Galina Shamrai
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| Full name | Galina Yakovlevna Shamrai | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | October 5, 1931 Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | February 12, 2022 (aged 90) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Galina Yakovlevna Shamray (Russian: Гали́на Я́ковлевна Шамра́й) (also known as Galina Rudko, Galina Ilyina after marriages; October 5, 1931 – February 12, 2022) was a retired Soviet gymnast. In 1954, she became the first women's all-around World Champion from the USSR.