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Dmitry Bilozerchev
The Olympic Games or Olympics is an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprises of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896. The unity of the 5 continents is shown on the Olympic flag by five colorful intertwined rings of red, blue, green, yellow, and black, created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to represent at least one color of the participating country’s national flag.
Dmitry Bilozerchev was born on December 22, 1966 and is a Soviet Russian sportsman, three times Olympic Champion. Competing in the 1983 world championships at age 16, he became the youngest male world champion in the history of the sport. He won the world all-around title again in 1987, two years after shattering his leg in 42 places in an auto accident. Although Bilozerchev finished only third all-around at the 1988 Olympics, he is still considered by some to be the most exceptional male gymnast of his time.
Born in Moscow, Bilozerchev emerged globally at the 1982 European junior championships in Turkey, where he won the all-around gold medal and five of the six event finals. In 1983, Bilozerchev won the all-around title at Soviet senior championships and European senior championships, the latter competition in which he added gold medals on rings tie, vault and horizontal bar.
In 1985, Bilozerchev won his second Soviet and European senior all-around titles at the Europeans; he also placed first on five of the six individual events, and finished second on the 6th piece vault. He then won the World University Games all-around title. Bilozerchev bravely returned at the 1987 world championships in Rotterdam, where he won gold medals for all-around, pommel horse and horizontal bar. He also finished second on rings tie and parallel bars.
In 1988, Bilozerchev won his 3rd Soviet all-around title, and the all-around bronze medal at the Olympics in Seoul. His 59.75 tally in the all-around final of the Games was the best total of the day, but a beginning error on the horizontal bar cost him a higher all-around finish.
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