1982 World Cup AA Champion /
1983 World AA Champion
Natalia Yurchenko
Gymnast, World Champion, Innovator, Elite Coach, Visionary...
About
Natalia Yurchenko is a former world champion gymnast and innovator of the famous “Yurchenko” vault. Today, Natalia is an elite gymnastics coach in Chicago, focused on training tomorrow’s world champions. Through her club coaching, competition series, and foundation, Natalia is committed to supporting aspiring athletes and helping them turn their convictions and aspirations into action.
Ventures
"Yurchenko is the synthesis between risk and beauty of composition, between tricks on the apparatus and expressive artistry."
1968 Olympian Larissa Petrik
Recent Press
The Greatest Team That Never Went to the Olympics (Part I) – An Old School Gymnastics Blog
At the 1983 World Championships in women’s artistic gymnastics (WAG), the Soviet Union won the gold medal in the team competition. What makes this particular result unique in the context of larger WAG history, is that not one member of the 1983 Soviet team is an Olympian.
