Valery Belenki

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Valeri Belenki ( Russian Валерий Владимирович Беленький Valeri Wladimirowitsch Belenki ; born September 5, 1969 in Baku , Soviet Union ) is a former German gymnast and current gymnastics trainer . In 1992 he was Olympic champion with the team of the CIS countries and twice world champion on the pommel horse and with the team.

In the gymnastics league he competed with WKTV Stuttgart and was German team champion several times . Belenki is 1.63 meters tall.

biography

Belenki has German roots; shortly after the turn of the century, his grandfather emigrated from Bavaria to what would later become the Volga German Republic .

He grew up in what was then the Azerbaijani Republic in the Soviet Union . At the age of ten he came to the “Talentschmide” in Moscow. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Belenki decided to go to Germany ( "Stuttgart immediately fascinated me with its vineyards and forests all around. At the World Cup, my decision to emigrate to this city was matured." ) On February 1, 1994, he received the German citizenship granted.

Gymnastics career

Belenki was team world champion in 1989 in Stuttgart with the team of the Soviet Union . In 1991 he became world champion on a single device on the pommel horse in Indianapolis for the first time, and again in the team classification with Russia. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona he won the gold medal with the CIS team and the bronze medal in the all-around event. After changing nationality to Germany, he finished seventh with the team and sixth in the all- around at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. A year later he was again world champion on the pommel horse in Lausanne , as the second German after Michael Nikolay in 1981. A biceps tendon tear shortly before the 2001 World Cup, which was planned for the last international appearance, meant the end of his career.

Coaching career

Since January 1st, 2002 Belenki has been a regional trainer at the Swabian Gymnastics Association , for which he works at the Stuttgart Art Gymnastics Forum. There he trains, among others, the three-time European champion and two-time Olympic silver medalist Marcel Nguyen and the Olympic participant Sebastian Krimmer .

In addition, he is also the tournament director of the DTB-Cup, the world cup tournament that takes place annually in Stuttgart.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hope from the Baku Period. Online, April 15, 1994, accessed on August 18, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Valeri Belenki: Abschied und Aufbruch , FAZ.net, November 26, 2001, accessed on August 18, 2012
  3. ↑ a b c Valeri Belenki has leased the success ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Swabian Gymnastics Federation, accessed on August 18, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stb.de
  4. ↑ Belenki, das Gold und die Hymne Welt.de, September 8, 1997, accessed on August 18, 2012
  5. ↑ Kretschmann honors Belenki ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Schwäbischer Turnerbund, April 27, 2015, accessed on May 15, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stb.de
  6. ↑ Belenki in the Hall of Fame Sport1.de, December 4, 2014, accessed on May 15, 2015.
  7. ^ International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
personal data
SURNAME Belenki, Valeri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Belenki, Valeri Vladimirovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnast and gymnastics trainer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Baku , Soviet Union