Rustam Sharipov (born June 2, 1971) is a Ukrainian

gymnast Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, sh ...

and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...

, representing Ukraine,"1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, United States – Gymnastics"
– ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 17, 2008) and also a gold medal for the Unified Team at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

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."1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain – Gymnastics"
– ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 17, 2008) Rustam was born in

Dushanbe Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (ru ...

Tajik SSR The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic,, ''Çumhuriji Şūraviji Sotsialistiji Toçikiston''; russian: Таджикская Советская Социалистическая Республика, ''Tadzhikskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Resp ...

. He became an assistant coach for the Men's Gymnastics team at the University of Oklahoma. In May 2011 he accepted the head coach position at The Ohio State University.

References

Video Interviews

Rustam Sharipov videos on Gymnastike.org

External links

* 1971 births Living people Ukrainian male artistic gymnasts Soviet male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1992 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Ukraine Olympic bronze medalists for Ukraine Olympic gymnasts of Ukraine Olympic gold medalists for the Unified Team Olympic gymnasts of the Unified Team Olympic medalists in gymnastics Sportspeople from Dushanbe Ukrainian people of Tajikistani descent Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships European champions in gymnastics 20th-century Ukrainian people {{Ukraine-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub