Vera Caslavska Gymnastics Tribute
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Vera Caslavska was a Czechoslovakian artistic gymnastics athlete, the first female gymnast to receive a perfect 10 at the European championships 9 years before Nadia Comaneci at the 1976 Olympics.
Věra Čáslavská won 22 international titles in competitions from 1959 to 1968. She has 7 Olympic gold medals, 4 artistic gymnastics world championships and 11 European championships. With Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina, she is one of the only 2 female gymnasts who have won the all-around gold medal at consecutive Olympic Games.
Her most important gymnastics results are:
1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (her first international competition): 1 silver - team final
1959 European Championships: 1 gold - vault; 1 silver - balance beam
1960 Olympics - Rome: 1 silver - team final
1961 Europeans: 1 bronze - all around
1962 Worlds: 1 gold - vault; 1 silver - all around
1964 Olympics - Tokyo: 3 golds - all around, vault, balance beam; 1 silver - team final
1965 Europeans: 5 golds - all around, vault, uneven bars, balance beam, floor
1966 Worlds: 3 golds - team final, all around, vault
1967 Europeans (she was the first gymnast to score a perfect 10, 9 years before Nadia Comaneci): 5 golds - all around, vault, uneven bars, balance beam, floor
1968 Olympics - Mexico: 4 golds - all around, vault, uneven bars, floor; 2 silvers - team final, balance beam
2 months before the 1968 Olympic Games, due to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Vera lost her training facilities and was forced to train in precarious conditions in the forest. In spite of this setback, she manage to dominate at the 1968 Olympics. Her Mexican floor music and her marriage in Mexico city during the games made her hugely popular in Mexico. Caslavska had openly opposed the Soviet invasion of her country. When she won gold with Soviet gymnast Larisa Petrik, she quietly protested on the podium, while they played the Soviet anthem by turning her head down.
Due to her public opposition of the Soviet invasion, she was forced to retire in 1968 and she was considered persona non grata in her own country until the fall of communism in 1989 when she was again given the honors she deserved. Vera Caslavska died in August 2016.
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I had the pleasure of doing a training day with Vera when I was a young gymnast she was on a visit . I even have her autograph . She was so Graceful
Wow, Vanessa, you are very fortunate!
Vera was one of the greatest gymnasts ever-Period!
She was.
Nice tribute to one of the best all time.
Thank you very much!
@@Gymnastly You are welcome.
I'm really proud that I'm from czech republic. The country where she was from
Great difficulty combined with such elegance 😊👍♥️🇲🇽
Some difficulty. Nothing to compare to Olga Korbut, 4 years later to Mexico Olympics.
What an amazing, talented, athlete! Great tribute!
You do not see talent like this too often.
Talented gymnast and beautiful human being.
True
You also don't see class like that when she had to share the podium with the Soviet union. A very classy lady I'm very sad to hear that she passed away. I did not know 😔
I noticed back then when they did the vault. They didn't do much of anything no back flipping or nothing.
@@patrickmaruniak5987 The vaulting boards in those days had very little spring to them.
She was so graceful! I am really proud we had such an athlete in our country ❤️. And by the way, great music! It goes really well with Věra's calm and elegance in this video. Thank you!
I think Vera deserves to be discovered by the new generations who weren't even born when she competed. She was an example of grace both as a gymnast and as a human being.
She was absolutely incredible
She was truly incredible.
Thank you so much for this video! What a queen! One of the best athletes of all time!
She was a fantastic gymnast and a great person.
She was a HERO!!!!VERA FOREVER IN MY HEART🖤🖤🖤
Thank you so much Vera ! I was 7 years old when the Olimpics took place in Mexico, where I was born. Since then, I fell in love with gimnastics. God bless you, wherever you are. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
That's what great gymnasts do: they inspire others.
Her beam mount is so pretty and elegant.
Love her hair bun😄
It was classic 1960s.
"The Queen of México" , WE never Will forget You Vera , Queen of our Hearth , time has passed and we still remember You , You live in our Hearth for ever , we are very thanksfull with God to make YOU to come to México to make us to fall in love with you , "RIP" , viva VERA and CHECOSLOVAQUIA and viva MEXICO .
Lovely words, Adolfo!
ThankYou from CZE!
Thank you Adolfo ,great tribute to Vera Caslavska .
Viva Mexico !
OMG I did not know Vera was literally forced to retire! She probably could have beaten Larissa Latynina like nothing. What a shame. Vera is just absolute grace and beauty.
You're right, she might have been able to beat Latynina.
Her protest on the medal stand was never forgiven. One could make the argument that it’s no different than what Kaepernick did. Just saying
Interesting comparison!
@Willie Gordon Russia invading her country and forcing communism on her people.
She would have retired from top level gymnastics anyway. She wanted to lead a normal life and become a coach instead. But the communists forbade even that.
Talented and iconic gymnast. Great champion!
Agreed
A heroic patriot.
She will forever live in our hearts.
Vera México está contigo estés dónde estés ....UD vera es considerada mexicana aunque haya nacido en otro país ....que dios esté contigo
Seguro que a Vera le habrían gustado tus palabras.
It was beautiful to watch her. What an amazing gymnast and courageous person.
She was a bad ass who gave zero fucks about what the Soviets would think or do to her, she still protested their presence in her country, no matter the consequences!
Majestic
ベラ・チャスラフスカさんの演技は女性らしさが溢れ出ていて大変素晴らしい演技ですね!
Eres una grande muy querida por México ya pasó a la historia aplausos donde te encuentres
After seeing her Gold medal performance on the uneven bars with her fantastic dismount in 1968 Mexico Olympics she was IT for us... still is.. much like Peggy Fleming - the ballerina on ice. Both, unforgettable ladies and performances.
Hermoso, Glorioso tributo a una reina.
Una bella reina y persona con principios.
Grande Vera, siempre estarás en el corazón de México.
Una increíble gimnasta y gran ser humano. Siempre en nuestros corazones.
Děkujeme za video. Domnívám se, že žádost o svobodu může být: žádost, požadavek, a to i s malým, ale "obrovským" gestem. Real mistr! Ale také šampión svobody !!! Děkuji znovu, Fausto (Řím, Itálie) 11_11_2018
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Grazie per il video. Credo che la richiesta di Libertà, possa essere: richiesta, pretesa, anche con un piccolo ma "grandissimo" gesto. Un Campionessa Vera! Ma anche Campionessa di Libertà!!! Grazie ancora, Fausto (Roma, Italia) 11_11_2018
Grandissimo gesto da una grandissima campionesa. Grazie per il comento, Fausto!
La reina Vera.
¡Que viva la reina!
Inolvidable Vera!
She is the gymnast who brought it from an artistisc exercise into an actual sport. Her combination of alethic movement with art made it a true sport.
Bonito estilo. Fino y dancistico
It still amazes me watching old routines and realizing the beam back then was made out of wood. Makes the gymnasts like Vera that much more impressive.
Shes 100 times better than nadia comaneci and the us gymnasts
She was a beautiful gymnast and person.
No. Not better than Nadia. But certainly very graceful for her time.
En su rutina de piso en México 68 se ganó el amor de todo el país. Inolvidable Vera.
ラチニナさんやアスタホワさんの演技も素晴らしいですね!
Just another reason to despise the Soviets and their cruelty towards basically every human being they came in contact with. Vera is still an icon in the sport, nothing can take that away. Her protest at that games was a brave and inspiring act. People wonder why I say every Olympic competition the Soviet Union competed in was tainted, but the reality is they had control of the judging and they decided who got medals. I’m glad she was able to accomplish all she did in spite of their unwanted presence.
The Soviet regime (not the actual people) was nothing but a pack of bullies. I felt so sorry for the prisoners, I mean citizens and was so happy for them when Gorbachev tore down that wall like Reagan asked him to.
Каждое движение наслаждение красотой грацией! Потрясающе! Никогда раньше не знала что есть такая гимнастка!?Мне 60+
Quelle prouesse exceptionnelle artistique et technique admirable de perfection ultime ❤
LA GRA VERA CASLAVSKA Y ELLA YA ERA GRADE TENÍA 26 AÑOS Y HABÍA GRANDES GRANDES COMPETIDORAS RUSAS ,ALEMANAS Y TAMBIEN CHECAS Y TODAS ERAN GRANDIOSAS . ES UNA DICIPLINA DIFÍCIL Y MUY COMPLETA LLEVAN EL BALLET EN SI ES HERMOSA LA GIMNASIA OLÍMPICA Y CLARO HAN SALIDO GRANDES GIMNASTAS COMO NADIA PERFECTA
La gimnasia de Caslavska era de una gran belleza, con movimientos pausados, bien definidos. Es una gimnasia que, para bien o para mal, ahora a muchos les parece aburrida, puesto que no había mucha acrobacia. Hoy en día pocas federaciones dan ya importancia al ballet, aunque en Rusia sí se sigue practicando y ello se traduce en los ejercicios de sus gimnastas.
Прекрасная тогда была спортивная гимнастика!❤
The Mexican bride! Viva vera , Viva Mexico. Bravo!
Magnifique
This lady had no peers
❤❤❤😊
The acrobatics might be more spectacular these days but she was far more graceful and feminine. And, dare I say it, sexy!
Ďescansa en la Paz de Cristo Jesús!
Aquí se puede ver, una gimnasia realmente artística...
Vera realmente fue una gran gimnasta artística, con movimientos graciosos y elegantes.. llenos de soltura..
Parce volar en sus ejercicios de piso!!
No se ve forzada, al contrario, goza cada movimiento..
Hoy dia, la gimnasia tiene muy poco de artística y es más acrobática.. las gimnastas lucen tensas, duras, y se venuy forzadas al "volar".. físicamente lucen toscas.. nada elegantes...
No hay duda, que Vera es una de las más grandes y mejores gimnastas de todos los tiempos!!
she looked more natural than comanescu or balie from nowdays🎉🎉🎉
Czechoslovakia 💪🏼🇨🇿🇸🇰
Thank youuuuuuuuu!
Russian invasion in 1968.
NOW Russian invasion in 2022.
I can't understand something so cruel and pointless. ☹️
When people could just make beautiful artistry like this, why does the world have to be so ugly? 😔
👍🏽👌🏾👏🏽👍🏽👏🏽👍🏽👌🏾👍🏽
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