Viktor Klimenko | |
Birth Date: | 1949 2, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Height: | 169 cm |
Weight: | 61 kg |
Discipline: | MAG |
Club: | Dynamo Moscow Soviet Army Moscow |
Viktor Yakovlevich Klimenko (Russian: Виктор Яковлевич Клименко, born 25 February 1949) is a retired Russian gymnast. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a team silver medal on each occasion. Individually he earned a bronze medal in parallel bars in 1968, as well as a gold medal in pommel horse and a silver medal in vault in 1972. At the world championships Klimenko collected four medals in 1970–1974. His wife Larisa Petrik is also a former Olympic gymnast.[1]