Olga Mostepanova 

 

                                     

 

                                                            

 

After wining the legendary alternate Olympics with a perfect score of 40.00, Mostepanova competed at the 1985 World Championships where she won a team gold medal.  She along with her teammate Baraksanova were pulled out of the AA finals and hence out of any event finals with an "injury"  in favor of their teammates Oksana Omelianchik and Elena Sushunova who went on to tie for the AA gold.  Mostepanova was well known for her long, lean lines, flexability, for her artistic interpretation and originality.  She was the first to perform the "Onodi" on beam but did not register it and therefore it does not bear her name in the Code of Points.