Olga Vladimirovna Strazheva (russian: Ольга Владимировна Стражева; uk, Ольга Володимирівна Стражева; born 12 November 1972) is a retired gymnast from Ukraine who won world and Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union. She competed at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

. In the optional team final, she suffered a torn ACL on the balance beam and therefore was unable to compete on the final event, floor exercise, or attend the gold medal ceremony. She won another gold with the Soviet team at the

1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 25th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Stuttgart, West Germany, in 1989 from October 14 to October 22. The scoring rule ''New Life'' was introduced. This meant that gymnasts' scores were not carried over to the all-around ...

, along with two individual bronze medals. The same year she collected two more individual medals at the European championships. She is the first female gymnast to perform a double frontal salto on the floor. She retired in 1990 due to injuries and later joined a circus company in Germany, where she performed together with her daughter Anna, a rhythmic gymnast. She married twice, second time in 2008 to Ivan Vanyuk, a colleague from the university where she teaches physical education.

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1972 births Living people Soviet female artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts of the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in gymnastics Sportspeople from Zaporizhzhia Ukrainian female artistic gymnasts Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships {{Ukraine-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub