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Top 10 Gymnasts in History:

1. Svetlana Khorkina (Russia)
   (1997, 2001 and 2003)
2. Larissa Latynina (USSR / Russia)
   Two-time Olympic (1956, 1960) and two-time World (1958, 1962)
3. Svetlana Boginskaya (USSR / Belarus)
   The 1989 World all-around champion and three-time Olympic medallist, in 1990, she swept the European Gymnastics Championships by winning the gold in every individual event.
4. Ludmilla Tourischeva (USSR / Ukraine)
   The 1970 and 1974 World all-around champion. Won the all-around title in the 1972 Munich Olympics.
5. Věra Čáslavská (Czechoslovakia)
   Win two consecutive all-around Olympic titles (1964, 1968)
6. Yelena Shushunova (USSR / Russia)
   1985 World and 1988 Olympic all-around champion.
7. Nadia Comaneci (Romania)
   1976 Montreal Olympics – The very first gymnast at any Olympics to be awarded a perfect score of 10 and would eventually earn six more 10s. The youngest ever Olympics gymnastics all-around champion.
8. Shannon Miller (USA)
   1993 and 1994 all-around World Champion and the 1996 Olympics balance beam gold medallist.
9. Nellie Kim (USSR / Tajikistan)
   1979 World all-around champion. The first woman in Olympic history to receive a perfect score of 10 on vault and floor exercise.
10. Lilia Podkopayeva (Ukraine)
    Simultaneously hold the European (1996), World (1995), and Olympic (1996) all-around titles.

Compiled : Top 10 Greatest Female Gymnasts in History - sportales.com