Rustam Sharipov

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Gymnast

United teamUnited team United Team (1992) Ukraine (1996)
UkraineUkraine 
Olympic Summer Games
gold 1992 Barcelona Team all-around
gold 1996 Atlanta Ingots
bronze 1996 Atlanta Team all-around

Rustam Chalimdschanowytsch Sharipow ( Ukrainian Рустам Халімджанович Шаріпов ; born June 2, 1971 in Dushanbe ) is a former Ukrainian gymnast and two-time Olympic champion .

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona , he won the team all-around with the United Team . He also took part in all seven individual competitions, but could not qualify for the final in any.

Four years later at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta he started for the Ukraine and won the bronze medal in the all- around with their team. In the competition on bars he won his second Olympic gold medal and in the individual all-around competition he reached 8th place.

Sharipov was second on the parallel bars at the World Gymnastics Championships in Brisbane in 1994 . Two years later at the World Championships in San Juan , he became world champion in the same discipline.

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