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Full name | Yuri Viktorovich Nikitin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | 15 July 1978||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Trampoline gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yuri Viktorovich Nikitin (Ukrainian: Юрій Вікторович Нікітін, born 15 July 1978) is a Ukrainian gymnast and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[1] He also competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.[2]
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2004 Olympic World Champion Yuri Nikitin
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2004 Olympics Men's Trampoline Finals 1st Yuri Nikitin UKR
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Yuri Nikitin (UKR), Final Routine (4th), Beijing Olympics 2008
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Before Olympics
Born on 15 July 1978 in Kherson, Ukraine. He began his sports career at Kherson State Secondary School. As a child, he was fond of jumping on a trampoline, as he says - "loved it for its extremity". His first coach was Igor Molchanov, who, according to Nikitin, taught the young athlete to "be a man" He graduated from the Kherson Higher School of Physical Culture. In 2012 he was trained by Volodymyr Gorzhi to prepare. In 2001, he graduated from Kherson State Pedagogical University. He was a member of the "Biola" sports club at KSPU.[3]
References
- ^ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Gymnastics". databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 18 August 2008. Retrieved 17 February 2008.
Yuri Nikitin
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yuriy Nikitin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ^ "НІКІТІН Юрій Вікторович". Херсонська обласна бібліотека для юнацтва ім. Б. А. Лавреньова.
External links
- Yuriy Nikitin at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Yuriy Nikitin at Olympedia
- Yuriy Nikitin at Olympics.com
- Yuri Nikitin at Olympic.org (archived)
- Yuri Nikitin at databaseOlympics.com (archived)