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Yury Tsapenko

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Sport
  
Artistic gymnastics

Height
  
1.64 m

Role
  
Olympic athlete


Name
  
Yury Tsapenko

Club
  
Dynamo Moscow

Weight
  
59 kg

Yury Tsapenko

Born
  
25 July 1938 (age 85) (
1938-07-25
)
Almaty, Khazakhstan

Olympic medals
  
Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse

Yury Yakovlevich Tsapenko (Russian: Юрий Яковлевич Цапенко; born 25 July 1938) 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 and a bronze medal on the pommel horse.

During his career he won five national titles: on the floor (1961), parallel bars (1961) and pommel horse (1961, 1963, 1964). After retirement he worked as a coach, first in Moscow and then in his native Almaty.

His wife Natalya Tsapenko is also a former competitive gymnast and coach.

References

Yury Tsapenko Wikipedia