International Gymnastics Hall of Fame facts for kids
The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame, located in Oklahoma City, USA, is a hall of fame dedicated to honoring the achievements and contributions of the world's greatest competitors, coaches and authorities in artistic gymnastics.
The early IGHOF was founded in 1972 by Frank Wells of the National Gymnastics Clinic. It had only one member, Olga Korbut, and disbanded in the late 1970s. The current museum was founded in 1986 by Glenn Sundby, publisher of the International Gymnast Magazine. Initially located in Oceanside, California, it was moved into Oklahoma City in 1997.
The Hall of Fame is housed inside the Science Museum Oklahoma, formerly called the Omniplex.
List of inductees
| Name | Country | Year inducted |
|---|---|---|
| Olga Korbut | Soviet Union | 1988 |
| Nadia Comăneci | Romania | 1993 |
| Masao Takemoto | Japan | 1997 |
| Leon Štukelj | Slovenia | 1997 |
| Cathy Rigby | United States | 1997 |
| Mary Lou Retton | United States | 1997 |
| Béla Károlyi | Romania | 1997 |
| Jack Günthard | Switzerland | 1997 |
| Arthur Gander | Switzerland | 1997 |
| Bart Conner | United States | 1997 |
| Peter Vidmar | United States | 1998 |
| Ludmilla Tourischeva | Soviet Union | 1998 |
| Takashi Ono | Japan | 1998 |
| Larisa Latynina | Soviet Union | 1998 |
| Savino Guglielmetti | Italy | 1998 |
| Věra Čáslavská | Czechoslovakia | 1998 |
| Yuri Titov | Soviet Union | 1999 |
| Eugen Mack | Switzerland | 1999 |
| Nellie Kim | Soviet Union | 1999 |
| Yukio Endo | Japan | 1999 |
| Miroslav Cerar | Slovenia | 1999 |
| Frank Bare Sr. | United States | 1999 |
| Haruhiro Yamashita | Japan | 2000 |
| Ecaterina Szabo (Katalin Szabó) | Romania | 2000 |
| Li Ning | China | 2000 |
| Maxi Gnauck | East Germany | 2000 |
| Teodora Ungureanu | Romania | 2001 |
| William Thoresson | Sweden | 2001 |
| Sawao Kato | Japan | 2001 |
| Bruno Grandi | Italy | 2001 |
| Lyubov Burda | Soviet Union | 2001 |
| Nikolai Andrianov | Soviet Union | 2001 |
| Berthe Villancher | France | 2002 |
| Daniela Silivaș | Romania | 2002 |
| Boris Shakhlin | Soviet Union | 2002 |
| Ágnes Keleti | Hungary | 2002 |
| Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda | Japan | 2002 |
| Polina Astakhova | Soviet Union | 2002 |
| Kurt Thomas | United States | 2003 |
| Franco Menichelli | Italy | 2003 |
| Karin Büttner-Janz | East Germany | 2003 |
| Dmitry Bilozerchev | Soviet Union | 2003 |
| Max Bangerter | Switzerland | 2003 |
| Yelena Shushunova | Soviet Union | 2004 |
| Heikki Savolainen | Finland | 2004 |
| Helena Rakoczy | Poland | 2004 |
| Takuji Hayata | Japan | 2004 |
| Alexander Dityatin | Soviet Union | 2004 |
| Erika Zuchold | East Germany | 2005 |
| Akinori Nakayama | Japan | 2005 |
| Valeri Liukin | Soviet Union | 2005 |
| Svetlana Boginskaya | Soviet Union | 2005 |
| Shannon Miller | United States | 2006 |
| Natalia Kuchinskaya | Soviet Union | 2006 |
| Eizo Kenmotsu | Japan | 2006 |
| Vladimir Artemov | Soviet Union | 2006 |
| Shigeru Kasamatsu | Japan | 2007 |
| Eberhard Gienger | Germany | 2007 |
| Yelena Davydova | Soviet Union | 2007 |
| Simona Amânar | Romania | 2007 |
| Ma Yanhong | China | 2008 |
| Shuji Tsurumi | Japan | 2008 |
| Lilia Podkopayeva | Ukraine | 2008 |
| Stoyan Deltchev | Bulgaria | 2008 |
| Vitaly Scherbo | Belarus | 2009 |
| Elvira Saadi | Uzbekistan | 2009 |
| Dominique Dawes | United States | 2009 |
| Viktor Chukarin | Ukraine | 2009 |
| Octavian Bellu | Romania | 2009 |
| Mikhail Voronin | Russia | 2010 |
| Yuri Korolev | Russia | 2010 |
| Henrietta Ónodi | Hungary | 2010 |
| Steffi Kräker | East Germany | 2011 |
| Leonid Arkayev | Russia | 2011 |
| Aleksandr Tkachyov | Russia | 2011 |
| Lavinia Miloșovici | Romania | 2011 |
| Natalia Shaposhnikova | Russia | 2012 |
| Kim Zmeskal | United States | 2012 |
| Zoltán Magyar | Hungary | 2012 |
| Gina Gogean | Romania | 2013 |
| Albert Azaryan | Armenia | 2013 |
| Natalia Yurchenko | Soviet Union | 2014 |
| Li Yuejiu | China | 2014 |
| Klaus Köste | East Germany | 2014 |
| Jackie Fie | United States | 2014 |
| Elena Zamolodchikova | Russia | 2015 |
| Valery Belenky | Azerbaijan, Soviet Union | 2015 |
| Ihor Korobchynskyi | Ukraine | 2016 |
| Tatiana Lysenko | Ukraine | 2016 |
| Jordan Jovtchev | Bulgaria | 2016 |
| Aurelia Dobre | Romania | 2016 |
| Alexei Nemov | Russia | 2017 |
| Alicia Sacramone | United States | 2017 |
| Oksana Chusovitina | Uzbekistan | 2017 |
| Shun Fujimoto | Japan | 2017 |
| Nastia Liukin | United States | 2018 |
| Andreea Răducan | Romania | 2018 |
| Paul Hamm | United States | 2018 |
| Ivan Ivankov | Belarus | 2019 |
| Li Xiaopeng | China | 2019 |
| Maria Filatova | Russia | 2019 |
| Shawn Johnson | United States | 2019 |
| Maria Gorokhovskaya | Soviet Union | 2021 |
| Margit Korondi | Hungary | 2021 |
| Tamara Manina | Soviet Union | 2021 |
| Olga Tass | Hungary | 2021 |
| Sofia Muratova | Soviet Union | 2021 |
| Yelena Mukhina | Soviet Union | 2021 |
| Tatiana Gutsu | Soviet Union, Ukraine | 2022 |
| Fabian Hambüchen | Germany | 2022 |
| Chellsie Memmel | United States | 2022 |
| Cătălina Ponor | Romania | 2022 |
| Mitch Gaylord | United States | 2023 |
| Kōji Gushiken | Japan | 2023 |
| Oksana Omelianchik | Ukraine | 2023 |
| Julianne McNamara | United States | 2024 |
| Carly Patterson | United States | 2024 |
| Rustam Sharipov | Ukraine | 2024 |
| Josef Stalder | Switzerland | 2024 |
See also
In Spanish: Salón de la Fama de la Gimnasia Artística para niños
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