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Lyudmila Yegorova
Personal information
Born24 February 1931
Lomonosov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died21 May 2009 (aged 78)
Kaliningrad, Russia
Sport
SportArtistic gymnastics
ClubSKA Leningrad

Lyudmila Borisovna Yegorova (Russian: Людмила Борисовна Егорова; 24 February 1931 – 21 May 2009) was a Russian artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics, finishing within top 10 in all artistic gymnastics events, "except for uneven bars." She won a team all-around gold medal. And a bronze medal in the "now-defunct team portable apparatus exercise."

She won four national titles in acrobatics in 1950–1953, and was a runner up in the vault and "all-around in 1955 and 1956." She later graduated from the Institute of Physical Education in Saint Petersburg and worked as a gymnastics coach. At the time of her death she headed the Kaliningrad branch of Russian Athletes' Union.

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