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{{Short description|Russian gymnast (born 1934)}}
{{family name hatnote|Semyonovna|Latynina|lang=East Slavic}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}
{{Infobox gymnast
| name            = Larisa Latynina
| image           = Larisa Latynina, 2010.jpg
| image_size      = 220px
| caption         = Latynina in the [[Kremlin]] in 2010
| fullname        = Larisa Semyonovna Latynina
| country         = {{USSR}}
| natlteam        = 1953–1966 ([[Soviet Union women's national artistic gymnastics team|URS]])
| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1934|12|27}}
| birth_place     = [[Kherson]], [[Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic|Ukrainian SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]<ref name=r1/>
| height          = 161 cm<ref name=r1/>
| discipline      = WAG
| gym             = Round Lake national training center<br />Burevestnik Kyiv<ref name=r1/>
| retired         = 1966
| show-medals     = no
| medaltemplates  = <!-- see [[Template:MedalRelatedTemplates]] -->
{{MedalCountry | {{USSR}} }}
{{MedalSport|Women's [[artistic gymnastics]]}}
{{MedalCount
| [[Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]] | 9 | 5 | 4
| [[World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]] | 9 | 4 | 1
| [[European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|European Championships]] | 7 | 6 | 1
| total = yes
}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Olympic Games]] }}
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{{MedalGold | [[1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Melbourne]] | Team }}
{{MedalGold | 1956 Melbourne | All-Around }}
{{MedalGold | 1956 Melbourne | Vault }}
{{MedalGold | 1956 Melbourne | Floor exercise }}
{{MedalGold | [[1960 Summer Olympics|1960 Rome]] | Team }}
{{MedalGold | 1960 Rome | All-around }}
{{MedalGold | 1960 Rome | Floor exercise }}
{{MedalGold | [[1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Tokyo]] | [[Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic team all-around|Team]] }}
{{MedalGold | 1964 Tokyo | [[Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's floor exercise|Floor exercise]] }}
{{MedalSilver | 1956 Melbourne | Uneven bars }}
{{MedalSilver | 1960 Rome | Uneven bars }}
{{MedalSilver | 1960 Rome | Balance beam }}
{{MedalSilver | 1964 Tokyo | [[Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's individual all-around|All-around]]}}
{{MedalSilver | 1964 Tokyo | [[Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's vault|Vault]]}}
{{MedalBronze | 1956 Melbourne | Team, apparatus }}
{{MedalBronze | 1960 Rome | Vault }}
{{MedalBronze | 1964 Tokyo | [[Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's uneven bars|Uneven bars]] }}
{{MedalBronze | 1964 Tokyo | [[Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's balance beam|Balance beam]]}} 
{{MedalCompetition | [[World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1954 Rome]] | Team }}
{{MedalGold | [[1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1958 Moscow]] | Team }}
{{MedalGold | 1958 Moscow | All-around }}
{{MedalGold | 1958 Moscow | Vault }}
{{MedalGold | 1958 Moscow | Uneven bars }}
{{MedalGold | 1958 Moscow | Balance beam }}
{{MedalGold | [[1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1962 Prague]] | Team }}
{{MedalGold | 1962 Prague | All-around }}
{{MedalGold | 1962 Prague | Floor exercise }}
{{MedalSilver | 1958 Moscow | Floor exercise }}
{{MedalSilver | 1962 Prague | Vault }}
{{MedalSilver | 1962 Prague | Balance beam }}
{{MedalSilver | [[1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1966 Dortmund]] | Team }}
{{MedalBronze | 1962 Prague | Uneven bars }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|European Championships]] }}
{{MedalGold | 1957 Bucharest | All-around }}
{{MedalGold | 1957 Bucharest | Vault }}
{{MedalGold | 1957 Bucharest | Uneven bars }}
{{MedalGold | 1957 Bucharest | Balance beam }}
{{MedalGold | 1957 Bucharest | Floor exercise }}
{{MedalGold | 1961 Leipzig | All-around }}
{{MedalGold | 1961 Leipzig | Floor exercise }}
{{MedalSilver | 1961 Leipzig | Uneven bars }}
{{MedalSilver | 1961 Leipzig | Balance beam }}
{{MedalSilver | 1965 Sofia | All-around }}
{{MedalSilver | 1965 Sofia | Uneven bars }}
{{MedalSilver | 1965 Sofia | Balance beam }}
{{MedalSilver | 1965 Sofia | Floor exercise }}
{{MedalBronze | 1965 Sofia | Vault }}
}}

'''Larisa Semyonovna Latynina''' ({{langx|ru|link=yes|Лариса Семёновна Латынина}}, née '''Diriy''', Дирий; born 27 December 1934) is a Russian former artistic gymnast. Between 1956 and 1964 she won 14 [[List of multiple Olympic medalists|individual Olympic medals]] and four team medals for the [[Soviet Union]]. She holds the record for the most Olympic [[gold medal]]s by a female gymnast with nine. Her total of 18 Olympic medals was a record for 48 years. She held the record for individual event medals for over 52 years, winning 14. She is credited with helping to establish the Soviet Union as a dominant force in gymnastics.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/07/07/oly.olympians/index.html |work=CNN |title=Legendary Olympians |date=19 August 2008}}</ref>

==Early life==
She was born as '''Larisa Semyonovna Diriy''' in [[Kherson]], [[Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic|Ukrainian SSR]].<ref name=r1/> Her father, Semyon Andreyevich Diriy, left the family when she was 11 months old, and she was raised by her illiterate mother, who worked as a cleaner during the day, and as a watchman during the night. Her father was killed at the [[Battle of Stalingrad]], where he served as a machine gun operator.<ref>{{cite news |script-title=ru:Лариса Латынина: «Я ушла от мужа к человеку, о котором не хочу даже вспоминать» |url=http://7days.ru/caravan/2015/4/larisa-latynina-ni-odnoy-zhenshchine-takogo-ne-pozhelayu.htm |access-date=9 May 2016 |work=7Days.ru |date=April 2015 |language=ru}}</ref> Young Diriy-Latynina survived the [[Reichskommissariat Ukraine|occupation of Ukraine]] by the [[Nazi Germany]] in 1940s.

She first practiced ballet, but turned to gymnastics after her choreographer moved out of Kherson. Her first gymnastics coach was Mykhailo Sotnychenko.<ref name=latynina_zp>[https://younglibzp.com.ua/larisa-semenivna-latinina-do-85-richchya-vid-dnya-narodzhennya-zirki-svitovo%D1%97-sportivno%D1%97-gimnastiki-devyatirazovo%D1%97-olimpijsko%D1%97-chempionki/ Лариса Семенівна Латиніна: до 85-річчя від дня народження зірки світової спортивної гімнастики, дев’ятиразової олімпійської чемпіонки]. younglibzp.com.ua</ref> In 1950 young Diriy-Latynina received her first sports degree (rozriad) and became a member of the Ukrainian students team at the All-Union gymnastics' competitions in Kazan.<ref name=latynina_zp/> She graduated from high school in 1953 with a gold medal,<ref name=latynina_zp/> and moved to [[Kyiv]]. She attended the [[Kyiv Polytechnic Institute]] (KPI), and continued her training at the [[Burevestnik (sports society)|Burevestnik]] [[Voluntary Sports Societies of the USSR|VSS]] under coaching of Oleksandr Mishakov.<ref name=latynina_zp/> Her first notable success came at the [[4th World Festival of Youth and Students]] in [[Bucharest]] where she won gold medals.<ref name=latynina_zp/> At the age of 19, she debuted internationally at the [[1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1954 Rome World Championships]], winning the gold medal in the team competition. Following the second semester, Latynina switched to the [[National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport|Institute of Physical culture]] from KPI.<ref name=latynina_zp/>

== Gymnastics career ==
{{stack|[[File: Larisa Latynina 1964.jpg|thumb|160px|Latynina during the vault award ceremony at the 1964 Olympics]]}}
In 1956, at the age of 21, Latynina made her Olympic debut at the Melbourne Olympic Games. In the all-around event, she fought off stiff competition to win gold. She finished first in the vault, second in the uneven bars and in the exercise on the floor and fourth in the balancing beam. She also led the Soviet Union to victory in the Team Event.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/05/06/larysalatynina/index.html|title=Larysa Latynina|work=[[CNN]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220330082921/http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/05/06/larysalatynina/index.html|archive-date=30 March 2022}}</ref> Her first Olympic gold medal Latynina gifted to her first coach Sotnychenko who kept it until his death.<ref name=latynina_zp/> Later the wife of Sotnychenko returned the medal to Latynina. Also, following her success in Australia, she was awarded with the high sports title of the Merited Master of Sports of the USSR.<ref name=latynina_zp/> Latynina won all gold medals at the 1957 European championship in gymnastics.<ref name=latynina_zp/> For all her sports achievements in 1957 she was honored with the Order of Lenin. Around that time, she with her first husband Ivan Latynin from Leningrad who also studied in Kyiv.<ref name=latynina_zp/> She graduated from the Institute with honors.<ref name=latynina_zp/>

After a very successful [[1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]] in 1958 (winning five out of six titles despite competing whilst four months pregnant and [[List of females who medaled on every event at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|medaling in every event]]), Latynina was the favorite for the [[1960 Summer Olympics]] in Rome.<ref name=SI>{{Cite news |title=With her all-time record set to fall, little-known Latynina looks back |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/olympics/2012/07/10/larisa-latynina-michael-phelps-olympic-medals-record/index.html?eref=sircrc |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712041157/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/olympics/2012/07/10/larisa-latynina-michael-phelps-olympic-medals-record/index.html?eref=sircrc |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 July 2012 |access-date=10 July 2012 |newspaper=Sports Illustrated |date=10 July 2012 |author=Nick Zaccardi |author2=Gennady Fyodorov}}</ref> In the all-around event, she led the Soviet Union to take the first four places, thereby also securing a win in the team competition by a margin of nine points. Latynina defended her floor title, took silver medals in the balance beam and uneven bars events, and bronze in the vault competition.

Latynina won all-around titles at the [[1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1962 World Championships]], beating [[Věra Čáslavská]] of [[Czechoslovakia]]. Still the defending World Champion at the [[1964 Summer Olympics]], she was beaten by Čáslavská in the all-around competition. Latynina added two more gold medals to her tally, winning the team event and the floor event both for the third time in a row. A silver medal and two bronzes in the other apparatus events brought her total of Olympic medals to eighteen—nine gold medals, five silver, and four bronze. She won a medal in every event in which she competed, except for the 1956 balance beam where she came in fourth.

Latynina's nine gold medals make her tied for second on the [[List of multiple Olympic gold medalists|list of most Olympic gold medalists]]. She held the distinction of having more Olympic medals (either individually or with a team) than anybody, from 1964 until 2012. She and American swimmer [[Katie Ledecky]] are the only women to have won nine gold medals.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition |last=Wallechinsky |first=David |author2=Jaime Lucky |year=2008 |publisher=[[Aurum Press]] |isbn=978-1-84513-330-6 |page=702}}</ref> She is also the only female athlete who at some point has held the [[List of multiple Olympic gold medalists#Timeline of most gold medals|record for most Olympic gold medals]]. Additionally, within the sport of gymnastics, she is the only woman who has won an all-around medal in more than two Olympiads, the only woman who has won an individual event (floor exercise) in more than two Olympiads, and one of only three women who have won every individual event at either the World Championship or Olympic level. She is the first female gymnast to have twice won team gold, all-around gold, and an event final gold at the same Olympics, having done so in 1956 and four years later, in 1960.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/biles-back-top-simone-biles-clinches-second-olympic-all-around-gold|title=Biles back on top: Simone Biles clinches second Olympic all-around gold|date=August 1, 2024|work=[[NBC]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.opb.org/article/2024/08/01/simone-biles-wins-gymnastics-olympic-individual-all-around-title/|title=Golden again. Simone Biles wins gymnastics Olympic individual all-around title|date=August 1, 2024|work=[[Oregon Public Broadcasting]]}}</ref>

==Family==
She was born to Pelageya Anisimovna Barabamyuk (1902–1975) and Semyon Andreevich Diriy (1906–1943), who died in the [[Battle of Stalingrad]]. Larisa was married three times.<ref name=r3 /> Her current husband is Yuri Izrailovich Feldman (b. 1938), a member of the Russian Academy of Electrotechnical Sciences and a former competitive cyclist. Her daughter from a former marriage, Tatyana Ivanovna Latynina (b. 1958), is a folk dancer. She was born only five months after her mother won a world all-around title, and seven months after her birth Latynina competed at the national championships. Latynina kept her pregnancy a secret, even from her coach. She also had a son.<ref name=r1 /><ref name=r3 /><ref name=r2 />

==Retirement==
Latynina announced her retirement after the [[1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1966 World Championships]] and became a coach for the Soviet national gymnastics team, a position she held until 1977.<ref name=r2 /> Under her coaching the Soviet women team won gold in the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics.<ref name=SI /> She organized the gymnastics competition at the [[1980 Summer Olympics|1980 Olympic Games]] in Moscow.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gale |date=2006 |title=Larisa Latynina |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631008727/BIC?u=balt85423&sid=summon&xid=6c4ad903 |journal=Encyclopedia of World Biography |volume=26 |via=}}</ref>

She holds [[Russian citizenship]] and lives in [[Moscow]]. Latynina has received numerous Soviet and Russian state accolades.<ref name="Биография на ria.ru">[https://ria.ru/spravka/20141227/1040343691.html Справка. Лариса Латынина. Биография.] «[[РИА Новости]]» // ria.ru (27 декабря 2014 года)</ref>

In 2023, she spoke out against Russian athletes competing under a neutral flag at the Olympics due to the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]], calling it "unpatriotic".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.championat.com/other/news-4980205-larisa-latynina-ne-podderzhala-uchastie-rossijskih-sportsmenov-v-nejtralnom-statuse.html|title=Лариса Латынина не поддержала участие российских спортсменов в нейтральном статусе|website=championat.com|date=1 February 2023}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==
1989: [[Olympic Order]] (silver), [[International Olympic Committee]]<br />
1998: Inducted into the [[International Gymnastics Hall of Fame]]<ref name="hof">{{cite web |title=Larissa Latynina – The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame |work=International Gymnastics Hall of Fame |url=http://www.ighof.com/honorees/1998_Larissa_Latynina.php |access-date=1 August 2012}}</ref>

==Competitive history==
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! align=center|Year
! align=center|Event
! style="width:30px;"|Team
! style="width:30px;"|{{abbr|AA|All-around}}
! style="width:30px;"|[[Gymnastics vault|VT]]
! style="width:30px;"|[[Gymnastics uneven bars|UB]]
! style="width:30px;"|[[Gymnastics balance beam|BB]]
! style="width:30px;"|[[Gymnastics floor|FX]]
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| rowspan="2" | '''1954''' || align=left | USSR Championships || ||16 ||4 || ||{{bronze3}} ||
|-bgcolor=#CCCCFF
| align=left | [[1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]] ||{{gold1}} ||14 || || || ||5
|- 
| rowspan="3" | '''1955''' || align=left | USSR Championships || ||{{silver2}} ||{{silver2}} ||{{silver2}} ||{{silver2}} ||{{bronze3}}
|-
| align=left | USSR Cup || ||4 || || || ||
|- 
| align=left | Warsaw International ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} || || || ||
|- 
| rowspan="4" | '''1956''' || align=left | Liberation Day International || ||{{gold1}} || || || ||
|-
| align=left | USSR Championships || ||4 ||{{gold1}} ||{{silver2}} || ||{{gold1}}
|- 
| align=left | USSR Cup || ||{{gold1}} || || || ||
|- bgcolor=98FB98
| align=left | '''[[Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]''' ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} ||{{silver2}} ||4 ||{{gold1}}
|- 
| rowspan="4" | '''1957''' || align=left | USSR Championships || ||{{silver2}} ||4 ||{{silver2}} ||5 ||{{gold1}}
|-
| align=left | USSR Cup || ||5 || || || ||
|- bgcolor=#F5F6CE
| align=left | [[1957 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|European Championships]] || ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}}
|- 
| align=left | Moscow Summer Sports Games ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} || || || ||
|- 
| rowspan="2" | '''1958''' || align=left | USSR Championships || || ||{{gold1}} ||5 ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}}
|-bgcolor=#CCCCFF
| align=left | [[1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]] ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} ||{{silver2}}
|- 
| rowspan="2" | '''1959''' || align=left | GDR-USSR Dual Meet ||{{gold1}} ||{{bronze3}} || || || ||
|-
| align=left | USSR Championships || ||4 ||{{silver2}} || ||5 ||
|- 
| rowspan="3" | '''1960''' || align=left | USSR Championships || ||{{silver2}} ||{{gold1}} ||{{silver2}} ||5 ||{{bronze3}}
|-
| align=left | USSR Cup || ||{{silver2}} || || || ||
|- bgcolor=98FB98
| align=left | '''[[Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]''' ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} ||{{bronze3}} ||{{silver2}} ||{{silver2}} ||{{gold1}}
|- 
| rowspan="5" | '''1961''' || align=left | USA-USSR Dual Meet ||{{gold1}} ||{{silver2}} ||{{gold1}} ||{{silver2}} ||{{bronze3}} ||{{gold1}}
|-
| align=left | USSR-USA Dual Meet ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} || ||{{gold1}}
|- bgcolor=#F5F6CE
| align=left | [[1961 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|European Championships]] || ||{{gold1}} ||4 ||{{silver2}} ||{{silver2}} ||{{gold1}}
|- 
| align=left | USSR Championships || ||{{gold1}} ||{{silver2}} ||{{gold1}} ||{{bronze3}} ||{{bronze3}}
|- 
| align=left | USSR Cup || ||{{gold1}} || || || ||
|- 
| rowspan="3" | '''1962''' || align=left | USSR Championships || ||{{gold1}} ||{{bronze3}} ||{{gold1}} ||6 ||{{silver2}}
|-
| align=left | USSR Cup || ||{{silver2}} || || || ||
|- bgcolor=#CCCCFF
| align=left | [[1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]] ||{{gold1}} ||{{gold1}} ||{{silver2}} ||{{bronze3}} ||{{silver2}} ||{{gold1}}
|- 
| rowspan="1" | '''1963''' || align=left | USSR Championships || ||{{silver2}} || ||{{silver2}} ||5 ||{{bronze3}}
|-
| rowspan="4" | '''1964''' || align=left | SWE-USSR Dual Meet ||{{gold1}} ||4 || || || ||
|-
| align=left | USSR Championships || ||{{silver2}} ||{{silver2}} ||{{gold1}} ||4 ||
|- 
| align=left | USSR Cup || ||{{bronze3}} || || || ||
|- bgcolor=98FB98
| align=left | '''[[Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]''' ||{{gold1}} ||{{silver2}} ||{{silver2}} ||{{bronze3}} ||{{bronze3}} ||{{gold1}}
|- 
| rowspan="2" | '''1965''' || align=left | USSR Championships || ||7 || || || ||
|-bgcolor=#F5F6CE
| align=left | [[1965 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|European Championships]] || ||{{silver2}} ||{{bronze3}} ||{{silver2}} ||{{silver2}} ||{{silver2}}
|- 
| rowspan="4" | '''1966''' || align=left | USSR Championships || || || ||{{bronze3}} || ||
|-
| align=left | USSR Cup || ||5 || || || ||
|- 
| align=left | USSR World Trials || ||6 || || || ||
|- bgcolor=#CCCCFF
| align=left | [[1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]] ||{{silver2}} ||11 || || || ||
|- 
|}
<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gymn-forum.net/bios/women/latynina.html |access-date=10 April 2024 |website=Gymn Forum | title=Larissa Latynina Biography }}</ref>

==See also==
{{Commons category}}
* [[List of multiple Olympic gold medalists]]
* [[List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single Games]]
* [[List of multiple Olympic medalists at a single Games]]
* [[List of multiple Summer Olympic medalists]]
* [[List of top Olympic gymnastics medalists]]
* [[List of top medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships]]
* [[List of Olympic female gymnasts for the Soviet Union]]
* [[List of women who won medals in every event at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships]]

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=r1>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/la/larysa-latynina-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417042818/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/la/larysa-latynina-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020}}</ref>
<ref name=r2>[https://web.archive.org/web/20101117171336/http://www.bestpeopleofrussia.ru/persona/1648/bio Лариса Латынина – биография]. bestpeopleofrussia.ru</ref>
<ref name=r3>[http://www.slovopedia.com/2/203/237563.html Латынина, Лариса Семёновна]. Encyclopedic Dictionary</ref>
}}

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book|title=The Balance |author=Larisa Latynina |publisher=Molodaya gvardiya |year=1975 |location=Moscow |language=ru |url=http://www.sportlib.ru/books/gimnastika/latinina/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927205852/http://www.sportlib.ru/books/gimnastika/latinina/ |archive-date=27 September 2007 }}

==External links==
* {{FIG|bio=22211|lic=433}}
* {{IGHOF}}
* {{Olympics.com|org_archive=20210415213622}}
* {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212083439/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/Olympic-Athletes/All-Athletes/Athletes-LA-to-LM/-Larisa-LATYNINA-/ |title=Larisa Latynina at the International Olympic Committee |date=dmy}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{databaseOlympics|LATYNLAR01|archive=20160303194916}}
* {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061027054302/http://www.intlgymnast.com/legends/latynina.html |title=International Gymnast's profile on Latynina |date=dmy}}
* [http://www.gymn-forum.net/bios/women/latynina.html Gymn Forum: Complete list of Latynina's competitive results]
* [https://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&sa=1&q=Larisa+Latynina+source:life Life Magazine images]
* [http://www.smsport.ru/expo/katalog/sportgymnast/latinina/ Larisa Latynina's profile in the Modern Museum of Sports] includes photos of her and some of her decorations {{in lang|ru}}

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