Tatiana Ogryzko was a Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

ian individual rhythmic gymnast

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

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Tatiana was involved in a tragic car accident, she was in a coma for 6 months and she had to learn to walk again.
One year later, she was participating to World Championships in Alicante 1993.

She participated at the 1996 Olympic Games

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

, and ranked 6th in the AA semi-finals and 8th in the AA finals.

She retired at age 21 in 1997.

Tatiana is currently a coach and judge for the Belarusian Gymnastics Federation, she and her former team mate, Larissa Loukianenko

Larissa Loukianenko

Larissa Loukianenko Russian: Лариса Лукьяненко Larisa Luk'yanenko was a Belarusian individual rhythmic gymnast....

, are currently coaching rising star Melitina Staniouta

Melitina Staniouta

Melitina Staniouta; is a rhythmic gymnast from Minsk, Belarus.She first took up the sport of rhythmic gymnastics in 1998. In 2005 she started to train with Larissa Loukianenko, and she was included in the national team....

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