Ludmilla Tourischeva
- In full:
- Ludmilla Ivanovna Tourischeva
- Also spelled:
- Lyudmila Turishcheva
- Awards And Honors:
- Olympic Games
- Notable Family Members:
- spouse Valery Borzov
Ludmilla Tourischeva (born October 7, 1952, Grozny, Russia, U.S.S.R.) is a Soviet gymnast who was European champion (1971 and 1973), world champion (1970 and 1974), and an Olympic medal winner (1968–76).
Tourischeva graduated from the Rostov Pedagogical Institute in 1974. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, she won a gold medal as a team member in the combined exercises, as she also did at the 1972 Games in Munich and the 1976 Games in Montreal. She won a gold medal for individual performance in the combined exercises in 1972 and silver medals for the floor exercises in 1972 and 1976 and for the vault in 1976. She won bronze medals in 1972 for the vault and in 1976 for individual performance in the combined exercises. She competed at first for the Dynamo Club, Grozny; from 1973 for Rostov-na-Donu; and from 1978 for Kiev.
After Tourischeva retired from competition, she became a coach in Ukraine, where her husband, Valery Borzov, also an Olympic champion, was a sports administrator. In 1998 she was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
