Yuri Korolev

Yuri Korolyov
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Medal record World Championships 1981 Moscow Team 1981 Moscow All-around 1981 Moscow Floor Exercise 1981 Moscow Pommel Horse 1983 Budapest Team 1985 Montreal Team 1985 Montreal All-around 1985 Montreal Floor Exercise 1985 Montreal Rings 1985 Montreal Vault 1987 Rotterdam Team 1987 Rotterdam All-around 1987 Rotterdam Rings European Championships 1981 Rome Individual All-Around 1981 Rome Floor Exercise 1981 Rome Pommel Horse 1981 Rome Rings 1981 Rome Vault 1983 Varna Individual All-Around 1983 Varna Floor Exercise 1983 Varna Pommel Horse 1983 Varna Vault 1983 Varna Parallel Bars 1987 Moscow Individual All-Around 1987 Moscow Floor Exercise 1987 Moscow Vault

Yuri Nikolaevich Korolyov (Russian: Юрий Николаевич Королёв), born August 25, 1962 in Vladimir, Russia is an artistic gymnast who competed for The USSR during the 1980s, winning many World and European Medals. Part of a deep Soviet team that, throughout the 1980s, featured such names as Dmitry Bilozerchev, Valeri Liukin, Vladimir Artemov, and Valentin Mogilny, Korolyov still managed to distinguish himself for the greater part of the decade by becoming World All-Around Champion in 1981 and 1985, as well as being World Cup All-Around Co-Champion (with Li Ning) in 1986, among many other titles and medals.

As Korolyov had been winning many titles and medals for years as a Junior at such competitions as the Jr. USSR Championships and Jr. European Championships, it was no surprise that his senior debut in 1981 would be quite major. At that year’s European Championships in Rome, where he became the first gymnast to compete a triple back dismount from the Rings as well as a full-twisting double layout dismount from the High Bar, he won the silver medal in the Individual All-Around, as well as taking 4 out of a possible 6 event finals medals – 2 gold and 2 silver. He was no less successful at that year’s World Championships in Moscow, where his consistent, strong performances (highest 6-event composite score in the team compulsory segment of the competition, highest 12-event composite score throughout both segments of the team composition) won him the All-Around Champion title. He was the youngest Men’s World All-Around Artistic Gymnastics Champion up to that point.

The next year, he continued to be the first, or among the first, male gymnasts to successfully compete certain yet more difficult moves, such as doing a handstand in the middle of a Pommel Horse routine as well as doing consecutive repetitions of the Tkatchev release move on High Bar, at the 1982 World Gymnastics Cup in Zagreb, Yugoslavia where yet more strong performances helped him to 3rd place in the All-Around competition behind Chinese gymnasts Li Ning (1st) and Tong Fei (2nd). He would also take 5 out of a possible 6 medals in the event finals (Parallel Bars title, plus 3 silvers and a bronze).

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