Nikolai Efimowitsch Andrianow

Nikolai Andrianov
Andrianov 1974
Personal information
Surname:	Nikolai Efimowitsch Andrianow
Nationality:	Russia
discipline	Apparatus gymnastics
Trainer:	Nikolai Tolkachev
Birthday:	October 14, 1952
Place of birth:	Vladimir
Death day:	March 21, 2011
Place of death:	Vladimir
Size:	166 cm
Medal table
Olympic games 7 × 5 × 3 × World championships 4 × 9 × 2 × European championships 9 × 6 × 2 × Universiade 4 × 2 × 0 ×
Medals
Olympic games gold Munich 1972 ground silver Munich 1972 Team all-around bronze Munich 1972 Leap gold Montreal 1976 Individual all-around gold Montreal 1976 ground gold Montreal 1976 Leap gold Montreal 1976 Rings silver Montreal 1976 Team all-around silver Montreal 1976 Ingots bronze Montreal 1976 Pommel horse gold Moscow 1980 Team all-around gold Moscow 1980 Leap silver Moscow 1980 Individual all-around silver Moscow 1980 ground bronze Moscow 1980 Horizontal bar  World championships gold Varna 1974 Rings silver Varna 1974 Individual all-around silver Varna 1974 Team all-around silver Varna 1974 Ingots silver Varna 1974 Pommel horse silver Varna 1974 Leap gold Strasbourg 1978 Individual all-around gold Strasbourg 1978 Rings silver Strasbourg 1978 Team all-around silver Strasbourg 1978 Leap silver Strasbourg 1978 Ingots gold Fort Worth 1979 Team all-around silver Fort Worth 1979 Leap  European championships gold Madrid 1971 Pommel horse gold Madrid 1971 Leap silver Madrid 1971 Rings silver Madrid 1971 Ingots bronze Madrid 1971 Individual all-around bronze Madrid 1971 Team all-around gold Grenoble 1973 ground gold Grenoble 1973 Leap silver Grenoble 1973 Individual all-around silver Grenoble 1973 Team all-around silver Grenoble 1973 Rings gold Bern 1975 Individual all-around gold Bern 1975 ground gold Bern 1975 Horizontal bar gold Bern 1975 Ingots gold Bern 1975 Leap silver Bern 1975 Pommel horse  Universiade gold Moscow 1973 Individual all-around gold Moscow 1973 Pommel horse gold Moscow 1973 ground gold Moscow 1973 Team all-around silver Moscow 1973 Rings silver Moscow 1973 Leap

Nikolai Jefimowitsch Andrianow ( Russian: Николай Ефимович Андрианов ; born October 14, 1952 in Vladimir ; † March 21, 2011 there ) was a Soviet gymnast .

Life

Nikolai "Kolja" Andrianow grew up in modest circumstances with four siblings and a single mother in Vladimir. Thanks to a friend of the same age, he came to gymnastics relatively late, only at the age of twelve. His trainer, Nikolai Tolkachev, became his foster father all his life. He took the not easy to lead Andrianow in his apartment, trained him regularly, whereupon his school performance improved. He graduated from the Vladimir University of Education in the subjects of music and sports.

The member of the Burewestnik sports association achieved first success in 1969, when he won the Soviet student partakiad and was appointed to the junior national team. At the junior tournament of the socialist countries in Moscow Andrianow won gold with the team and on the pommel horse. 1970 followed in a youth competition in Gottwaldov victories in the all- around , with the team, on the rings, on bars and bars. At the World Gymnastics Championships in 1970 in Ljubljana , he traveled as a substitute for the Soviet senior team.

Adrianow's first success in the senior sector brought his achievements at the European Gymnastics Championships in Madrid in 1971 , where he won five medals, including gold on the pommel horse and in the horse jump and bronze in the free-style six-way fight. As a result, he became the most successful gymnast of the 1970s and won at least one gold medal per year in major sports competitions. By 1980 Andrianow, who is creative in the elements repertoire, won 54 medals in international sports competitions, including seven Olympic victories at the Games in Munich in 1972 , Montreal in 1976 and Moscow in 1980 , four world and nine European championships. At his home games he was given the honor of taking the Olympic oath . In 1982 Andrianow ended his sports career. Later he worked as a qualified trainer and appeared as a referee in international competitions.

In 2000 he and the Romanian Nadia Comăneci were elected “Gymnast of the Century” by the World Gymnastics Federation, Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). A year later he was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame .

Andrianow was married to the Soviet gymnast Lyubow Burda , who won Olympic gold with the Soviet women's squad in 1968 and 1972. The marriage resulted in two sons (born in 1974 and 1980). He suffered from multiple system atrophy for many years until his death .

Sporting successes

In total, Andrianow won gold seven times, silver five times and bronze three times (15 medals). This puts him in 11th place in the all-time best list and behind the Japanese Sawao Katō the most successful gymnast at the Olympic Games. (As of 2012) In addition to his Olympic successes, he was four times world champion and nine times European champion.

Olympic successes

1972 Gold ground Silver team Bronze horse jump

1976 Gold Twelve Fight Gold ground Gold rings Gold horse jump Silver team Silver bars Bronze pommel horse

1980 Gold team Gold horse jump Silver Twelve Fight Silver bottom Bronze horizontal bar

World championships

• 1974 on the rings
• 1978 in the twelve fight
• 1978 on the rings
• 1979 with the team

European championships

• 1971 on the pommel horse
• 1971 in the horse jump
• 1973 on the ground
• 1973 in the horse jump
• 1975 in all-around competition
• 1975 on bars
• 1975 on the ground
• 1975 on the horizontal bar
• 1975 in the horse jump

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.gazeta.ru/news/sport/2011/03/21/n_1757065.shtml
2. ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/21/olympics-gymnastics-andrianov-idUSLDE72K21220110321

Web links

• Nikolai Andrianow in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Nikolai Andrianow in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame (English)
• Nikolai Andrianow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )