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Yury Tsapenko

Yury Tsapenko at the 1964 Olympics
Personal information
Born	(1938-07-25)25 July 1938 Alma-ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Died	22 July 2012(2012-07-22) (aged 73)
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Club	Dynamo Moscow
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo Team allround 1964 Tokyo Pommel horse

Yury Yakovlevich Tsapenko (Russian: Юрий Яковлевич Цапенко; 25 July 1938 – 22 July 2012) was a Soviet artistic gymnast. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a silver medal in the team allround competition and a bronze medal on the pommel horse.

During his career he won five national titles: on the floor (1961), parallel bars (1961) and pommel horse (1961, 1963, 1964). After retirement he worked as a coach, first in Moscow and then in his native Almaty. His wife Natalya Tsapenko was also a former competitive gymnast and coach.

References

1. "Цапенко Юрий Яковлевич". Sport-Strana.ru. 18 May 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
2. Yury Tsapenko. sports-reference.com
3. ^ Е. А. Школьников (2003). Динамо. Энциклопедия. ОЛМА Медиа Групп. p. 114. ISBN 978-5-224-04399-6.
4. ^ Railyan, Sergei (2010-11-26)). Не представляем жизнь друг без друга Archived July 24, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. caravan.kz

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