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Natalia Shaposhnikova Personal information Full name: Natalia Vitalyevna Shaposhnikova Country Represented:  Soviet Union Date of birth: June 24, 1961 (1961-06-24) (age 47) Discipline: Women's artistic gymnastics

Medal record Olympic Games Gold 1980 Moscow Team competition Gold 1980 Moscow Vault Bronze 1980 Moscow Balance beam Bronze 1980 Moscow Floor exercise World Championships Gold 1978 Strasbourg Team competition Silver 1979 Ft. Worth Team competition Bronze 1978 Strasbourg All-around European Championships Gold 1979 Copenhagen Balance beam Silver 1979 Copenhagen Floor exercise Bronze 1979 Copenhagen All-around Bronze 1979 Copenhagen Vault

Natalia Vitalyevna Shaposhnikova (Russian: Наталья Витальевна Шапошникова), (born June 24, 1961), married name Nataliya Sut, was a Soviet gymnast, two-time Olympic Champion, Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. She was born in Rostov on Don, Russian SFSR.

Shaposhnikova trained in Dynamo, Rostov on Don. Her trainer was the Honoured Trainer of the USSR Vladislav Rastorotsky, who had also trained her famous compatriots Ludmilla Tourischeva and Natalia Yurchenko. Shaposhnikova was one of the world's strongest gymnasts in the late 1970s and early 1980s, especially in the Vault Event.

Shaposhnikova invented a complex low-to-high bar transition element on the uneven bars; the skill is named after her in the Code of Points. The skill, sometimes referred to colloquially as the "Shaposh," is still widely performed today, it is credited as a D value element under the new Code of Points. During the 1990s, other gymnasts began to developed variations of the Shaposhnikova, these include Americans Kristen Maloney who had a toe-on swing before the transition to the high bar, and Amy Chow who performed a stalder circle entry before making the transition. Another variation on the skill is by three-time World All-around champion Svetlana Khorkina who would include a half turn during the transtion between the bars.

After retiring from the sport, Shaposhnikova and her husband Pavel Sut currently coach at Gymnastika in West Patterson, New Jersey.

Achievements (non-Olympic)

External links

• Natalia Shaposhnikova at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
• List of competitive results
• Whatever happened Natalia Shaposhnikova?
• Shaposhnikova Element - animated gif image

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