Name the winners of (arguably) the second most impressive gymnastics award.
*This quiz only contains the Championships from 1981-present
At the 2021 World Championships, Russia competed as the Russian Gymnastics Federation, or RGF. In 2025, athletes from Russia and Belarus competed as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN).
I can't believe I missed Zamolodchikova, Liukin, and Lysenko. I took this one really cold. I was remembering that the Soviet who did the "Rites of Spring" routine won an AA medal at the 1989 Worlds, but I could not, for the life of me, remember her name (Strazheva). And I just could not get Lashchenova because of the spelling. Technically, your transliteration of "shch" in her last name, from its Russian character, is perfectly correct, but even among gymnastics fans, hardly anybody ever spells it that way because it is such an incomprehensible consonant to us. So, I learned something new (I know a little Russian, but have yet to perfectly master the alphabet). I got 62 of 76 right - okay, but not great.