Valery Belenky
Soviet gymnast
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| Full name | Valeri Vladimirovich Belenki | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former countries represented |  Soviet Union  Azerbaijan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1969-09-05) 5 September 1969 (age 54) Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Valeri Vladimirovich Belenki (Russian: Валерий Владимирович Беленький, German: Valeri Belenki; born 5 September 1969) is a retired Azerbaijani artistic gymnast who competed in the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics.
Career
Belenki was born and raised in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union (present day Azerbaijan), in a Jewish family.[1]
He competed for the Soviet Union/Unified Team until 1992 when this federation was disbanded following the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Belenki's greatest achievements are the team gold and all around bronze he won with the Unified Team in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Belenky also won gold in the pommel horse event at the 1991 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, where he competed for the USSR.
Because Azerbaijan did not have a gymnastics federation for him to compete for in the 1993 world championships in Birmingham, Belenky instead competed as an unattached athlete. In 1994 he became a German citizen and represented that nation in the 1996 Olympics, helping the team to a seventh-place finish and coming 6th in the all-around.
In 2013, he was elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[2] In 2015, he was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame as a representative of Azerbaijan.
See also
References
External links
- Valery Belenky at Gymn Forum
- Valery Belenky at the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
- Valeri Belenki at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Valeri Belenki at Olympedia
- Valeri Belenki at Olympics.com
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Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Men's Team All-Around
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Mixed team (ZZX) - 1908:
Sweden (SWE) - 1912:
Italy (ITA) - 1920: Italy (ITA)
- 1924: Italy (ITA)
- 1928:
Switzerland (SUI) - 1932: Italy (ITA)
- 1936:
Germany (GER) - 1948:
Finland (FIN) - 1952:
Soviet Union (URS) - 1956:
Soviet Union (URS) - 1960:
Japan (JPN) - 1964: Japan (JPN)
- 1968: Japan (JPN)
- 1972: Japan (JPN)
- 1976: Japan (JPN)
- 1980: Soviet Union (URS)
- 1984:
United States (USA) - 1988: Soviet Union (URS)
- 1992: Unified Team (EUN)
- 1996:
Russia (RUS) - 2000:
China (CHN) - 2004:
Japan (JPN) - 2008: China (CHN)
- 2012: China (CHN)
- 2016: Japan (JPN)
- 2020:
ROC
1992 Unified Team (EUN): Valery Belenky, Igor Korobchinsky, Grigory Misutin, Vitaly Scherbo, Rustam Sharipov, Alexei Voropaev
Unified Team (EUN): Valery Belenky, Igor Korobchinsky, Grigory Misutin, Vitaly Scherbo, Rustam Sharipov, Alexei Voropaev
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1989: Soviet Union (URS), Vladimir Artemov, Valery Belenky, Ihor Korobchynskyi, Vitaly Marinich, Valentin Mogilny, Vladimir Novikov1991: Soviet Union (URS), Valery Belenky, Ihor Korobchynskyi, Valeri Liukin, Hrihoriy Misyutin, Vitaly Scherbo, Aleksey Voropayev |
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