Ruth Grulkowski was a competitor in the gymnastics

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

 competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics

1952 Summer Olympics

The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II...

 in Helsinki

Helsinki

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Biography

Grulkowski was born Ruth Catherine Grulkowski on December 9, 1930 in Waumandee, Wisconsin

Waumandee, Wisconsin

Waumandee is a town in Buffalo County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 515 at the 2000 census. The census-designated place of Waumandee is located in the town...

. She moved to Chicago, Illinois, and married Robert Hatyina, who passed in 2007. She has three daughters (Cindy, Lisa, & Linda), and three grandchildren (Melissa, Bobby, & Carrie).

Olympic results

Event	Place
Women's Team All-Around	15
Women's Team Portable Apparatus	16
Women's Balance Beam	48
Women's Floor Exercise	59
Women's Individual All-Around	65
Women's Uneven Bars	74
Women's Horse Vault	97