Valery Panayotovich Kerdemelidi (russian: Валерий Панайотович Кердемелиди; born 18 July 1938) is a retired

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

from Russia. He competed at the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...

in all artistic gymnastics events and won a silver medal in the team allround competition. Individually his best result was ninth place on the rings and horizontal bar. During his career he won two national titles, on the horizontal bar (1965) and allround (1962). He won two silver team allround medals at the world championships (1962, 1966), as well as five medals at the European championships in 1963. He graduated from an institute of physical education and after retirement worked as a gymnastics coach, becoming the head coach of the Central Soviet Army Club (CSKA) in 1971. He is an international referee and in the 1990s was a member of the technical commission of the European gymnastics federation. For his coaching achievements he was awarded the

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of 2nd class.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kerdemelidi, Valery 1938 births Living people Soviet male artistic gymnasts Russian people of Greek descent Gymnasts at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts of the Soviet Union Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships