Rio Olympics 2016: A look at the women who will compete with Dipa Karmakar at the vault finals

#5 Oksana Chusovitana (Uzbekistan)

Can the veteran Oksana Chusovitana deliver again?

The oldest Olympian at Rio is no stranger to the winner’s podium when it comes to vaults. At her seventh Olympic games, she is back to representing Uzbekistan – Chusovitina had earlier represented the Soviet Union and Germany. Ranking fifth in the vault finals, with the same clean finishes that she has executed for the past quarter of a century, the 41-year-old scored a total of 14.999.

Unsmiling and brutally focused on the vault, she completed a superb two and half front spins after a front hand vault that drew cheers from the whole stadium. Most of her competitors in this Olympics are the same age as her son, and some even chose to do the very vaults she had invented years earlier.