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The power of the letter 'K' - beautiful and mysterious gymnasts of the past

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The letter 'K' in the Russian Gymnastics Hall of Fame seems to include many intriguing gymnasts from the past.  Take a look.

Kuchinskaya, Korbut, Kim, Khorkina .... who's next?

A good excuse for a video fest, anyway, to celebrate the power of the 'K'.

Let's start with Natalia Kalinina's floor exercise from the event final of the 1990 Goodwill Games.  Notice Alexander Alexandrov in the background!



Nelli Kim, Floor exercise, event final, 1980 Olympics. She shows us what a ROUTINE really is!



Viktor Klimenko, 1970 World Championships - pommel horse



Vera Kolesnikova, 1985 Worlds Team Optionals, Floor exercise



Viktoria Komova, 2010 Youth Olympics qualification, floor exercise (yes, I'm cheating here; she isn't in the Hall of Fame yet but she should be included right next to her mother)



Olga Korbut, beam, 1972 Olympics (the saddest thing is, I can't find a complete video of her floor routine with good sound and video quality)



Igor Korobchinski, Floor final, 1989 World Championships



Yuri Korolev, 1983 University Games, floor exercise



Dina Kochetkova, 1994 World Championships, Floor event final - this was the first gold that the Russian women won at world level.



Nikolai Kryukov, Pommel Horse event final, 2003 world championships



Yevgenia Kuznetsova - 1998 Europeans, team final - beam (the same year she won the beam EF (in her home town, St Petersburg))



Yulia Kut, 1987 Chunichi Cup, floor exercise (so cute!)



Well, I think Yulia Kut's 1990 floor exercise (Olympic Cup) also merits inclusion here, just to show how she performed with more 'mature' choreography:



Natalia Kuchinskaya, 1968 Olympic Floor routine



I'm cheating here, as her name doesn't begin with a 'K' in Russian, but ...

Svetlana Khorkina, Floor, Team Finals, 2000 Olympics



Let's leave it there with the power of the mysterious letter 'K' -

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