Berthe Villancher
French gymnastics judge and official
Berthe Villancher (1908–2002) was a French gymnastics judge and official. In 2002 she was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.[1]
She was born in Besançon, France. In 1945 she became an international gymnastics judge and from 1948 to 1956 she served as secretary of the International Gymnastics Federation's Women's Technical Committee. From 1956 to 1972 she was president of the committee.[1] From 1969 to 1972 she sat on the executive committee of the federation, and was the first woman to do so.[2]
In 2002 Villancher was inducted posthumously into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame, in the category of lifetime achievement.[1][3]
References
- ^ a b c "Berthe Villancher | The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame". www.ighof.com. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ^ Cervin, Georgia; Nicolas, Claire; Dufraisse, Sylvain; Bohuon, Anaïs; Quin, Grégory (2017-07-03). "Gymnastics' centre of gravity: the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique, its governance and the Cold War, 1956–1976". Sport in History. 37 (3): 309–331. doi:10.1080/17460263.2017.1363081. ISSN 1746-0263.
- ^ "Six to enter Gymnastics Hall". Oklahoman.com. 2002-06-20. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
External links
- Berthe Villancher at the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
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Members of the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
- Nikolai Andrianov
- Leonid Arkayev
- Vladimir Artemov
- Albert Azaryan
- Max Bangerter
- Frank Bare Sr.
- Valery Belenky
- Octavian Bellu
- Dmitry Bilozerchev
- Miroslav Cerar
- Viktor Chukarin
- Bart Conner
- Stoyan Deltchev
- Alexander Dityatin
- Yukio Endō
- Shun Fujimoto
- Arthur Gander
- Mitch Gaylord
- Eberhard Gienger
- Bruno Grandi
- Savino Guglielmetti
- Jack Günthard
- Koji Gushiken
- Fabian Hambüchen
- Paul Hamm
- Takuji Hayata
- Ivan Ivankov
- Béla Károlyi
- Shigeru Kasamatsu
- Sawao Katō
- Eizo Kenmotsu
- Ihor Korobchynskyi
- Yuri Korolyov
- Klaus Köste
- Li Ning
- Li Xiaopeng
- Li Yuejiu
- Valeri Liukin
- Eugen Mack
- Zoltán Magyar
- Franco Menichelli
- Akinori Nakayama
- Alexei Nemov
- Takashi Ono
- Heikki Savolainen
- Vitaly Scherbo
- Boris Shakhlin
- Rustam Sharipov
- Josef Stalder
- Leon Štukelj
- Masao Takemoto
- Kurt Thomas
- William Thoresson
- Yuri Titov
- Aleksandr Tkachyov
- Shuji Tsurumi
- Kōhei Uchimura
- Peter Vidmar
- Mikhail Voronin
- Haruhiro Yamashita
- Yordan Yovchev
- Simona Amânar
- Polina Astakhova
- Svetlana Boginskaya
- Lyubov Burda
- Karin Büttner-Janz
- Věra Čáslavská
- Cheng Fei
- Oksana Chusovitina
- Nadia Comăneci
- Yelena Davydova
- Dominique Dawes
- Aurelia Dobre
- Shawn Johnson East
- Maria Filatova
- Maxi Gnauck
- Gina Gogean
- Maria Gorokhovskaya
- Tatiana Gutsu
- Ágnes Keleti
- Nellie Kim
- Jackie Klein
- Olga Korbut
- Margit Korondi
- Steffi Kräker
- Natalia Kuchinskaya
- Larisa Latynina
- Nastia Liukin
- Tatiana Lysenko
- Ma Yanhong
- Tamara Manina
- Julianne McNamara
- Chellsie Memmel
- Shannon Miller
- Lavinia Miloșovici
- Elena Mukhina
- Sofia Muratova
- Oksana Omelianchik
- Henrietta Ónodi
- Carly Patterson
- Lilia Podkopayeva
- Cătălina Ponor
- Andreea Răducan
- Helena Rakoczy
- Mary Lou Retton
- Cathy Rigby
- Elvira Saadi
- Alicia Sacramone
- Natalia Shaposhnikova
- Yelena Shushunova
- Daniela Silivaș
- Ecaterina Szabo
- Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda
- Olga Tass
- Ludmilla Tourischeva
- Teodora Ungureanu
- Berthe Villancher
- Natalia Yurchenko
- Elena Zamolodchikova
- Kim Zmeskal
- Erika Zuchold