Valery Kerdemelidi

Valery Kerdemelidi

Personal information
Born	(1938-07-18) 18 July 1938 Moscow, USSR
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Club	Dynamo Moscow
Medal record Competitor for the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1960 Rome Team allround World championships 1962 Prague Team allround 1966 Dortmund Team allround European championships 1963 Belgrade Individual allround 1963 Belgrade Horizontal bar 1963 Belgrade Pommel horse 1963 Belgrade Floor 1963 Belgrade Rings

Valery Panayotovich Kerdemelidi (Russian: Валерий Панайотович Кердемелиди; born 18 July 1938) is a retired artistic gymnast from Russia. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a silver medal in the team allround competition. Individually his best result was ninth place on the rings and horizontal bar.^[1]

During his career he won two national titles, on the horizontal bar (1965) and allround (1962). He won two silver team allround medals at the world championships (1962, 1966), as well as five medals at the European championships in 1963.^[2]

He graduated from an institute of physical education and after retirement worked as a gymnastics coach, becoming the head coach of the Central Soviet Army Club (CSKA) in 1971. He is an international referee and in the 1990s was a member of the technical commission of the European gymnastics federation. For his coaching achievements he was awarded the Order For Merit to the Fatherland of 2nd class.^[2]

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