Elvira Saadi is one of the most popular and richest Olympic Athlete who was born on January 2, 1952 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. After in 1976’s Olympics, Saadi accepted a coaching post with the Moscow Dynamo Club, where she was the coach for Soviet gymnast Tatiana Groshkova, who placed third all-around at the 1988 U.S.S.R. the gymnastics competitions. She also won first all-around at the 1989 Trophee Massilia.
Dynamo Gymnastics opened in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada in 2011. Saadi opened the new club together with the parents of one of the up-and-coming gymnasts, Victoria Moors, who left Cambridge Kips with Saadi. Along with Victoria Moors was Madeline Gardiner. Both Gardiner and Moors went on to qualify for the Canadian London 2012 Olympic team. Moors competed as part of Team Canada and helped to earn Canada 5th place overall in the team final, the best ranking of any Canadian Women’s Artistic Gymnastics team to date at the Olympics. Gardiner was an alternate on the team but did not compete. Moors was also the youngest Canadian Olympian competing at the age of 15. Victoria went on to briefly hold the record for a Canadian Women’s Artistic Gymnast at the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, in 2013, placing 10th for Canada. The previous best ranking for a Canadian was 14th. (That 10th-place ranking has since been beaten at the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships by Halifax’s Ellie Black (Moors’ teammate at the London Olympics). Victoria also has two eponymous skills, one a dismount from the uneven bars and the other a laid-out double-twisting double somersault on floor which is the hardest ranking floor skill to date. Victoria retired at the age of 18 in the spring of 2015.. Victoria’s sister Brooklyn Moors, also coached by Saadi, is a member of the Canadian national team and represented Canada at the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Dynamo with the leadership of Saadi continues to coach elite level athletes and has received numerous awards for their accomplishments.
In June 2011, Saadi announced plans to open her own club, Dynamo Gymnastics. The new club has begun operations on the premises of Revolution Gymnastics in Waterloo, where several top young gymnasts who left Cambridge Kips with Saadi trained.
In 1974, at the World Championships, she earned an equal share of the USSR team goldmedal, and was she placed third in the overall, and won the bronze medal in the floor exercises.
Saadi was the winner of the all-around floor and balance beam during the 1973 USSR national championships in 1973. In 1973, she competed for the first time on vault in the 1973 World University Games, where she was also at 3rd place in the overall.
Saadi relocated to Canada in 1991 to become a coach at the Canadian gym Cambridge Kips, where she trained Canadian Olympians Yvonne Tousek and Crystal Gilmore.
