Olga Yurkina
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FullnameOlga Vyacheslavovna Yurkina
Alternative names
- Volha Viachaslavauna Yurkina
- Вольга Вячаславаўна Юркiна
Born21 September 1979
Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
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Ольга Вячеславовна Юркина | |||||||||||||||
| Full name | Olga Vyacheslavovna Yurkina | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 21 September 1979 Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||
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| Retired | c. 1996 | ||||||||||||||
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Olga Vyacheslavovna Yurkina (born 21 September 1979) is a Belarusian former artistic gymnast. She was a member of the Belarus women's national artistic gymnastics team and competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics,[1] as well as multiple World and European Championships in the 1990s.[2]
Yurkina competed at the 1994 International Gymnix and won the all-around.[3]
Yurkina competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Alongside teammates Elena Piskun, Alena Polozkova, Svetlana Boginskaya, Lyudmila Vityukova, Svetlana Tarasevich, and Tatyana Zharganova, the Belarusians placed sixth in the women's artistic team all-around, the highest finish in Belarusian history.[4]