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Nellie Kim
Sign in to saveAlso known as Nellie Vladimirovna Kim, Nelli Kim, Nellie V. Kim, N. V. Kim, Kim, Nellie Vladimirovna
Soviet-Russian artistic gymnast (born 1957)
Key facts
- Full name
- Nellie Vladimirovna Kim
- Born
- ( 1957-07-29 ) 29 July 1957 (age 68) , Shurab , Tajik SSR , Soviet Union
- Height
- 152 cm (5 ft 0 in)
- Discipline
- Women's artistic gymnastics
- Country represented
- Soviet Union
- Club
- Spartak Shymkent (Kazakhstan), Soviet Armed Forces sports society Minsk (Byelorussia)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Kim
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Shurab
- Occupation
- artistic gymnast
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Sport
- artistic gymnastics
- Country for sport
- Soviet Union
- Official website
- nelliekim.net
- Image
- 2018-10-15 Floor Victory ceremony (Apparatus Final Girls' Artistic Gymnastics) at 2018 Summer Youth Olympics by Sandro Halank–013.jpg
- Height
- 152
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- date of birth
- 1957-07-29
- name in native language
- Нелли Ким
- Commons category
- Nellie Kim
- ethnic group
- Koryo-saram
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Encyclopedic overview
Nellie Vladimirovna Kim (Russian: Нелли Владимировна Ким, also transliterated Nelli, born 29 July 1957) is a retired Soviet and Belarusian gymnast of Sakhalin Korean and Tatar descent who won three gold medals and a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She was the second woman in Olympic history to earn a perfect 10 score and the first woman to score it on the vault and on the floor exercise, rivaling Nadia Comăneci, Ludmilla Tourischeva, and other strong competitors of the 1970s.
Kim worked for a long time as a coach, training several national teams, and judged many major international competitions. As president of the Women's Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee, she coordinated the introduction of new rules in women's gymnastics, as provided by the new Code of Points, developed by the FIG in 2004–2005 and in effect since 2006. Her gymnastic appearances are remembered for "her strong feminine, temperamental and charismatic appeal".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nellie Kim” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.