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Maria Gorokhovskaya

Maria Gorokhovskaya was a Soviet gymnast who, at the 1952 Olympics, became the first woman to win 7 medals at one Olympics.

1921 to 20017 medals at the 1952 Olympics1952 Olympic all-around goldInternational gymnastics judging

Born: 17 October 1921, Yevpatoriya
Died: 22 July 2001, Tel Aviv
Occupation: artistic gymnast

Maria Gorokhovskaya was born in 1921 in Yevpatoriya

Maria Gorokhovskaya was born in 1921 in Yevpatoriya, in Crimea. She was Jewish.

In 1941 she finished her studies at a physical education college in Feodosia. During World War II she was evacuated from besieged Leningrad to Kazakhstan in a state of exhaustion.

Competing for Budivelnyk Kharkov, she won her first USSR title on the balance beam in 1948. At the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, the first Games for the Soviet Union, she won gold in the individual all-around and the team event. She also won silver in all 4 apparatus events and in the team exercise with portable apparatus.

At the 1954 World Championships in Rome she won team gold and bronze on floor, then retired. She worked as a judge, internationally from 1964, and as a lecturer.

In 1990 she emigrated to Israel, where she worked as a gymnastics coach. She died in Tel Aviv in 2001.