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{{short description|Soviet Olympic gymnast (born 1934)}}
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| birth_place = [[Petrozavodsk]], Respublika Kareliya, [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
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| height = 1.62 m
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{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Melbourne]]|[[Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics|Team]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Tokyo]]|[[Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics|Team]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Melbourne]]|[[Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics|Vault]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Melbourne]]|[[Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics|Balance beam]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Tokyo]]|[[Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics|Balance Beam]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Melbourne]]|[[Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics|Team PA]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1954 Rome]]|Team}}
{{MedalGold|[[1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1954 Rome]]|Vault}}
{{MedalGold|[[1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1954 Rome]]|Floor exercise}}
{{MedalGold|[[1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1958 Moscow]]|Team}}
{{MedalGold|[[1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1962 Prague]]|Team}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1958 Moscow]]|Vault}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1958 Moscow]]|All-around}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1962 Prague]]|Vault}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|European Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1957 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1957 Bucharest]]|Vault}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1959 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1959 Krakow]]|Floor exercise}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1957 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1957 Bucharest]]|Balance beam}}
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'''Tamara Ivanovna Manina''' ({{langx|ru|Тама́ра Ива́новна Ма́нина}}; born 16 September 1934) is a retired [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] Olympic [[artistic gymnastics|gymnast]] and a sports scientist.

==Biography==
Her family lived in [[Saint Petersburg|Petersburg]] (and later in [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]]), but Manina was born in Petrozavodsk, where her father was on a long mission. During the [[German-Soviet War]] she was evacuated from besieged Leningrad into [[Tashkent]]. She returned into Leningrad in 1944 and began gymnastics at the Leningrad [[Young Pioneer Palace]] in the same year. She was called "Monia the Bird" by groupmates for her graceful and light [[vault (gymnastics)|vault]]s.<ref name=r1/><ref name=r2/>

Competing as a junior, she won the all-around title at the USSR Nationals in 1953, and became a candidate for the [[USSR]] team. In the same year Manina debuted at the senior USSR Championships, placing 12th in the all-around. Between 1953 and 1964 Manina successfully competed in many national and international events.<ref name=r1/><ref name=r2/>

One of Manina's most successful performances took place at the [[1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships]], where she earned several gold medals on vault, on the [[floor exercise|floor]] and in the team competition. At the [[1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Olympics]] she rivalled [[Ágnes Keleti]], [[Larisa Latynina]], and other strong competitors, and placed 6th in the all-around, but won silver medals on vault and [[balance beam]]. She also contributed to the team's gold and bronze medals.<ref name=sr/> The [[USSR at the Summer Olympics|USSR team]] won more gold medals than any other country at that year's Olympics. In one of her interviews Manina said, that the team had a warm welcome everywhere in the USSR: on their way by train from [[Vladivostok]] to [[Moscow]] they were met with flowers on each small station, people organized solemn meetings and made other arrangements to honor their visit.<ref name=r1/>

Although in the event finals of the [[1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1958 Worlds]] Manina, apart from the gold in the team competition, won a gold on the balance beam, and won a silver medal on vault, she placed 3rd in the all-around to Latynina and [[Eva Bosáková]].<ref>{{cite web |title=XIV Чемпионат мира, 1958 |url=https://sportgymrus.ru/competitions/xiv-chempionat-mira-1958.html |website=[[Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia]] |access-date=7 May 2025 |trans-title=XIV World Championship, 1958 |language=ru}}</ref> She missed the [[1960 Summer Olympics]] due to an injury, but competed in the [[1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships]], contributing to the team's gold and winning the bronze on vault. At age 30 she went to the [[1964 Summer Olympics]] and won the team's gold and silver on the balance beam. Finishing her competitive career, Manina seriously injured her ankle during the display competition in [[Vienna]] and was not able to continue training afterward. She coached the French national team in 1975 and has been an international judge since 1971.<ref name=r1/><ref name=r2/>

Manina is also known for her scientific activities. Starting in 1958, she studied at [[ITMO University|the Leningrad State Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics]], and graduated in 1965.  She defended a dissertation for the [[Candidate of Science]] degree at the Lesgaft State Institute of Physical Culture in 1969 and taught at the gymnastics department of the institute until 1973. Since 1975 she has been a professor at the Saint Petersburg State Art-Industrial Academy. She has published more than 40 scientific, methodical and popular science books.<ref name=r1/><ref name=r2/>

Tamara Manina lives and works in Saint Petersburg. She is married to Valery Lutkov, a sports medicine doctor, and has a son, also named Valery Lutkov, an international tennis official.<ref name=r1/><ref name=r2/>

==See also==

*[[List of top Olympic gymnastics medalists]]
*[[List of top medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships]]
*[[List of Olympic female gymnasts for the Soviet Union]]

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=sr>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/tamara-manina-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417090630/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/tamara-manina-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Tamara Manina}}</ref>
<ref name=r1>{{in lang|ru}} [http://www.peoples.ru/sport/gymnastics/manina/ Tamara Manina]. Peoples.ru</ref>
<ref name=r2>[http://www.gymn-forum.net/bios/women/manina.html Tamara Manina (USSR)]. List of competitive results at Gymn Forum</ref>
}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* {{Olympics.com profile|tamara-manina}}

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{{International Gymnastics Hall of Fame members}}

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