Alexander Moskalenko

Alexander Moskalenko
— Gymnast —
Country represented	Russia
Born	November 4, 1969
Discipline	Trampolining
Retired	yes
Medal record Competitor for  Russia Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Individual 2004 Athens Individual World Championships 1990 Essen Individual 1990 Essen Team 1992 Auckland Individual 1992 Auckland Team 1992 Auckland Synchro 1994 Porto Individual 1994 Porto Synchro 1998 Sydney Team 1999 Sun city Individual 1999 Sun city Team 1999 Sun city Synchro 2001 Odense Individual 2001 Odense Team 2001 Odense Synchro 1990 Essen Synchro 1994 Porto Team 2003 Hannover Team World Games 2001 Akita Synchro

Alexander Moskalenko (born November 4, 1969) is a Russian gymnast and Olympic champion. He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he received a gold medal in trampoline.^[1] He received a silver medal in trampoline at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Career

Moskalenko is a 5 times World Champion in Trampoline Individual (1990, 92, 94, 99, 2001) and 4 times in Synchro (92,94, 99, 2001), which at that time was still not part of the Olympics, and numerous other awards.

Moskalenko came back out of retirement in 1998, when he learned that Trampoline Individual will be an Olympic discipline in 2000. On January 1st 1999, Trampoline became an FIG discipline and the dream of an Olympic title became reality. Alexander having taken up this challenge, submitted himself to a rigorous training programme to reestablish himself at the top of the ranking list and to guarantee qualification for Sydney and won the first trampoline Olympic gold medal.

he last two years were a bit more difficult. He "only" managed the silver medal at the 2003 World Championships behind the German Henrik Stehlik, and he has suffered from back pain all during 2004.

Alexander left the scene on July 30, at the occasion of the Dobrovolski World Cup in Krasnodar.

During this show an outstanding celebration and farewell for Alexander Moskalenko, the retired Olympic Champion in Sydney 2000, winner of the silver medal in Athens 2004 and five times World Champion took place. Almost thirty Gold Medal Winners of different sports were present.

Moskalenko was honoured with many speeches and presents of high value, only one to name: a race horse, which was presented to him in the sportshall. Fig Aug 05.

References

1. "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Gymnastics" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on March 29, 2008)

External links

• Alexander Moskalenko at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique