Liubov Paradieva Sereda (
Russian
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: Любовь Парадиева Середа; born in 1945) is a retired
Soviet
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rhythmic gymnast
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. She is a two time (
1969
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1967
Events
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) World All-around silver medalist.
Biography
Sereda was born in
Grozny
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, Republic of
Chechnya. As a child she wanted to be a ballerina, she started gymnastics at age 10. She and her coach Silaeva later moved to
Kyiv
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to train in rhythmic gymnastics.
She was a four time USSR Cup champion. Sereda competed in her first World championship at the
1967 Worlds in
Copenhagen
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, Denmark. She was the favorite to win the All-around gold where she was leading the first three rotations until a drop from the last apparatus in rope placed her in third, she won the bronze in All-around behind East German Ute Lehmann with teammate
Elena Karpuchina taking the gold medal. She won the Freehands
At the
1969 World Championships in
Varna, she shared the silver with Bulgarian
Neshka Robeva
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Biography
Born in Rousse, Robeva graduated from the Bulgarian State Choreography School in "Bulgarian ...
and teammate
Galima Shugurova. She won the silver in ball and bronze medal in rope and hoop final. At the end of her sporting career, she briefly took up as a coach, she taught at the Kyiv Institute of Physical Education as an English teacher. In 1990, Sereda relocated to
Moscow
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, Russia where she is working in a Moscow Sports School.
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References
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1945 births
Ukrainian rhythmic gymnasts
Soviet rhythmic gymnasts
Gymnasts from Moscow
Living people
Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships