Natalia Yurchenko 1983 Soviet Games (Наталья Юрченко 1983)

Natalia Yurchenko (Наталья Юрченко) is a retired Soviet artistic gymnast, who won the women's all-around gold medal at the 1983 World Championships. Renowned for her innovative and daring gymnastics, she is best known as the originator of the Yurchenko vault family, which is a round-off back handspring entry onto the vault, and then performing a series of twists and flips off.
Natalia Yurchenko was coached by Vladislav Rastorotsky at the Dinamo sports society in Rostov on Don.
Vladislav Stepanovich Rastorotsky (Владислав Растороцкий) was a Russian (and former Soviet) artistic gymnastics coach, Honoured Trainer of the USSR, who trained in Dynamo sports society. Sportswomen trained by him earned more than 50 titles at the National (USSR) championships, European championships, World championships and Olympic Games. Rastorotsky trained Soviet gymnasts for five Olympic cycles starting in the mid-1960s. His most famous pupils were Ludmilla Tourischeva, Natalia Shaposhnikova, and Natalia Yurchenko.
Born in Liski, Russian SFSR, Rastorotsky went to Voronezh and entered the Voronezh State Institute of Physical Training. Rastorotsky began systematic training in gymnastics very late, in his twenties. But managed to earn the title Master of Sports of the USSR at age above 27. His teacher in Voronezh was Soviet coach Yury Shtukman. In the 1960s Rastorotsky moved to Grozny and began to coach Ludmilla Tourischeva.
In the early 1970s, Rastorotsky moved to Iraq. After the breakup of the USSR, Rastorotsky coached for some time in France and China before returning to Rostov on Don in the mid-1990s. Rastorotsky died in July 2017, aged 85.