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About Alexander Dityatin
Alexander Nikolaevich Dityatin 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 twice equalled this record, at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Dityatin competed for the Leningrad Dinamo sports society.
Everything about Alexander Dityatin →- Occupation
- artistic gymnast
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union, Russia
- Born
- August 7, 1957
- Died
- October 14, 2025