1976 Soviet Pre Olympic Gymnastics Competition

Footage from the 1976 USSR Pre-Olympic competition (similar to an Olympic Trials). Includes: Olga Korbut, Ludmilla Tourischeva, Nelli Kim and Maria Filatova.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• gymnastics
• gymnast
• ussr
• olympic
• trials
• 1976
• montreal
• olga
• korbut
• ludmilla
• tourischeva
• nellie
• kim
• maria
• filatova

[Elemarth]

Are we expected to understand Russian or something?

[MostepanovaFan]

@Elemarth You could enjoy the pictures. Or you could let people who can speak Russian enjoy it.

[faeryquene]

This is awesome! Thanks for posting! I believe Olga Korbut won the Pre-Olympic event but I'm not sure. Or maybe it was Nelli? I think Olga won it in '72.

[sidthesquid74]

I'm retracting my last message. I should have read the info at the top!!!

[sidthesquid74]

2:57 onwards. Was that Olga Korbut? I only ask because of the way her hair is :0)

[grifffinity]

@TheCouchGymnast Me too!  Every routine was different and there was more originality. Each season you saw about 10 original moves on bars.

[alexzjay]

Thank you..!! I love these clips.

[mishmash151]

@TheCouchGymnast completely agree, I love those bars routines...

Thanks for posting

[TheCouchGymnast]

truly awesome clip. oh i hate to harp on, but god i love bars back then!

[Paraiah]

How cool! This is a really interesting clip.

[LiveBreatheLoveGym]

loved this! thanks for putting it up!

[Elemarth]

I was thinking that music might have been a better background for it.

Maybe someone who speaks Russian can translate!