Lyudmila Gromova

Lyudmila Gromova

Personal information
Born	(1942-11-04) 4 November 1942 Miass, Russia
Height	1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight	52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Club	CSKA Moscow
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo Team allround

Lyudmila Pavlovna Gromova (Russian: Людмила Павловна Громова; born 4 November 1942) is a retired artistic gymnast from Russia. She competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a gold medal in the team allround competition. Individually her best result was 16th place in the floor exercise.^[1]

She was born as Lyudmila Permyakova, then changed her last name to Gromova, and later to Aseeva. She has a sister, Valentina (b. 1947); they lost their father in World War II.^[2] In 1957, Lyudmila moved to Moscow, married, graduated from an institute of pedagogy in Moscow Oblast in 1975, and later worked as a gymnastics coach.^[3][4]

References

Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Team All-Around
1928 Netherlands 1936 Germany 1948 Czechoslovakia 1952 Soviet Union 1956 Soviet Union 1960 Soviet Union 1964 Soviet Union 1968 Soviet Union 1972 Soviet Union 1976 Soviet Union 1980 Soviet Union 1984 Romania 1988 Soviet Union 1992 Unified Team 1996 United States 2000 Romania 2004 Romania 2008 China 2012 United States 2016 United States
1964:  Soviet Union (URS), Larisa Latynina, Polina Astakhova, Tamara Manina, Yelena Volchetskaya, Tamara Zamotaylova, Lyudmila Gromova