interested in artistic gymnastics at age 13, after she had watched the gymnastics championships in Donetsk, where their family moved a short time before. She trained in the local gymnastics sports club Shakhtyor under Vladimir Alieksandrovitch Smirnov. Astakhova earned a nickname ''The Russian Birch'' in Western countries for her exceptional grace, and at the 1960 Olympics she was even called ''Madonna'' by the Italian journalists. Between 1956 and 1966 Astakhova was on top of many international and national competitions especially on the uneven bars apparatus event. She was a member of the USSR team between 1955 and 1968. In 1954 Astakhova competed in the USSR Championships for the first time and in a year she made the USSR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |