Tamara Manina (USSR)

1956 Olympic V and B Silver Medalist
1958 World AA Bronze Medalist

Medal Total

Olympic Games:  2 Gold, 3 Silver
World Championships:  2 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze

Tamara was born on September 16, 1934 in Petrozavodsk and was raised in Leningrad.  She and her family were evacuated to Tashkent in late 1941, during the blockade.  They returned to Leningrad in 1944 and Tamara began gymnastics at a pioneers' palace.   In 1953 she won the USSR junior championships and was invited to become a member of the senior national team.  Tamara was a member of the 1956 and 1964 Soviet Olympic teams (a knee injury that happened two days before the team was to leave for Rome prevented her from competing at the 1960 Rome Olympics).  Her career ended at an exhibition in Vienna, where she sustained another serious injury to her knee.    

A 1965 graduate of the Leningrad Institute of  Exact Mechanics and Optics, Tamara entered the prestigious Lesgaft Institute in 1966 and received her master's degree in 1969.  From 1969 to 1975 she taught at the Institute of Physical Culture, and then worked in France for a year as the coach of the national team.  She is married to Valery Lutkov, a sports medicine doctor.  Their son, Valery, was a good tennis player who attained a master of sports rating.

Competition Results

1953
1st Intl. Youth Games:  3rd V
Jr. USSR Championships:  1st AA

1955
USSR Cup:  3rd AA
Warsaw International: 1st Team, 3rd AA

1956
Liberation Day International: 2nd AA
Olympic Games:  1st Team, 6th AA, 2nd V, 2nd B
USSR Championships:  1st AA, 1st B, 2nd FX, 5th V
USSR Cup:  3rd AA, 1st B, 1st FX

1957
Moscow Summer Sports Games: 1st Team, 3rd AA
USSR Championships:  4th AA
USSR Cup:  1st AA, 1st B, 2nd FX

1958
USSR Championships:  4th AA
World Championships:  1st Team, 3rd AA, 2nd V, 4th B, 5th UB, 5th FX

1959
USSR Cup:  1st AA, 1st B, 2nd V, 5th FX, 6th UB

1961
USSR Cup:  2nd AA, 4th V, 4th B, 5th FX

1962
USSR Cup:  6th AA
World Championships:  1st Team, 5th AA, 3rd V

1963
USSR Championships:  4th AA, 1st V, 5th FX, 6th UB
USSR Cup:  3rd AA, 1st B, 2nd FX, 3rd UB

1964
Olympic Games:  1st Team, 14th AA, 2nd B
USSR Championships:  4th AA
USSR Cup:  4th AA, 2nd FX, 3rd B, 4th V

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