FACTOIDS
Full Name: Oksana Alexandrovna Chusovitina
Nickname: Oksana
Birthday: June 19, 1975
Height: 5’0”
Hometown: Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Sports: Gymnastics
PROFILE
In the Lilliputian world of women's gymnastics, Oksana Chusovitina may not literally stand tall but she does in any other way. Way back in 1991 she helped her then Soviet team to a gold medal and picked up another gold on floor. Then cast aside by many as a mere child acrobat, Chusovitina has matured into a young women with a style of her own. But the tricks are still there - all of them. And every time the gym world thinks she has reached her limit, she casually pulls another trick out of the hat.
Oksana Chosovitina is the 2003 Vault World Champion! Competing since years and years, she is the symbol of the feminine gymnastics. She competed for Ussr, for Uzbekistan, always with the same passion, the same will. Oksana is a Giant, a reference
