Vladimir Nikolaevich Artemov (russian: Владимир Николаевич Артемов, born 7 December 1964) is a former
Russian
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gymnast
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, Olympic champion and world champion who competed for the
Soviet Union
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. He is considered to be one of the greatest parallel bars workers of all time.
He was born in
Vladimir
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.
Artemov competed at the
1988 Summer Olympics
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in
Seoul
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where he received gold medals in ''horizontal bar'', ''parallel bars'', ''all-around individual'' and ''team combined exercises''.
["1988 Summer Olympics – Seoul, South Korea – Gymnastics"]
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World championships
Artemov won a gold medal in ''parallel bars'' at the
1983 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 22nd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Budapest, the capital of Hungary
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in
Budapest
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, and again at the
1987 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in
Rotterdam
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. He has received five silver medals and two bronze medals at the
World Gymnastics Championships
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. He participated on the Soviet teams which won the ''team final'' in 1985, 1987 and 1989, and finished second in 1983.
Awards
Artemov was listed among the
USSR top ten athletes of the year in 1988.
After the Olympics
Artemov immigrated to the United States in 1990, settling in
Pennsylvania
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. 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, TX where he runs a gym with his wife Natalia.
See also
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List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single Games
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References
External links
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1964 births
Living people
People from Vladimir, Russia
Soviet male artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts of 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
Sportspeople from Vladimir Oblast