Nellie Kim

Nellie Kim
— Gymnast —
Kim at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Nellie Vladimirovna Kim
Country represented	Soviet Union
Born	(1957-07-29) 29 July 1957 (age 59) Shurab, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union
Height	152 cm (5 ft 0 in)
Weight	47 kg (104 lb)
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Club	Spartak Shymkent (Kazakhstan) Soviet Army Minsk (Belarus)
Medal record Representing  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1976 Montreal Team 1976 Montreal Vault 1976 Montreal Floor 1980 Moscow Team 1980 Moscow Floor 1976 Montreal All-around World Championships 1974 Varna Team 1978 Strasbourg Team 1978 Strasbourg Vault 1978 Strasbourg Floor 1979 Fort Worth All-around 1978 Strasboug All-around 1979 Fort Worth Team 1979 Fort Worth Balance beam 1979 Fort Worth Floor 1974 Varna Balance beam 1979 Fort Worth Vault World Cup Final 1979 Tokyo All-around 1979 Tokyo Vault 1979 Tokyo Balance beam European Championships 1975 Skien Floor 1977 Prague Vault 1975 Skien All-around 1975 Skien Balance beam 1977 Prague Balance beam 1975 Skien Vault 1975 Skien Uneven bars 1977 Prague All-around 1977 Prague Floor

Nellie Vladimirovna Kim (Russian: Нелли Владимировна Ким; born 29 July 1957) is a retired Soviet gymnast who won three gold medals and a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. She was the second woman in Olympic history to earn a perfect 10 score and the first woman to score it on the vault and on the floor exercise, rivaling Nadia Comăneci, Ludmilla Tourischeva, and other strong competitors of the 1970s. Nellie Kim worked for a long time as a coach, training several national teams, and judged many major international competitions. As President of the Women's Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee, she coordinates the introduction of new rules in women's gymnastics, as provided by the new Code of Points, developed by the FIG in 2004–2005 and in effect since 2006. Her gymnastic appearances are remembered for "her strong feminine, temperamental and charismatic appeal".

Nellie Kim was born in Shurab, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union. She is the daughter of a Sakhalin Korean father, Vladimir Kim, and a Tatar mother, Alfiya Safina. Later the family moved to Kazakh SSR, where her father worked in the Chimkent slate factory. At age 9, she entered Chimkent City Children and Youth Sports School 3 of the Spartak Sports Society. Two other children in the family, her younger brother Alexander and her sister Irina, also entered a gymnastics school and trained for some time. Alexander was harassed by his classmates in the secondary school for his small stature and retired from gymnastics in favor of boxing. Irina, whom Nellie Kim considered more talented than she herself was, retired because of the demands of the frequent training sessions.

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