Yelena Arkadyevna Naimushina (Russian: Елена Аркадьевна Наимушина; 19 November 1964 – 14 March 2017^[1]) was a Soviet gymnast.

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Yelena Naimushina

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Birth name	Yelena Arkadyevna Naimushina
Born	(1964-11-19)19 November 1964 Askiz, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Soviet Union
Died	14 March 2017(2017-03-14) (aged 52)
Height	1.45 m (4 ft 9 in)
Weight	40 kg (88 lb)
Sport
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Club	Dynamo Krasnoyarsk
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1980 Moscow Team World championships 1979 Fort Worth Team

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She competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal with the Soviet team.^[2] She won a silver team medal at the 1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.^[3]

Naimushina retired in 1981 and married Andris, a Latvian cyclist whom she met in 1980. For 15 years she lived in Latvia where she gave birth to sons Tom and Phillip and daughter Linda-Anna. They later divorced and Naimushina returned to Russia. Between 1990 and 1993 she performed in the sports show All Stars of Dynamo managed by Mikhail Voronin.^[3] She later married a second time, to gymnastics coach Sergey Grigoryev, and moved to Tula, Russia, where they trained children.^[4]

Naimushina died on March 14, 2017. Her former coach Valentin Shevchuk said the death was unexpected.^[5]