Vital Shcherba

Cyrillic ( Belarusian )
	Віталь Шчэрба
Łacinka :	Vital Ščerba
Transl. :	Vital 'Ščėrba
Transcr. :	Vital Shcherba
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Виталий Щербо
Transl .:	Vitalij Ščerbo
Transcr .:	Vitaly Shcherbo

Wital Shtscherba ( Russian Witali Wenediktowitsch Schcherbo ; referred to in the German-language press as Witali Scherbo ; born January 13, 1972 in Minsk , Soviet Union ) is a former Belarusian artistic gymnast .

Sporting successes

Shcherba took part in the Olympic Games in Barcelona ( 1992 ) and Atlanta ( 1996 ). In total, he won six gold and four bronze medals (10 medals) at the Olympics. This puts him in 22nd place in the all-time best list (as of 2012) and the most successful athlete at the Olympic Games in Barcelona. In addition to the Olympic successes, he was eight times European champion and ten times world champion. In 1992 he was voted Europe's Sportsman of the Year . In 2009 Vital Shcherba was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame .

Olympic successes

1992 Gold Twelve Fight Gold team Gold jump Gold bar Gold pommel horse Gold rings

1996 Bronze all-around Bronze jump Bronze ingot Bronze horizontal bar

World championships 1992 rings 1993 all-around 1993 jump 1993 bars 1994 floor 1994 jump 1994 horizontal bar 1995 floor 1995 bars 1996 floor

European championships 1990 jump 1990 horizontal bar 1990 floor 1992 jump 1992 floor 1994 jump 1996 jump 1996 floor

Others

In October 2017, Ukrainian gymnast Tetjana Guzu made public that she was allegedly raped by Shcherba in 1991 at the age of 15.

Web links

• Wital Shtscherba in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame (English)
• Wital Schtscherba in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Wital Schtscherba in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Vitaly Scherbo School of Gymnastics

Individual evidence

1. ^ "The great Olympia Lexicon", Sport-Bild from June 19, 1996, p. 46
2. ↑ #MeToo: Raped by teammate , on dw.com, October 18, 2017.