Gymnasts from 25 countries to participate in Mikhail Voronin
International Tournament
14.11.2009 15:34 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 4 Armenian gymnasts will participate in Mikhail
Voronin International Tournament to be held in Moscow from December 15
to 19. The Armenian team includes Vahag Stepanyan, Davit Avetisyan,
Vahan Vardanyan ad Arthur Davtyan under the supervision of chief coach
Arthur Iskandaryan, President of the Gymnastics Federation of Armenia
Elfik Hovhannesyan told Pan.ARMENIAN.Net.
Mikhail Jakovlievitch Voronin (26 March 1945 in Moscow – 22 May 2004)
was one of the world’s strongest Russian gymnasts, who competed for
the USSR in the late 1960s-early 1970s.
Voronin trained at Dynamo in Moscow, becoming the Honored Master of
Sports of the USSR in 1966. He won gold, silver and bronze medals in
the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics. He became 1966 World Champion in
the all-around and at rings. Participating in European Championships
in 1967, 1969 and 1971, he became a champion in the all-around (1967,
1969), at rings (1967, 1969, 1971), on parallel bars (1967, 1969) and
on pommel horse in 1967. At the national level Voronin won the USSR
Championships in the all-around (1968-69, 1970-71), at rings (1966-67,
1969-72), on pommel horse (1967, 1969-70), on parallel bars (1967,
1969), on high bar (1971) and in free exercise (1966). He was awarded
the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in 1969, worked as the
vice-chairman of a department of the Central Council of Dynamo sports
society and as the vice-chairman of the USSR Gymnastics Federation.