Vladimir Artemov

Vladimir Artemov, born Vladimir Nikolaevich Artemov on 7 December 1964 in Vladimir, is a former Russian artistic gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union and became Olympic champion and world champion. He is considered one of the greatest parallel bars workers of all time. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul he won gold medals on the horizontal bar, on the parallel bars, in the individual all-around and in the team combined exercises. He won the parallel bars at the 1983 World Championships in Budapest and again in 1987 in Rotterdam, took five silver and two bronze medals at the World Championships and was on the Soviet teams that won the team final in 1985, 1987 and 1989. He was listed among the USSR top ten athletes of 1988, emigrated to the United States in 1990, and now runs a gym in San Antonio, Texas with his wife Natalia.