Alexander Dityatin

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Dityatin (7 August 1957 – October 2025) was a Russian gymnast and three-time Olympic champion. He won eight medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He set the record for winning the most medals of any type at a single Olympic Games.^[1]

Aleksandr Dityatin

Personal information
Born	(1957-08-07)7 August 1957 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died	October 2025(2025-10-00) (aged 68)
Medal record Olympic Games 1980 Moscow Team 1980 Moscow All-around 1980 Moscow Rings 1976 Montreal Team 1976 Montreal Rings 1980 Moscow Pommel horse 1980 Moscow Vault 1980 Moscow Parallel bars 1980 Moscow Horizontal bar 1980 Moscow Floor Exercise World Championships 1979 Ft. Worth Team competition 1979 Ft. Worth All-around 1979 Ft. Worth Vault 1979 Ft. Worth Still rings 1981 Moscow Team competition 1981 Moscow Parallel bars 1981 Moscow Still rings 1978 Strasbourg Team competition 1978 Strasbourg Still rings 1978 Strasbourg All-around 1978 Strasbourg Floor exercise 1979 Ft. Worth Horizontal bar European Championships 1979 Essen Pommel horse 1979 Essen Still rings 1975 Bern Parallel bars 1979 Essen Parallel bars 1975 Bern All-around 1975 Bern Still rings

Dityatin died in October 2025, at the age of 68.^[2]