Olga Bicherova

Olga Anatolyevna Bicherova (; born 26 October 1967 or 1966) is a retired Soviet gymnast, who won the women's all-around gold medal at the 1981 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

Career Bicherova began gymnastics at age 7, initially training at the CSKA Moscow sports school and later representing the Armed Forces sports society. Her first major success was at the 1980 Junior Friendship Tournament, where she won the team gold, all-around title and placed first on the vault. A year later, Bicherova won the team gold and all-around gold at the 1981 World Championships, starting a series of major international successes, which included the all-around title at both the 1982 World Cup and the 1983 European Championships. She didn't compete at the boycotted 1984 Summer Olympics and also missed the Friendship Games. Olga's youthful appearance at the 1981 Gymnastics Championship caused many to question her age (supposedly 15), and hence her eligibility to compete.

Bicherova was an Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. Due to an elbow injury, she retired from gymnastics in 1988 and worked as a coach for some time. She married fellow Soviet gymnast Valentin Mogilny.

Competitive history

YearEventTeamAAVTUBBBFX Junior 1978 Junior Prague-Moscow Dual Meet 1979 Junior Friendship Tournament 95 Junior GDR-USSR Dual Meet Junior USSR Championships Junior USSR Cup 5 1980 Junior Friendship Tournament Junior GDR-USSR Dual Meet 7 Junior USSR Championships TBS Cup Senior 1981 Chunichi Cup European Championships 23 4 Junior Friendship Tournament Moscow Championships Schoolchildren's Spartakiade 6 Tokyo Cup USSR Championships 4 4 World Championships 8 1982 Budapest Invitational World Cup Final USA-USSR Dual Meet 7 1983 European Championships USSR Cup 18 World Championships 5 1985 Summer Universiade USSR Championships 9 USSR Cup 10 1986 Leningrad International 6 USSR Championships 54 6 USSR Cup 5 USSR Spartakiade 4 6 1987 USA-USSR Dual Meet 8 1988 Champions All 10