Pelageya Danilova

Pelageya Danilova

Personal information
Born	4 May 1918 Boroviki, Pskov Oblast, Soviet Russia
Died	31 July 2001(2001-07-31) (aged 83) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Sport
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Club	Burevestnik Leningrad
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1952 Helsinki Team allround 1952 Helsinki Team portable apparatus World Championships 1954 Rome Team allround

Pelageya Aleksandrovna Danilova (Russian: Пелаге́я Алекса́ндровна Дани́лова; 4 May 1918 – 31 July 2001) was a Russian artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics, finishing within top 12 in all artistic gymnastics events, and winning one gold and one silver medal.^[1][2]

After marriage she changed her last name to Demirdzhiyan (Russian: Демирджиян).^[1] In 1953 she graduated from the Institute of Physical Education in Saint Petersburg and after retirement worked as a gymnastics coach, first with Burevestnik and then as a head coach of Lokomotiv.^[3] In the 1970s she worked with the national team of Bulgaria.^[4]

References

External links

• Pelageya Danilova's grave (in Russian)

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Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Women's Team All-Around

• 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

1952:  Soviet Union (URS), Nina Bocharova, Pelageya Danilova, Maria Gorokhovskaya, Ekaterina Kalinchuk, Galina Minaicheva, Galina Shamrai, Galina Urbanovich, Medea Jugeli

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