Yuri Nikitin

Yuri Nikitin
Yury Nikitin 2008
Personal information
Surname:	Yuri Viktorovych Nikitin
Nationality:	Ukraine
discipline	Trampoline exercise
Birthday:	July 15, 1978
Place of birth:	Kherson
Size:	172 cm
Weight:	62 kg
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 0 × 0 × 4 ×
Medals
Olympic games gold Athens 2004 singles World championships bronze Postage 1994 Synchronous bronze Hanover 2003 team bronze Hanover 2003 Synchronous bronze Saint Petersburg 2009 Synchronous

Jurij Wiktorowytsch Nikitin ( Ukrainian Юрій Вікторович Нікітін ; born July 15, 1978 in Cherson , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Ukrainian trampoline gymnast and Olympic champion .

Nikitin won bronze four times at world championships . He did this three times in synchronized gymnastics, in 1994 in Porto , 2003 in Hanover and 2009 in Saint Petersburg . At the World Championships in Hanover in 2003, he also won the bronze medal in the team competition.

He took part in the Summer Olympics three times . The same for its first participation in 2004 in Athens , he celebrated the Olympic gold medal, leaving it the winner of Sydney 2000 , Alexander Moskalenko , behind. In 2008 he reached fifth place in the final, while in 2012 he clearly missed the finals with a 14th place in the qualification.

He also took part in the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung , where he finished fifth in synchronized gymnastics.

Web links

• Jurij Nikitin in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Jurij Nikitin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )