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Few athletes in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) ever won as many medals as Ludmilla Turischeva. But for a gymnast who found so much success, one of the best known aspects of her career is how her status as the top gymnast in the world came to an end.

Turischeva was defeated by Nadia Comaneci and Nellie Kim at the 1975 European Championships in a competition that would go down as one of the most historic moments in WAG history.

Ludmilla Turischeva hadn’t just been defeated at the 1975 European Championships, by Turischeva standards she had been obliterated.

In 1974 Turischeva recorded a sweep (winning a medal on every event) at the 1974 World Championships. To put into context as to how rare that is, only Elena Shushunova (1987), Daniela Silivas (1988), and Simone Biles (2018) have done it since 1975.

The gymnast who had won a gold medal on every event at the last European Championships in 1973 would win only a lone bronze medal at the 1975 European Championships.

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