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Sport
  
Artistic gymnastics

Height
  
1.68 m

Role
  
Gymnast


Name
  
Viktor Leontyev

Club
  
CSKA Moscow

Weight
  
63 kg

Viktor Leontyev

Born
  
27 April 1940 (age 84) (
1940-04-27
)
Moscow, Russia

Viktor Anatolyevich Leontyev (Russian: Виктор Анатольевич Леонтьев; born 27 April 1940) is a retired Soviet artistic gymnast. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a silver medal in the team allround competition. Individually he winished in fourth place on the floor and rings.

He won three silver medals at the 1961 European championships, on the floor, pommel horse and parallel bars. Next year he won a silver medal in the team allround competition at the world championships.

During his career he won four national titles: on the vault (1961) and rings (1963–1965).

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Viktor Leontyev Wikipedia