Vera Kolesnikova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born |
Perlevka, Russian SSR, Soviet Union |
October 7, 1968 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residence | Voronezh, Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior International Elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years on national team | 1982-1988 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Spartak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Rima Aleksandrova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former coach(es) | Nikolai Vodianikh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1988 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Vera Kolesnikova (Russian: Вера Колесникова; born 7 October 1968 in Perlevka) is a former Soviet artistic gymnast. She was a member of the gold medal winning team at the 1985 World Championships. She was also the 1986 Goodwill Games all-around champion. Kolesnikova retired in 1988 after failing to make the Olympic team. In 1991, she married Russian gymnast, Alexander Komov. They had a son Alexander (known as Sasha), and their daughter Viktoria Komova is a two-time world champion and two-time silver medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics.