Pavel Stolbov

Pavel Stolbov
Country represented Soviet Union
Born(1929-08-30)30 August 1929
Died16 June 2011(2011-06-16) (aged 81)
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1956 Melbourne Team
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1958 Moscow Team
Silver medal – second place 1958 Moscow Pommel horse
Silver medal – second place 1962 Prague Horizontal bar
Silver medal – second place 1962 Prague Team
Bronze medal – third place 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)