Yelena Naimushina

Yelena Arkadyevna Naimushina (Russian: Елена Аркадьевна Наимушина; 19 November 1964 – 15 March 2017) was a Russian gymnast. She competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a gold medal with the Soviet team. Individually her best achievement was fifth place in the floor exercise. She won a silver team medal at the 1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

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. Between 1990 and 1993 she performed in the sports show All Stars of Dynamo managed by Mikhail Voronin. She later married second time, to gymnastics coach Sergey Grigoryev, and moved to Tula, Russia, where they trained children.