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Alexander Dityatin

1957 - 2025

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Alexander Nikolaevich Dityatin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Дитятин; 7 August 1957 – 14 October 2025) was a Russian gymnast, three-time Olympic champion and Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. Winning eight medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics, he set the record for achieving the most medals of any type at a single Olympic Games. The American swimmer Michael Phelps has now twice equalled this record, at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Dityatin competed for the Leningrad Dinamo sports society. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2024). Alexander Dityatin is the 86th most popular gymnast (up from 114th in 2024), the 1,971st most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,260th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Gymnast.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Alexander Dityatin ranks 86 out of 370. Before him are Georg Brustad, Gösta Åsbrink, Shuji Tsurumi, Margarita Nikolaeva, Leonard Peterson, and Larisa Petrik. After him are Yuri Titov, Per Bertilsson, Franco Menichelli, Oswald Holmberg, Ladislav Vácha, and Bjarne Pettersen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Alexander Dityatin ranks 337. Before him are Denise Crosby, Carol Cheng, Lucio Gutiérrez, Michael Hurst, Laura Innes, and Márta Sebestyén. After him are Heather Thomas, Kenyu Horiuchi, Gediminas Vagnorius, Alan Ball, Sainkho Namtchylak, and Pietro Paolo Virdis. Among people deceased in 2025, Alexander Dityatin ranks 338. Before him are Pauli Nevala, Robert Jarvik, Mats Wahl, Loni Anderson, Wings Hauser, and Eldar Shengelaia. After him are Julio César Cortés, Gérard Hausser, Mark Snow, Edu Manga, Natalya Shikolenko, and June Lockhart.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Dityatin ranks 1,971 out of 3,761. Before him are Artur Yusupov (1960), Irina Antonova (1922), Yevdokiya Bershanskaya (1913), Aleksandr Privalov (1933), Alexander Rosenbaum (1951), and Yury Sharov (1939). After him are Sergey Nikolsky (1905), Lev Kassil (1905), Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev (1902), Yuri Titov (1935), Platon Oyunsky (1893), and Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev (1847).

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Among GYMNASTS In Russia

Among gymnasts born in Russia, Alexander Dityatin ranks 10. Before him are Mikhail Voronin (1945), Valentin Muratov (1928), Yelena Shushunova (1969), Aleksanteri Saarvala (1913), Margarita Nikolaeva (1935), and Larisa Petrik (1949). After him are Yuri Titov (1935), Viktor Klimenko (1949), Yelena Davydova (1961), Sofia Muratova (1929), Ekaterina Kalinchuk (1922), and Tamara Lazakovich (1954).

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