OKSANA OMELIANCHIK-1985 EUROPEANS-FLOOR EVENT FINALS 

Absolutely gorgeous!!! This floor has all the elements of artistic gymnastics! Even now this is a great floor routine with great skills !! (better than other gymnasts today) One of the best ever!!

There are many different videos on youtube of Oksana performing this in 85. Not one of them has even 1 dislike. PERFECTION !!

This was my all time favorite. I also like Voinea's break dance routine. I miss this kind of gymnastics SOOOOO much. Mukhina, Omelianchik, Yurchenko, Groshkova, and Laschenova are my all time fav Russians. Imagine if they had all been in the same generation? wow

Somebody nominate this young lady into the International Gymnastics Hall Of Fame. She has got to be near the front of that line about now. Bart and Nadia, where are you???

Such a classic routine, and what an outstanding tape quality, Gymangels! Oksana really was one of a kind!!

My favorite gymnast of all time.

I know the choreography does not have the high value leaps and spins needed today, but this is so above and beyond what many other gymnasts could pull off

What a little darling! One of the most unusual and delightful FXs ever. God, the Soviets were amazing in the mid-late '80s!

The ballerina of gymnastics! Amazingly beautiful!

@kiwigymnast16 I don't think you could ever find a gymnast like Omelianchik, either now or even back in the 80s, or the 70s, she was one of those rare samples that appear from time to time. For all their technical greatness, neither Yurchenko or Shushunova, had the charisma and audience appeal Oksana had. It is true that gymnastics was different during the Soviet era and artistry was at the top of their list

Ever seen a smile so in any sporting that has won a competition! To see this exercise of this gymnast transmits a great joy.

That routine just makes me so happy to watch lol. She is so damn cute. Bloody brilliant and the fact that this clip has no dislikes says it all.

OMG. She is fantastic, a lot of energy and grace. All gymnasts can learn of this swet girl.

I am going out on a limb here...this has to be my favorite FX ever! No kidding. So inspiring!!

yeah... i agree that silivas was one of the most likeable gymnasts of all time... so was omelianchik!

@keli59 Indeed one of te best floors ever. Dance, tumbling, originality, charisma... modern gymnasts can learn a thing or two

Can't stop watching this performance.. and the laughs on the judges before the last tumbling says it all.. it's a shame that gymnastics nowadays with the code point and all, doesn't look out the same.. and in 88 she even does a triple twist with a front punch.. this is, for me, perfect gymnastics.. Uau

My favourite ever floor exercise. She had such personality, brilliant choreography, and you could just tell she enjoyed what she was doing. Screw the "new" gymnastics, I miss when it was ACTUALLY "artistic gmynastics"

I absolutely love this routine! My second favourite floor routine of all time. Only second to Chusovitina's 91 routine. What can you possibly say bad about this routine? Everything is extraordinary: the tumbling, presentation, choreography, dance, and her personality and smile. The commentator was right: absolutely brilliant.

shushunova had the best choreography at the 88 games... and her tumbling is definitely world class... she never had to do 'cute' routines unlike silivas...

Such a loveable figure. She truly left her mark!

I honestly believe this to be the greatest floor routine of all time! There have been some truely great gymnasts over the years (none since the early 2000's imo) but none have performed a floor routine with this level of artistry, musicality and elegance! She was an absolute darling with an incredible gift ❤

my favourite floor exercise of all time- and what inspired me to take up gymnastics

Wow, the movements acutally fitted the music. Other choreographers only bother making sure their gymnasts won't be dancing to funeral songs.

the Olga Korbut of the 80’s. just so cute, you can’t help but smile at Oksanas youthful and girlish charm

My coach introduced me to her in 2000, at training in Kiev, where she took a look at the gym. Not untill I saw this video today I realised how special this gymnast was in competition. Thanks for uploadng!!!

She's a incredible performer! I don't think I've ever seen any gymnast perform and enjoy it as much as her...

I won´t ever get sick of watching this routine.....its utterly beutiful and definitely my favorite floor of all times

Fantastic,wonderful rotine

Yes, today is so different! I love this coreo

shes awesome! i wish floor was still like this. nowadays, the tumbling isn't much harder, and the gymnasts are totally robotic (except for ana porgras)

옥사나 오멜리안칙이라는 이름을 지금껏 기억하고 있었어요. 유튜브에는 있지않을까 하고 찾다찾다보니 만나게 되는군요^^ 잊지못하는 경기였습니다. 다시 볼 수 있어 고맙구요. '그녀는 지금은 뭐할까'하고 평생 궁금했네요. 저때 이후로 이름이 안보이더군요

a true legend !!

she is soooo cute whit those ears...lol cool music,and coreo. and her tumbling is awsome and original...she is awsome

She was my idol. I thought of her tonight I don’t know why. I watched her every move: I still have the Gymnastics magazine of her on the beam. ☺️

This is the first time I've ever seen the judges talk to each other.

Even in 240p Oksana shines 😍

Amazing!

best best ever!

@nicki446 thanks for the info. i just can't get over her dance sequence in the middle too. i've watched this so many times and it never ceases to amaze me. and some beam routines. like yang bo circa 1989 and olessia doudnik too

To each his own. Oksana Chusovitina is my favourite gymnast. I am not in the gymnastics community. I am just a fan who enjoys watching gymnastics.

Crazy amount of endurance to do such hard tumbling and do full out dancing

:-) Lilia was awesome. One of the few AA champions whom everyone seems to agree deserved it!

Gosh guy's let the woman have her different opinion. Gees. This was so refreshing and well... cute. I saw some of the judges even smiling and laughing.

One of the best routines ever! I do wonder if her tumbling out of her piked full in (Worlds) and double pike (here and Worlds) was designed to "hide" her typical low landings?

Mine, too! And it would make me want to take up gymnastics, too, if I wasn't in my 20's and too old. :(

This is how a Fx routine must be. It have the difficulty and have the elegance of gymnastics.

Wonderful gymnast - she is the complete package on floor

Birds are the whole point IMO, she's supposed to look like a little birdie jumping around :)

OMG ! :)

@LMA629 I actually loved the birds because it's so...weird. Like, right from the start you knew this wasn't going to be your typical techno-pop or classical piece. A floor routine set to BIRDS! I love it, I love that they just said WYF, let's do it. And Oksana made it work!

What is floor music called?

Me too...all that ballet stuff, it didnt suit her really-too contrived and "forced"; Lilia wasnt a natural dancer, and it showed. Oksana on the other hand, was a natural ballerina, which is why this routine flows so beautifully-none of it is "forced" it just flows like water. Beautiful and stunning.

quant'è doooooolce...carinissima

Trying to find the music... does anyone know? Thanks in advance... ;)

Такая великолепная танцевальная Дорожка, жаль что россиянки не являются сейчас лидерами. Так бы художественное представление тоже было бы важно.

To be frank podkopaeva was not among my most favorite gymnasts but that routine surely is in the top 15.I like that it had ballet elements in it.And seeing this list again after 6 months i should add olaru's 1999 program (invisible circus)to the top 10 too.Merry new year to you and everyone watching!

interesting top 10, but here's my top 10 floor routines: 10. Ludovine Furnon - Europeans 2000 9. Silvia Mitova - worlds 1991 8. Natalia Kalinina - goodwill 1990 7. Natalia Ilyenko - worlds 1981 6. Olga Strazheva - worlds 1989 5. Daniela Silivas - worlds 1987 4. Andreea Raducan - worlds 1999 3. Olessia Dudnik - worlds 1989 2. Svetlana Boginskaya - worlds 1989 1. Oksana Omelianchik - worlds 1985 For me, the soviet team's 89 floor routine was the best, but Oksana's the most innovative!

Top 10 floor routines:10-fei cheng 2006,9-ponor 2006,8-gogean 92,7-shushunova 88,6-retton 84,5-kochetkova 94,4-silivas 89WC,3-milosovici 91(greek music),2-omeliantchik 85(bird song),1-raducan 1999(spanish music)

the best

does anybody know the name of her floor routine

@dalmationham that isn't a Thomas salto, no. And it is an illegal move now, but wasn't at this point (Elena Shushunova competed one around this time).

I didnt say I didnt like her; I loved her! i loved her 1996 Olympic floor routine was totally amazing. BUT I do think some of the dance elements are a bit OTT, but that doesnt mean I dont love Lilia-I do!

I am not comparing Chusovitina and Omelianchik, especially in their dancing. I like Chusovitina's tumbling. Everybody has their own opinion and likes what they like.

hey. at the end of that long acro pass, is that a thomas salto at the end? isn't that illegal in women's gymnastics now?

How about Podkopayeva's 1996 routine? At what place would you rank it?

@nicki446 then what move is that? a 3/4 full twist, maybe, instead of a 1 and 3/4? And if her move isn't illegal, do gymnasts nowadays not do it just cuz? ireally don't know anything about gymnastics

WHY IS THIS EXERCISE NOW BANNED?

2:04 Onodi!

Her tumbling was so awesome, but I really didnt like her overthetop balletic moves-too contrived. Oksana Omelianchiks floor routine is one of the greatest ever-the virtuosity, the dance, the tumbling, and the joy she exuded doing this routine-she did gymnastics for the true love of it, and it showed.

to be perfectly honest i thought some parts of podkopayeva's dance were cheesy...

What?! Wow, I completely disagree--Lilia's ballet moves were organic and gorgeous, IMO--wasn't her grandmother a ballet dancer? It was in her blood. IMO that's what made Lilia stand out, unique and elegant, was her graceful ballet moves. I loved it when on the beam or floor she would hit that stance with with one hand on her waist, the other in the air, with that nap of the head--it looked so Slavic and balletic and awesome. But I do love Omelianchik's routine as well.

hahahahahahahahaha, tell that to marco

Shannon Miller wouldn't even be considered part of the great gymnasts in history. Maybe if we only did American gymnasts she would make it.

The problem with Oksana was the lack of consistency, if she was consistency .... my god she would be as good as Shushu

and some people just simply have bad taste

You people are blinded by her choreography, she has terrible form on her tumbling, the cleanest pass is the 2nd one and yet, she has some bad form on the twisting. The piked tsukahara is terribly low and ugly with very separate legs, and the double pike same thing very low and separate legs