Yelena Davydova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alternative name(s) | Elena Davydova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Voronezh, Soviet Union | 7 August 1961||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Saint Petersburg, Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residence | Oshawa, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior Elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yelena Viktorovna Davydova (Russian: Еле́на Ви́кторовна Давы́дова; born 7 August 1961) is a Russian-Canadian gymnastics coach and judge who competed for the former Soviet Union. She was the women's artistic individual all-around champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She's the owner and head coach at Gemini Gymnastics, a gymnastics club in Oshawa, Ontario. In July 2012, Davydova was one of the coaches of the Canadian Women's Artistic Gymnastics Team. In 2016 Davydova was head floor judge at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
In October 2016, she was elected a member of the International Gymnastics Federation's Women Technical Committee.[1]