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Alexander Dityatin

Personal information
Country Represented:	Soviet Union
Date of birth:	August 7, 1957 (1957-08-07) (age 52)
Discipline:	Men's artistic gymnastics

Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold	1980 Moscow	Team
Gold	1980 Moscow	All-around
Gold	1980 Moscow	Rings
Silver	1976 Montreal	Team
Silver	1976 Montreal	Rings
Silver	1980 Moscow	Pommel horse
Silver	1980 Moscow	Vault
Silver	1980 Moscow	Parallel bars
Silver	1980 Moscow	Horizontal bar
Bronze	1980 Moscow	Floor Exercise
World Championships
Gold	1979 Ft. Worth	Team competition
Gold	1979 Ft. Worth	All-around
Gold	1979 Ft. Worth	Vault
Gold	1979 Ft. Worth	Still rings
Gold	1981 Moscow	Team competition
Gold	1981 Moscow	Parallel bars
Gold	1981 Moscow	Still rings
Silver	1978 Strasbourg	Team competition
Silver	1978 Strasbourg	Still rings
Bronze	1978 Strasbourg	All-around
Bronze	1978 Strasbourg	Floor exercise
Bronze	1979 Ft. Worth	Horizontal bar
European Championships
Gold	1979 Essen	Pommel horse
Gold	1979 Essen	Still rings
Silver	1975 Bern	Parallel bars
Silver	1979 Essen	Parallel bars
Bronze	1975 Bern	All-around
Bronze	1975 Bern	Still rings

Alexander Nikolaevich Dityatin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Дитятин, born August 7, 1957 in Leningrad) is a Russian gymnast, three-time Olympic Champion, and Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. Winning eight medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics, he set the record for achieving the most medals of any type at a single Olympic Games. The American swimmer Michael Phelps has now twice equalled this record, at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.^[1] Dityatin competed for the Leningrad Dinamo sports society.

Dityatin's first Olympic success was at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, where he won two silver medals - on the rings and in the team competition. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow he won the all-around title and seven more medals, including two gold ones. As of August 2008 he is the only athlete who won a medal in each of the eight gymnastics events at one Olympics. Shortly after the 1980 Olympics, Dityatin was seriously injured while training, which ended his career.

Dityatin graduated from Leningrad Lesgaft Institute of Physical Education. He was awarded Order of the Badge of Honor (1976), and Order of Lenin (1980, for guarding the State Border of the USSR). Between 1980 and 1995 Dityatin was the head coach of a sports team from Leningrad (Leningrad OKPP). Since 1995 he works as the chief inspector of the Pulkovo Airport checkpoint (Pulkovo-2 OKPP). He is a Lieutenant Colonel of the Russian Border Service.

In 2004 Dityatin was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.^[2]

Achievements (non-Olympic)

Year	Event	AA	Team	FX	PH	RG	VT	PB	HB
1975	European Championships	3rd				3rd		2nd
	World Cup	3rd
	USSR Championships	1st			1st			2nd	2nd
	USSR Cup	1st
1976	USSR Championships				1st	3rd
1976	USSR Cup	3rd
1977	USSR Championships						3rd	2nd
	University Games						2nd
	USSR Cup	3rd
1978	World Championships	3rd	2nd	3rd		2nd
	World Cup	1st		3rd	2nd	1st	3rd		3rd
	USSR Championships					1st		2nd	3rd
1979	World Championships	1st	1st			1st	1st		3rd
	World Cup	1st				1st	2nd	2nd	2nd
	European Championships				1st	1st		2nd
	USSR Championships	1st		3rd	2nd	1st	2nd	2nd	3rd
1980	USSR Cup	1st
1981	World Championships		1st			1st		1st

References

This article contains information from the website http://www.gymnast.ru/, incorporated into the Wikipedia with permission from its author E.V.Avsenev.