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Maria Gorokhovskaya

Maria Gorokhovskaya
Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian-Israeli gymnast (d. 2001)

Maria Kondratyevna Gorokhovskaya was a Soviet gymnast of Jewish descent. At the 1952 Summer Olympics, she was the first woman to win seven medals at one Olympics. That is the highest number of medals won by a woman in a single Olympics, which is an achievement shared by only one other female athlete, the Australian swimmer Emma McKeon, who achieved that at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in 2021.

17 October 1921

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