Skills Named After Her
Produnova is one of the few gymnasts to have skills on all four events named after her:
- On the Floor Exercise, a tour jete 1/2, landing in split
- On the balance beam, a jump forward with ½ twist to piked back salto
- On the uneven bars, an uprise/clear hip to handstand, Half turn to L or mixed L grip
- On the vault, a handspring double front salto (with A-score 7.1, the highest in 2009 Code of Points)
Read more about this topic: Yelena Produnova
Famous quotes containing the words skills and/or named:
“The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process—a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made—constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes—but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.”
—Jean Szarkowski (b. 1925)
“And he appointed twelve, whom he also named apostles, to be with him, and to be sent out to proclaim the message...”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 3:14.