Larissa Petrik

Larissa Petrik (Dortmund, 1966)

Larissa Petrik (Dortmund, 1966)

Larissa Leonidowna Petrik ( Russian Лариса Леонидовна Петрик ; Belarusian Ларыса Леанідаўна Петрык ; born August 18, 1949 in Dolinsk , Sakhalin Oblast ) is a former Belarusian artistic gymnast who worked for the Soviet Union.

She won the gold medal on the ground at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968 with an overall score of 19.675 points and was tied with the Czech Věra Čáslavská . On the balance beam she won bronze behind Natalija Kutschinskaja and Čáslavská. Together with Kutschinskaya, she won gold in the team standings in the Soviet team.

At the gymnastics world championship in Dortmund in 1966 , Petrik won silver with the team behind the Czech team, in the individual ranking she was third on the balance beam. She was also third on the balance beam at the 1970 World Cup in Ljubljana . With the team she won the world championship.

At the European Gymnastics Championships in Sofia in 1965 , she won a bronze medal on the balance beam.

She has been a trainer, choreographer and trained actress for many years. Today she lives with her husband Wiktor Klimenko (winner of the pommel horse Olympia 1972 Munich ), their sons Wladimir, who is also a successful gymnast, and Viktor (ballet dancer), daughter-in-law and granddaughter in Idar-Oberstein (Rhineland-Palatinate).

literature

• Erich Kamper , Bill Mallon : Who's Who of the Olympic Games 1896–1992. Who's Who at the Olympics. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-928562-47-9 .

Web links

• Larissa Petrik in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )