Yelena Volchetskaya

Elena Vladimirovna Volchetskaya (Belarusian: Алена Уладзіміраўна Цюнянкова (Валчэцкая); Russian: Елена Владимировна Волчецкая; born 4 December 1944) is a Soviet and Belarusian retired artistic gymnast.She competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a gold medal in the team all around competition.[2] In 1965 she graduated from an institute of pedagogy,[3] and for some 30 years trained gymnasts in her native Grodno.She was the first coach of Olga Korbut, but after one and half years passed her to Renald Knysh, who previously raised Volchetskaya.Between 1998 and 2006 she coached in Minneapolis, United States, together with Nikolai Miligulo and Olga Gotsmanova.
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