Olga Yurkina


Olga Vyacheslavovna Yurkina is a Belarusian former artistic gymnast. She was a member of the Belarus women's national artistic gymnastics team and competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, as well as multiple World and European Championships in the 1990s.

Gymnastics career

Yurkina competed at the 1994 International Gymnix and won the all-around.
Yurkina competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Alongside teammates Elena Piskun, Alena Polozkova, Svetlana Boginskaya, Lyudmila Vityukova, Svetlana Tarasevich, and Tatyana Zharganova, the Belorussians placed sixth in the women's artistic team all-around, the highest finish in Belarussian history.

Post-gymnastics career

After the 1996 Olympics, Yurkina relocated to the United States. She currently coaches at Roswell Gymnastics in Roswell, Georgia, along with her sister Yulia.