Viktor Klimenko (gymnast)

Viktor Klimenko
Personal information
Country represented	Soviet Union
Born	(1949-02-25) 25 February 1949 (age 75) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	169 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	61 kg (134 lb)
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Club	Dynamo Moscow Soviet Army Moscow
Medal record Olympic Games 1972 Munich Pommel horse 1968 Mexico City Team 1972 Munich Vault 1972 Munich Team 1968 Mexico City Parallel bars World Championships 1970 Ljubljana Vault 1970 Ljubljana Team 1974 Varna Team 1970 Ljubljana Pommel horse

Viktor Yakovlevich Klimenko (Russian: Виктор Яковлевич Клименко, born 25 February 1949) is a retired Russian gymnast. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a team silver medal on each occasion. Individually he earned a bronze medal in parallel bars in 1968, as well as a gold medal in pommel horse and a silver medal in vault in 1972. At the world championships Klimenko collected four medals in 1970–1974. His wife Larisa Petrik is also a former Olympic gymnast.^[1]

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