Alexander Dityatin

Aleksandr Dityatin
Personal information
Country represented	Soviet Union
Born	(1957-08-07) 7 August 1957 (age 67) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Retired	Yes
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

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Dityatin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Дитятин, born 7 August 1957) is a retired 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 has now twice equalled this record, at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.^[1] Dityatin competed for the Leningrad Dinamo sports society.