Yelena Produnova - 2000 Olympics Team Finals - Floor Exercise

[@AhmaadJohnson]

produnova was an amazing mix of artistry and athleticism. She has pushed the sport more forward than many of her contemporaries and I'm so glad the internet lets us see this great gymnastics.

[@wkim22]

She can be a powerful tumbler while being graceful, artistic, and elegant at the same time. No gymnast today has all of that qualities.

[@dahighbar]

one of the greatest team final floor performances ever

[@MajorMajesticIce]

dahighbar remembered when Russia was great! Had that country not split up they would've been unstoppable! Belarus, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan all those countries. Just think about it!

[@edwardadaba8734]

M.Derrick I have to agree with u.... when I looked up on Wikipedia, those who won the individual all around and team finals, from the the 50s to the 70s and part of the 80s, Soviet Union was so great until the 90s

[@MD-722]

@@MajorMajesticIce Russia never got split up, the Soviet Union did. P.S. I did get what you meant though, but just sharing a gentle correction with regards to a technicality.

[@hmrhuang]

One of the most creative, original, and well-choreographed FX routines I've ever watched! Well done!

[@thangvuong9196]

What an innovator in women's gymnastics! This program is a perfect marriage of excellent tumbling and beautiful choreography, just goes to show you don't have to sacrifice beauty in the pursuit of difficulty. The choreography of today's gymnastics is a joke compared with the programs of the past.

[@curtissmith2655]

Too bad she never won gold except in team competition. She was powerful!!!

[@tedsler]

THIS is artistic gymnastics!!! Head held high, eyes open, looking around the arena, using the music and performing a FX. All young gymnasts should watch this and similar performances and be amazed and in awe and wowed and try to be better on the artistic level. All gymnasts at elite level are technical, some more than others for various reasons, but we need to bring the artistry back to gymnastics again!!!

[@candycoatedoom]

Oh, my God, she's amazing. So powerful. I have not seen a gymnast do a routine like that in my life.

[@jdkinney]

The 2000 Russian team was possibly one of the most talented teams ever.

[@Kayyleeeeee]

Jeremy Kinney agreeed. They should have won gold

[@mannyb3458]

Totally agree. My favorite team ever. I remember being obsessed with Produnova. Still am! But everyone was great. Khorkina, Katya, Zamo all incredible all around athletes. Even Kolesnikova had moments of brilliance and Chepeleva had a great triple full on floor.

[@vanessaebony529]

To this day I agree. We it not for the mistakes on beam they could have gotten the gold. They were so talented.

[@amymifsud7864]

When I go into the Olympics for gymnastics I want my Floor routine music To be the music from the 2000 Russian teams floor routine

[@Maria_T777]

Produnova and Zamolodchikova 😍

[@annt7384]

Breathtaking! This has got to be the best athletic/artistic floor exercise I’ve ever seen. What a competitor; nerves of steel!!!

[@therealtaydev]

she's so intense, i love it

[@mungoclarkson]

front layout to immediate punch double-front is a very hard pass that barely anyone competes (Japanese junior Sae Miyagawa does it, but she's the only one I can think of). Few gymnasts have this much front-tumbling in their routines because it's very hard to land consistently; Produnova was a real innovator in that area.

[@mht4908]

7 years late, but Rebecca Bross also did that as her opening pass with a stag jump

[@coreydyer5926]

I was lucky enough to be there and see this in person from A reserve right in front. Will never forget it!!! 🤩

[@Simba85]

Produnova had it all. Amazing power combined with style and the ability to dance, not to mention real presence on the podium. It's a shame she wasn't born a few years later, she could have absolutely cleaned up in the last 2 quads.

[@brianpatterson1827]

one of my fave floor routines everrrrr

[@jezmerallia]

One of my favorite gymnasts of all time! Such power! Thank you so much for posting!

[@markoparko]

Produnova was made for today's code!

[@rodrigoalberto4171]

Yes!

[@josephqualtier961]

One of my favorite gymnasts of all time. LEGEND!

[@AngelicPhantom]

That was freaking incredible!!!!! It was a complete performance rather than tumbling interspersed with fluff that was a vehicle to get from one tumbling pass to the next.

[@chipperterri]

What a floor exercise!!! Fantastic

[@jfeathe1211]

Those first two passes would still be considered some of the most difficult in the world today. It's too bad the code of points at the time wasn't able to adequately reward such extreme difficulty. If only Produnova could have been around anytime after 2005...

[@eh5507]

jfeathe1211 i have always thought that Prudonova would be unstoppable in today’s CoP, she can do a 7.1 vault, great bar routine, beam and of course floor,

[@MD-722]

@@eh5507 Her vault is a 6.4 in today's code and was a 7.0 last quad. But otherwise, I agree, she still would have been a great competitor under the open-ended system.

[@ViardotVSGrisi]

this proves that you can be a powerhouse tumbler and STILL have great choreography. Can someone send this to Jordyn Weiber and the up and coming american girls? Their "University of Alabama" choreo has got to GO!

[@annapavfan4680]

ViardotVSGrisi L M F A O

[@edwardadaba8734]

Wooooooow talk about throwing shade on Jordyn. I think her 2012 FX team finals was phenomenal

[@victorbeauregarde1502]

Edward Adaba Choreography wise? No, her floor routine was garbage. Tumbling wise? It was awesome.

[@dasharathparab7769]

She almost does double front on every event Vault - Handspring double front Floor - Double front Beam - Double front (dismount)

[@beyondthehorizon99]

Yeah, not too much twisting.

[@MegaSpiderman5000]

i love how she is so serious and powerful

[@maussolo]

Such a powerful and still artistic floor routine. Elena was a huge warrior.

[@Geiger1983]

Produnova had an amazing charisma, expressin and energy. I love her performances

[@MoodySushi99]

Who else got shocked at 0:47 ??

[@Kevinsf]

and that's why you don't see that move in men's gymnastics.

[@edwardadaba8734]

meeeeeeeeee

[@edwardadaba8734]

i second to that

[@Whoaheswims]

Its called the Produnova. I wonder what the value for it is now in the COP

[@Geiger1983]

I was shocked. Amazing pass!!!!

[@flfm6736]

Russia's FX line-up was just GLORIOUS. Incredibly hard routines (Zamo, Profunova, Lobazniuk) and such a great choreo. 2000 team Russia FX are the best

[@xrictinagymnastics]

yes I agree, a ballet backround is always important and I wish more of the power gymnasts today had as much attitude and style as she did

[@mht4908]

Such an underated gymnast, if she was born 8-12 years later, her power could've been put into great use, the medals she won don't fully represent how great she was, could've been a vault and floor gold medal contender, maybe beam as well. She could've probably remained an AA threat in Beijing as well

[@rach086000]

This has to be by far one of my favourite floor routines ever.

[@moralsovermoney100]

Produnova had qualified for the all-around finals, where she was a legitimate medal threat. However, she had broken her foot during the Olympics and, bitterly disappointed, had to withdraw. I took this out of wikipedia. In essence won a bronze medal on beam with a broken foot. I don't know if her foot was broken here. She's tough as nails.

[@ServingUptheT]

It was on the vault - she went 9.800 on bars, 9.775 on beam and 9.725 on floor (should have been 9.825 if she hadn’t tucked the final pike front somi) - what a warrior! However after the competition was over clearly her foot began to stiffen up!

[@intldawn]

@MoceanuReturns Agreed. The four of them had style and performance quality totally unmatched by the rest of the competition. Each of those routines is captivating and perfectly matched to their personalities. If they'd all gotten into the 9.8's, as they deserved, they probably would have edged out Romania for the title.

[@НадеждаМ-э9п]

Великолепная гимнастка! ❤

[@jja8750]

Wow! Talk about dynamics! Off to watch that again.

[@LCAmarkymark]

I love that team too. This 2000 team I feel is the strongest. The Gold was in their hands and they messed up and lost it. I won't count the AA because of all the issues and well Russia Dominated EFs like they should have in the Team and AA. Both are great teams. I like Lysenko from 1992

[@timduggal8595]

They only dominated in event finals since all other countries screwed up, the same way Romania won in team and AA due to the Russians crewing up. On vault Moya would have won doing her best vaults, and Raducan could have easily won over Zamo too. Khorkina only won bars due to Line Jie's hop on the landing. Beam Russia getting any medals, especialy Produnova getting one was an epic joke, Raducan and the Chinese being there and hitting crush them, even Karpenko beats them. And floor Romania would have gone 1-2 with Raducan and Amanar if both hit. And a sloppy joke of a gymnast like Zamo getting 2 event golds is a complete farce, and only shows how much a splatfest event finals were. Had a real talent like Produnova (not on beam, but on vault, bars, and for sure floor) or Khorkina gotten 2 golds maybe, but not crap like Zamo.

[@guitarman29100]

"And all of this directed right in front of the judges" hmm thanks for pointing that out there Elfi I had no idea judges were watching

[@sixrats]

They were referring to the fact she was facing the main panel of judges.

[@e2theeyepie]

Avalon Avarice Russian figure skater Plushenko also did this -- focusing as much of his choreo as possible in the direction of the judges, the other three sides of the arena be damned.

[@hercildacastillo7025]

Grandiosa y recordada por siempre😉😉😉

[@KomovasSplits]

I hate people who say the powerful athletes can't do artistry. Prodnova did, Komova has the hardest programme and Mustafina did before her. The best are those who combine power and elegance like these 3 and Anna Pavlova did in her 2008 as floor in particular

[@tbbt921]

Too bad they haven't been all around gold medalists

[@shushunovafan4301]

Mustafina has.

[@LGailey]

That beautiful split leap down to the floor at 0:46 always makes me gasp.

[@Edgeofillumination]

Amazing!

[@haydenmusicacademy7502]

For some reason the judges only gave her a 9.9 start value here. One of the other non-NBC broadcasts showed that the judges conferenced about her start score, which given how close the Russians were to Romania every tenth of a point was critical for Russia to have any hope to remain in contention for winning the gold. Not sure if she didn't get CV credit for the front tuck on her last pass since she had already performed it on her first. To think if she had gotten the 10 SV the Russians would have only lost the competition by .105. Regardless this is still one of my favorite Olympic FX performances of all time.

[@neos.herakles]

I have to agree with you. The Romanians under Belu used to do uniform and lack-luster routines for any apparatus they were weak on, like uneven bars and balance beam (with the exception of Catalina Ponor). On vault, they produced two powerful vaulters: Simona Amanar and Monica Rosu. Floor was definitely their forte, considering they won it at the Olympics in 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 2004, and 2008.

[@tedsler]

@dahighbar I second that! You don't have to be a ballerina in a FX to be artistic. Give the audience some form of emotion/attitude and we believe it. I think above all, gymnasts in general need to open their eyes and look around them when they perform to connect with the audience and draw them in to their FX. So often you see gymnasts holding their heads high, but looking down their nose and all you see are their eyelids. I LOVE this routine. A 80 second fierce story told perfectly!

[@intldawn]

Underscored. That was fucking fantastic.

[@gk891]

She repeated the punch front in tuck position twice so I believe she didn't get credit for the second one. That put her start value down to 9.900.

[@pappysprite]

What can you say about this amazing gymnast and amazing routine other than she is absolutely amazing. So ahead of her time.

[@vanessaebony529]

The best power gymnast pre-Simone Biles era was Yelena Produnova. Other's should watch Produnova she had power and artistry. You don't have to sacrifice both

[@COZMECAmusic]

fucking love everything about this. one of my favorite floor routines ever. it's so unique. sad this was her last competition ever.

[@xrictinagymnastics]

She proved that you don't have to be a ballerina in order to perform an amazing floor routine

[@withlove312]

For once, I agree with you, Al: WOW!

[@yamilgarcia4272]

Omg perfect gymnast 🎉

[@loriolus]

Because Romanians play extremely safe and polish the mediocre difficulty. Russians go for the hardest stuff, inventing new moves and pushing difficulty to the limits. THAT earns much more respect in my book. There were however some very fine Romanian gymnasts who didn't play safe but they were much fewer.

[@mmoran3]

@loriolus I TOTALLY AGREE u are sooo right the romanians do a semi safe routine with numbers and the Russians did an all out go for it routine with Risk

[@maxwang4]

Apart from everything else she has going for her, she has fantastic strength and poise in her dancing. Rarely, if ever, have I seen a gymnast with such confidence that could pull off a routine like this. Maybe Lysenko.

[@juniorroger1994]

Wow she was just amazing!

[@dahighbar]

@tedsler I concur very nicely put!

[@azuritefire5]

Look at Leonid in the background, just proud of what he produced

[@MisterBeaucoup]

Nah, I love the '92 Soviet Team. Tatiana Gutsu..... I will never forget her.

[@cesarfuentes6499]

No one can do the produnova vault in 1999 no one else even to this day

[@doumora]

ty! :D

[@tedsler]

aaaaaaaaaahhh one of my fav FX routines!

[@MusicDory17]

wow!! I love the part from 0:48-0:53

[@LCAmarkymark]

@USAGymnast gosh..all produnova needs is a 360 element and this routine still works for todays FIG code of points

[@rosirisalmeida3894]

Strong and elegant!

[@yamilgarcia4272]

She beats all the latest gymnast

[@kakumei77]

Iconic!!!

[@LCAmarkymark]

0:58 what the commentator here says exactly what floor should be right now..FIG take note lol..this is how a floor exercise should be...individual and catered towards the gymnast. I love this routine and I would give this the Gold metal over any routine that is preformed today

[@vanessaebony529]

People who didn't follow the sport for years talk about Biles. I was like Pre-Biles the power gymnast was Produnova also has a skill named after her on all events

[@aquajosh]

Not only that, but Produnova didn’t have the benefit of the vaulting table. She did that amazingly difficult vault on the old HORSE!

[@GawkyBallerina]

Prod was just like BAM THAT"S How You Do A Floor Routine! XD

[@KVHolland3]

@MoceanuReturns By the way why didn't Zamolodchikova compete in the team for floor because she got first in EF.

[@JavasioMcShine]

wow this was a badass routine

[@cidaaraujo2133]

Misericórdia! A ginástica hoje não chega nem aos pés dessa.

[@intldawn]

Well said. Quintessential Russian gymnastics. I miss that a lot.

[@doumora]

what was her score???

[@dahighbar]

I wish people stop confusing Artistry with balletic...This routine was very artistic!!!

[@LCAmarkymark]

damn what is the d score if this routine was used today?

[@svetaswan]

@markelov - I agree with mmoran, I think Elfi meant something more than just "doing your routine in front of the judges". We can't really see it, but I think Elfi was talking about how Elena boldly did certain moves right in front of the judges' table. Those former Soviets (both skaters & gymnasts) have been known for such tricks w/ the judges. (Winks, direct eye contact, etc.) In the same mold, Jamie Dantzscher allegedly pointed at the judges at the end of her FX at this same competition. LOL

[@kras118]

She also pioneered the double arabian punch front......back in 1995!

[@Smielyb2000]

Lysenko in 93! Produnova took it to another level

[@shehamforash]

Fangirling this routine for more than a decade now

[@yamilgarcia4272]

Wow!! I love her tumbling.. very hard skills

[@1bush053]

Incredible and in your face!

[@ShawnVikaKomova2012]

@bbhouk1 Oh, okay. I thought you liked Patterson based on your comment. That's a relief. Well of course the Soviets were much more artistic and we can go all the way back to Latynina in the 50s. I do however like Yelena's dance from 0:46-0:54. I don't know, at that part I fell in love with her routine. Russia is definately declining in artistry. I just hope the new juniors can bring it back. I love Grishina, Dementyeva and Komova.

[@tchachinafan]

what an amazing power she had!!

[@ShawnVikaKomova2012]

She had it all.

[@xixidelgado]

Better routine than Korkhina's..Produnova was amazing

[@KVHolland3]

Why didn't Zamolodchikova compete in TF for floor she got first in EF so you would think that she would have been the Russian's first (or second) choice right?

[@xintongbian]

her body type is so beautiful

[@tedsler]

Did you see many ballerina-gymnasts perform in the 2000 OG?

[@jorgejohnsen8602]

The Yelena "cooter slam" gets me all the time. 2:49

[@CarlosMendoza-hu7uf]

😂

[@violaroadkill]

@USAGymnast Romania was way overscored on UB. If the scores had been correct, Russia would have won gold despite the falls.

[@JohnPhilipSousa519]

She was a beast.

[@CBTCFT]

sensational!

[@dmann3g]

Really fukd that she didnt make fk finals..such a beast..1 of my fav Russians EVER!!!

[@MTVMANN]

Amazing that I think I can remember, but I believe it was a 9.712.

[@MrJST94]

so bad she did a front tuck twice (first and last tubling), but that does not take away that this was one of the best floor exercises in Sydney

[@originalbabygal]

did she win gold

[@seanswimfast]

Produnova is such a badass

[@dahighbar]

EPIC!

[@bbhouk1]

@ShawnVikaKomova2012 well it depends. i wouldn't call Yelena very artistic (as compared to what I think of as true artistry, like 80's Soviets) but that doesn't mean she's not awesome. And don't even TALK about that robotic crap of Patterson's being anything close to "dance"

[@mmoran3]

@markelov the postion she was on the floor was right in the judges faces lol

[@JayOrbitLyon]

beautiful :')