Nellie Kim

Nellie Kim, born Nellie Vladimirovna Kim on 29 July 1957, is a retired Soviet and Belarusian gymnast of Sakhalin Korean and Tatar descent, born in Shurab in the Tajik SSR and raised in the Kazakh SSR, where she entered a children and youth sports school at the age of nine. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal she won three gold medals and a silver, and at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow two more golds. She was the second woman in Olympic history to earn a perfect 10 and the first woman to score it on the vault and on the floor exercise, rivaling Nadia Comăneci and Ludmilla Tourischeva. Her trainers were Vladimir Baidin and his wife Galina Barkova. Kim later worked for many years as a coach, trained several national teams and judged major competitions, and as president of the Women's Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee she coordinated the introduction of the rules of the 2006 Code of Points.