Viktor Klimenko (gymnast)
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Country represented | Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1949-02-25) 25 February 1949 (age 75) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Dynamo Moscow Soviet Army Moscow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Viktor Yakovlevich Klimenko (Russian: Виктор Яковлевич Клименко, born 25 February 1949) is a retired Russian gymnast. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a team silver medal on each occasion. Individually he earned a bronze medal in parallel bars in 1968, as well as a gold medal in pommel horse and a silver medal in vault in 1972. At the world championships Klimenko collected four medals in 1970–1974. His wife Larisa Petrik is also a former Olympic gymnast.[1]
References
- ^ Viktor Klimenko. sports-reference.com
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- 1896: Louis Zutter (SUI)
- 1904: Anton Heida (USA)
- 1924: Josef Wilhelm (SUI)
- 1928: Hermann Hänggi (SUI)
- 1932: István Pelle (HUN)
- 1936: Konrad Frey (GER)
- 1948: Paavo Aaltonen (FIN)
1948 Veikko Huhtanen (FIN)
1948 Heikki Savolainen (FIN) - 1952: Viktor Chukarin (URS)
- 1956: Boris Shakhlin (URS)
- 1960: Boris Shakhlin (URS)
1960 Eugen Ekman (FIN) - 1964: Miroslav Cerar (YUG)
- 1968: Miroslav Cerar (YUG)
- 1972: Viktor Klimenko (URS)
- 1976: Zoltán Magyar (HUN)
- 1980: Zoltán Magyar (HUN)
- 1984: Li Ning (CHN)
1984 Peter Vidmar (USA) - 1988: Zsolt Borkai (HUN)
1988 Dmitry Bilozerchev (URS)
1988 Lubomir Geraskov (BUL) - 1992: Vitaly Scherbo (EUN)
1992 Pae Gil-su (PRK) - 1996: Li Donghua (SUI)
- 2000: Marius Urzică (ROU)
- 2004: Teng Haibin (CHN)
- 2008: Xiao Qin (CHN)
- 2012: Krisztián Berki (HUN)
- 2016: Max Whitlock (GBR)
- 2020: Max Whitlock (GBR)
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