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Weight
  
67 kg

Height
  
1.67 m

Role
  
Olympic athlete

Name
  
Velik Kapsazov


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Born
  
15 April 1935 (age 89) (
1935-04-15
)
Asenovgrad, Bulgaria

Olympic medals
  
Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's rings

Similar People
  
Boris Shakhlin, Takashi Ono, Albert Azaryan

Velik Nikolov Kapsazov (Bulgarian: Велик Николов Капсъзов; 15 April 1935 – 27 March 2017) was a Bulgarian gymnast. He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events, and shared a bronze medal in the rings in 1960 with Takashi Ono. This was the first Olympic medal for Bulgaria in gymnastics.

Kapsazov retired following the 1964 Olympic Games and became a coach. He died 27 March 2017, aged 81.

References

Velik Kapsazov Wikipedia


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