1972 stamp of Umm al-Quwain Viktor Klimenko

Viktor Yakovlevich Klimenko (russian: Виктор Яковлевич Клименко, born 25 February 1949) is a retired Russian gymnast. He competed for the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a team silver medal on each occasion. Individually he earned a bronze medal in

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in 1968, as well as a gold medal in

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and a silver medal in

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in 1972. At the world championships Klimenko collected four medals in 1970–1974. His wife

Larisa Petrik Larisa Leonidovna Petrik (russian: Лариса Леонидовна Петрик; born 28 August 1949) is a former Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion. Petrik competed at the 1966 World Championships where she shared in the team silver medal (go ...

is also a former Olympic gymnast.Viktor Klimenko
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