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Hace 1 día · Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina won a record 18 medals across three Games (1956, 1960, 1964).
Hace 4 días · That was the first time a female swimmer had ever been the top medallist at a single Games, and the first time a female athlete had done so since Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina won six medals at ...
Hace 2 días · If Ledecky wins three gold medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics, she will pass former Soviet Union gymnast Larisa Latynina for the most golds by any woman in Olympic history.
Hace 2 días · Hablar del estadounidense es hablar del quinto máximo ganador de medallas en la historia de los Juegos Olímpicos, con un total de 10 (nueve de oro y una de plata), situándose tan sólo por detrás de Michael Phelps, Larisa Latynina, Paavo Nurmi y Mark Spitz, en ese orden; estos cuatro últimos también conquistaron nueve preseas doradas.
Hace 3 horas · If he wins two, Dressel would enter the stratosphere reached by only five Olympians in history: Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina, American sprinter and long jumper Carl Lewis, Finnish distance ...
Hace 1 día · 1956 – Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina, 21, makes her Olympic debut in Melbourne, winning gold in the all-around event. She went on to win 18 Olympic medals, a record only surpassed in 2012 by U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps. 1968 – Mexican athlete Enriqueta Basilio becomes the first woman to light the Olympic cauldron.
Hace 16 horas · Larisa Latynina, the first great Soviet gymnast, won her first Olympic all-around medal at age 22 and her second at 26; she became world champion in 1958 while pregnant. Věra Čáslavská of Czechoslovakia, who followed Latynina and became a two-time Olympic all-around champion, was 22 when she won her first Olympic gold medal.
