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Galina Urbanovich
Full name	Galina Napoleonovna Urbanovich
Born	5 September 1917 Baku, Special Transcaucasian Committee
Died	8 May 2011(2011-05-08) (aged 93)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Soviet Union
Retired	1953
Medal record Olympic Games 1952 Helsinki Team competition 1952 Helsinki Team, portable apparatus

Galina Napoleonovna Urbanovich (Russian: Галина Наполеоновна Урбанович) (September 5, 1917 – May 8, 2011) was a Soviet Olympic gymnast. She won a gold and silver medal at the 1952 Helsinki games. She was seven times all-around gymnastics champion of the USSR. Her achievements earned her the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR award. She was from a Lithuanian family.

In 2016, she was elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

References

1. Urbanovich's death Archived 2012-03-24 at the Wayback Machine at sportgymrus.ru (Russian)
2. Like A Ballerina 2003 article at sovsport.ru (Russian)
3. "Galina Urbanovich".

External links

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Galina Urbanovich". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05.

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1928:  Netherlands 1936:  Germany 1948:  Czechoslovakia 1952:  Soviet Union 1956:  Soviet Union 1960:  Soviet Union 1964:  Soviet Union 1968:  Soviet Union 1972:  Soviet Union 1976:  Soviet Union 1980:  Soviet Union 1984:  Romania 1988:  Soviet Union 1992:  Unified Team 1996:  United States 2000:  Romania 2004:  Romania 2008:  China 2012:  United States 2016:  United States 2020:  ROC 2024:  United States
1952:  Soviet Union (URS), Nina Bocharova, Pelageya Danilova, Maria Gorokhovskaya, Ekaterina Kalinchuk, Galina Minaicheva, Galina Shamrai, Galina Urbanovich, Medea Jugeli

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