Yuri Nikitin (gymnast)
Ukrainian trampoline gymnast
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Yuri Viktorovych Nikitin (Ukrainian: Юрій Вікторович Нікітін, born 15 July 1978) is a Ukrainian gymnast and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[1] He also competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.[2]
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| Full name | Yuri Viktorovych Nikitin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 July 1978 Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Trampoline gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented |  Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Before Olympics
Born on 15 July 1978 in Kherson, Ukraine. He began his sports career at Kherson State Secondary School. As a child, he was fond of jumping on a trampoline, as he says - "loved it for its extremity". His first coach was Igor Molchanov, who, according to Nikitin, taught the young athlete to "be a man" He graduated from the Kherson Higher School of Physical Culture. In 2012 he was trained by Volodymyr Gorzhi to prepare. In 2001, he graduated from Kherson State Pedagogical University. He was a member of the "Biola" sports club at KSPU.[3]
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