Galina Minaicheva

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|12|29|df=y}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR

| death_date = {{death date and age|2025|1|28|1929|12|29|df=y}}

| death_place = Tbilisi, Georgia

| height = 1.58 m

| weight = {{convert|56|kg|lb|abbr=on}}

| sport = Artistic gymnastics

| club = Dynamo Moscow; Dynamo Tbilisi

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Galina Yakovlevna Minaicheva ({{langx|ru|Галина Яковлевна Минаичева}}; 29 December 1929 – 28 January 2025) was a Soviet artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics, finishing within the first 10 in all artistic gymnastics events, and winning one gold, one silver and one bronze medal.

Biography

Minaicheva married a Georgian man and moved to Tbilisi, changing her last name to Sharabidze ({{langx|ru|Шарабидзе}}). Under this name she won a team gold medal at the 1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. In 1957 she graduated from the Institute of Physical Education in Tbilisi and worked as a gymnastics coach.

Minaicheva died in Tbilisi, Georgia on 28 January 2025, at the age of 95.{{cite web |title=,,გალინა შარაბიძე (მინაიჩევა)" |url=https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1151859563607569&id=100063506085573 |website=United Georgian Gymnastics Federation on Facebook |access-date=5 February 2025}}{{cite web |title=გალინა მონიავა-შარაბიძე |url=http://www.nplg.gov.ge/bios/ka/00008201 |website=NPLG |access-date=5 February 2025}}

References

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[https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/29203 Galina Minaicheva] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220831170037/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/29203 |date=31 August 2022 }}. olympedia.org

[http://slovari.yandex.ru/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F%20%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0%20%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%20%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0/ Минаичева Галина Яковлевна]. Great Soviet Encyclopedia

[http://www.gymn-forum.net/Results/Worlds/Women/1954_aa.html 1954 World Championships]. gymn-forum.net

{{cite book|author=Е. А. Школьников|title=Динамо. Энциклопедия|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f1sFK-Zg5-AC&pg=PA111|year=2003|publisher=ОЛМА Медиа Групп|isbn=978-5-224-04399-6|page=111}}

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External links

[http://sportgymrus.ru/champions/minaicheva-sharabidze-galina-yakovlevna/ Biography of Galina Minaicheva] {{in lang|ru}}

Category:1929 births

Category:2025 deaths

Category:Gymnasts from Moscow

Category:Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Category:Olympic gymnasts for the Soviet Union

Category:Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union

Category:Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union

Category:Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union

Category:Olympic medalists in gymnastics

Category:Soviet female artistic gymnasts

Category:Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Category:Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships