Oksana Chusovitina

Oksana Aleksandrovna Chusovitina is an eight-time Olympic gymnast who has competed for the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan, and Germany.

Chusovitina's career as an elite gymnast has spanned more than a quarter century. She won the USSR Junior Nationals in 1988 and began competing at the international level in 1989, before many of her current rivals were even born. She is the only female gymnast ever to compete in eight Olympic Games, and is one of only two female gymnasts to compete at the Olympics under three different national teams: the Unified Team in 1992; Uzbekistan in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2016 and 2020; and Germany in 2008 and 2012. Chusovitina has also competed in 16 World Championships, four Asian Games and three Goodwill Games. Chusovitina holds the record for the most individual world championships medals on a single event (nine, on the vault).

Chusovitina is a part of a small group of gymnasts, along with Cuban Leyanet Gonzalez, Soviet Larisa Latynina, Dutch Suzanne Harmes, Russian Aliya Mustafina, Turkish Göksu Üçtaş Şanlı, Pole Marta Pihan-Kulesza and Icelander Irina Sazonova, to return to international competition after becoming a mother.