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Born | Kutaisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union | August 1, 1925||||||||||||||
Died | January 8, 2016 Tbilisi, Georgia | (aged 90)||||||||||||||
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Sport | Artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||
Club | Dynamo Tbilisi | ||||||||||||||
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Medeya "Mzia" Jugeli (Georgian: მედეა ჯუღელი, Russian: Медея Николаевна Джугели; August 1, 1925 – January 8, 2016) was a Georgian artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics, finishing within top 15 in all artistic gymnastics events, and winning one gold and one silver medal.[1] She won seven national titles in the vault, in 1946, 1947 and 1951–1955. After retirement she worked as gymnastics coach.[2] She died in Tbilisi in 2016, aged 90.[3]