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Oksana Chusovitina has competed for Unified Team Oksana Chusovitina has competed for Germany Oksana Chusovitina has competed for Uzbekistan Oksana Chusovitina has won 1 gold medal at the Olympic Games Oksana Chusovitina has won 1 silver medal at the Olympic Games 

Oksana Chusovitina is a gymnast who has competed for the Unified Team, Germany, and Uzbekistan. She competed at every edition of the Summer Olympic Games between 1992 and 2020. She is the only gymnast and the fifth female Olympian to participate in eight consecutive editions, following Lesley Thompson, Josefa Idem, Nino Salukvadze, and Claudia Pechstein. She also joins her teammate Svetlana Boguinskaia as the only female gymnasts to represent three different banners at the Olympic Games. Spanning eight editions of her Olympic career, she won only two medals, a gold and a bronze.

Chusovitina started her Olympic career in 1992 as a member of the Unified Team in the women's artistic gymnastics. There, she and her teammates from the former Soviet republics shared their gold-medal triumph in the women's team all-around routine and placed seventh in the floor exercise final. She represented her native Uzbekistan in the next three editions of her career (1996 to 2004) but did not receive a single medal in any of her events contested. In 1997, she married two-time Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler Bakhodir Kurbanov and welcomed their son Alisher two years later.

When her son Alisher was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia in 2002, Chusovitina and her husband accepted an offer from the German gymnastics coaches to seek advanced medical treatment for their son. With the prize money earned from the gymnastics meets and the funds raised and donated by the members of the international gymnastics community, Chusovitina was able to secure treatment for Alisher at the University of Cologne hospital in Germany. While her son underwent leukemia treatment, she started competing with the German team as a gratitude for helping save her son's life and obtained a citizenship in 2006.

At her fifth Olympics in 2008, Chusovitina attained admirable results in her respective routines as a member of the German women's artistic gymnastics team. She placed ninth in the individual all-around final and ended her 16-year-old career medal drought with a silver behind the North Korean teen Hong Un-jong in the women's vault. She has continued to be a member of the German team for her remarkable sixth Olympic appearance four years later in London but left the Games again without a single medal, placing fifth on the vault. Contemplating on her retirement and coaching, Chusovitina switched back to competing for Uzbekistan in the succeeding Olympiads after London 2012 with a goal of winning an Olympic medal on her signature apparatus for her country. Ironically, she already claimed medals for the Unified Team and Germany but not for her home country.

Chusovitina returned to her seventh Olympics in 2016 and eighth in 2020 with a historic feat as the oldest and most experienced Olympic gymnast of all-time. Despite setting a new record, she failed to attain a single medal for her native country on the vault. She was also selected to carry the Uzbek flag during the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony with Bobo-Usmon Baturov.

Olympic Results[]

Year Event Result
1992 Women's individual all-around 30th
Women's team Gold
Women's floor 7th
Women's vault 14th
Women's uneven bars 77th
Women's balance beam 10th
1996 Women's individual all-around 10th
Women's floor 34th
Women's vault 20th
Women's uneven bars 29th
Women's balance beam 61st
2000 Women's individual all-around 45th
Women's floor 25th
Women's vault 23rd
Women's uneven bars 79th
Women's balance beam 59th
2004 Women's individual all-around 97th
Women's vault 81st
2008 Women's individual all-around 9th
Women's team 12th
Women's floor 30th
Women's vault Silver
Women's uneven bars 26th
Women's balance beam 43rd
2008 Women's team 9th
Women's vault 5th
Women's balance beam 31st
2016 Women's vault 7th
Women's balance beam 50th
2020 Women's vault 14th

1992[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Qualification 78.111
Final Did not advance
Team Final 395.666
(78.111)
Floor Qualification 19.837
Final 9.812
Vault Qualification 19.750
Final Did not advance
Uneven bars Qualification 18.849
Final Did not advance
Balance beam Qualification 19.675
Final Did not advance

1996[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Qualification 75.822
Final 38.743
Floor Qualification 19.174
Final Did not advance
Vault Qualification 19.274
Final Did not advance
Uneven bars Qualification 19.237
Final Did not advance
Balance beam Qualification 18.137
Final Did not advance

2000[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Qualification 36.450
Final Did not advance
Floor Qualification 9.475
Final Did not advance
Vault Qualification 1 9.375
Qualification 2 9.375
Final 1 Did not advance
Final 2
Uneven bars Qualification 8.450
Final Did not advance
Balance beam Qualification 9.150
Final Did not advance

2004[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Qualification 8.675
Final Did not advance
Vault Qualification 1 8.675
Qualification 2 8.925
Final 1 Did not advance
Final 2

2008[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Qualification 59.375
Final 60.125
Team Qualification 230.800
(59.375)
Final Did not advance
Floor Qualification 14.450
Final Did not advance
Vault Qualification 1 15.800
Qualification 2 15.250
Final 1 15.725
Final 2 15.425
Uneven bars Qualification 14.725
Final Did not advance
Balance beam Qualification 14.400
Final Did not advance

2012[]

Discipline Stage Score
Team Qualification 167.331
(28.733)
Final Did not advance
Vault Qualification 1 15.033
Qualification 2 14.583
Final 1 15.100
Final 2 14.466
Balance beam Qualification 13.700
Final Did not advance

2016[]

Discipline Stage Score
Vault Qualification 1 15.166
Qualification 2 14.833
Final 1 14.933
Final 2 14.733
Balance beam Qualification 13.300
Final Did not advance

2020[]

Discipline Stage Score
Vault Qualification 1 14.500
Qualification 2 13.833
Final 1 Did not advance
Final 2
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