Pavel Stolbov

Pavel Stolbov
Born(1929-08-30)30 August 1929
Died16 June 2011(2011-06-16) (aged 81)
Gymnastics career
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
Country
represented
 Soviet Union
Medal record
Olympic Games
1956 Melbourne Team
World Championships
1958 Moscow Team
1958 Moscow Pommel horse
1962 Prague Horizontal bar
1962 Prague Team
1958 Moscow Parallel bars

Pavel Stolbov (30 August 1929 – 16 June 2011) was a gymnast and Olympic champion who competed for the Soviet Union.

Olympics

Stolbov competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where he received a gold medal in team combined exercises with the Soviet team (Viktor Chukarin, Valentin Muratov, Boris Shakhlin, Albert Azaryan and Yuri Titov).[1]

World championships

Stolbov received an individual silver medal in pommel horse and bronze medal in parallel bars at the 1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Moscow, and a silver medal in horizontal bar at the 1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Prague.

References

  1. ^ "1956 Summer Olympics – Melbourne, Australia – Gymnastics" Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on September 4, 2008)