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NIKOLAI ANDRIANOV
Nikolai Yefimovich Andrianov (born October 14, 1952 in Vladimir, Russian SFSR) was a Soviet/Russian
gymnast. He holds the record for men for most Olympic medals at 15 (7 gold medals, 5 silver medals, 3 bronze medals).
Andrianov is the second athlete by this count after Larissa Latynina,
who earned 18 Olympic medals. (Latynina holds the record for women.) He took the Olympic Oath for athletes at the 1980
Summer Olympics in Moscow.
Andrianov entered the Children and Youth Sports School of the Burevestnik sports society in Vladimir at age 11.
His trainer was the Honoured Trainer of the USSR Nikolai Tolkachev. Andrianov's first international success was in
1971 at the European Championships in Madrid, where he won two gold medals. Between 1971 and 1980, he was the first
on many international gymnastics competitions, including the Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships.
Andrianov married another famous Soviet gymnast, two times Olympic Champion Lyubov Burda. In 2001, Andrianov was inducted into the
International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
Since 2002, Andrianov has been the director of gymnastics Specialized Children and Youth sports school in Vladimir.
For more information, visit his
profile page on the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique website.
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