Azerbaijani artistic gymnast (born 1969)
Valeri Vladimirovich Belenki (Russian : Валерий Владимирович Беленький , German : Valeri Belenki ; born 5 September 1969) is a retired Azerbaijani artistic gymnast who competed in the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics .
Career
Belenki was born and raised in Baku , Azerbaijan SSR , Soviet Union (present day Azerbaijan ), in a Jewish family.[ 1]
He competed for the Soviet Union /Unified Team until 1992 when this federation was disbanded following the breakup of the Soviet Union .
Belenki's greatest achievements are the team gold and all around bronze he won with the Unified Team in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona . Belenky also won gold in the pommel horse event at the 1991 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships , where he competed for the USSR.
Because Azerbaijan did not have a gymnastics federation for him to compete for in the 1993 world championships in Birmingham , Belenky instead competed as an unattached athlete. In 1994 he became a German citizen and represented that nation in the 1996 Olympics , helping the team to a seventh-place finish and coming 6th in the all-around.
In 2013, he was elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame .[ 2] International Gymnastics Hall of Fame as a representative of Azerbaijan.
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Valeri Liukin ,
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