Alexander Nikolayevich Moskalenko

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Alexander Moskalenko Trampoline exercise
Personal information
Nationality: RussiaRussia Russia
discipline Trampoline exercise
Birthday: 4th November 1969
Place of birth: Perejaslovskaya , Soviet Union
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 14 × gold 4 × silver 0 × bronze
World Games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Medals
Olympic rings Olympic games
gold Sydney 2000 singles
silver Athens 2004 singles
World championships
gold Essen 1990 singles
gold Essen 1990 team
silver Essen 1990 Synchronous
gold Auckland 1992 singles
gold Auckland 1992 Synchronous
gold Auckland 1992 team
gold Postage 1994 singles
gold Postage 1994 Synchronous
silver Postage 1994 team
gold Sydney 1998 team
gold Sun City 1999 singles
gold Sun City 1999 Synchronous
gold Sun City 1999 team
gold Odense 2001 singles
gold Odense 2001 Synchronous
gold Odense 2001 team
silver Hanover 2003 singles
silver Hanover 2003 team
IWGA logo World Games
gold Akita 2001 Synchronous

Alexander Nikolajewitsch Moskalenko ( Russian Александр Николаевич Москаленко ; born November 4, 1969 in Stanitsa Perejaslowskaja , Krasnodar region , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian trampoline gymnast and Olympic champion .

Moskalenko won numerous world titles in the course of his career . In 1990 he became world champion with the team and in the individual, in synchronized gymnastics he won silver. Two years later he finally won gold in all three disciplines, a success that he was able to repeat in 1999 and 2001 . In total, he was world champion 14 times and vice world champion four times. This makes him the most successful trampoline gymnast in the history of the sport.

Moskalenko originally retired in the mid-1990s, but made his comeback in 1998 after it was determined that trampoline gymnastics would be part of the Sydney 2000 Olympic program . At the games he finally won the gold medal in the individual . The following year he won the gold medal in synchronized gymnastics at the World Games . In his second Olympic participation in 2004 he won the silver medal behind Jurij Nikitin .

Shortly afterwards he ended his career.

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