Female Professionals Famous Female Gymnasts
List of famous female gymnasts, listed by their level of prominence with photos when available. Featuring some of the best gymnasts on YouTube, this greatest female gymnasts list contains the most prominent and top females known for being gymnasts. You might also enjoy these fun facts about American gold medal winner Simone Biles and crazy stories from the Olympic Village. There are thousand of females working as gymnasts in the world, but this list highlights only the most notable ones. Historic gymnasts have worked hard to become the best that they can be, so if you're a female aspiring to be a gymnast then the people below should give you inspiration.
This list contains popular women of gymnastics, like Olga Korbut, Svetlana Khorkina, and more. Featuring gymnasts from the USA Olympics team, like McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman, you will recognize many of these names of girl gymnasts from the past and now.
While this isn't a list of all female gymnasts, it does answer the questions "Who are the most famous female gymnasts?" and "Who are the best female gymnasts?"
Anastasia Valeryevna "Nastia" Liukin is a retired Russian-American artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic individual all-around Champion, the 2005 and 2007 World Champion on the balance beam, and the 2005 World Champion on the uneven bars. She is also a four-time all-around U.S. National Champion, winning twice as a junior and twice as a senior. With nine World Championships medals, seven of them individual, Liukin is tied with Shannon Miller and Simone Biles for the second-highest tally of World Championship medals; Liukin also tied Miller's record as the American gymnast having won the most medals in a single non-boycotted Olympic Games. Liukin was a key member of the U.S. senior team. ...more on Wikipedia
Age: 28
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Also Ranked
#23 on The Best Female Athletes of All Time
#15 on The Smartest Professional Athletes
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Alicia Marie Quinn is a retired American artistic gymnast. Sacramone began gymnastics at the age of eight, started competing in the elite ranks in 2002 and joined the U.S. national team in 2003. At US National Championships from 2004 to 2008, she won twelve medals, including four golds on vault and two golds on floor exercise. At World Championships from 2005 to 2007, she won seven medals, including a floor exercise gold in 2005 and a team gold in 2007. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she won a team silver medal. ...more on Wikipedia
Age: 30
Birthplace: Winchester, Massachusetts, USA
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Shawn Machel Johnson is a retired American artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist and team, all-around and floor exercise silver medalist. Johnson became a member of the U.S. senior team in 2007. She is the 2007 individual all-around World Champion and 2007 World Champion on floor exercise. As well as being the 2007 U.S. Champion on balance beam and floor exercise, the 2008 U.S. Champion on floor exercise and silver medalist on balance beam, she is a three-time U.S. all-around Champion, winning once as a junior and twice as a senior. Johnson announced her retirement from gymnastics on June 3, 2012. In May 2009, Johnson was the winner of Dancing with the Stars – ...more on Wikipedia
Birthplace: Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Simone Arianne Biles is an American artistic gymnast. Biles is a two-time US National All-Around Champion, two-time World All-Around Champion, two-time World Floor Champion, the 2014 World Beam Champion, and a member of the gold-medal-winning US team at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Biles is also the first African-American to be World All-Around Champion. Despite being only two years into her senior career, she is already one of the most decorated gymnasts in US history. ...more on Wikipedia
Age: 19
Birthplace: Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Also Ranked
#41 on Overhyped Athletes Who Still Performed
#75 on The Best Female Celebrity Role Models
#23 on The All-Around Best Athletes of 2018
#1 on The Most Impressive Athletes at the Rio Olympics
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