Elena (or Yelena) Mikhaylovna "Lena" Piskun ( be, Алена Піскун; russian: Елена Михайловна "Лена" Пискун ; born 2 February 1978)
sports-reference.com. Retrieved May 27, 2013. is a Belarusian former
artistic gymnast who won two
World Championship
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gold medals in the 1990s and competed at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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.
Personal life
Piskun was born in
Minsk
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, Belarus, in 1978.
Her father worked in a tire factory, and her mother was a bookkeeper. She has a younger brother, Viktor.
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Gymnastics
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She currently lives in the United States.
Career
Piskun started gymnastics at the age of six and was coached by Valery Kolodinsky during her career. The gym in her hometown of Bobruisk was small, so she traveled to Minsk to train before major competitions.
At the
1993 World Championships in
Birmingham
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, England, Piskun won the gold medal on
vault
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. In April 1994, she competed at the
Individual World Championships in
Brisbane
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, Australia, and finished fifth on vault with a score of 9.725 and fifth on
floor exercise
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with a score of 9.675. At the
World Championship Team Finals in
Dortmund, Germany, in November, Piskun helped the Belarus team to a sixth-place finish. At the
1995 World Championships in
Sabae
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, Japan, she was 10th in the all-around with a score of 38.53.
Piskun finished third on
balance beam
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and eighth on floor exercise at the
1996 European Championships.
In April, she competed at the
World Championships
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in
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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, and won a gold medal on
uneven bars
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with a score of 9.787. At that year's
Olympic Games
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in
Atlanta
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, Piskun helped Belarus finish sixth in the team competition, and she was also 12th in the individual all-around with a score of 38.649.
At the
1997 World Championships in
Lausanne
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, Switzerland, she finished 30th in the all-around with a score of 35.474.
"33rd World Championships Artistic Gymnastics"
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Piskun owns and coaches at Infinity Gymnastics in Alpharetta, Georgia
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History
In the 1830s, the C ...
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References
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1978 births
Living people
Belarusian female artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts of Belarus
World champion gymnasts
Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Gymnasts from Minsk
20th-century Belarusian women