Svetlana Khorkina

Russian former artistic gymnast Svetlana Khorkina was born on Friday 19th of January 1979 in Belgorod, Russian Federation. She competed at the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics, winning seven Olympic medals and twenty World Championship medals in total. Over her ten-year career, from 1994 to 2004, she medaled in every event at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She was the first gymnast to win three all-around titles at the World Championships and only the second female artistic gymnast ever, after Nadia Comăneci, to win three European All-Around titles. Many consider her one of the most successful female gymnasts of all time.

Outside competition, Khorkina gave birth to a son, Svyatoslav, in July 2005 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The father was later identified as businessman Kirill Shubsky, who was married to actress and film director Vera Glagoleva. In April 2011, she married Oleg Kochnev, and the couple had a son, Ivan, in October 2019. At 5'5" and 104 lbs, she has an average body type and blonde hair. Now 47 years old, she remains a prominent figure in gymnastics history.