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Marina Lobach

Marina Lobatch
Full name Marina Vikentyevna Lobatch
Country represented  Soviet Union
Born (1970-06-26) June 26, 1970 (age 47)
Smalyavichy, Belarussian SSR, Soviet Union
Residence Minsk, Belarus.
Discipline Rhythmic gymnastics
Head coach(es) Irina Leparskaya

Marina Vikentyevna Lobatch (Belarusian: Марына Вікенцьеўна Лобач; Russian: Марина Викентьевна Лобач) (born 26 June 1970 in Smalyavichy, Belarus) is a former Soviet Individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 1988 Olympic champion, 1987 World gold medalist in hoop and 1988 European gold medalist in rope and ribbon.

She currently lives in Minsk with her husband, Dmitry Bogdanov, and their daughters, Irina and Nadya.

Lobatch started the sport in 1977 at age 7. Lobatch would be among leading Soviet gymnasts of the 1980s (along with Tatiana Druchinina, Galina Beloglazova, and Dalia Kutkaitė); she had won the gold in the hoop competition and won bronze in the rope and clubs competitions during the 1987 World Championships. Yet at the all-around event she found herself again behind two Bulgarian gymnasts placing her in 4th (tied with teammate Anna Kotchneva). In 1988 Lobatch finished 4th at the European Championships.

Her biggest success was during the 1988 Seoul Olympics. She had received perfect tens on all of her routines during the qualifying and final rounds of the all-around competition. Her competitors had also received perfect scores during the finals, but had not received perfect scores in the qualifying round (the qualifying scores were divided by two and added onto the final round scores). Their final scores were very close, with Lobatch receiving 60.000, Adriana Dunavska receiving 59.950, and Olexandra Tymoshenko receiving 59.875.


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