Our Birthday wishes today are awarded to the follow people:
Former gymnast from Turkey Ozgur Mulazimoglu Balli turns 36 today. After competing for 14 years Ozgur is now a Judge, which you can read all about what she said in the lead up to last year's Youth Olympics here.
1996 Olympian from Switzerland Pascale Grossenbacher celebrates her 33rd birthday today.
Lithuanian Samanta Dirkyte who turns 23 today.
Leydis Isabela Perdomo Dominguez of Cuba was born on this day in 1997.
Iceland's Frida Run Einarsdottir turns 19 today. Images below is from 2007 and can be seen with the accompanying article here.
South Africa's Candice Cronje who is celebrating her 21st today! Picture below from Getty Images of Candice performing on Floor at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO:
- Chinese Taipei's Ling-Yi Wu who turns 26 today. At the 2003 Asian Gymnastics Championships she was 3rd on the Vault with a 9.018, and was 4th in the Vault Final at the 2004 Pacific Alliance Championships with a 9.018
- South Korean Ji Hye Sung who was born on this day in 1996.
- Great Britain's Caroline Jones who celebrates the big Sweet 16th today. Check out her routines from the 2009 British National Championships by doing a Youtube search.
- Katja Dreyer (GER) who was born in 1983
- And last but not least to the Bulgarian youngster who was born in 1996... Diana Naydenova.
Here's the start of a daily series of posts wishing those gymnasts, both well known and not the happiest birthday that they can imagine.... Who do you share the day with? Starting only with the Women's Artistic Gymnasts, I hope to by the end of a few months time. Have all disciplines written down in the diary that I have purposely bought for this.
Many Happy Returns to:
- Dezirie Saldana of the Philippines (1993) who competed as a Junior at the 2008 Pacific Rim Championships, where she competed three events: Vault, Beam and Floor. Scoring 11.350, 9.550 and 10.250 respectively.
- India's Swarnali Debnath who finished eighth on the floor exercise at the 2009 Indian Championships also born in 1993 celebrates her birthday today as well.
- As does Uzbekistan's Sitora Mukhamedova who turns a very young 13 years old today!