Vladimir Novikov (gymnast)

Vladimir Novikov

Personal information
Born	4 August 1970 Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR
Height	1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Club	Dynamo Almaty
Medal record Competitor for the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Team World championships 1987 Rotterdam Team 1989 Stuttgart Team

Vladimir Anatolyevich Novikov (Russian: Владимир Анатольевич Новиков; born 4 August 1970 in Alma Ata, Kazakh SSR) is a retired Soviet gymnast. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a gold medal with the Soviet team. Individually his best result was sixth place on the parallel bars.^[1] He won two more gold medals with the Soviet team at the world championships in 1987 and 1989.^[2]

After retirement from competitions he coached gymnastics at the Woodward Gymnastics Camp in the United States, together with Vitaly Shcherbo.^[3]

References

1. Vladimir Novikov. sports-reference.com
2. Новиков Владимир Анатольевич. Olympic Encyclopedia (2006)
3. Gerald Eskenazi (5 March 1993) GYMNASTICS; Gymnast's Tough Test: Helping Deliver Baby. The New York Times