Viktor Leontyev

Viktor Leontyev

Viktor Leontyev at the 1964 Olympics
Personal information
Born	(1940-04-27) 27 April 1940 (age 82) Moscow, Russia
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Club	CSKA Moscow
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo Team World championships 1962 Prague Team European championships 1961 Luxembourg Floor 1961 Luxembourg Pommel horse 1961 Luxembourg Parallel bars

Viktor Anatolyevich Leontyev (Russian: Виктор Анатольевич Леонтьев; born 27 April 1940) is a retired Soviet artistic gymnast. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a silver medal in the team all-round competition. Individually he finished in fourth place on the floor and rings.^[1]

He won three silver medals at the 1961 European championships, on the floor, pommel horse and parallel bars. The next year he won a silver medal in the team all-round competition at the world championships.^[2]

During his career he won four national titles: on the vault (1961) and rings (1963–1965).^[2]

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