World Olympic Gymnastics Academy

33°7′41″N 96°48′5″W / 33.12806°N 96.80139°W / 33.12806; -96.80139

WOGA
SportGymnastics
Founded1994
Based inFrisco, Texas[1]
OwnerYevgeny Marchenko, Valeri Liukin
Websitewoga.net

The World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA) is a two-facility gymnastics club located in Frisco and Plano.

In 1994, WOGA was established by Yevgeny Marchenko, a World Sports acrobatic champion who guided Carly Patterson to her gold medal, and Valeri Liukin, a Soviet Olympic winner from 1988 who later worked as coordinator for the USA Gymnastics women's national team.[2][3]

Edouard Larov, a former coach of Liukin and the USSR and Canadian national teams, also trained gymnasts at the club.[4]

In 2003, WOGA gymnasts Patterson and Hollie Vise won two individual medals and contributed to the first team gold for the United States at the World Championships.[5][6] In 2004, Patterson became the second American gymnast to become the women's Olympic all-around gymnastics champion, and the first American to do so in a non-boycotted Olympics.[7]

WOGA hosts an annual meet at the Comerica Center in Frisco, Texas,[8] which has competitions from level 1 to 10 and an international elite competition that has featured competitors such as Mira Boumejmajen, Marine Brevet, Madeline Gardiner, Laurie Hernandez, Katelyn Ohashi, and Jordyn Wieber.

  1. ^ "WOGA Gymnastics". WOGA Gymnastics. 2022-11-16. Retrieved 2022-12-03.
  2. ^ "World Olympic Gymnastics Academy – About Us". WOGA.
  3. ^ "Meet the Staff". WOGA. Retrieved 21 Jan 2016.
  4. ^ "Liukin". USAToday.
  5. ^ "37th World Championships Artistic Gymnastics". Gymnastics Results. August 24, 2003.
  6. ^ "Postell, Hatch, Patterson Added To World Championships Team". USA Gymnastics. August 5, 2003.
  7. ^ "SUMMER 2004 GAMES -- GYMNASTICS: WOMEN'S ALL-AROUND; 20 Years Later, the Next Mary Lou Takes Her Place". New York Times. August 20, 2004.
  8. ^ "Annual Events & Festivals". Visit Frisco. Retrieved 2021-12-18.