Vladimir Artemov
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| Born | 7 December 1964 Vladimir, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | San Antonio, Texas, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vladimir Nikolaevich Artemov (Russian: Владимир Николаевич Артемов, born 7 December 1964) is a former Russian artistic gymnast, Olympic champion and world champion who competed for the Soviet Union. He is considered to be one of the greatest parallel bars workers of all time.
He was born in Vladimir.
Artemov competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul where he received gold medals in horizontal bar, parallel bars, all-around individual and team combined exercises.[1]
World championships
[edit]Artemov won a gold medal in parallel bars at the 1983 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Budapest, and again at the 1987 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam. He has received five silver medals and two bronze medals at the World Gymnastics Championships. He participated on the Soviet teams which won the team final in 1985, 1987 and 1989, and finished second in 1983.
Awards
[edit]Artemov was listed among the USSR top ten athletes of the year in 1988.
After the Olympics
[edit]Artemov immigrated to the United States from the failing Soviet Union in 1990, settling in Pennsylvania. However, he has mistakenly been identified as the father of current US gymnast Alexander (Sasha) Artemev. The two men are not related. Artemov currently lives in San Antonio, Texas, where he runs a gym with his wife Natalia.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "1988 Summer Olympics – Seoul, South Korea – Gymnastics" Archived 2008-05-31 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com Retrieved on March 29, 2008.
- ^ Jere Longman (March 7, 1991). "Bitterness Intrudes On His Best Of Times". Archived from the original on January 4, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
External links
[edit]- Vladimir Artemov at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Vladimir Artemov at the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
- Vladimir Artemov at Olympics.com
- Vladimir Artemov at Olympedia
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- 1964 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Vladimir, Russia
- Soviet male artistic gymnasts
- Russian male artistic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts for the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- Russian emigrants to the United States
- Soviet emigrants to the United States
- Friendship Games medalists in gymnastics
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games
- Goodwill Games medalists in gymnastics
- 20th-century Russian sportsmen