Official third-place winner's diploma from the 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics, 22.75 x 17.5, awarded to Polina Astakhova for the USSR's bronze-medal tie with Poland in the event "Gymnastics - Team Exercise with Portable Apparatus, Women." Tightly rolled and in very good condition, with scattered creases, toning, and a few small stains. Astakhova was a prolific gymnast known for her exceptional grace on the uneven bars. She won a total of ten Olympic medals during her career, spread between the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Olympic Games.
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