Country represented Georgia Role Olympic athlete | Name Vladimir Gogoladze Club Armed Forces (Tblisi) | |
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Born 18 August 1966 (age 57) Tblisi ( 1966-08-18 ) Height 169 cm (5 ft 7 in) (5'7") Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics Similar People Vladimir Novikov, Vladimir Artemov, Sergey Kharkov, Valeri Liukin, Dmitry Bilozerchev | ||
Vladimir gogoladze urs 1988 olympics team optionals vault
Vladimir Gogoladze (Russian: Владимир Гоголадзе, Georgian: ვლადიმერ გოგოლაძე), born 18 August 1966 in Tblisi, Georgian SSR, is a retired Georgian gymnast.
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- Vladimir gogoladze urs 1988 olympics team optionals vault
- Gogoladze Triple Back 1988 Olympic TF Floor
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Gogoladze began competing at the elite level in 1985, at the age of 18, taking silver medals in the all-around and high bar in the USSR Championships, and bronze medals at the European Championships in the all-around and parallel bars.
He was a member of the Soviet "Dream Team" who won the team gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, and he is also known for being the first gymnast to perform a triple back on floor in the Olympics. In the same year, he received the title Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.
According to a report in Sovietsky Sport, Gogoladze and teammate Dmitri Bilozerchev were removed from the Soviet men's squad for the 1989 World Championships because of a two-day drinking binge.
Gogoladze has two elements named after him. The first is a straddled Healy twirl on parallel bars. The second, on floor exercise, is a flair or circle to handstand, then continuing to flair or circle; this element is frequently performed and remains in the current Code of Points.
Gogoladze now coaches at Crystal Lake in Illinois, where he has been on staff since 1994.