Marina Lobatch

Marina Lobatch
Country represented	Soviet Union
Born	June 26, 1970 (1970-06-26) (age 41) Smalyavichy
Discipline	Rhythmic gymnastics
Medal record Olympic Games Gold 1988 Seoul All-around World Championships Gold 1987 Varna Hoop Silver 1985 Valladolid Rope Bronze 1987 Varna Rope Bronze 1987 Varna Clubs European Championships Gold 1988 Helsinki Rope Gold 1988 Helsinki Ribbon Bronze 1986 Florence Rope Bronze 1988 Helsinki Clubs

Marina Vikentyevna Lobatch (Russian: Марина Викентьевна Лобач) (born 26 June 1970 in Smalyavichy, Belarus) was a Soviet Individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She currently lives in Minsk with her husband, Dmitry Bogdanov, and their daughter, Irina, Where she is a coach and judge for the Belarusian Gymnastics Federation. She has been awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples.

Marina started the sport in 1977 at age 7. She had won the gold in the hoop competition and won bronze in the rope and clubs competitions during the 1987 World Championships.

Her biggest success was during the 1988 Seoul Olympics. She had received perfect ten's on all of her routines during the qualifying and final rounds of the all-around competition. Her competitors had also received perfect scores during the finals, but had not received perfect scores in the qualifying round (qualifying scores were divided by two and added onto the final round scores). Their final scores were very close, with Lobatch receiving 60.000, Adriana Dunavska receiving 59.950, and Alexandra Timoshenko receiving 59.975. She is the youngest Olympic Champion in rhythmic gymnastic with 18 years, 3 months and 6 days. Marina retired in 1989 at the age of 19.

In 1993, she went to Lamezia Terme, Italy to prepare her gymnasts, Larissa Lukyanenko and Tatiana Ogryzko for the Italia Serie A. It was in Lamezia Terme that they trained for a little while, and they competed for the local club Gascal in the Serie A. Marina returned to Belarus in April 1994. In 1998 Marina was invited to Italy by the Gascal club, with her family she spent several weeks there.

External links

• Marina Lobatch at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique

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Name	Lobatch, Marina
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Date of birth	26 June 1970
Place of birth	Smalyavichy
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