Yury Tsapenko
| Yury Tsapenko | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Юрий Яковлевич Цапенко | ||||||||||||||||||
 Tsapenko at the 1964 Summer Olympics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Yury Yakovlevich Tsapenko | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 July 1938 Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 22 July 2012 (aged 73) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||
Country represented |  Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Dynamo Moscow | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yury Yakovlevich Tsapenko (Russian: Юрий Яковлевич Цапенко; 25 July 1938 – 22 July 2012[1]) was a 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.[2]
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.[3][4] His wife Natalya Tsapenko was also a former competitive gymnast and coach.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Цапенко Юрий Яковлевич". Sport-Strana.ru. 18 May 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ↑ Yury Tsapenko. sports-reference.com
- 1 2 Е. А. Школьников (2003). Динамо. Энциклопедия. ОЛМА Медиа Групп. p. 114. ISBN 978-5-224-04399-6.
- 1 2 Railyan, Sergei (2010-11-26)). Не представляем жизнь друг без друга Archived July 24, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. caravan.kz
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