It goes with out saying that gymnastics followers adore the athletes who compete on the highest stage within the sport. In any given decade ladies’s gymnastics produces simply 100+ gymnasts who rise to the standing of a “fan favourite.” Gymnastics followers not solely observe the profession of those gymnasts with nice curiosity, however maintain tabs on them at the same time as they embark on the subsequent chapter of their lives.
With so many fan favorites within the sport, it’s anticipated that in any given 12 months we are going to see numerous weddings and engagement bulletins. However in 2022 the pattern feels just a little totally different. So many fan favorites have both gotten engaged or celebrated their wedding ceremony day previously few months that it’s arduous to maintain observe of all of them. In simply the final week alone Catalina Ponor, Viktoria Komova, and Aleksandra Shchekoldina all celebrated their weddings.
Viktoria Komova’s wedding ceremony picture:
Aleksandra Shchekoldina’s wedding ceremony picture:
Within the case of Catalina Ponor’s wedding ceremony, it was an occasion loaded with the presence of Romanian gymnastics royalty. Among the many company, Andreea Raducan, Corina Ungureanu, Daniela Silivas and Monica Rosu who all have a number of gold medals to their title. There was additionally Romania’s well-known teaching duo, Octavian Bellu and Mariana Bitang who had been current as properly.
Catalina Ponor’s wedding ceremony additionally produced this picture of Andreea Raducan that was too lovely to not share.
Silivas used Catalina’s wedding ceremony as a possibility to recreate a historic picture.
As for the bride and groom:
There was additionally an engagement announcement in late Could from Sydney Johnson-Scharpf:
In late April Russian gymnast Seda Tutkhalyan received engaged:
Earlier within the 12 months gymnastics noticed engagement bulletins from not one, however two Olympic All-Round Champions. The primary was 2016 Olympic Champion Simone Biles.
The second was 1992 Olympic Champion Tatiana Gutsu:
To cite Tatiana: “It’s a gorgeous emotions to be in love and being beloved.”
It must also be famous that each Gutsu and Ponor had been members of the 2022 Corridor of Fame class. Gutsu introduced her engagement roughly ten days after it was formally introduced she was being elevated to the Corridor of Fame. In the meantime Ponor’s wedding ceremony got here simply two weeks after her official Corridor of Fame induction ceremony.
In January Camelia Voinea celebrated her wedding ceremony. She is finest recognized for being an Olympic medalist from the 1988 Olympics and a member of the enduring 1987 Romanian gold medal successful World Championships workforce.
However Camelia Voinea has extra not too long ago been making gymnastics headlines because of her daughter, Sabrina Voinea who’s a extremely famend junior that might be eligible to compete as a senior in 2023. That is additionally a giant occasion in Sabrina’s life as properly and the three of them make an amazing household.
Lastly, and that is a part of a throwback to an article I wrote six months in the past, however Diana Varinska and Milad Karimi received engaged in December of 2021. They haven’t celebrated their wedding ceremony but with the Russian invasion of Ukraine possible placing these plans on maintain. I simply needed to acknowledge this explicit instance as a result of they’re two gymnasts who’ve needed to take care of a battle placing their aspirations on maintain.
