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===Coaching career=== Upon graduation in 1987, Davydova began coaching and served as an international Brevet judge. She began her coaching career with the Leningrad Olympic reserve college and was a coach with the Soviet national gymnastics team. Davydova now owns Gemini Gymnastics, a high performance gymnastics club in [[Oshawa, Ontario]] where she has been a coach since immigrating to Canada, and Head Coach since 1999. Some of her better known gymnasts include Stephanie Capucitti, Sarah Deegan, Danielle Hicks, Katherine Fairhurst, [[Kristina Vaculik]], Brittnee Habbib, Kelsey Hope and [[Ava Stewart]]. She was beam coach for the Canadian women's team at the [[1995 World Championships in Artistic Gymnastics|1995 World Championships]] and one of the Canadian women's team coaches at the 2002 [[Commonwealth Games]]. Davydova was twice named Gymnastics Canada Gymnastique coach of the year. In October 2005 Davydova was chosen for the Coaching Association of Canada's Women in Coaching National Team Coaching Apprenticeship Program. In 2005, 2006 and 2010 Gymnastics Canada Gymnastique awarded Davydova and long-time associate coach, Valery Yahchybekov, as the "Junior High Performance Coaches of the Year". Gemini Gymnastics has been recognised by GCG as Club of Excellence for 10 consecutive years since the inception of the awards in 2001. In 2006 Gemini received the prestigious Gymnastics Canada Ed Broughan award for "Club of the Year". As of 2012 Gemini have produced 15 Canadian AA champions,8 Elite Canada AA champions, 21 Eastern Canada AA champions, 98 Ontario provincial AA champions plus gymnasts who have won a host of other medals and awards. In 2012 Gemini was awarded a Club of Excellence award, 1 of only 4 recognised across Canada, and 1 of 2 to earn the highest gold level honour. In April 2012 Davydova was named Ontario's Coach of the Year. In 2012, Kristina Vaculik, who was coached by Elena and Valery Yahchybekov at Gemini Gymnastics, was named to the Canadian Olympic team for the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games.<ref>{{cite web |title=Canadian Gymnasts make history by vaulting to fifth at Olympics |work=Durhamregion.com |url=http://www.durhamregion.com/sports/olympics/article/1434568--canadian-gymnasts-make-history-by-vaulting-to-fifth-at-olympics |access-date=31 July 2012}}</ref> Davydova coached Canadian gymnast [[Ava Stewart]] at the [[2020 Summer Olympic Games]] in [[Tokyo]].
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